As a Followup

Standing with our school Human resources councelor and police officer, Officer Bill.

As a followup to Seatbelt Safety Week last week, we were able to contact local Delaware Community Traffic Safety Program (CTSP) Coordinator, Merrit Burke IV, from University of Delaware. He visited Smyrna High yesterday to help re-paint the "buckle up" signs on the two entryways leading into the school parking lots. He showed us how to paint the signs using stencils and then putting reflective beads on the paint to make it more noticeable. Now they look brand new!

First we had to sweep away all the rocks and dust. Then we laid a stensil over the old sign and painted it with white.

After pulling away the stencil, we had our final product.

Last week we also met with Brooks Banta, the Delaware Kent County Levy Court Representative. We presented him with a Safe Driving pin and he then gave us some of his own opinions on safe driving. We disussed what we've done so far and what we plan to do. He responded to many of our ideas and agreed with some of our points on distracted driving, saying that talking and texting on cell phones while driving is especially dangerous for teens. He said he tries to be as safe as possible when it comes to using phones on the roads. He uses speaker phone whenever possible and he pulls over to the side of the road if he must make a phone call that takes more than five minutes. Afterwards, he discussed some of the county's upcoming plans.