September 07, 2001

WKU To Host Event Kickoff For National Farm Safety Week

Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University will host a statewide kickoff for this month's National Farm Safety Week (Sept. 16-22).

The FFA Career and Safety Summit is scheduled from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. CDT on Sept. 18 at WKU's L.D. Brown Agricultural Exposition Center.
Educational sessions for FFA high school students include ATV safety, gun/hunter safety, farm safety and potential agribusiness careers. About 30 FFA chapters are expected to participate in the sessions as well as in video and poster competitions.

The public is invited to attend the noon activities that will feature a simulated farm accident that includes rescue and helicopter evacuation. Following the demonstration, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Billy Ray Smith of Bowling Green will speak on farm safety and present the state proclamation for farm safety week.

Initial sponsors include the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health and Safety, Inc., WKU's Agriculture Department, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, the South Central Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Kentucky Fire Rescue Training (KCTCS) and STATCARE.

For information, contact Glynda K. Stone, director of the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health and Safety, Inc., at (270) 745-5872.

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