Students educated with farm safety

Times Reporter   

  

Ag for Life held a safety-awareness fair at Langdon School on Thursday, Oct. 9.

The fair consisted of farming-related companies who stress to the students the importance  safety first and being  aware of your surroundings on the farm.

“We’re putting on this program for farm and rural safety because we recognize that farms are a great place to be but they have some dangers associated with them, same with rural areas in general,” said Heather Hanlon, Ag for Life program coordinator. “Our safety days hit on rural topics and even small towns and city kids can get a lot of them too because there is something for everyone here.”

Companies that provide a variety of safety demonstrations are usually brought in for the safety fair.

“There are a lot of great companies like Operation Lifesaver and Red Cross that do this, they have a booth that they go around and set up. The Ag for Life’s founders include ATCO, Rocky Mountain Equipment and UFA, those are three of our seven founders here talking about safety issues important to them,” said Hanlon. “It’s great we have these companies that support safety and give time to kids. I look for companies that have an important safety message and would like to share it and volunteer their time.”

If there is something that Hanlon wants the students to take out of this, it’s to be more aware and to learn something from each station.