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Family Fun, Safety the Focus of Child Safe Community Day Fair

Sunday's fair includes Easter egg hunt, ice cream eating contest and more

This Sunday, April 3, parents and their children can learn about safety and have fun while doing it.

Child Safe Community Day Fair is a free and public event that will take place at 237 Belmar Blvd. in Avon Lake from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The community event takes place on Avon Lake’s “Child Safe Day,” as declared by Mayor Karl Zuber. The event will promote information for parents, children and all families about safety inside and outside the home. 

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The kid-friendly afternoon will feature an Easter egg hunt, ice cream eating contest, pictures with the Easter bunny along with clowns, face painting, Easter tattoos done by Brookside High School’s Rotary Club, balloons and inflatable bouncers from Awesome Inflatables.

Presented by The , the event is co-sponsored by , who is in his seventh year doing the same program in Strongsville. That event he said, brings an average of 2500 people in less than three hours, and he hopes for a similar turnout in Avon Lake in its first year.

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Ellis, who has a karate centers in Strongsville and Avon Lake and regularly teaches groups of children about safety, said his team wanted to expand their outreach program.

Members of law enforcement and public service agencies are will be on hand volunteering their time to give lectures, do fingerprinting and hand out information about the protection and safety of children. The American Red Cross will also take part in safety education.

Children can participate in mini-clinics that will also help parents know how to talk to their children about stranger danger.

Children and parents will receive a free child identification kit, fingerprints and a personal description record for parents to take home and update regularly.

“By the attendance of the one in Strongsville, I can see that it’s important and valuable to families,” Ellis said, “so we wanted to provide that same opportunity to Avon Lake and the surrounding area. We want parents to know their children have tools to stay safe.

“There has become such a great need to have people stay safe, as well as help young people to do their best and build confidence, and be better prepared for the future,” Ellis said. “We thought why not impact people in a more significant way--that’s how Child Safe Community Day was born.”

Ellis said participants may want to bring bags for Easter eggs and to have a place to put handouts to take home.

“It should be a fun time for everybody,” he said, “and a good family event and meaningful and valuable tools for families to keep their child safe.

Schedule of Events

  • 1 - 4pm  I.D Kits with fingerprinting -  Avon Lake Police Dept.
  • 1 - 3pm         Pictures with Easter Bunny -   Neldon Photographers
  • 1:15pm          Easter Egg Hunt-Pre-School  -   Avon/Avon Lake Rotary
  • 1:45pm         Easter Egg Hunt 1stto 3rd grade -  Avon/Avon Lake Rotary
  • 2 - 2:45pm    Stranger Awareness Clinic - International Karate Centers Martial Arts Demonstration
  • 2:45 - 3:30pm      Tour Fire-engine -- learn fire safety -  Avon Lake Fire Dept.
  • 3 - 4pm            Bike Safety Helmet get the right fit                   
  • 3:30pm            IceCream Eating Contest – 1st to 3rd Grade -  Cold Stone Creamery
  • 3:45pm           Ice Cream Eating Contest – 4th Grade & UP 
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