Community News: Nfld students in Top 20 D.A.R.E Poster winners

MN DAREMinnesota D.A.R.E. Announces 2016 Statewide Poster Contest Winners

Golden Valley, MN—Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc. would like to announce the 2016 Poster Contest winners.  The (2) first place winners will be throwing out the opening pitches at the April 17th & May 1st Twins games.

For the April 17th game, the winner is from Hamilton School in Coon Rapids  – D.A.R.E. officer is Briana Johnson from the Coon Rapids Police Department.  The pitch on May 1rd will be thrown out by a student fromStewardville Middle School  – D.A.R.E. officer is Dan Johnson with theOlmsted County Sheriff’s Office.  Additional poster contest winners are following and their posters will be posted at www.mndare.org (Latest News).

This year’s theme was “D.A.R.E. to C.A.R.E. (Compassion, Acceptance, Respect, and Equality)!”  The contest was open for 5th or 6th grade D.A.R.E. students, statewide.

Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc. received hundreds of entries from around Minnesota.  The top entries will receive special DARE prizes.  These posters will be framed and put on display at DARE events throughout the state.

Minnesota D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a prevention and education program that advocates and educates for healthy and safe children.  D.A.R.E. serves young people and their families teaching the skills to make positive decisions, provides education on safe and healthy lifestyles and gives the tools to enable them to resist engaging in negative and violent behaviors.  Over 25 million students have been reached worldwide and over 60,000 Minnesota students receive instruction annually.

For more information, contact MNDARE@aol.com or go to www.mndare.org

2016 – Winning Entries: 

#1 – Twins Opening Pitch April 17th

Ethan

Hamilton School

DARE Officer Briana Johnson – Coon Rapids PD

#1-Twins Opening Pitch May 1rd

Olivia

Stewardville Middle School

DARE Officer – Dan Johnson-Olmsted Co. SO

#2 – Maria

Mississippi School

DARE Officer Gustavson– Coon Rapids PD

#3 – Jaida

Stewartville Elementary

DARE Officer Dan Johnson – Olmsted Co. SO

#4 – Riley

Windom Area Middle School

DARE Officer Dana Wallace-Windom PD

#5 – Delilah

Shakopee Area Catholic Schools

DARE Officer Anderson – Shakopee PD

#6 – Lauren

St. Philip’s School

DARE Officer Jon Hunt – Bemidji PD

#7 – Ivania

Worthington Middle School

DARE Officer Daniel Brouillet – Worthington PD

#8 – Jashin

Eisenhower School

DARE Officer Ken Young – Coon Rapids PD

#9 – Ashlyn

Kasson-Mantorville Middle School

DARE Officer Jason Peck-Kasson PD

#10 – Alexa

SG Reinertson

DARE Officer Dahl –  Moorhead PD

#11 – Ella

Visitation

DARE Officer Mario Reyes – Mendota Heights PD

#12 – Jacob Nokes

Underwood

DARE Officer Jordan Anderson – Ottertail Co. SO

#13 – Carly

Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion

DARE Officer Nicole Korth – New Hope PD

#14 – Payton 

St. Dominic

DARE Officer Derek Estrem – Rice Co. SO

#15 –  Ananda 

Sibley

DARE Officer Angela Borchardt – Northfield PD

#16 – Shamira 

St. Dominic        

DARE Officer Derek Estrem – Rice Co. SO

#17 – Stella

Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion

DARE Officer Nicole Korth – New Hope PD

#18 – Cherise

Brandon-Evansville Middle School

DARE Officer Kavanagh – Douglas Co. SO

#19 – Carter

Foley Intermediate School

DARE Officer  Dan Dalton – Benton Co. SO

#20 – Kylie

Sawtooth Mountain

DARE Officer Ben Hallberg – Cook Co SO

Rice County Sheriff Troy Dunn commented in an email:  The Rice County Sheriff’s Office has been teaching DARE since 1987 at St. Dominic’s School in Northfield, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, Holy Cross in Webster and Nerstrand Charter School.  This is a great program in which a Peace Officer teaches a 45-60 minute lesson each week for 10 weeks dealing with good decision making, bullying prevention, drug and alcohol use/abuse, risk taking and peer pressure.  A bond is built between the officers, the schools and the students.  The officer  gives credibility to what the students are hopefully hearing at home and at school by giving them real time examples of what students are dealing with and how to combat difficult issues in an appropriate manner.  To this day, I still am approached by past students and parents of students thanking us for taking time to teach our children these valuable lessons in our schools.

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