Supporting D.A.R.E.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Pizza Hut/KFC/Taco Bell general manager Kevin Cox presents a check for $222.79, the proceeds of a benefit for D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), to McCook Police Officer Ashley Donovan, the school resource officer and D.A.R.E. instructor for McCook Public Schools. The three restaurants sponsored the benefit fund-raiser for D.A.R.E. on March 3, donating a portion of their proceeds from sales during three hours in the evening. Donovan said the money will help fund the D.A.R.E. program, from which 101 MPS fifth graders and 99 seventh graders just graduated. D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives. The D.A.R.E. mission is "Teaching students good decision-making skills to help them lead safe and healthy lives"

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