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The Southwest Michigan Safe Communities Steering Committee of Van Buren County
In conjunction with the American Automobile Association, the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office and the City, Village & Township Police Departments of our County are the sponsors of the All Van Buren County High School Seat Belt Challenge Series.
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County Wide High School Seat Belt Challenge
American Automobile Association to assist with challenges.
Contributors Honor Roll
Local Police Chief's play a large part in the Seat Belt Challenge
Seat Belt Super Bowl Final Score
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County Wide High School Seat Belt Challenge
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The “Seat Belt Super Bowl”
which is the first in the series of three county-wide Seat Belt Challenges. The statistics listed here are the beginning numbers for the first challenge the Seat Belt Super Bowl. In March we will have the second in the series the “March Madness Challenge”, and the final challenge at the end of the school year will be called the “Graduation Challenge”
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Seat Belt Super Bowl
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American Automobile Association to assist with challenges.
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Jane M. Johnson of the American Automobile Association in Kalamazoo, once again has agreed to furnish the plaques for the winning schools, as well as a $50.00 prize for the winning schools’ Grad Bash. She is also furnishing the promotional posters and helping with the media releases.
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Van Buren Challenge AAA
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Contributors Honor Roll
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Contributors Honor Roll
The business listed below contributed products and more importantly needed support to our Seat Belt Challenge and in turn helped us support the young drivers in our high schools. We would like to say thank-you to these supporters and hope you will support their businesses.
City or Village
Business / Owner or manager
Bangor:
Mc Donald’s of South Haven - Sue Knytych
Steffinos’s Pizza - A.J. Steffinos
Bloomingdale:
Pizza Time - Joe Pacheco
4 Way Stop - Tim Johnson & Juliet Secbenski
Covert:
Mc Donald’s of South Haven - Sue Knytych
Decatur:
Saylor’s Pizza – David Saylor
Lawrence:
Roma’s Pizza - Jason Hazen
The Cream Bar – Marcela Roberts
Lawton:
Ka Cee’s - Kim Jones
The Other Side - Kim Jones
Taco Bob’s - Steve Bower
Mattawan:
Mancinos -
Paw Paw:
Chickin Coop – Kevin Moreman
Pizza Hut – Susan Cornish
Taco Bell – Joe Brooks
Arby’s –Dan Feaster
South Haven:
Arby’s - Judy Dayton
Chicken Coop - Dave Gilmore
Mc Donald’s of South Haven - Sue Knytych
Papa Johns - Bruce Jordan
Pizza Hut - Michael Swan
Taco Bell - Shelly Lewis
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Contributors Honor Roll
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Local Police Chief's play a large part in the Seat Belt Challenge
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Local Police Chief's are instrumental in making the Seat Belt Challenge successful.
The Chiefs of Police and their officers in the cities and villages of Bangor, Bloomingdale, Covert, Decatur, Hartford, Lawrence, Lawton, Mattawan & South Haven all participated in the Seat Belt Challenge. Their contributions of manpower and most important their ideas and expertise in conducting this challenge are greatly appreciated.
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Seat Belt Super Bowl Final Score
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The Southwest Michigan Safe Communities Steering Committee of Van Buren County is happy to announce the successful conclusion of the Seat Belt Super Bowl. This is the first of three challenges that will be conducted with the high schools of Van Buren County. This challenge was extremely successful and we are grateful for all the help and support we received from AAA of Michigan, the local police agencies and the high school principles and their staff. Credit should also be given to the students that were involved with the promotion and data collection in their schools. We also want to thank the many area merchants who donated compliance prizes that were distributed to students who were observed wearing their seat belts.
The first Seat Belt Challenge was held last year between the Paw Paw and Mattawan High Schools with Mattawan winning that contest. This year it was decided to expand the program to all the county high schools and do three challenges spread over the 2004-2005 school year. The first was the Seat Belt Super Bowl the second one will be the March Madness Challenge and the final challenge will be called the Grad Bash Challenge.
In the last few years there has been a number of serious traffic crashes involving young drivers. A few of these crashes involved multiple fatalities as a result of the occupants being ejected from the auto. We are hoping to reduce the severity of the injuries and the number of fatalities by increasing seat belt usage of our younger drivers.
Here is the final count:
SCHOOL V.S. SCHOOL WINNERS:
GOBLES (85.7%) beat BLOOMINGDALE(78.3%)
BANGOR (99.1%) beat COVERT (79.2%)
LAWTON (91.5%) beat DECATUR (82.4%)
LAWRENCE (81.0%) beat HARTFORD (73.2%)
PAW PAW (99.7%) beat MATTAWAN (98.1%) and SOUTH HAVEN (94.6%)
New High School Average = 87.5% which is up from 85.1% (2.4% increase) in just 1 month - GREAT JOB!
OVERALL WINNER PAW PAW HIGH SCHOOL @ 99.7% !!!!!
MOST IMPROVED PAW PAW HIGH SCHOOL @ 10.1%
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Final Score
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