Final touches are being made on a city-wide drug strategy. It's a five-pillared, seamless method of coping with -- and preventing - -- drug use by the community's youth. It also involves a host of local groups working in sync. "It hasn't been done before. Period," said Michael Diachuk, director of the Lloyd Public School Division. "The only place where you are really effectively able to make changes is at the community level and across Canada there are numerous communities forming these coalitions." [continues 314 words]
It Was Far More Than The Typical School-To-School "Don't Do Drugs" Spiel. Grade 6 and 7 students from across the Lloyd Catholic School Division filled the gymnasium at Father Gorman school Monday morning to hear from Dee Dee Fenrich, a mother from Wilkie, Sask. who knows the terrible and twisted world of drugs all too well. "Drugs play for keeps and they're hard to give up," she said. A mother of four, Fenrich lost her 19-year-old son, Marc, last May when he overdosed on drugs. He had been involved with substances such as marijuana since the age of 12; the same age as many students in the gymnasium. [continues 343 words]
