Over 250 students from schools around the peninsula converged on the Door County Fairgrounds on Wednesday to learn skills to help keep them safe and your minds at ease. As a part of the second annual Rural Safety Day sponsored by the Door County Farm Bureau, the students, made up of third and fourth graders, learned about topics around concerns that could occur on the water, in the home, or around the farm. Door County Medical Center Registered Nurse Niki Peterson helped organize the event based on her own experiences on a dairy farm and in the trauma center at the hospital. She says it is an essential day for the kids to learn this type of information ahead of the summer, when they may find themselves home alone.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 12,000 children and young adults die from unintentional injuries each year, such as fire and burns, suffocation, drowning, firearms, choking, and poisoning.