BURRILLVILLE – It’s Halloween week everyone! This week’s Sunday feature reminds kids about the importance of Halloween safety with the popular Itty Bitty Super Dupers cartoon characters.
It’s also a milestone for my Sunday features. This Sunday is the 208th consecutive week of my creative content contributions to this publication. That’s four straight years of creating weekly safety coloring cartoons for the kids and writing submission articles about family safety for adults.
The Itty Bitty Super Dupers want to remind kids to wear reflective costumes and clothing, buddy up, cross streets safely and have an adult check all of your treats before eating anything. Halloween night will be very busy and hectic to say the least and drivers should be fully aware of their surroundings and pay attention to kids and families going door-to-door while Trick-or-Treating. Drive slow and watch for kids. If homes have their front lights on, then it’s fine to go there for treats. If the home lights are turned off, then please allow those home residents their privacy and continue to the next home with their front lights turned on. Kids should never run into the streets and should pay close attention to vehicles traveling around them. Watch for cars and trucks. Kids should not stand behind parked cars or trucks in driveways and never walk into any home without an adult guardian. Be courteous and kind to everyone you meet and never pull any tricks on a person or their property. The safest time of the day to go out Trick-or-Treating is before dark or at sunset. It’s safer than going out after dark. You can see everything and everyone around you and everyone can easily see you.
Be like the Itty Bitty Super Dupers kids. Have fun, but also stay safe, this Halloween.
Jim Weicherding is a Burrillville resident, and the founder and creator of an award-winning traffic safety effort Seasons of Safety. Weicherding contributes kids’ coloring cartoons, which can be printed and used to help parents discuss safety issues with their children. He has a long list of police officers and firefighters in his family and has worked with law enforcement and firefighters in a creative public safety capacity for more than two decades.
