STUDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS TO RAISE DRUG AWARENESS

Students at Breton Education Centre will once again take to the streets to
help get drugs off their streets.

Wednesday, Nov. 21, in conjunction with Drug Awareness Week across Canada,
1,100 students, 66 staff members and residents of the community will march
through the town to promote alcohol and drug awareness.

Dorothy Kaiser is a guidance counsellor at BEC and one of the organizers of
the walk.

She said the walk is not a fund-raiser; its goals are to increase awareness
of the problems caused by drugs.

It is also part of many projects the students are involved in, which are
designed to help to curb problems associated with drugs.

"They see the importance of it - there is so much drug and alcohol abuse
around," says Kaiser. "It is a way to let people know that students are
just as concerned as adults and that is a great thing."