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Show School Page 5 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Thursday, October 19, 2006 I've got better things to do than drugs GVMS Red Ribbon Week Essay Contest Winners by RICARDO VALENCIA " I've got better things to do than drugs. I can dance, ride my motorbike, sing. I Red Ribbon Week is to can think of a thousand bethelp kids stay drug free be- ter things to do than drugs. cause smoking and drinking I want to keep my body is bad for you. In your life clean and healthy. I can tell you want a free life, a drug you that I am going to keep free life. Red Ribbon Week my body safe and NOT do is a week that can help drugs. you stay drug free and not drink. by COURTNEY Like if your friends W0RTH1NGT0N are trying to do drugs, you 6th grade should help them. So help others stay drug free. I have a very bad experiDrugs can damage your brain and make you stu- ence with what drugs can do pid.People that drink and to you. My step cousin, who drive are acting stupid. So was a Mormon and very acrun your own life... stay tive in the church, met her drug tree. Remember we husband and got married. are the future, stay drug He wasn't a Mormon so they free. Please! We are all beg- got married in his backyard. ging, don't do drugs! And go They were together for six to school. It's important. I months. After that, she left him and had a baby. About pledge to be drug free! nine months after she had her baby, she didn'C go to by KELSEY CHRISTIANSEN church anymore and started to do drugs. My aunt and 6th grade uncle took her baby from I've got better things to her and took her to the drug do than drugs. One reason rehab center where she saw is if you do drugs, you can't her husband. They got back get a job or you will be loopy together and then he got and act different. And if you out of the drug rehab cendo drugs, it turns out you ter. About one month later, could die. And that's not a her friend convinced her to good thing. So stay drug li ee. check out of the rehab center Plus, don't you want to have and go to a party. So she did. a good life and live in a drug At the party they had drugs free house with your family? and alcohol and she took But I'm sure if you're doing too many drugs and died at drugs everyone willfindout. the party. Her friends didn't Like no one's going to want want the police to come and to come to your house be- find out that she had died cause if you have bad drugs at their house while taking in the house, the people who drugs so they cleaned up the come over could get drugs in drugs and threw her into a their system without even local park at about 1:30 knowing. So everyone, be a.m. where the police found her. They told my aunt and smart and don't start. she called us all and it was a very sad time but we got by over it. . KATELYN BOWN 6th grade 6th grade azette Red Ribbon Week essay winners front row left to right: Ricardo Valencia, Kelsey Chrsitiansen, Katelyn Bown, Courtney Worthington and Jordan Hall. Middle row: Wyatt Outzen, Austin Kitchel, Holly Collins, Spencer Agren and Whitlee Hopkins. Back row: Marissa Pickett. Haden McAfee, Josh Carlisle and Austin James. by JORDAN HALL 6th grade Picture yourself a few years from now. You are walking down a dark alleyway. Your friend takes something out of his pocket. You see a bag, a small bag. Then all of the sudden you hear sirens. Your friend starts running. You are caught. That is what happens when people don't say no to drugs. You take some and then you get addicted. You can't make sense of anything. Then you could start getting diseases. You could get lung cancer very fast. Not only you but then there's things like second hand smoke. When people drink, they can also start child abuse. Tt is a very had thing. So don't be the pornkid in the story. Say no In drugs and live the best life there is to live. by NAME WITHHELD 7th grade .Anyone can run their own life when it comes to drugs. Like my sister. She started to smoke last year because of her friends. Sure she got in some trouble, but (he worst trouble she g"t in was smoking. She v.;is smoking when 1 was with her once. I was just hanging out with her and her friends at the park. One of her friends asked if she want- Friday, October 20 • 6 pm in Monroe against the South Sevier Rams Come out and support, the Bulldogs! ed one and she said sure. I told her she couldn't and she told me she has been smoking for two months already! I was surprised that she would go and do something like that. I knew she knew what the risks are for smoking and she said she didn't care. I went and told my mom and I didn't want her to get in trouble, but if 1 didn't tell, then bad things f-ould've happened to her. I am glad that I went and told my mom because she hasn't hung out with any of her friends that gave her cigarettes. I am proud of her because she hasn't smoked ever since that happened. Now she is running her uwu life :m<l is staying drug free. by SPENCER AGREN 7th grade Dirty Rotten Unhealthy Gross Stuff (better known as drugs) tan be very harmful. If being the world's biggest slob is important, then go ahead and be my guest. Take the dirty rotten un- "ftr Gunnison Elementary Halloween Carnival - Date: Friday, October 2 7 Time: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Place: Elementary School Games • Costume Parade • Prizes Pumpkin Carving Contest • Food Spook Alley • Haunted Bus yj *J Specializing in all hjpes of Mortgage Loans• New Purchases * Refinances • Second Mortgages * Construction Loans Credit Problems? We can kelp! A - D Credit ir Ashley Roberts Home 435-529-4180 Cell 435-201-2753 -Licensed Loan Officer- •M Honest, Dependable, Hometown Service 187 South Main, Gunntson • 435-528-5878 healthy gross stuff. Like all people, we want to be accepted by everybody. But I can guarantee that drinking beer and becoming a drunky monkey is no way to be cool. Yellow teeth, bod breath, strokes every second, and the need to have a smoke every night. That to me doesn't1 sound too much fun. Of course there are the helpful drugs: Tylenol, Excedrin, Cough Drops, the whole lot of them. Don't get too carried away though. You might just find yourself in the back of a jail cell for stealing Tylenol from Gunnison Market. No matter what they say, don't take dirty rotten unhealthy gross stufT. by NAME WITHHELD 7th grade. I will never start drugs. I have had a lot of experiences with people doing drugs. I know somebody that too caught up in their work. They were worried that they weren't going to make enough money. They thought drinking would be the way out. But it wasn't. That person ended up beating up her husband and going to jail. He took her up to a place to detox. Detoxing is a place that helps you get off drugs, helps you with your self-esteem and helps you solve your problems. She stayed up there for sixty days. When she came home, she said it was like school. You have to take classes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. She said I will never do drugs again. They do weird stuff to you. A week passed an<1 •••.he got a phone call. The person on the phone told her Lhat one of her friends from detox got out yesterday and overdosed and died. She was really sad and she cried for three days. This is the reason why I 'will never start drugs. . See ESSAY WINNERS, Page*7 |
