Use your head and get a free bike helmet

Wrangell kids will have a heads-up opportunity next month: Not only can they get free helmets to wear when riding bicycles and four-wheelers, but the offer also includes free paint, brushes and other supplies to decorate their new headgear.

It’s a thoughtful giveaway to protect the center of kids’ thought process.

Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL), which provides help and support services for people with disabilities, particularly brain injuries, will provide the helmets. Wrangell’s parks and recreation department will put on the event from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4, at the community center multipurpose room.

Kids will provide the artistry to customize their new helmets.

Not only is there no charge, but it’s easy. To register for a free helmet, go to the Parks and Recreation website at wrangellrec.com, click on “Register,” then under “Programs” click on “Family Recreation and Aquatics,” and at the bottom of the webpage log in at “Helmet Workshop.”

SAIL, which is based in Juneau, has staff in several other Southeast communities and provides services throughout the region.

What better way to prevent brain injuries than to protect the head. And what better way to do it in style than with a custom-decorated helmet. Not only will no two look alike, but kids pretty much can do whatever they like.

Whether paint, glitter, stickers or whatever else a kid will think to glue or paint on the protective headgear, anything that encourages them to wear it is good thinking.

-- Wrangell Sentinel

 

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