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Drug Awareness Week in Ter-
race was a busy and apparently
highly successful affair. The week
began at the Happy Gang Centre
with a pancake breakfast, a ribbon
cutting ceremony and live music.
During the week there were mall
displays, free samples of
nonalcoholic drinks, lots of free
pamphlets, posters, ballcons and
colouring books, lectures and
workshops, a FoosBall and Pool

“Tournament and, just in case-you

. didn’t notice, a few mock acci-'
‘dents around town complete with
wrecked vehicle, police, ambu-
lances, a wrecker and, at most, an
injured or dead body or two.

The mock accidents were pro-
bably one of the most effective
attention getters in the campaign.
They took place at noon in the

Drug Awareness Week
—asmashing success

4800 block Lakelse on Monday,

Highway 16 and Kenney on Wed-
nesday, Kalum in front of the Shell
service station on Thursday, and at
the corner of Munroe and Straume
on Friday.

Friday’s event took place around
the same time as the final bell of
the day rang at Caledonia Senior
Secondary School. An event was
planned for Sande Overpass on
Tuesday but was cancelled due to
hazardous: driving. conditions.

How do we know these realistic
looking scenes were effective? The
Terrace. Review received several
phone calls: "Did you see the
accident? I think somebody died!"
The Terrace Review was in fact at
every one of these accident scenes
and noted the concerned looks on
the faces of passers-by. Organizers

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of these events can only hope that
behind each one of those con-
cerned looks was an equal amount
of awareness of what can happen
when you mix alcohol or drugs
and driving. Getting "smashed"
was never meant to be like this.

Overall, though, the smashing
success of Drug Awareness Week
in Terrace was no accident. It took
a committee of dedicated indivi-
duals to put it all together and a
myriad of volunteers to pull it off.
The committee would like to thank
everyone who heiped... and every-
one who leamed. Following, in no
particular order, is a list of the
major contributors:

Totem Press, for the fluorescent
tent-cards "We Support Drug

Awareness Week" and every res- |

taurant and bar in the area who
displayed them, the B.C. Ambu-
lance Service, ICBC, SKB Auto
Wreckers, the Kermode Friendship
Centre, the Happy Gang Centre,
Danny’s Pool Hall, Skeena Theatre
Arts and a number of out of town
Organizations and businesses to
numerous to name. _
A short but effective parade was
also included, Featured were the
RCMP, Terrace Fire Department,
an ambulance, a wrecker from
SKB Auto Wrecking and a hearse
from MacKay’s Funeral Home.