CHILD ID KITS MAKE A BIG HIT

A small boy on a stool frowns into the camera lens at St. Leander's Church in San Leandro, California. "Say sneeze," directs a Foundation volunteer, and snaps the shutter as a hesitant grin appears. Another volunteer takes the child's fingerprints, and a permanent record is handed to his parent as part of a Klaas Foundation child ID kit.

It's a scene that has been played again and again as kids and parents line up for ID Kits during Child Safety Days. The Foundation has sponsored numerous events to help families assemble their childrens' vital information for use in emergency situations. Last summer in Phoenix, AZ, more than 3,000 children were photographed and fingerprinted. More recently, New York Assemblyman Dan Feldman ordered several thousand ID kits from the Foundation, to be distributed during Child Safety Days in Brooklyn, NY.

The Foundation will next make this service available at Serramonte Auto Plaza in Colma-Daly City, California, on October 22, 1995.

To Check 0n a Suspected Molester in California Parents suspecting someone of improper behavior toward their child may call 1-900-463 0400 to access a database of California's 41,000 convicted child molesters. Callers must give a street address, social security number, and driver's license or ID number. The fee is $10.00.

Ten-year-old Katie Romeo (pictured above) received the first annual Polly Klaas Memorial Scholarship in September, announced Executive Director Annne Brigis of the Great South Bay YMCA in Bay Shore, New York. The scholarship, providing Katie with full tuition for nine weeks ofsummer camp, was sponsored by Juliet Klaas Puleo (above, right), who teaches art classes for children. The Polly Klaas memorial mural, where the award was presented, was painted by Puleo and her pupils and covers an entire wall fo the YMCA facility in Bay Shore.