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Fingerprint project takes kids’ vital information just in case
By Jimmy Biggerstaff / Hi-Desert Star
JOSHUA TREE — With her pure 8-year-old logic, Iris Jones had an excellent handle on the importance of her parents having a record of her fingerprints. “So if I get lost, police can use my fingerprints to find out where I am,” Iris said with a confident nod of her head.
Jennifer Collins has organized several fingerprinting opportunities over the past year, the most recent May 12 at the Joshua Tree Nursery. Assisting with photographic “mug shots” to accompany the sheet with 10 little ink spots was Sherry Kimmel and Jordan Sullivan of Tumbleweed Photos.
Collins’ passion for the printing project stems from an event a few years ago when she became separated from her daughter Ashley, then 6, at a mall. The frantic mom was unable to recall what her daughter was wearing that day and couldn’t provide security with a recent photo.
Ashley was missing for maybe a half-hour; Collins said it felt like a lot longer.
Along with the free fingerprints came an offer from the Joshua Tree Nursery of free poppy seeds and free tomato plants.
A year ago a few hundred youth participated in the fingerprinting offer at the Joshua Tree Kids Club. The printers also have set up operations at Wal-Mart, the Joshua Tree library, a recent home and garden show in Yucca Valley and Tri-Valley Little League’s opening day.
Collins is coordinating with officials at Joshua Springs for a fingerprinting session there in the future.
Organizing the printing events is “absolutely worth our time,” Collins testified. “You never know who it might help.”
The fingerprinting endeavor has enlisted volunteer help from Citizens on Patrol and Boy Scouts, a pair of perennial Johnny-on-the-spot organizations when it comes to community service.
Pamela Alkas thinks the fingerprinting opportunity is a wonderful idea and brought her 20-month-old son Jesse to protect him “in case something, God forbid, happens.”
Jennifer Collins has organized several fingerprinting opportunities over the past year, the most recent May 12 at the Joshua Tree Nursery. Assisting with photographic “mug shots” to accompany the sheet with 10 little ink spots was Sherry Kimmel and Jordan Sullivan of Tumbleweed Photos.
Collins’ passion for the printing project stems from an event a few years ago when she became separated from her daughter Ashley, then 6, at a mall. The frantic mom was unable to recall what her daughter was wearing that day and couldn’t provide security with a recent photo.
Ashley was missing for maybe a half-hour; Collins said it felt like a lot longer.
Along with the free fingerprints came an offer from the Joshua Tree Nursery of free poppy seeds and free tomato plants.
A year ago a few hundred youth participated in the fingerprinting offer at the Joshua Tree Kids Club. The printers also have set up operations at Wal-Mart, the Joshua Tree library, a recent home and garden show in Yucca Valley and Tri-Valley Little League’s opening day.
Collins is coordinating with officials at Joshua Springs for a fingerprinting session there in the future.
Organizing the printing events is “absolutely worth our time,” Collins testified. “You never know who it might help.”
The fingerprinting endeavor has enlisted volunteer help from Citizens on Patrol and Boy Scouts, a pair of perennial Johnny-on-the-spot organizations when it comes to community service.
Pamela Alkas thinks the fingerprinting opportunity is a wonderful idea and brought her 20-month-old son Jesse to protect him “in case something, God forbid, happens.”
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