{"id":66837,"date":"2016-03-30T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66837"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:22:29","slug":"madison-county-hosting-safe-and-secure-counties-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66837","title":{"rendered":"Madison County hosting Safe and Secure Counties open house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=66838\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66838\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-66838\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/County-Seal-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"County Seal\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>(Wampsville) Since 1991, the National Association of Counties (NACo) has identified April as National County Government Month and this year\u2019s theme is \u201cSafe and Secure Counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, Madison County is using this opportunity to raise public awareness of the critical\u00a0 functions performed by their emergency response departments by inviting the public to an open house. Saturday\u2019s open house will be held in the parking lot of the County campus on North Court Street in Wampsville from 9 a.m. until noon with the following departments sharing the roles they play to keep Madison County communities safe and secure.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 E-911\/Communications Center \u2013 Tour the Emergency Communications Center that answers call from anyone that has a medical, fire or police related emergency in Madison County.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Emergency Management \u2013 Check out all of the bells and whistles of a real fire truck! Sign up for NY Alert and learn what it takes to join the fire service.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Highway Department \u2013 Get a close up look at Highway Department trucks and equipment along with scale models of bridges.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Public Health Department \u2013 Enter a water tasting competition, make sure your child\u2019s car seat is installed properly, and that your infants are sleeping safely.<\/p>\n<p>\uf0b7 Sheriff\u2019s Office \u2013 Get up close and personal to the Sheriff\u2019s command trailer, snowmobiles, patrol and tactical vehicles. Sign your children up for Operation Safe Child, get a free bike helmet, and meet the K-9 Patrol Dog!<\/p>\n<p>The Madison County Landfill on Buyea Road will be holding a Safe Pill Drop Off and free shredding event on the same day. Bring the whole family for an educational and fun day with refreshments and giveaways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wampsville) Since 1991, the National Association of Counties (NACo) has identified April as National County Government Month and this year\u2019s theme is \u201cSafe and Secure Counties.\u201d On April 30, Madison County is using this opportunity to raise public awareness of the critical\u00a0 functions performed by their emergency response departments by inviting the public to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-ho1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}