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Show Workshop on Drug Use and Abuse Scheduled for Moab Wext Week How to improve communication com-munication between students, stud-ents, school and community commun-ity leaders and to explore meaningful alternatives to drug abuse will be the main topics discussed at a special workshop on drugs and drug abuse to be held in Moab, Monday, Jan. 11 and Tuesday, Jan. 12. The workshop will be held at the Elks Lodge with approximately 100 istudents, teachers, and townspeople invited to attend. at-tend. Besides local participants, partici-pants, state leaders in problems and causes of drug abuse will lead discussions dis-cussions at the workshop. These include LaVar Rock-wood, Rock-wood, Director of Utah '.State Cdmmission on Drugs; Robert Leake, Specialist Spe-cialist from the State Department De-partment of Public Instruction, In-struction, Terry Davidson and Jeffrey Smith, who have been closely associated associa-ted with the drug problem prob-lem in the Salt Lake City area. The Moab workshop is a continuation of the state educational program on drugs and drug abuse. The Utah program began last summer with a team including Mr. Leake participating par-ticipating in a national drug training seminar at San Francisco State College. Col-lege. Following this, a week 1-ong "live-in" was held at Park City with four students and teachers from Grand County participating. par-ticipating. These students and teachers, Marsha Leonard, Leo-nard, Kevin Anderson,, Darlene Henderson and Bill Bacon, will conduct the Moab workshop. About 30 junior and senior high school students and approximately ap-proximately the same num. ber of townspeople will' be invited to participate. Teachers who will attend will include those teaching teach-ing 4th, 5th and 6th grades grad-es and Health, Science, Social Studies and counselors counse-lors from the junior and senior high schools. According Ac-cording to C. Robert Sun. dwall, Superintendent of schools and Chairman of the Grand County Coordin ating Committee on Drug Abuse, it is hoped the workshop will result in improving im-proving communications between students, teachers teach-ers and towns people. It is also anticipated, he stated, that meaningful al-ematives al-ematives to drug abuse will be explored, resulting in a better understanding, not only of the drug prob lem itself, but the causes and what can be done about ab-out them. The workshop is scheduled sched-uled to begin at 2:39 p.m. . on January 11. A full day is planned for January 12 beginning at 9:00 a.m. Schools will be dismissed at 2:30 p.m., January 11, but will be opened normally norm-ally on January 12. |
