 and this is CTN Member Highlights. Today we're featuring Keeping Kids Safe, and with me today is Michael Mercer and Betty Reynolds. Hi. Hi. Welcome. It's nice to have you here, but the subject we're talking about is not so nice. Keeping Kids Safe is concerned with helping children who are being bullied. Is that correct? Bullied is one issue that we try to teach educators and parents. But Keeping Kids Safe also, we have everything from child ID programs that we have. We go into schools and we identify kids through fingerprints. We take pictures and use a smart ID stick, which gives all the information that parents can need in case the child is abducted. We also have educational seminars that we teach even the smaller grades like kid escape, child escape from predators. We teach cyber bullying, internet safety courses. We teach even up into older grades, the girls like date escape. It's all about prevention and education for all our kids. The information you get, the fingerprints and all of that goes to the parents. It's not sent out on the internet. No. Everything is sent right to the parents. It's the fingerprints and all the vital information that the police, I'm a retired police officer. All the vital information that is necessary for a local department or a state department, agency, police agency can help find that child a lot quicker. That parent will have either a little flash drive, which we call the smart ID stick, or a CD-ROM that the police officer can put right into his computer and ascertain all the information needed to help move quickly to finding that child. Yeah. And we're finding more and more of these things with children disappearing and to have something like that, I suppose, is quite helpful. Now, you have a big event coming up in May, and it's geared toward bullying. We're hearing more and more about that as well. Tell us a little bit about what the event is, where it will be held, and why you thought this was important to do. Well, I'll let Betty talk about the bullying event that we have coming up. Yeah. This is our second annual bullying event, and actually it's really being inspired and take a stand against bullying. It's really an event that's meant to inspire and empower people to go back into the community, back into their schools, and be a voice for these kids, because there needs to be programs in place to help them, and why we're raising money for three organizations, Keeping Kids Safe, Bikers Against Bullying, and the JD Foundation. All have different programs, all can help the schools, and we have some incredible entertainers. This will be on May 9th from 5 to 9 at night at the Portland Alks Lodge right on Congress Street, out of Congress Street. We've got Jillian Jensen from the X Factor, who basically brought all the judges to tears with her story, her singing. Jim Mayer from the Jimmy Buffett Band, called Uncle Jim, has also programs for schools. She and C-League also from Maine, who just came out with her first album and co-wrote a song with Jim, called Show Me the Light, because two 10-year-old girls committed suicide from bullying. There's a lot of synergistic people there, the Veo twins, who also knew Jillian Jensen met her at Down in Boston, where she lives, when they film the movie Bullied to Silence. So we have all incredible entertainers, Nancy Silberkle, co-CEO from Archie Comic Books, came out with their first anti-bullying comic book, and she will be giving out a hundred copies of those as well. We have a lot of things that we're giving out free. This is a donation-only event, and there'll be all kinds of food from famous daves, Pat's Pizza from the Old Port, and Molly's Cupcake. So it'll be an event, but will it also be an educational thing, as well as having the entertainers? Will you have information there? There will be all kinds of information for people to take back into the community, into their schools, and say, we need some help, you know, and get these organizations into the schools, and help them understand what they can do. Right. Have you been getting a good response to this event? I think so. I've been working on it since last September. I'm trying to get more schools on board to be part of the contest, the poster-making contest, poems and essays, one-page essay, where kids can just, you know, right, how can we make this world a better place? How can I make a difference? Or maybe about their bullying experience. Right, and I think that's key, is to go to the children and ask them, what are your feelings? Right. Or even some kids who are considered bullies, you know, why are you doing this? Right. And have them write about it. Right. Expressing themselves in art. I think getting them to think in a more positive direction is, how can I make this world a better place? Well, how do we find out a little bit more about this if people want to go? Is there a web page? Yep. Sure. You can, for Keeping Kids Safe, you can go to www.KeepingKidsSafe, all one word, dot US. And that could be, there's a link for the events page. And on that event will be our May 9th event that Betty just spoke about. Right. And you can also go to bigmooseharley.com and go to the May end calendar and see it there. Well, it sounds like a great project. And I think you'll have a wonderful turnout. And thank you for doing this. Thank you. Thank you, Leslie. Appreciate it.