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Child IDs given out in the park

Children given ID cards for safety

Contributed photo Shawn Hyde and Timm Pint created 52 identification cards for children during last Friday’s Kids’ Day. The goal is to help increase safety and protection for children during emergency situations.
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Shawn Hyde and Timm Pint created 52 identification cards for children during last Friday’s Kids’ Day. The goal is to help increase safety and protection for children during emergency situations.

 

By Amie Johansen| amie@charlescitypress.com

 Thrivent Financial along with Stewart Realty tried to make things easier during emergency situations for 52 children.

At Friday’s Kids’ Day event, financial advisor Timm Pint and Realtor Shawn Hyde along with his wife, Jessica, set up a table to create ID cards.

“There is a questionnaire that parents fill out — eye color, hair color, (births marks, glasses, medical information),” Pint said. “We get all 10 fingerprints of the kids and take a picture of them.”

According to Pint, IDs were created shortly after the information was filled out.

“As long as everything is going well, hopefully we get through them in three to five minutes,” he said.

Parents received two wallet-sized IDs including their child’s photo, fingerprints and medical information.

“(Cards are) really just for emergency purposes, just for protection,” Pint said. “All the information that parents give for the kids is not saved or uploaded in our database.”

Kids’ Day was the second event where Thrivent Financial helped to provide children with IDs, the first being New Hampton’s Heartland Days. Now that the ID machine has been purchased, Thrivent plans to increase their ID events.

“This is one of those things that now that we’ve done our first one we’d like to do them more often,” Pint said. “I’d like to say we do them every four to six months in the area.”

According to Pint, the hope is that as more ID events occur, more parents will look for the opportunity to provide further protection for their children.

“We had a great response. Shawn and Jessica (Hyde) were amazing help,” he said. “Looking back we could have used about six more people, it took us all four hours (to ID 52 children).”

For the first event in Charles City, Pint called it a success.

“It was fun to see all the kids down at Central Park,” he said. “It was great to help in whatever way possible.”

— 20160706 — CB

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