CLEARFIELD – Support your American Red Cross, order your Christmas Wreath. Live, 20 inch noble fir, decorated with uniper berries, incense cedar, pine cones and a bow. Delivery date is November 28 and your cost is $20.00. Please call 765-5516 to order.
AVOID THANKSGIVING DAY FIRES
Fast Facts
• Cooking is the leading cause of home fires on Thanksgiving Day.
• Cooking fires nearly double on Thanksgiving Day, occurring more than twice as often than on another day.
• Cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
• Thanksgiving Day home fires cause more property damage and claim more lives than home fires on other days.
• Eighty percent of Americans don’t realize that home fires are the single most common disaster across the nation.
• The number of home fires the American Red Cross has responded to has risen 10 percent since 2000.
• Every two and a half hours someone is killed in a home fire. In a typical year, 20,000 people are injured in home fires.
• Having a working smoke alarm reduces one’s chances of dying in a fire by nearly half.
Safety Tips
-Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling, or broiling food. If you must leave the kitchen for even a short period of time, turn off the stove.
-If you are simmering, baking, boiling, or roasting food, check it regularly, remain in the home while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that the stove or oven is on.
-Avoid wearing loose clothing or dangling sleeves while cooking.
-Keep kids away from cooking areas by enforcing a “kid-free zone” of three feet around the stove.
-Keep anything that can catch on fire—pot holders, oven mitts, wooden utensils, paper or plastic bags, food packaging, and towels or curtains—away from your stove top and oven or any other appliance in the kitchen that generates heat.
-If you must use a turkey fryer, make sure it is outdoors and in an open area away from all walls, fences or other structures that could catch on fire and away from moisture that can cause serious burns from steam or splattering hot oil. Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions.
-Smoke alarms save lives. Install a smoke alarm near your kitchen and use the test button to check it each month. Replace all batteries at least once a year.
-After your Thanksgiving guests leave, ask a family member to perform a home safety check to ensure that all candles and smoking materials are extinguished.
Let us supply your Pies for the Christmas Holidays, 10 inch pies for only $8.00 each. Delivery date will be Dec. 17. Apple, blackberry, peach, cherry, pecan, carmel apple walnut, and pumpkin roll. Call the office to order and pick up at the office.
Clearfield Area United Way is holding a February Basket Raffle to benefit the Clearfield-Jefferson Red Cross and Clearfield United Way. One winner will be drawn every day in the month of February and a Bonus Basket will be drawn on February 29. Tickets are $25.00 and will be available at the Clearfield and Brookville Red Cross offices 765-5516 or 849-2712 and Clearfield United Way office 765-6521.
For your early Holiday Shopping we have some $5.00 specials that will help you fill your family’s stockings. Compact First aid kits, Face shield key chains, Red Cross cookbooks, Pizza Hut coupons offering buy-one-get-one-free and discounts.
Health & Safety Classes:
Adult CPR – Clearfield – Nov. 21
Brookville – Dec. 5
Punxsutawney – Dec. 3
Infant Child CPR – Clearfield – Dec. 6
First Aid – Clearfield – Dec. 20
Brookville – Dec. 6
Punxsutawney – Dec. 4
All of the above classes begin at 6 p.m. Call 765-5516 to register in Clearfield or 849-2712 to register in Brookville & Punxsutawney.
Clearfield Bloodmobile Schedule
Nov. 17 Curwensville Family Moose Center 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Nov. 21 Quehanna Boot Camp 10 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Nov. 30 Fixed Site 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Jefferson Bloodmobile Schedule
Nov. 16 Punxsutawney Christian School Noon -6 p.m.
Nov. 20 Masonic Lodge-Reynoldsville 1 p.m. -7 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 23 War Memorial-Big Run Noon-5:30 p.m.
The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization funded in part by United Way and by your generous donations Please support your Clearfield-Jefferson American Red Cross this Holiday Season. Checks may be sent to Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter, 1100 S. Second St. Suite 2, Clearfield, Pa 16830, or Clearfield Jefferson Chapter, 275 Main St., Brookville, Pa 15825. VISA and MasterCard are accepted.
Red Cross is a United Way and United Fund Participating Agency and an RSVP Station.