Yehoshua Gold, 8,
gets a blood-pressure
reading on the light-
ening bug while Amy
Ferrando and Janet
McKee apply a brace.

Esther Selmar of
Oak Park paints the
face of seven-year-old
Shulamis Berger.

Far left:
Yechiel Krakauer, 4,
holds a stop sign for
rider Micki Young, 2.

Families have fun while learning to stay safe.

Photos by Bill Hansen

Above: Sue Jane Smith of Children's Hospital
fits Ahron Avraham, 7, with a safety helmet.

Above, middle: Yehoshua Dunst, 10,
`) tries out the seat-belt rider.

verything under the sun
was included in a recent
Yeshivas Darchei Torah
Safety Fair — from auto,
food and fire safety to the preven-
tion of injury in the hot outdoors.
Several hundred visitors looked
into the 27 informational and
hands-on safety booths that filled
outdoor tents and a mock-city of
home and storefronts inside the
Agency for Jewish Education of
Metropolitan Detroit in Southfield.
In the town, built by students of
the Southfield school, actual stop
signs, on loan from a construction
company, became part of an educa-
tional playtime. Children's Hospital of Michigan in
Detroit sold more than 80 safety helmets, with pro-
ceeds going to its trauma unit.
In addition, fingerprinting of children was avail-
able, a raffle offered fire extinguishers and an escape
ladder as prizes, and a seatbelt simulator demonstrated
the impact of a five-mile-an-hour abrupt stop.

Lieba Rothstein, 7, has
her fingerprints taken
by officer Shanel Sitto
of the Oakland County
Sheriff's Department.

— Shelli Dorfman

7/9
.1999

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