HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County’s road commission is hosting a drawing contest for students who want to help promote National Work Zone Awareness Week, which is April 20–24, 2020.
The poster contest runs through Monday, April 27, 2020.
Students of all ages from Ottawa County are invited to participate in designing a roadside sign illustrating one of these work-zone safety tips:
- Stay Focused/Avoid Distractions.
- Avoid distractions like using a phone, eating or adjusting dashboard controls like the radio.
- Obey Flaggers and Work Zone Signs.
- Flaggers are people who help direct traffic safely through work zones. It is important that motorists obey directions given by flaggers and any temporary traffic control signs or devices. These help to define a safe path through the work zones.
- Slow Down, Move Over.
- Workers are often just feet away from motorists. That’s why Michigan’s “Move Over” law requires drivers to move over one lane when an emergency or road agency vehicle is on the side of the road with its lights flashing. If it is not possible to move into another lane due to traffic, weather, or road conditions, the motorist should slow down and pass with caution.
Students can download, print and use the provided sign template from the road commisson’s website or draw their own sign (in the shape of a diamond).
Those children who wish to enter the contest can share their artwork via Facebook or Instagram, tagging the road commission’s social media at @Ottawacorc. Or they can email the art to Communications Administrator Alex Doty at adoty@ottawacorc.com.
Students or their parents should include the artist’s first and last name, age and grade.
Road commission staffers will choose the best entry, which will be featured in future OCRC publications and public awareness campaigns throughout the 2020 construction season.
