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SIRINA WILEY is an eleven year old girl who lives in the town of
On March 15, 2008, after attempting to stand on the side of the road with large signs saying “Wear your seatbelt!” Arick, Sirina and Arick’s mom, Sue Manocha held their first Safety Checker business meeting. Together they developed the name, slogan, logo and first ideas to spread their idea about seat belt safety. Arick and Sirina want everyone to be a Safety Checker and check that others are wearing their seatbelt. Their slogan to help everyone to remember putting on their seatbelt is Sit, Click , Drive! Their logo is a round circle like a checker from a checker board using the same colors of black and red. You can become a Safety Checker if you remind someone to Sit, Click and Drive!
Since their first meeting in March, Arick and Sirina have learned about car seat
and seat belt safety after attending a meeting with Pamela Wanning,
the
Arick’s grandfather Tad Richards has supported the kids' venture by setting up a
website for them at
www.sitclickdrive.org. Arick and Sirina want Safety Checkers to check in on
their website and let them know who they have told to wear a seatbelt and to
sign their guestbook.
One of the kids’ ideas was to have a coloring page for other kids to do that
teaches the idea of their slogan. Arick’s grandpa’s brother, Jonathan Richards
has designed a wonderful page that can be found at the website. Arick and Sirina
want Safety Checkers to color the page and send it in to be posted on the Sit,
Click, Drive! web page. This coloring page
has since evolved into a game page that is being distributed to restaurants for
children and parents to do while waiting for dinner.
Arick and Sirina have been selling lemonade to earn money to buy products that
say their slogan. Their first lemonade stand was the typical kids set up with a
table from the house and handmade signs, but Arick’s older brother Patrick’s
dad, Lee Walker and the caretaker at OPUS 40, Bill Cochrane, have designed a
traveling lemonade stand. The stand has been used at OPUS 40 and the Saugerties
Farmers Market. They sell fresh squeezed lemonade and hand out free Sit, Click, Drive! products that include mini frisbees, lollipops, chocolate coins, wooden tokens,
balloons and Safety Checker stickers.
The Sit, Click, Drive! kids were at D.A.R.E. Day in
One of the Sit, Click, Drive! kid’s goals is to find sponsors that will help
them pay for school packages that can be sent to every school that includes products
that say Sit, Click, Drive! They would like to work with the local school
district and the To estimate a cost of donations needed; the current logo Sit, Click, Drive! Stickers cost approximately .08 cents each and most products with the slogan or logo cost around a dollar or two each depending on size of the order. At events such as D.A.R.E Day and Make a Difference Day there will be an estimated 250 children. We estimate a $3.00 cost per child for the cost of products, stickers, coloring pages package. They also recently learned about the
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ARICK MANOCHA
is an eight year old boy who lives in the town of 