Campus and community briefs

Cheap helmets offered for kids

The Bear River SAFE KIDS Coalition is offering $5 bicycle helmets for children 12 and under from March 29 through April 9, or until they run out. The promotion coincides with Public Health Week.

Helmets can be purchased at the Bear River Health Department, 655 E. 1300 North, Logan. All sales are final. To ensure proper fit, measure your child around the head, one-inch above the eyebrow.

Bicycles are associated with more childhood injuries than any other consumer product except the automobile.

Head injury is the leading cause of death in bicycle crashes. The single most effective safety device available to reduce head injury and death from bicycle crashes is a helmet. Helmet use reduces the risk of bicycle-related death and injury and the severity of head injury when a crash occurs. National estimates report that bicycle helmet use among child bicyclists ranges only from 15 to 25 percent.

For more information call 792-6510 or visit www.brhd.org.

Four women to be honored

The Utah State University Women’s Center Advisory Board will honor four Cache Valley women at its “Women Over 65 Achievement Award” ceremony. The recipients are: Edna Hinman, Ruth B. Hobson, Libbie B. Maughan and Elizabeth L. Taylor. The program will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom.

The program is free and open to the public. Accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request. For more information, call Sherrie at 797-1728.

Dodgeball to be played on Friday

The annual Dodge for a Cause dodgeball event will be held Friday at 6 p.m. in HPER, Room 201. There will be a team tournament where 6 to10 member coed teams will dodge until they drop. The winning team will receive prizes. There will also be last-one-standing games where everybody picks one side and starts throwing at the other team members. The last one out will be the prize-receiving champion.

It is $15 to pre-register your team or $18 on game day. Spectators are welcome for just $1. Anyone can play in the last-one-standing game with admittance, no enrollment is necessary. Refreshments will be served and all money received will go to CAPSA. E-mail USUDODGEBALL@yahoo.com to sign up your team.