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PLAYING IT SAFE WHILE SWIMMING Several programs are underway in the Valley to prevent childhood drownings. Local hospitals are spreading awareness about water safety. Community news, Page 3

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Emma Eaton floats on her back with the help of Shaunna Risinger (instructor) during survival swimming classes at SWIMkids USA.

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Programs, coalitions aimed at families help in preventing childhood drownings JORDAN TOWER AND JENNIFER GORDON SPECIAL FOR THE REPUBLIC | AZCENTRAL.COM

Emma Eaton, age 22 months, has been swimming since she was 2 months old, always in a little swimsuit. What would happen, however, if the toddler from Laveen fell into a pool in her pajamas? She is marching to the edge of the pool to find out. Survival Swimming is a program taught by SWIMkids USA in Mesa to ensure kids know how to react if they fall into the pool with their clothes on. It is just one of several programs underway in the Valley to prevent childhood drownings or water injuries. Local hospitals and the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona are leading the way in efforts spreading awareness about water safety. Some programs are aimed at parents, not just the kids. Only 22.7 percent of children ages 1 to 4 who were involved in a life-threatening water incident in 2015 were in swimsuits, according to the annual report produced by the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona. “A lot of the times babies and toddlers don’t drown in their swimming suits; they drown in their pajamas or their clothes,” said Jessica Curtis, Emma’s mother. “Clothes are a lot heavier so we want the children to know how to maneuver.” Curtis was adamant about getting Emma in swim lessons early because the Laveen mother lost her 22-month-old son to a fatal drowning in 2013. Her family had just moved into a house in the Valley and had yard workers over all afternoon. Their home alarms were turned off because the workers had been going in and out of the house, and they propped the pool fence open without telling the family. Curtis had gone to the bathroom, and when she went outside, she found her son Parker at the bottom of the pool.

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Emma Eaton floats on her back with the help of Shaunna Risinger (instructor) during survival swimming classes at SWIMkids USA, 2725 W Guadalupe Road, Mesa on June 7.

Arizona’s weather, poverty part of the problem In Arizona there is better weather, more pools and more areas of low-income families, which is why Arizona loses an average of 16 children a year to fatal drownings, experts say. Arizona is ranked No. 2 in the country for child drownings, according to the Centers for Disease Control data collected from 2000 to 2010, the most recent comprehensive data available. Lack of supervision was the contributing factor in 50 percent of the drownings, according to a 2015 report from the Arizona Child Fatality Review Program. So far in 2017, the Valley had 26 water incidents involving children, with six resulting in fatalities, according to Chil-

dren’s Safety Zone, an Arizona coalition focused on child safety. Tiffaney Isaacson, a coordinator at the Center for Family Health and Safety through Phoenix Children’s Hospital, said the hospital has studied details of recent drownings and two factors stand out. “We have a significant population of the children who are most at risk for drowning, which is the 1 to 4 age group,” Isaacson said. The other factor, is Arizona’s high poverty rate. Isaacson said families who live in low socioeconomic settings are at an increased risk for drowning, because of the high costs of pool fences and swimming lessons. Hospital spokeswomen say hospitals are big players in prevention efforts because they have seen the effects of childhood drownings. Melissa Sutton, a board member of the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona and president of Active Kids Global, said children overall are at risk simply because of their curiosity. She said even if a family doesn’t have a backyard pool, the chances of a child having access to water in Arizona is high. A child can drown in less than two inches of water. “Between the ages of 9 months and 12 months, children are getting to the developmental stage of upright mobility, which means they are getting mobile,” Sutton said. “They are beginning to cruise, crawl, and walk, so that means they’re not in their parent’s arms.”

Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Playing it Safe Phoenix Children’s Hospital has used its research and created multiple drowning prevention programs aimed at those at the highest risk. From left: Emma Eaton, Avery De Alba and Wyatt Valazza listen to their instructor during survival swimming classes at SWIMkids USA.

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One of the programs, Playing it Safe, is a workshop that targets parents with children 1 to 4, and it goes beyond swimming lessons. “We really try to have parents understand the importance of supervising children with constant capable supervision when they’re near the pool area,” Isaacson said. “Having them understand developmental norms really helps with that.” Juana Hernandez, a colleague of Isaacson’s and the manager of Salt River Project’s safety connection program, explained the parent-focused workshops. “We all know that something as fun as going to the swimming pool can be stressful when you have a 2-year-old, or two 2-year-olds,” Hernandez said. “We talk about things that strengthen and create a resilient parent so that they know how to handle a situation, and get themselves out of situations if necessary.” The Playing it Safe workshop can be held in English or in Spanish, and it has reached about 200 families. Parents or caregivers completed a survey before and after this workshop, and results found that only 37 percent of the parents understood that children don’t have instinctive swimming skills. After the workshop, that number doubled. The survey also found that threequarters of the parents had unrealistic expectations when it came to swim lessons, and after the workshop the number was reduced to 25 percent. To enroll low-income parents whose children are at higher risk of drowning in the workshops, Isaacson and Hernandez say they reach out to different organizations in the community that are already connected with these families.

Cardon Children’s Medical Center and elementary schools Tracey Fejt, the injury prevention coordinator/outreach manager for Cardon Children’s Medical Center, visited 13 elementary schools in April around the East Valley, talking with kids about water safety. Fejt said a focus of her talk is on life jackets, and she brings in arm floaties and explains the difference between the two. “The biggest push is the push for life jackets,” whether they are swimming in a pool, lake, or river, Fejt said. Both Cardon Children’s Medical Center and Phoenix Children’s Hospital also

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offer water safety bags to families across the state. Since 2007, Cardon Children’s Medical Center has given out 600,000 safety bags. The bags include a sticker with CPR instructions and a “duty tag” that goes on the supervisor’s wrist that helps them remember how close they should be to the water.

Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona and staying SMART Another program in the state is Water SMART Babies, launched by the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona in 2011. Water SMART Babies was originally developed in Florida. During its first year in Arizona, there was an immediate 50 percent reduction of water incidents involving children 1 to 4 years old, according to Sutton of the Drowning Prevention Coalition. The program asks pediatricians to start talking about water safety with families at their babies’ 9-month and 12month visits. Based on new guidelines from American Academy of Pediatrics, pediatricians are encouraged to tell these families to get their children into swimming lessons earlier. Before 2010, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ stance was that a child could swim before the age of 4, but their revised position changed the beginning age to the age of 1. “There are programs in the state that actually take them at birth, 2 months is actually recommended to start getting them into water-acclamation classes, where they start to get familiar with the feel of buoyancy and the feel of hydrostatic pressure,” Sutton said. “We are giving doctors and healthcare providers the tools to have the conversation,” said Lori Schmidt, president of the Drowning Prevention Coalition of Arizona.

Long way to go The fact that fewer children in Arizona are drowning now than in the past motivates coordinators of the drowning prevention programs. In 1988, 64 per 100,000 children ages 1-4 were in life-threatening pool incidents, and as of 2015 that number is eight per 100,000.

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Girl Scouts volunteers honored The Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council recently honored 23 adult volunteers with Girl Scout High Achievement Awards. The High Achievement Awards are granted annually to volunteers who have distinguished themselves by their outstanding service in furthering the Girl Scout mission. Each year, GSACPC holds a special recognition ceremony to honor these volunteers, who are nominated by their peers and selected by the nominating committee. The honorees usually have served as a troop leader for several years and volunteer at the neighborhood level. The 2017 High Achievement Awards were given to Tammie Bohnker of Lake Havasu City, Kathy Hale of Glendale, Angela Lian of Glendale, Heidi McBreen of Glendale and Jessica Smith of Chino Valley. The volunteers were awarded pins and badges to symbolize their work in their respective communities.

New app helps kids with cancer The Purple Society, a Scottsdale based nonprofit, recently released The Purple Drug Guide, a mobile app that is available on Android and iOS devices for free. The app serves as a drug research tool which combines detailed treatment information in a user-friendly format to make cancer drugs easy to find and understand. Users can search and compare pricing information. More than 10,000 drugs are listed, along with dynamic real-time updates from the same government drug database used by doctors and hospitals around the world. Experimental drugs and clinical trials are also included in the app. Users can download The Purple Drug Guide from the app store, make an account and immediately begin typing cancer drugs in the easy-to-use search bar. Users can even save and email those drug profiles to a friend or doctor. The app took Conti, a software developer, a year and a half to build. Details: werpurple.org or facebook.com/ThePurpleSociety.

Peoria K9 Unit gets bullet proof vest Acura of Peoria recently donated a

bullet proof vest and additional K9 equipment to the Peoria Police Department K9 Unit. The donation was made through the Peoria Police Citizens Academy Alumni, a 501c3 non-profit organization. The mission of the Peoria Police Citizens’ Academy Alumni is to foster and promote a partnership between the community, the alumni and the Peoria Police Department. The vest was presented to Officer Joey Smith and his K9 partner, Hippie, by members of the Peoria Police Citizens’ Academy Alumni, Acura of Peoria Partner & General Manager Brijen Dave, General Sales Manager Ben Quail and Customer Relations Director Lexie Cremiuex. With this donation, each of the department’s four K9s now has a bullet proof vest. Details: www.ppcaa-az.org.

Design the new library card Peoria kids are invited to create artwork centered around the Maricopa County Summer Reading Program’s theme, Build a Better World, and enter to win a $50 gift card and have their design be the newest library card. Entry forms and contest guidelines are available at the service desks at Peoria Main and Sunrise Mountain libraries. The contest is open in two categories, for kids ages 5-11 and 12-17, and will run from June 1-Aug. 1.

School drive benefits foster kids Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation is hosting its fifth annual Backpack and School Supply Drive from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 15 at Office Max, 4519 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix. The organization assists more than 19,000 children in Arizona foster care and needs donations from residents throughout the Valley. Last year, 5,600 backpacks were filled through AFFCF’s drive efforts. The organization’s current goal is to fill 5,000 new backpacks full of school supplies for the 2017-2018 school year. In addition to backpacks, suggested new school supply donations include pens and pencils, erasers, paper, notebooks, binders, folders, rulers, dictionaries, calculators, flash drives and alarm clocks. Details: 602-388-0966 or edsonsalas@gmail.com.

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D-Backs to host Star Wars Day with fireworks LAURA LATZKO SPECIAL FOR THE REPUBLIC | AZCENTRAL.COM

May the force-out at second be with you. Star Wars and baseball are coming together for a theme night at Chase Field. On Saturday, June 24, the Arizona Diamondbacks will host Star Wars Day during a home game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Kenny Farrell, vice president of marketing and business analytics for the DBacks, said with promotions such as Star Wars Day, the team hopes to enhance fan experience. “It creates memories. It creates those moments for our fans to enjoy together,” Farrell said. “A lot of this is really family-based, which Star Wars is really great for…Those memories with your kids, parents or family, those are really impactful to our fans.” Farrell said a movie series such as Star Wars fits well with baseball because they both have diverse, widespread fan bases. “I think what’s awesome about Star Wars is it’s multi-generation. For us in baseball, generations are really important because we think coming to a baseball game is something that is pretty unique in terms of generations being able to enjoy it,” Farrell said. During the game, the first 20,000 fans will receive a collectible Paul Goldschmidt X-Wing Fighter Pilot bobblehead doll. Paul Goldschmidt won’t be the only player to get a Star-Wars-themed makeover. Throughout the game, players’ headshots will be transformed into characters from the movies as they come up to bat.

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Farrell said theme nights allow fans often get to see a different side of the players. Throughout the game, Star Wars characters such as Stormtroopers, Darth Vader and Chewbacca will interact with fans and take photos in the concourse area. A fireworks show with music from the Star Wars movies will follow the

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Congressional shooting shows politics must not be a blood sport It’s a tragic day in America but maybe it can be something more. A turning point, perhaps, in our national cagefight over, well, just about everything. There is one thing upon which we can all agree on. The events in Alexandria, Va., last week are the work of a madman, outrageous in every way. A left-winger who hates Donald Trump — a man who has called the president a traitor and pronounced it “time to destroy Trump & Co.” — decided to put his hatred into action and open fire on innocent Americans playing baseball. This was no random act of lunacy. The guy stopped a congressman in the parking lot and asked whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing on the field. Minutes later, James T. Hodgkinson started shooting.

There will be hours and days of unending TV and internet analysis about what prompted a 66-year-old union tradesman from Illinois to go over the edge. Perhaps there should also be some national introspection as we sit here, dug into our respective political fox holes — right and left. Perhaps it’s time to agree on a few things beyond decrying that which happened this morning on a Virginia ballfield. Like that fact that Republicans aren’t evil and Democrats aren’t either. They have differing views, certainly — conflicting visions of the direction in which this country needs to go. They may not be correct but that doesn’t mean they’re corrupt. Maybe it’s time to stop shouting at each other and instead start listening to each other — looking, in good faith, for that rarified earth called common

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