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| Kids received free bicycle helmets and learned about local activities Saturday during Cairo's D.A.R.E. Day at Angelo Canna Park. (Susan Campriello/Hudson-Catskill Newspapers) |
17th annual DARE event held
By Susan Campriello
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
CAIRO — The community came out to Angelo Canna Park Saturday to introduce local children to a plethora of positive activities.
“There are a lot of things to do in life without using drugs,” said Cairo Police D.A.R.E. Officer Thomas Plank, organizer of the event for 17 years.
This year’s D.A.R.E. Day featured carnival rides, animals and plenty of demonstrations by local law enforcement.
All day, children were introduced to different activities by groups and organizations including the Greene County Youth Bureau, Boy Scout Troop 13, the Greene County Civil Air Patrol, Resurrection Lutheran Church, First Baptist Church, Walk About Mountain, Ulster-Greene ARC, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Creene County, Rip Van Winkle Tobacco-Free Coalition, American DoJo Martial Arts Center and the 4-H Flora and Fauna Club.
The Cairo Fire Department, local state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, and Greene County Emergency Patrol performed safety demonstrations.
Games and an air castle were provided by Osborn Entertainment and Big Top Tent Rentals and food for guests were donated by McDonald’s, Slater’s Great American and Stewart’s.
Several students at Cairo-Durham High School helped run the event.
“It is really a cooperative effort of the whole community,” Plank said.
Plank said more than 200 children had received free bicycle helmets by 1:30 p.m. The giveaway, which was funded through a grant from the county legislature, along with the other D.A.R.E. Day activities ran until 4 p.m.
During the year, Plank visits Cairo Elementary School once a week for 17 weeks to lead a 45-minute class about resisting peer pressure. He also spends 10 weeks teaching students at Cairo-Durham Middle School about the physical effects of using drugs. He said the lessons are worked in with the science curriculum, focusing on the nervous system and other body functions that are altered by drug use.
And, he said, he encounters former D.A.R.E. students who tell him that they have stayed away from drugs because of something he said during those lessons.
“If I can save the life of one kid, it is well worth every minute of it,” Plank said.
To contact reporter Susan Campriello, Call (518) 943-2100, ext. 3333, or e-mail scampriello@thedailymail.net.
“There are a lot of things to do in life without using drugs,” said Cairo Police D.A.R.E. Officer Thomas Plank, organizer of the event for 17 years.
This year’s D.A.R.E. Day featured carnival rides, animals and plenty of demonstrations by local law enforcement.
All day, children were introduced to different activities by groups and organizations including the Greene County Youth Bureau, Boy Scout Troop 13, the Greene County Civil Air Patrol, Resurrection Lutheran Church, First Baptist Church, Walk About Mountain, Ulster-Greene ARC, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Creene County, Rip Van Winkle Tobacco-Free Coalition, American DoJo Martial Arts Center and the 4-H Flora and Fauna Club.
The Cairo Fire Department, local state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, and Greene County Emergency Patrol performed safety demonstrations.
Games and an air castle were provided by Osborn Entertainment and Big Top Tent Rentals and food for guests were donated by McDonald’s, Slater’s Great American and Stewart’s.
Several students at Cairo-Durham High School helped run the event.
“It is really a cooperative effort of the whole community,” Plank said.
Plank said more than 200 children had received free bicycle helmets by 1:30 p.m. The giveaway, which was funded through a grant from the county legislature, along with the other D.A.R.E. Day activities ran until 4 p.m.
During the year, Plank visits Cairo Elementary School once a week for 17 weeks to lead a 45-minute class about resisting peer pressure. He also spends 10 weeks teaching students at Cairo-Durham Middle School about the physical effects of using drugs. He said the lessons are worked in with the science curriculum, focusing on the nervous system and other body functions that are altered by drug use.
And, he said, he encounters former D.A.R.E. students who tell him that they have stayed away from drugs because of something he said during those lessons.
“If I can save the life of one kid, it is well worth every minute of it,” Plank said.
To contact reporter Susan Campriello, Call (518) 943-2100, ext. 3333, or e-mail scampriello@thedailymail.net.
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