Security Provider to host "Child Safety Day" at John Ball Park | Events

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The U.S. Department of Justice reports that more than 2,000 children under age 18 go missing each day. West Michigan’s leading security provider, EPS Security, is supporting children’s safety by hosting a FREE child fingerprinting event at John Ball Park on Saturday, Sept. 17 from noon to 4 p.m.

The event, called EPS Security Life Safety Day with KlaasKids Foundation, is free and open to all families who wish to participate.

If the fire and police vehicles, air brush tattoos, music, bounce houses and free hot dogs aren’t enough to entice parents and families to come, EPS will provide additional incentive by pledging a donation of $10 to D.A. Blodgett and Kids’ Food Basket for each child fingerprinted at the event. The company hopes to raise more than $5,000 for these important West Michigan children’s charities.

EPS Security has partnered with The KlaasKids Foundation, a leading child safety advocate group, to provide the state-of-the-art program. Participating parents will receive a digitized fingerprint, an updated photograph, a DNA Collection Kit developed by the California DNA Laboratory, a pro-active child safety packet and a nine-point plan on what to do if your child goes missing.

“Safety is at the core of what we do as a company,” said Kevin Carlson, president of EPS Security. “The security system hardware we install everyday is just a part of that, and certainly our kids are the highest priority.  We’ve created a fun, free event in the hopes that parents from all over Grand Rapids will participate.”

KlaasKids founder, Marc Klaas, will be in attendance to underscore the importance of updated child identification records. Marc’s own daughter, 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was kidnapped in 1993. More than one million children have been fingerprinted for free since Klaas began his foundation in 1994.

For more information about the event, please visit www.Facebook.com/EpsSecurity or call 616-459-0281.