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Crystal Middle School Celebrates Red Ribbon Week
A look at how Crystal Middle School has been participating in the drug free campaign
Red Ribbon Week is when schools across the country celebrating staying drug free with activities, assemblies, and school decorations. Crystal Middle School has been an active participant.
All week during lunch time Crystal has put on different activities in celebration. They have had the students wrap their teachers like mummies, created mazes for their peers to navigate, decorated doors for the cause, and put on a paper airplane competition.
Assemblies such as the one put on today included a demonstration from the group Two Hip Bikes, a team of extreme bicyclists that travel to schools demonstrating bike stunts and encouraging students to stay away from drugs. The team has visited every Suisun City school within the district, Crystal Middle School being their last stop.
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“(It) shows them these are the different outlets you can have and how drugs and alcohol would negatively impact them,” said Kristen Witt, Crystal principal. “They wouldn't be able to do the things they showed us today.”
Red Ribbon Week is the longest running and largest drug prevention program in the country. It is also a big event for Suisun City’s Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs organization. The group usually has a monthly meetings at City Hall but, this month, held their meeting in the Crystal Middle School library while students were in class. Afterward, the group attended the assembly.
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Mayor Pete Sanchez, Police Chief Ed Dadisho and school board member David Isom were also at the assembly. ATOD Team Coordinator Katy Rader said the ATOD donated supplies, such as pencils and ribbons for the students to wear, to Suisun City schools to support the message of staying drug free.
“We’re going to try to come out quarterly to the schools to get their input on what type of prevention is needed what type of communication is needed to keep our kids off of alcohol and drugs and tobacco,” Rader said.
Click on the video to see what David Isom and Chief Dadisho said to Crystal Middle School students, as well as some of the cool stunts Two Hip Bikes made at the assembly.
