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By Liz Beavers
lbeavers@
newstribune.info
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER – “DARE had a huge impact on my life. I’m now fully, 100 percent sure that I’m never doing drugs or alcohol.”
Keyser Primary-Middle School student McKenna Staggers wrote that affirmation in her essay as part of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program at her school.
Staggers was chosen as the Outstanding DARE Student when KPMS held its
graduation for the special program taught in Mineral County Schools each year by Mineral County Sheriff Craig Fraley. The large class of DARE graduates – all wearing their signature black DARE t-shirts – along with parents and grandparents filled the commons area of the school for the special program.
Purpose of the DARE program is to help students discover ways to resist drug and alcohol abuse and to make good positive decisions in other areas of their lives as well.
“I know many ways to say no now,” Staggers continued in her essay, listing “avoiding the situation, strength in numbers, walking away, cold shoulder, saying a firm NO, giving a reason or fact, changing the subject, repeated refusal, or use humor.”
Three other students were honored for their essays – MacKenzie Hickey, Courtney DuVall, and Ashleigh Burgess.
“I have learned a lot of things about drugs, tobacco and alcohol,” Hickey wrote in her first- place essay.
“If you make good choices, you don’t get into trouble … DARE has encouraged me to make good choices, even if my friends aren’t.”
“DARE has so much impact on my life now that when I get asked to do drugs or alcohol, I will just think of Officer Fraley,” DuVall wrote in her second-place essay. “Drugs, alcohol and tobacco are very bad for you and can kill you.”
“From all the things I learned in DARE class and Sheriff Fraley, I commit to never drink alcohol, do drugs or marijuana and smoke tobacco because drugs are illegal in the United States when they are used to hurt our body, not heal our body,” Burgess wrote in her third-place essay.
Fraley also announced participation awards for those students who worked the hardest during the classes. Receiving those awards at KPMS were: Maddy Coates, Marlana Hanlin, Sierra Rinard, Matthew Bane, Candra Delsignore, Christina McDonald, Jacob Biser, Owen Crites, Brandi Shears, Christian Lambert, Autumn Pearce, Katelyn Sanders, Christopher Micheal, Reggie Redman, and Tressa Swinney.
By Liz Beavers
lbeavers@
newstribune.info
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER – “DARE had a huge impact on my life. I’m now fully, 100 percent sure that I’m never doing drugs or alcohol.”
Keyser Primary-Middle School student McKenna Staggers wrote that affirmation in her essay as part of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program at her school.
Staggers was chosen as the Outstanding DARE Student when KPMS held its
graduation for the special program taught in Mineral County Schools each year by Mineral County Sheriff Craig Fraley. The large class of DARE graduates – all wearing their signature black DARE t-shirts – along with parents and grandparents filled the commons area of the school for the special program.
Purpose of the DARE program is to help students discover ways to resist drug and alcohol abuse and to make good positive decisions in other areas of their lives as well.
“I know many ways to say no now,” Staggers continued in her essay, listing “avoiding the situation, strength in numbers, walking away, cold shoulder, saying a firm NO, giving a reason or fact, changing the subject, repeated refusal, or use humor.”
Three other students were honored for their essays – MacKenzie Hickey, Courtney DuVall, and Ashleigh Burgess.
“I have learned a lot of things about drugs, tobacco and alcohol,” Hickey wrote in her first- place essay.
“If you make good choices, you don’t get into trouble … DARE has encouraged me to make good choices, even if my friends aren’t.”
“DARE has so much impact on my life now that when I get asked to do drugs or alcohol, I will just think of Officer Fraley,” DuVall wrote in her second-place essay. “Drugs, alcohol and tobacco are very bad for you and can kill you.”
“From all the things I learned in DARE class and Sheriff Fraley, I commit to never drink alcohol, do drugs or marijuana and smoke tobacco because drugs are illegal in the United States when they are used to hurt our body, not heal our body,” Burgess wrote in her third-place essay.
Fraley also announced participation awards for those students who worked the hardest during the classes. Receiving those awards at KPMS were: Maddy Coates, Marlana Hanlin, Sierra Rinard, Matthew Bane, Candra Delsignore, Christina McDonald, Jacob Biser, Owen Crites, Brandi Shears, Christian Lambert, Autumn Pearce, Katelyn Sanders, Christopher Micheal, Reggie Redman, and Tressa Swinney.
