A SANE REWARD : AREA DEPUTY HONORED FOR ANTI-DRUG WORK.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Sheriff's Deputy Dave Horner loves his latest assignment: helping kids avoid danger. Horner, 39, of Quartz Hill works in the Sheriff's Department's Substance Abuse Narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. Education, or SANE, program, informing schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school about the hazards of drug abuse. ``I love being able to have a positive influence on kids, showing them the positive side of law enforcement instead of the negative that is portrayed by the media and rap music rap music or hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing. ,'' said Horner, a deputy for 14 years. This month Sheriff Sherman Block and the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Sheriff's Youth Foundation gave Horner the SANE Deputy of the Year Award. He was the first deputy to receive the award. Dressed in full uniform, Horner visits fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms throughout the Westside Union School District, Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes School District and the Gorman School District. He uses books, magazines, games, videos and other methods to teach children about drugs. ``They look forward to seeing me,'' said Horner, who worked as an Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley patrol deputy before joining the SANE program in 1991. ``It gives them a break from their regular lesson, and I try and make it fun for them.'' Horner said he uses the ``Here's looking at you - 2000'' curriculum, the most widely used drug-education program in the country. ``The longer we can keep them from starting,'' he said, the better the chances that people never will become addicted ad·dict·ed adj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. to any drug. For example, he said, most users were 9 to 12 when they first took up cigarettes, drugs and alcohol, he said. Horner said the program helps kids learn how to counteract peer pressure to try alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. ``We cover a lot of different aspects besides just saying no to drugs,'' said Horner. ``We're trying to get them before they reach the heavy peer-pressure stage.'' Horner also does some role playing role playing, n in behavioral medicine, learning exercise in which individuals assume characters different from their own. The individual may also be asked to simulate a particularly difficult situation and apply the characteristics that are common to his in the classroom, where students practice what they have learned. A father of two boys - Ryan, 12, and Nathan, 9 - Horner donates off-duty time as a scorekeeper score·keep·er n. An official who records the score throughout a game or competition. score  keep , statistician, and pitching coach with
the Quartz Hill Little League.
He and his wife are also active in the music ministry at their church, Central Christian Church in Lancaster. Horner also enjoys creating stained-glass art. ``I do about three or four projects a year,'' he said. ``I do some for home and make some to give as gifts for friends.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Deputy Dave Horner talks to Debbie Slemp's class at Joe Walker Middle School in Quartz Hill. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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