Volunteers from Queen Anne’s Church of Scientology (300 W. Harrison St.) held drug-education activities in Waterfront Park on Oct. 27, distributing drug-education booklets, deputizing children who were trick-or-treating on the waterfront as Drug-Free Marshals and having them sign pledges to live drug-free lives in honor of national Red Ribbon Week.
More than 1,100 parents and children went through the church booth on Oct. 27, and hundreds signed the drug-free pledge throughout the day.
Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug-prevention campaign in the country and was celebrated the week of Oct. 23 through 31 this year, with the theme “A Healthy Me is Drug-Free.”
In October 1986, the first Red Ribbon event was held in memory of DEA Agent Enriqué “Kiki” Camarena, who was killed in Mexico while investigating a major drug cartel. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan endorsed the campaign as “Red Ribbon Week,” a national week of drug-prevention activities to honor Camarena’s legacy.
The Church of Scientology supports The Truth About Drugs initiative, one of the world’s largest nongovernmental drug education and prevention campaigns and makes these materials available free of charge to educators, law enforcement and community programs.
It has published a brochure, “Scientology: How We Help — The Truth About Drugs, Creating a Drug-Free World.”
For more information, visit www.scientology.org.
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