BURRILLVILLE – It’s opening season for fishing throughout the state of Rhode Island this weekend. Fishing season all the time begins on the second Saturday in April.
Li’l Skipper and Clam Desserts wish to remind children and households to all the time fish safely in boats. At all times put on life jackets whereas boating, particularly kids. Ensure that life jackets are child-sized and never adult-sized to assist forestall drowning. Life jackets which might be too huge for kids might trigger them to slide out and sink underneath the floor of the water. Keep calm whereas boating and keep away from any actions that will trigger a ship to flip on its aspect and submerge underneath the water floor. Keep seated. No transferring round and taking part in in a ship. Preserve kids away from outboard motors on smaller fishing boats. Life jackets save lives and needs to be worn the entire time whereas fishing on a ship. There needs to be a life jacket onboard for each grownup whereas boating.
This week’s Sunday characteristic is a coloring web page taken from a 24-page coloring e-book that I created and printed for the Rhode Island Division of Environmental Administration Regulation Enforcement Division for water and boating security neighborhood outreach efforts over the previous twenty years. The water and boating security messages are crucial and the Li’l Skipper and Clam Desserts cartoon characters are nonetheless as fashionable as ever with children and households.
Keep protected whereas boating and fishing this season and all the time put on a life jacket children!
Jim Weicherding is a Burrillville resident, and the founder and creator of an award-winning site visitors security effort Seasons of Security. Weicherding contributes children’ coloring cartoons, which might be printed and used to assist mother and father talk about questions of safety with their kids. He has an extended checklist of cops and firefighters in his household and has labored with regulation enforcement and firefighters in a inventive public security capability for greater than twenty years.
