"This is where I went to school," Audrey (Holliday) Bjornstad told the students of F. G. Miller High School last Thursday afternoon, in the first of two information sessions on the highly addictive street drug, crystal meth.

"I last spoke here at my graduation, as valedictorian. Today, I felt it was important to come and tell you this so it doesn't happen in your family."

Bjornstad said her family's story "all started like a fairytale, with two parents and two beautiful kids." At 15, her son was "an athletic teenager, a kid who had it all." Then, in Grade 10, he was caught skipping school and smoking pot.

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