With the last day of school this week, the St. Joseph Safety Council and others want to make sure kids are ready for a safe summer. 

Susan Lober is the Traffic Safety Coordinator with the St. Joseph Safety Council. Lober said the Kids Summer Safety Day on Thursday will cover a variety of subjects and activities on how kids can have a safe summer. 

Lober said kids who attend should bring their bike and helmet for a bike rodeo. 

“We’ll have some obstacles for them to weave around,” Lober said. “The kids are already on their bikes, we need to refresh their memories about being safe and talk to them about control and about being able to enter safely, say, a driveway or to be looking for cars because cars are not looking for them.” 

Also at the event, the Fire Department will cover fire safety, City Transit will provide information about riding the bus and the Missouri Department of Conservation will be there with their fishing equipment to talk about safe fishing and how to fish. 

Julie Noel is the Special Events and Communications Coordinator for the City of St. Joseph. Noel said the St. Joseph Police Department will also be there helping parents put together a child identification kit.

“If their child should come up missing, hopefully that will never happen, but if it does, then they have the ability to have their fingerprints and also a photo of their child they can provide to the police department to help them in their search for their child,” Noel said. 

The Kids Summer Safety Day takes place from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday at Krug Park.