Workshops to focus on kids' safety

GOLDENDALE -- Law enforcement agencies in Klickitat County are hosting a new program that will offer a monthlong series of workshops to help educate parents and children.

Short for Community Action Minded Police, the C.A.M.P. workshops will focus on keeping children safe and will be held every Wednesday during May, which is National Law Enforcement Month.

The weekly events will be at 10:30 a.m. at Goldendale Head Start, 920 Schuster St. in Goldendale.

The workshop topics are:

* May 7, car seat and booster seat safety and crosswalk education presented by the Washington State Patrol and Klickitat County Public Health Department;

* May 14, Klickitat County 9-1-1 dispatchers on the importance of knowing your name, address, phone number and whom to call in an emergency;

* May 21, Klickitat County Sheriff's Department on protective gear for boating and bicycling;

* May 28, the Goldendale Police Department presents Stranger Danger and the buddy system, along with a demonstration with its drug dog.

For more information, contact WSP Sgt. Dale Retzlaff at 509-773-3775 or dale.retzlaff@wsp.wa.gov, or Trooper Dave Bourland at 360-449-7960, or dave.bourland@wsp.wa.gov.