Fitzgerald Auto Malls Hosts Back to School Safety Event
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August 20, 2013
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(from L to R) Jack Fitzgerald, NTSB Acting Chairman Deborah Hersman, Dottie Fitzgerald, Congressman Chris Van Hollen Nor th Bethesda, MD, Aug 15: As children are heading back to school this month, parents are faced with making a checklist of school supplies and new clothes. However, the most important items for parents to focus on should be a school transportation safety checklist – the proper installation of child safety seats, school bus safety, pedestrian safety, and teen driver safety. Under b eaut i f u l blue skies this morning, Jack Fitzgerald, CEO and Founder of Fitzgerald Auto Malls, welcomed National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Deborah Hersman to a Back To School Transportation Safety event. Held at the monthly Child Safety Seat Check event at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall in Rockville, Fitzgerald spoke about the importance of the proper installation of child safety seats. The Fitzgerald
Child Safety Seat Inspection Program started in 1999 after Fitzgerald became aware of the dangers of improperly installed child safety seats. As of this morning, Fitzgerald has installed and inspected 44,006 child safety seats. No other local volunteer program in the United States has ever achieved this many child safety seat inspections within a single program. Acting Chairman Hersman spoke about key transportation safety issues for school-age children and the role the agency takes to recognize and issue safety recommendations aimed at preventing future accidents. • Keep children safe with properly installed and appropriate child safety seats. • School buses are the safest way to transport children to school everyday. • Teen driver safety and teaching teens that driving is the most dangerous daily activity
we undertake. Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Captain Tom Didone with the Montgomery County Police Department, and Todd Watkins, Director of Transportation with the Montgomery County Public Schools spoke about working to keep our children safe with school bus safety and safe ways to get to school. A school bus, pedestrian crossing simulator display, and child safety seat checks were available for parents, caregivers, and children to interact with and participate in discussions. Safe Kids Montgomery County was on hand to help. Monthly child safety seat inspections and installations are held at the White Flint Rockville dealership on Nicholson Lane, on the third Thursday of every month. Visit www.FitzMall.com for details or to make an appointment.
Imran Khan is not apprehensive about his work in Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! any more. He is confident viewers will appreciate his work in the underworld-based romantic drama, releasing on Thursday. Directed by Milan Luthria, the film is a sequel to Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and revolves around three characters played by Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi
Sinha and Imran Khan. “I am always very nervous before the release of a film, but I saw the film last night (Monday) with Akshay sir and Sonakshi and I am feeling very strong,” the 31-year-old said. “I feel we have managed to make a very good film, I feel very happy with my work and I have a sense that people are going to appreciate my work,” he added. Imran received the
best compliment from Luthria. “The best compliment came from my director Milan sir, who said that he is very pleased with my work. Obviously, as an actor you want the audience to appreciate your work,” Imran said. “But a film starts in a director’s head, that’s where it really takes birth. For him to feel that I have done justice to his character, is a great honour,” he added.
Imran Khan: Happy With My Work In Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara!
First Saudi Arabian Woman ‘Breaks Taboo’ By Conquering Mount Everest
Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): A Saudi Arabian woman has broken taboos and made history by becoming the first woman from the ultraorthodox country to climb and conquer Mount Everest on May 18 this year. According to CNN, the triumph of 27-year-old graphic designer Raha Moharrak, who is also the youngest Saudi national to reach the top of Everest, was part of an expedition known as ‘Arabs With Altitude’, which has been documented for an upcoming series airing on Qatar Television. Wanting to test her limits which meant challenging her culture, Moharrak recalled that getting her father, who still maintained conservative views, to agree was the first hurdle, although she said that he and the rest of her family supported her every step of the way since then. The report further said that Moharrak began climbing in November 2011 and in the space of a year, conquered eight mountains including Mount Kilimanjaro,
and Moharrak said that when she got to the top of Everest, she did not celebrate as much as she would have liked given that 75% of people die on the way down. However, Moharrak admitted that even though she had trained hard for the expedition, she promised herself that if she were at risk of losing fingers and toes to frostbite, she would abandon her attempt.
According to the report, Moharrak’s triumph on Everest is the latest in a growing number of milestones for women in Saudi Arabia, with US-based Sarah Attar becoming the first Saudi woman to compete in an Olympics at the London Games last year. Saudi Arabia only officially allowed sport to be played in private girls’ schools in May, the report added.