COUNTY BOARD APPROVES DARE CLASSES

Students in Brady, Hershey and other outlying elementary schools will
have the D.A.R. E. program after the Lincoln County board approved to
provide the classes.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department was unsure it could provide
the classes because of a personnel shortage, but Sheriff Jerome
Kramer said it will now be able to honor its agreements.

Deputy Season Trevino is the Drug Abuse Resistance Education
instructor and on Monday, she got the word that the agreements had been signed.

Now, she said, she will prepare to gather the materials she takes
with her to the classrooms.

In Brady, she has 35 students in the class and each student receives
a workbook, a folder, a pencil, an eraser and a pencil pouch. She
also loads up the stuffed D.A.R.E. dogs and teaching materials in her car.

Trevino said classes will start next week and it's not just drug and
alcohol abuse that she targets in the classroom.

"It's also about peer pressure," she said. "I also talk to them about
pressure they put on themselves and pressure from parents and others."

Trevino will also travel to Hershey, Sutherland, Maxwell and Wallace.
She has a total of 123 students in the program.