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Area schools celebrate National Red Ribbon Week
Celebration is oldest and largest drug, alcohol prevention campaign
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Students pass by the cafeteria decoration for Red Ribbon Week at Chestnut Mountain Creative School of Inquiry on Thursday, designated “Crazy Socks Day.” The week began with a canned food drive, said assistant principal Wade Pearce, and each day had a theme aimed at keeping children away from drug use. Thursday’s was “sock it to drugs,” Pearce said. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Silly costumes, funky colors and a sea of red are washing over Gainesville and Hall County schools this week and next, as students across the area just say no to using drugs. A national celebration, the Red Ribbon Week campaign is the oldest and largest drug prevention program in the United States. “It began several years back ... commemorating the death of a law enforcement officer in his work related to drug prevention,” said JP Banks, director of the Drug Free Coalition of Hall County.