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Show Rockin' Red Ribbon Week Bands Together Students at Mount Mahogany Elementary '" I ji .,,, ,, u, ' . i'i V, h- y .y i ,vr,iV ... , , Students wore their best Hawaiian attire to school and learned to Hula during lunch time as part of Red Ribbon Week. Photo courtesy of Timpanogos Times "Let's Band Together Against Drugs" was the theme for Red Ribbon Week at Mount Mahogany Elementary October 24 through 29. Students enjoyed a rock-in' rock-in' Red Ribbon Week kick-off kick-off concert performed by The Neighbors during lunch on Monday. The Neighbors is an alternative piano-rock band which features brother and sister, sis-ter, Adam and Rachel Kaiser. The kids were encouraged encour-aged to wear their Red Ribbon "concert" bracelet all week long. Students were also given the chance to sign a school i banner to show their commit ment to be drug free. On Tuesday, with the theme "Lei" Off Drugs", students wore their best Hawaiian Ha-waiian attire to school and learned to Hula during lunch time. "Stomp Out Drugs" was Wednesday's theme. The children chil-dren wore their favorite boots and learned a rompin' country line dance. Thursday was "Put a Cap on Drugs" day where students wore their favorite hat and the color red. Those classes who had a 100 percent red-wearers won coupons for a free Artie Circle ice cream cone. In honor of Halloween, everyone wore costumes at school on Friday i to "Say BOO to Drugs!" Also to honor Red Ribbon Week, a class door decorating decorat-ing competition was held. The doors were judged on Friday and one class per grade level won a root beer float party. Students were encouraged to bring a photo of themselves doing an activity they did instead in-stead of doing drugs to add to a school poster. The poster was titled "Instead of Drugs, I Do . . . "There are so many great and wonderful activities that they can get themselves involved in," stated Christy Stevenson. "There is no need for them to do drugs or succumb suc-cumb to those opportunities, they can say no. It's not good for them and they don't need it to have fun," she added. Principal Scot Westover said, "Red Ribbon Week is a good thing. It helps the kids to know and understand that there are dangers to drugs and harmful things that people can put into their bodies. The PTA does a great job organizing the activities, supplementing what the teachers do in the classrooms class-rooms and it's fun." |