PUBLIC SAFETY
Free bicycle helmets available at health program
Published: June 15, 2009, 12:30 am
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NIAGARA FALLS—Free bicycle helmets from the Police Athletic League will be available at the Independent Health Foundation’s Good for the Neighborhood program from 6 to 8 p. m. Thursday at the Doris W. Jones Family Resource Building, 3001 Ninth St.
Bicycle helmet quantities and sizes will be limited. There will be drawings for prizes, including new bicycles at the event.
Participants also can learn how to evacuate a smoke-filled room in the Fire Department’s fire safety house. A pharmacist and physician from Mount St. Mary’s Hospital will be available, as well as representatives from Planned Parenthood, Independent Health recruitment, Upstate New York Transplant Services, Niagara Falls Community Health Outreach Worker Program, Poison Control and the Niagara Falls Library.
There will be cooking demonstrations, free health screenings and free fruits and vegetables at the farmers’ market.
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