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Article: Summer safety at the top of list at La Mirada parks
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- Whittier Daily News
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- August 23, 2009
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LA MIRADA - When La Mirada Public Safety Officer Andrew Nunnally
sees familiar park-goers riding a scooter, skateboard or bike
without a helmet, he only needs to say three words.
"Remember the watermelon?"
It might not make sense to most people, but for kids in the
city's Positive Alternatives and Recreation for Kids (PARK) program,
it brings up vivid memories of this summer's Safety Thursdays, a one-
hour weekly event aimed at discouraging risky youthful behavior.
To demonstrate the importance of wearing a helmet a few weeks
ago, officers used a watermelon - one tucked safely inside a helmet,
the other bare - to show what could happen in a fall if someone's
head hit the floor.
Apparently, ...