Safe and sound

SCIPIO CENTER - Joe Ineich knew what he had to do to keep himself safe.

On Jan. 15, Joe, 8, of Scipio Center, decided to walk more than a mile by himself to his aunt's house in the bitter cold and just before dusk after a substitute bus driver from the Southern Cayuga Central School District mistakenly dropped him off at his home where no one was there, instead of his daycare provider during the afternoon bus route.

“I went to the neighbor's, but the door was frozen,” said Joe, a second grader at Emily Howland Elementary. “So I went to the other neighbor's and it looked like no one was home. Then I kept on walking.”