Millennium Circle Fund Votes to Give a Grant to Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Drug and Alcohol Program.

WILKES-BARRE -- A group of community-minded Luzerne County residents on Tuesday afternoon voted to award a $25,000 grant to help tout drug and alcohol prevention messages among area schoolchildren.

The money will allow the Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Drug and Alcohol Program to deliver anti-drug lessons to 13 school districts, said Michael Donahue, the program's director.

"If we don't talk to our kids about drugs, the dealers will," Donahue told members of the Millennium Circle Fund, an area philanthropic group.

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