Cities and Towns Join Medicine Take-Back Campaign

Mannheim DARE

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64 students of Mannheim Middle School’s eighth grade are proud graduates of the Mannheim Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE
program, conducted by Mannheim Military Police officers in cooperation with school officials. As part of the educational program, students competed in writing poems, with the best poem written by Alejandra Diaz and creating posters – best poster by Katja V. Miller – depicting the theme of living drug-free.

An even larger group of students, parents and educators had gathered at the Mannheim Elementary School with 104 5th graders being awarded their DARE certificates. Guest speaker LTC D. Lon Walker, Deputy USAREUR Provost Marshal, who has been called up for active military duty after being a
police chief in Marshalltown, Iowa, for many years, shared impressive data
about drug abuse in the United States and within USAREUR with the audience, getting the students’ attention and another commitment to stay drug free. German police officers from the Mannheim police BFV sub-station, mounted police and motorcycle group were on hand for a display and interaction with children and adults following the ceremony.

Mannheim DARE instructors, Staff Sgt. Jerry Brown and Sgt. Heather Demski both expressed how much they enjoyed the 10-week-program of interaction with students and teachers, not only as welcome break from their routine jobs in the law enforcement business, but as a most interesting and rewarding experience. (photo by Christine Gebhard, USAG Mannheim)

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