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Show Garfield Residents Attend Drug ScW Three Garfield County residents joined Tom Jackson, county alcohol and drug prevention specialist, at the University of Utah's 36th Annual School on Alcoholism and other Drug Dependencies. Debbie Hatch, Diane Houston and Madlyn Haws represented the county at the seminar as part of Garfield County's continuing effort to combat alcohol and drug problems. County commissioners and some area city councils allocated funds to provide partial scholarships for those attending from the county. The week-long school was attended at-tended by well over 1,000 individuals from throughout the U.S. and many well-known speakers from all over the world took part. The top-rated school is the second-oldest alcohol and drug workshop in the U.S. The three were impressed by the quality of the speakers and the usefulness of the information. Speakers agreed that to beat the problem, all segments of society will have to work together. Not only school but community groups, churches, businesses and most of all, parents will all have to take an active role in seeing that the people closest to them don't become involved in-volved with alcohol and drugs, said Jackson. Those who attended the con ference were shown wav . become involved acttvd. own community to heln t problem. Each person 1 return to his or her home t work toward a druo.f,.,,,, . " us Tee societ The key, jackson ' becoming educated problems associated with i and drugs and passing u i ' along to those around, u J aware of the dangers, he m are much less likely to exp |