SOUTH PARIS – A “Neighborhood Safety Day” is planned for 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Route 117.

Many area safety organizations will be on hand to meet and help educate parents and kids on safety, and other groups have contributed to a display of safety information.

The church is hosting the event to give back something to the community. “We wanted to do something to let folks know we care and value our relationship with them,” said Trinity’s pastor, Tom Teichmann, “and we noticed that a good crowd of neighborhood kids play in the church yard. So we knew that an event to promote child safety was something the whole neighborhood would be interested in.”

Groups planning to be in attendance include Healthy Oxford Hills, which will do an activity to help promote good nutrition and health; the Paris Police and Fire departments; Operation Lifesavers Caboose, a scaled-down railroad car that helps teach train safety; and the Masonic Lodge Child Identification Project, which makes a video and fingerprint record of a child free of charges.

Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School student Bentley Hamilton will give a safe skateboarding demonstration, and PACE will have an ambulance for children to see.

There will be information on various safety topics like bike helmets and pedestrian safety, from groups such as AAA, CMP, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in the church meeting room.

The Neighborhood Safety Day is free and children, parents, and grandparents are invited. Refreshments, courtesy of the church, will be available. For more information, call 743-6906.