ANNUAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS TO KEEP TEEN GRADS SAFE, SOBER : RIDES WILL BE OFFERED, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.Byline: HEIDI RIED SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - It's graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. season again, and with it comes the annual campaign to curb teen drinking. The student-run Safe Rides will be operating and will pick up teens, with no questions asked, if they have had too much to drink and cannot drive. At Hart High School Hart High School may refer to:
This year, Patterson is turning SADD SADD Students Against Destructive Decisions (formerly Students Against Drunk Driving) SADD Students Against Drunk Driving (now Students Against Destructive Decisions) SADD Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder over to student organizers, saying the lesson will be more powerful if they do the work themselves. ``They'll be contacting (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) and getting posters and fliers together,'' he said. SADD will be featured Wednesday at a student car show, where California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers will distribute pamphlets and talk with students. A video will be shown on drinking and driving, illustrating the toll drinking and driving can take on youths. Saugus High will continue a graduation tradition that requires students to ride the bus to the prom. Dave Okasaki, a student adviser, said he is encouraging teens to attend grad night at Disneyland rather than opt for parties where liquor is served. ``We're pushing very hard to give students something to do without letting them get involved in events that are dangerous,'' he said. Safe Rides is a big promoter of safety for high school seniors, especially this time of year. Rhiannon Walker, who works at Canyon High, is collaborating with Safe Rides to promote sober graduation. ``Safe Rides is very effective, and a lot of people use it,'' she said. ``It saves lives. A simple call to Safe Rides can mean a secure ride home.'' A Safe Rides rally will be held during the lunch hour June 12 on campus. Walker has planned a visual lesson for students - a car destroyed in an accident will be placed at Canyon High for a sobering so·ber adj. so·ber·er, so·ber·est 1. Habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs; temperate. 2. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of drugs. 3. reminder. ``The totaled car makes people think before getting into a car,'' Walker said. Ambulance drivers and CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officers will be available to talk about safety issues. To contact Safe Rides for help or to get involved in the program, call (805) 259-6330. |
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