Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Lincoln County jail superintendent Lyle Hendrickson meets with the combined Kindergarten/first grade class at Harrington Elementary. Back row: Lane Sewall, Wyatt Brady, Zane Reninger, Lyle Hendrickson, Brody Hendrickson and Maddox Schumacher. Front row: David Bang, Destiny Wiles, Jerrila Marsh, Taylor Nuner and Grace Bang.
The children in Harrington Elementary grades K-3 were given backpacks with coloring pages, crayons, a pencil and football all pertaining to calling 911, supplied by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO). Lyle Hendrickson, a jail superintendent with the LCSO, visited grades K-3 in Harrington to talk about calling 911 in Taunya Sanford’s classroom for Kindergarten/first grade and in Rachel Roberts’ classroom for grades 3/4.
According to Hendrickson, the state’s 911 Commission has allocated funds for public education that can be used for programs like the ones he presented at Harrington Elementary. The youngest children are given information on when it is and when it is not appropriate to call 911. Some parents have been known to give de-activated cell phones to their younger children to use as toys, but Hendrickson says they must also remove the battery from the phone because otherwise it will still be capable of dialing 911 even if the plan has been de-activated.
In addition to being the jail superintendent, Hendrickson is also the public education coordinator for the LCSO. Hendrickson has been with the LCSO for 10 years, and prior to that he was with the Odessa police for about 2.5 years, from 1999 to 2000. He is a native of Davenport.
The program offered by the LCSO is available to all schools and youth groups in the county. More information is available by calling Kathy Wilcox at the LCSO at 725-9261.
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