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| Woodburn's DHS celebrates 'Take Your Kid to Work Day' April 24 |
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 | | Photo By Lexy Horton | | Employees of Woodburn’s Department of Human Resources brought their children to work on “Take Your Child to Work Day” Thursday. Here, Scott Mateson, a firefighter apparatus operator from the Woodburn Fire District, shows the children how they use oxygen tanks as part of their demonstration. DHS brought in several different speakers throughout the day for the children. |
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By Jason Horton
April 24 was "Take Your Child to Work Day" and Woodburn's Department of Human Services planned a day-long list of activities for children of its workers.
Christi Smith, along with Maria Valle, organized the event and said they hope to make this an annual event.
"They did something before, but it wasn't really organized," Smith said. "We want this to be an annual event."
The day started at 8 a.m. with a meet-and-greet and then they went over the DHS core values and had a tour of the building before sitting with their parents for a brief amount of time. After lunch, a slew of speakers came through, including Matt Geiger from American Family Insurance, representatives from the Woodburn Police Department, Woodburn Animal Clinic and the Woodburn Fire District, to name a few.
The department wanted to do a "big thing" every quarter, and this fit in, Smith said.
"This is part of looking at diversity in the community for this district and each quarter we do something and this was the big thing this time," she said.
"We want to do three things: recognize diversity in our community, serve the community we live in and be career-minded. We did a job-shadowing and we're teaching them what resources are available here. Everything - lunch to raffle prizes - was donated by the community."
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