Loaner life jacket program

Loaner life jacket program Your yacht club, fishing club, or other waterfront business or organization can apply through BoatUS to participate in the life jacket loaner program. Details follow: NEWS From BoatU.S. Boat Owners Association of The United States 880 S. Pickett St., Alexandria, VA 22304 BoatU.S. News Room at http://www.BoatUS.com/news/releases.asp FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Joni Turken, JoniT@BoatUS.com, 703-823-9550 ext. 8352 NOTE to EDITORS: PHOTOS AVAILABLE of children wearing life jackets. Date: January 11, 2006 A FEW GOOD MARINAS SOUGHT FOR BOATU.S. FOUNDATION'S LIFE JACKET LOANER PROGRAM Deadline February 21, 2006 The easiest way to ensure a child's safety on the water is to make sure they wear a properly-fitting life jacket. But children's growth spurts or last minute changes to the roster of invited guests don't always make that easy. However, your boat club or waterfront business may be able to help next season as the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety & Clean Water is looking for new locations to become lending sites for its free Life Jacket Loaner Program. There is no cost to become a loaner site and presently over 328 clubs and businesses participate as Life Jacket Loaner Program sites. Since the program began in 1997, three children's lives have been saved as a result of wearing a BoatU.S. life jacket. The loaner life jacket kit consists of 12 jackets in a protective container, signage and easy-to-use sign-out sheets to track usage. Three sizes are included for kids up to 90 pounds. To download an application to become a Life Jacket Loaner Program site or for more information on the laws in your state, please visit http://www.BoatUS.com/Foundation/LJLP. Applications will be accepted until February 21, 2006. The BoatU.S Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit education and research organization primarily funded by the voluntary contributions of 630,000 members of BoatU.S. The Foundation operates more than a dozen programs including the only accredited, free, online general boating safety course, a low-cost EPIRB rental program, the "Help Stop the Drops" national clean fueling campaign, a free kid's Life Jacket Loaner program, and has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants for nonprofit groups for boating safety and environmental projects.	chuckgould.chu... Jan 12 2006
That's how I learned how to swim. At four, my father carried me out into bathing suit deep water in the ocean and "chucked me in," saying "swim...or sink." Or something like that. That was it. I learned how to dog paddle that instant, and it didn't take me long to realize that if I wanted to breathe, I had to keep my face out of the water.	Harry Jan 12
same thing. sort of. >You must have been one tough Dad. corps standard baby. up at oh-dark-thirty, beds made and inspection before breakfast. worked on a demerit system - 25 demerits a week which equaled their allowance - so many demerits equaled a decrease in allowance. this stayed in force and included curfew restrictions as they became teenagers. toe the line.	Shortwave Jan 12
When I started talkin' tough to my oldest when he was in Elementary School, he'd pick up the phone and threaten to call the child abuse line. Seems it was something being pushed in the schools at that time, and he figured he had it over me. I'd tell him to go ahead...the worst they would do is take him away to a foster home. That always gave him reason to contemplate.	Don Jan 12
All of my kids learned at the age of 6 months. There was a YMCA program for infants. When they started to walk it would freak everyone out when they would watch them jump into the pool.	Reggie Jan 12
we stopped mentoring adoptive parents when during one meeting with prospective parents, the prospective mother asked that very question about what do you do if the child threatens to do that same. the social worker moderating the session went ballistic when I said well, just tell them to think about where they were then and where they are now. her words - you cant say that, we want them to call if they feel threatened, yada, yada, yada... right - go get a life lady.	Shortwave Jan 12
the problem with child life preservers isn't weight you know - it's center of gravity. a child might weigh 40 lbs, but the body may have a high center of gravity which would put it face down in the water should the need for one actually be realized. i hope to hell they get people to at least try the things on the kids by chucking them in the water to see if they keep their faces out of the water.	Shortwave Jan 12
"Chucking" them in the water? Wouldn't it be better to just have the kids swim in the water? ; ) You must have been one tough Dad.	Reggie Jan 12

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