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Safety Town is a program for children that teaches safety lessons about fire, pedestrians/traffic, water, guns, and poisons/drugs. It is also the name given to a replica town created to instruct children about safety measures.

The Safety Town program was founded by Officer Frend Boals in Mansfield, Ohio in 1937 after a child was struck and killed by a car on his way to school. The "National Safety Town Center" was founded in 1964 by Dorothy Chlad in Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Governor proclaims national safety town week". The Aberdeen Times. 13 September 1989. p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. ^ Hummel, Jim (27 July 1991). "A bigger Safety Town is back". Providence Journal. p. Z1. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
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