STODDARD COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - The Stoddard County Ambulance District will conduct its 26th annual "Home for the Holidays" project.

They'll take patients who cannot travel except by ambulance from nursing homes around Stoddard County to homes within the county on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is on Thursday, November 24th.

After the visit, the patient will be taken back home. They can stay as long as they would like during the home visit. According to the ambulance district, patients can stay a few hours or over night.

Anyone interested in participating should contact the activity at the patient's nursing home. There is no charge to the patient or the family for the service.

The nursing home will contact the ambulance office to set up the schedule.

(KFVS) - The Missouri State Highway Patrol joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and other safety advocates for National Child Safety Passenger Week September 18 through 24.

The State Highway Patrol says the primary goal of this program is to remind all parents and other adults responsible for children traveling in cars the importance of child safety seats and seat belts. The patrol says every year children suffer needless injuries. In 2010, eight children under the age of eight were killed in a traffic crash and another 1,630 were injured.

Troopers issued citations to 2,130 drivers who failed to secure children less than eight years old in a child restraint/booster seat in 2010.