Virus does not stop students raising awareness on dangers of drugs

    The last week in October in Pendleton County schools and other schools across the nation is considered to be Red Ribbon Week. It is the nation’s largest and longest running drug-use prevention campaign. Students participate in spirit days to show their support.
    Wearing red is to symbolize the red ribbon that was used to honor the sacrifice of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena who was murdered in 1985 by drug traffickers he was investigating in Mexico, according to the Red Ribbon website. College shirts are sported to show that students are “too smart to get into drugs”. Halloween dress up day is to remind students in a fun way to not do drugs because “drugs are scary!”
    Pendleton County High School Student Council oversees the spirit days at the high school. Every year PCHS does a costume contest; the winner from each first period class then goes to judging by a panel of teachers. The faculty contest winners were determined by the Student Council. Student Council members helped to get pictures of the winners from each first period while accompanied by a teacher to give the participants candy.
    The student winners of this year’s costume contest are Ryland Rhoton dressed as a McDonald’s Happy Meal, Emma Gillispie as a Dancing Air Girl, Jordan Kirsch and Emma Reid as 1920s flapper girls, Mason Hardy as Austin Powers, Joseph Baker as a prince, Anne McRoberts as a military girl, Sean Shreve as a Care Bear, Maggie Burgemier, Karleigh Prater, and Olivia Verst as hunters, and Colton Webster as Michael Myers. The faculty winners were Mrs. Miller dressed as Super Mom and the Cleaning Crew which included Mr. Hall, Mrs. Perraut, Miss Dean, and Mrs. Baird.