Trenton Program Highlights For December

Multiple Holiday Safety Focus:

THS SB Blitz: Trenton High School Holiday Safety Belt Blitz December 17-21, 2001. Monday 170 flyers were posted on car windows in the parking lots of TISA and Trenton High School. Tuesday safety belt observation survey was completed before school and 32 incentives were given to buckled drivers. Thursday 120 safety messages were handed out on candy canes. Friday the SADD Chapter members gave a brief message over the high school intercom.

SADD/Wms Co. Sheriff's Office PSA: Scott Busching, Williams County Sheriff and four SADD students recorded a Public Service Announcement for Northern Plains Radio. Parents of the SADD students were required to authorize permission for their child to be excused from school, ride with the coordinator and represent the Trenton SADD Chapter for the recorded PSA. The PSA ran three to four times daily between December 21 and 31, 2001, and identified several issues surrounding drinking and driving, including:

• drinking and driving during the holiday season;
  
• impaired driving is not an accident, but a serious crime causing a death every 33 minutes;
  
• local criminal justice agencies will increase enforcement as part of the National Holiday Lifesavers Mobilization;
  
• violators lose their license, automobile, time from work, and money for fines and court costs;
  
• violators may face imprisonment for vehicular manslaughter or homicide;
  
• celebrating responsibly
  
• drinking is a choice
  
• calling a friend or designating a driver
  and
  
• You Dink and Drive - You Lose!