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26th District Small Business of the Year to host a Child Safety Event Phil Waterford will host John Walsh’s Child Safety Event at his dealership Manteca, CA (December 12, 2010) – Phil Waterford, President/Owner of Manteca Ford Mercury will host the LifePrint DNA Child Safety Event, endorsed by John Walsh, America’s Trusted Name In Fighting Crime. The event will take place tomorrow, Saturday November 13, 2010 from 9:30 AM through 2:00 PM at 555 North Main Street, Manteca, CA 95336 How can I prepare myself in case my child becomes missing? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) recommends to keep a description of the your child on hand, have a color photograph of your child, arrange to have your child fingerprinted and keep the fingerprints in a safe and easily accessible place, keep a DNA sample from your child, have your dentist prepare and maintain dental charts for your child, and last but not least, know where your child's medical records are located. The John Walsh Safety Event will provide parents with tools to accomplish most of the recommendations from NCMEC. This program will provide at no cost whatsoever a FBI Certified Biometric 10 Digit Fingerprint Profile, a high resolution full color Digital Photograph of your child, a Child Safety Journal which will provide law enforcement officials with all the necessary vital information about your child and other important facts they will need immediately after a child is reported missing and a Home DNA Identification Kit that is easy to use and lasts through generations. There is no data basing: After each child goes through the line, parents are handed a Child Safety Journal (which contains the Biometric Fingerprints and Digital Photo) and a DNA Kit. The DNA Kit contains detailed instructions on how to use the DNA Kit at home. The only record of the visit is handed to the parent and/or legal guardian to take home. Phil Waterford’s Manteca Ford Mercury keeps no records on file. Parent and/or legal guardians will also be given John Walsh’s Child Safety Tips. All the information provided at this Child Safety Program is recommended by child safety experts and law enforcement officials to be updated every 6 months. “The program is expensive, however, we have decided to underwrite the cost of this program for our community. Approximately 2,100 missing-children reports are filed each day. If a child becomes missing, parents greatly increase their chance of quickly recovering their child if they immediately provide to the proper authorities the information they will obtain through this program ”, says Phil Waterford. “We appreciate the cooperation and participation of Fun & Games Rental, Staples Manteca, Cynthia Wertman from 2 Crazy Realtors, Give Every Child a Chance Program, Impact Printing, Univision 19-Sacramento, Place of Refuge, MUSD, the Manteca Bulletin and the City of Manteca. Their support to help save our children is commendable” added Waterford. About Phil Waterford’s Manteca Ford Mercury Phil Waterford’s Manteca Ford Mercury is the nation’s thirty-eighth largest African-American owned auto dealership and CA’s second largest minority owned dealership. On May 25, 2010 the California Legislature named Phil Waterford’s Manteca Ford Mercury the Small Business of the Year for 26th District. For more information about Manteca Ford Mercury, visit its website at www.mantecaford.com For more information please contact: Al Moncada / Director of Marketing and Public Relations PHIL WATERFORD’S MANTECA FORD MERCURY Phone: 209.518.1794 Fax:
800.375.0422
Email: almoncada@mantecaford.com