WLB Advertiser State Farm Insurance’s Vickie Bergquist has offered up some safety tips for traveling with kids in your car – this is worth knowing:
Vehicle safety of our children is of the utmost importance. Below are some guidelines for keeping your young child safe in a vehicle.
Infants up to 20 lbs and at least one year of age: Use rear-facing car seat correctly in a back seat every time your baby rides in a car. Use the vehicle’s safety belt or latch system to lock the car seat into the car – never use both. Use your baby’s car seat rear-facing and reclined no more than 45 degrees. Read the car seat instructions. Keep your baby rear-facing until at least age 1 and 20 pounds.
Children 1-4 years and 20-40 pounds: Use forward-facing car seat correctly in a back seat every time your toddler rides in a car. A child is too big for the seat when the shoulders are above the top slots, the top of the earns are above the back of the seat or the weight limit is exceeded.
Children 40-100 pounds: Use a booster seat correctly in a back seat every time your child rides in a car. Older kids get weighed and measured less often than babies, so check your child’s growth a few times a year. Use a booster seat until your child weighs between 80-100 pounds, is about 4 ft 9 inches tall and can pass the Safety Belt Fit Test. A booster seat uses no harness. It uses the vehicle’s lap and shoulder belts only. Never place the shoulder belt under the child’s arm or behind the child’s back.
Children under 13 years old must ride in the back seat – it’s the law.
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WLB Advertiser Vickie Bergquist Insurance Agency wants Readers to know that they have been busy helping renters and homeowners with Flood Insurance.
Regardless of where you live, you can purchase flood insurance.
For most people Flood Insurance is affordable. Many people do not know that Flood insurance also covers mudslide and back up of sewer and drain coverage.
Vickie recommends going to FLOODSMART.GOV for more information on flood coverage.
Vickie’s office stays current on the flood risk and just received this update:
The Army Corps of Engineers reported last Thursday that the repairs at the Howard Hanson Damn have helped, but the risk of flooding is still high.
A new grout curtain constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to slow a leak through a damaged abutment at the Hanson Dam will reduce the risk of flooding this winter in the valley to a 1 in 25 chance.
Thousands of giant sandbags along the Green River levees reduces the chance of flooding even more: to 1 in 32 chance.
A heavy rainstorm similar to what struck the Green River Valley last January would overtop the levees and cause flooding in the cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton and Tukwila because the corps will not be able to store as much water as normal at the Eagle Gorge reservoir, the pool of stormwater the corps retains behind the dam.
The corps pumped more than 400,000 gallons of cement to form a grout curtain in the abutment as part of its $8.9 million temporary fix to reduce the risk of flooding. The curtain is about 20 feet wide, 450 feet long and between 90 to 160 feet deep, depending on the location along the abutment.
The corps plans to construct a concrete cutoff wall as a permanent fix within the next three to five years. Crews have started the design process for the concrete wall but the design isn’t expected to be completed until next year.
Wright, from the Corps of Engineers, praised the work of the cities of Kent, Auburn and Tukwila to place giant sandbags along the levees. The thousands of 3,200-pound sandbags increased the height of the levees to handle a river flow of 13,900 cubic feet per second compared to 12,000 cubic feet per second without the bags.
Wright said that extra height could keep the levees from overtopping if he has to release more water than normal from behind the dam during a storm.
If the corps does have to release water that would cause flooding, Wright said a minimum warning of at least eight hours would be given to local emergency officials who might have to order evacuations. It takes eight hours for water released from the dam to reach Auburn.
For more information, visit Vickie’s website here.
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On Saturday, the Des Moines’ Kiwanis and WLB Advertiser Vickie Bergquist State Farm Insurance Agency sponsored their annual Bicycle Safety Rodeo at the Marina, and Photographer Michael Brunk was on the scene to capture these photos:
Welcome to The Waterland Blog’s first Advertiser: Vickie Bergquist Insurance Agency, Inc.!
Vickie’s a State Farm agent in Des Moines.
Unlike many west coast agents, Vickie started her State Farm career in the home office in Bloomington, Ill., after high school graduation.
She’s spent a total of 28 years with State Farm. When she married her husband Rich 32 years ago they began a professional road trip that took them from southern Illinois to Texas, Arizona, Colorado and 16 years later Washington. It was then that Vickie went back to State Farm. The office she occupies at 22760 Marine View Drive S. has been a State Farm office for over 30 years.
Vickie recalls her first year as an agent when she delivered her first life insurance check to a widow who was very appreciative. This experience validated the impact of what we (as insurance agents) do and the impact they have on peoples’ lives.
She views her job as “helping people deal with the unexpected. The good news is because they plan, they’ll be okay. One great thing about State Farm, is that we really are neighbors to those we serve” she added.
And being neighborly to Vickie means helping her clients make wise use of their insurance dollars. “It takes a professional agent to help people plan for the risks in their lives. We help our clients plan for an entire life, and tweak it as their lives change.”
In Vickie’s opinion, ‘if you want to save money on insurance, go see your insurance agent. If you have proper coverage, it will save you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.
Vickie Bergquist presented a check for $35,000 to Camp Fire USA to recruit, train, and oversee Latino teens who will plan and implement activities promoting disaster preparedness in the Spanish-speaking community.
Vickie Bergquist Insurance is a full-service State Farm office, selling auto, life, health and fire insurance, plus mutual funds and investment products. State Farm Bank products are FDIC insured. Vickie is joined in her office by Melissa Pallanes, who’s been with her for over eight years. Melissa is a licensed Insurance Agent and is a registered representative with a license to sell mutual funds and assist people in planning for their financial future. Teresa Asphy has 12 years experience as a licensed agent.
WLB thinks it’s important for our readers to know that Vickie’s agency sells Short Term Health Insurance. For our readers who may be between jobs, it’s less expensive than COBRA. It’s also good for college students no longer on their parents plan, and fills an insurance gap if the family member with the health insurance retires.
Vickie and her husband live, work and shop in Des Moines. She’s President of the Southwest Chapter of Business and Professional Women, on the board for Des Moines Dollars for Scholars, President of the Kent Breakfast Club, and is an ex-officio board member of the Southwest King County Chamber.
So, click on her Ad on the upper right sidebar, check out her website, or better yet – give her a call at (206) 878-4050 and tell her The Waterland Blog sent ya!
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