By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Fans of Lewis County’s first responders can meet the people on the front lines and behind the scenes at their show-and-tell today.
Last year, the gathering dubbed First Responders Day was held in the parking lot at Bethel Church in Napavine. This year, the fun moves to the Southwest Washington Fair.
The event is designed to provide citizens the opportunity to interact with the many different first responders serving the citizens of Lewis County, all in one place. It will be held in the area of the north lawn by the Saloon Stage.
Demonstrations planned include: a firearms simulator, fire extinguisher simulator, CPR flash mob, Sparky the Fire Dog, water pump drill, Safety Pup, Hurst rescue equipment demonstration, less-lethal demonstration, Stop Stix deployment demonstration, search and rescue K-9 demonstration, and patrol K9 demonstration. Visitors will also be able to meet the sheriff and local police chiefs.
Demonstrations run from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The following agencies have been asked to participate in the event: Centralia, Chehalis, Napavine, Toledo, Morton and Pe Ell Police Departments, Washington State Patrol, Lewis County Dispatch, Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, Lewis County Juvenile, American Red Cross – Lewis County Chapter, Lewis County Crime Stoppers, Search and Rescue – Cascade Dogs, all Lewis County fire districts, Lewis County Chaplains and the Lewis County Coroner’s Office.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
A massager on Park St. I guess if you think that correlates to being a contractor. Wasting valuable resources to leave at a fair while stolen cars are leaving the working class without a vehicle makes perfect sense right? I don’t think So, just do a search in the search bar ( Stolen Honda) the problem is very real and not a laughing matter. You would think that Peace Officers could come up with an effective crime fighting tool. Instead they just allow it to continue unchecked and with no resolution to the problem.
Gee Peabody, your job description sounds like the massager on Park St. You might consider changing professions.
Funny Peabody. Yep, kids fly kites. TY for your reaction. Just call me Ben Frank. Glad to see my electricity raised your blood pressure.
Kids .com you say I laugh all the way to the Bank complaining about body odor and stuff like that. In fact I’m a flooring contractor. I have one of the hardest jobs there is, I deal with pissed on stinky carpets and flooring that gets walked on for the Slum Lords of this community, you know nothing about what I do. I provide a service kids .com.
I get Flak for it because it makes common sense and anything that makes common sense in this town is attacked. This town could easily be a better place to live, but the Good Ol’e boy club can never see it that way. So many more law abiding Centralian’s will be without a car to get to work and feed their families all because law enforcement has other priorities that don’t envolve the tax paying community.
Kinda off topic, but the bait car is a great idea, I don’t get why Peabody gets so much flak for it. With so many stolen each week isn’t it obvious its past due?
Thanks True American. The police vehicles have been at the fair yearly and crime keeps getting worse. Having the vehicles sitting at the fair doing nothing does nothing to help fight crime. Do a search on Sharon’s Web Site and you will see the overwhelming theft of a specific car, the Honda. Now look at the bait car program in other cities, it works. But here in the #1 worse rated city in Washington our police do nothing to change that number. Pathetic and expected from a Good Ol’e Boy Township. We live in modern times, why don’t we use modern crime fighting methods? Is it the Water? Dunno but some agree with me.
Peabody wants a bait car to stop auto thefts. Maybe that would help deter youth from stealing cars in the first place and getting in to crime. Honestly I only looked up to one police officer and he went clerical. They call such demonstrations ‘PR’ for a reason.
Kids .com funny how you spew cannon fodder out you’re mouth so quickley. Makes me realize the many fools that Stereotype people when they don’t agree with another’s opinion. The facts are clear here in the city of Centralia that Hondas are being stolen from our citizens and the police wanna flex their muscle at a public fair. If they want to really show off start fighting crime. I noticed Crime Stoppers is shutting their doors in Lewis County Also. Calling me a Meth user for stating the obvious is laughable, rolls right off my back Kids .com I know what I put into my body and I know its not meth. So go to the fair and look at the Tax Feeders bright and shiney toys why real crime is happening all over our town while the police just stand next to their vehicles looking stupid. We see enough of cops at the Starbucks, why would you want to see them at a fair? Go fly a Kite kids .com.
And by the way Peaboody, I suppose you are the same EYE that comes home after a light day of work, laughing all the way to the bank, and complaining about everyone else’s “body odor” on your perfect hands in front of your kids..
Setting an example of the right way before leading the child to the cart may help, eh Peaboody?
Hey Peaboody, I hope you are a stellar parent that has been an outstanding example to your children. Someone they can actually admire and look up to. These folks are here for those kids that don’t have as great of a parent as YOU to look up to. I think you need to cut back on your meth addiction of self-importance.
Lots of funding to show off their toys at a fair, but no money to Show Off a Bait Car in the streets of Centralia where it matters the most.