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Safety Zone 2011: ACHS takes part in mock DUI Trial Click on headline for full story plus photo(s) By Ellen Zornes Friday morning, April 22, and Monday morning, April 25, Adair County High School juniors participated in the seventh annual "Safety Zone DUI Awareness. The idea for "Safety Zone" came about as an effort to demonstrate to our driving students the importance of driving safely and how alcohol and other drugs can so severely impede their driving abilities. Young drivers just don't seem to understand the magnitude that driving entails and how even one drink of an alcoholic beverage or the use of other drugs can have such disastrous consequences. It is our hope through "Safety Zone" to get that point across. This year we added a segment about the importance of not texting while driving. Anytime we want to achieve something on a large scale for our students, we can always count on our community to be part of it, and this is no exception. The help from so many experienced and qualified community people, who share our concern about our young drivers, makes this an event our young drivers will remember. This year we kind of did the events backwards due to not being able to have the mock accident Friday morning because of the weather. We had the hearing of our DUI student driver on Friday with the help of J.D. Zornes as defense attorney, Jennifer Corbin, county attorney, as prosecutor and Judge Michael Loy presided over the hearing. We hold "Safety Zone" as close as possible to the prom. It is so important that our students be aware of the devastating effects that driving under the influence can have. We want our kids to be safe! "Safety Zone" is a collaborative effort between Adair County Schools and sectors of our community such as Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, Ambulance Service, Volunteer Fire Departments, Air Evac, Coroner, the Adair County medical community, the Adair County legal community, Substance Abuse Coalition, KY-ASAP (Agency for Substance Abuse Policy), Martin Funeral Home, Michael Bryant Towing, Susan Minton, Lindsey Wilson College, who applies theatrical makeup for our mock victims and portrays the mother of the deceased victim at the scene and Brandon Harvey who coordinates the mock accident. We also had several high school students who participated this year; Will Rich, Brooklyn Wilson, Brooke Harmon, Emily Irvin, Brandon Elliott, Eric Vanarsdale and Kyle Mann. We would also like to remind everyone of Project Graduation, the safe alcohol free/drug free graduation event that will take place immediately following ACHS graduation on Friday, May 27, 2011, and will end at 1:30amCT on Saturday morning. If you would like to volunteer to work Project Graduation or would like to make a contribution, please call (270) 384-3400. -Ellen Zornes This story was posted on 2011-05-03 16:06:05
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