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TheTrue Citizen, Wednesday, December 30, 2009 — Page 11
Lt. Wanda Wells, right, presented DARE awards at
Edmund Burke Academy to essay contest winner Mira
Cain, DARE baby winner Tayor Boswell and Best All-
Around DARE student Anna Marie Blackburn.
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Former SGA student goes from D.A.R.E. to deputy
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
Charles Prescott experienced
plenty of change after leaving
his home in Girard to play col
lege football, but one thing al
ways remained the same.
Back in the fifth grade, as he
sat in one of Lt. Wanda Well’s
first DARE classes, he had
made a decision never to abuse
drugs.
Prescott, now a Burke County
Sheriff’s deputy, said it’s a com
mitment that’s helped him ever
since.
Prescott, a former Bear who
still holds several Burke County
football records, played nose
guard at Valdosta State Univer
sity. He said he watched team
mates who dabbled in drags get
kicked off the team and even out
of school.
But Prescott said the words of
Lt. Wells stuck with him
through the years, and he still
lives by them.
“When I’d see her on the
street at home. I’d tell her ‘Ms.
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Lt. Wanda Wells taught Deputy Charles Prescott in one of her first D.A.R.E. classes.
Wells, I’m still a DARE stu- in law enforcement and begin- has on the children she reaches
dent’,” he says with a laugh. ning his career in juvenile cor- out to each year through the pro-
Prescott went on to complete rections in Atlanta, he returned gram,
his education at Morehouse home to Burke County. “I think it’s very impressive
College and earn a degree in For Lt. Wells, having Prescott that he took it with him through
sociology. on the force is a daily reminder life,” she says. “He even re-
After developing an interest of the positive impact DARE members the song.”
Daring to Speak Out
The following are excerpts taken from essays
submitted by fifth graders in the DARE program:
I have grown up with my mom and my dad doing the worst thing
they can do... drugs.
I never got any friends, toys or presents. I eventually had to live
with my grandparents because my parents went to jail. My mom
was in the hospital pregnant, so I was alone with my sister and
soon to be brother.
Soon my mom got out and I was living with my two brothers
with my mom. I soon left to live with my grandparents, and my
mom got on drugs again and everybody was separated from each
other.
So I was with my grandparents and moved up here and started
going to DARE and learned what drugs can do. So now I’m pray
ing that my family can straighten up and get back together.
By a Burke County 5th grader
I love DARE. That’s how I feel about it... it’s important because
it is the only place for kids to learn about drugs and avoid them.
Jacob Davis
Major Bennett has taught me to take a stand against drugs ...If
I put pressure on myself or other people put pressure on me I
always know to say no and walk away. I never knew there were so
many ways to say no to drugs until I went to DARE.
Christianna Lovett
I have learned about peer pressure and why not to do drugs.
DARE made me think about what I take and what I drink... mainly
it made me think about who I hang around with.
Hannah Raley
I learned to stay away from drug infested areas. If someone
asks you if you want a cigarette, just ignore them. Walk away. Say
no, that’s another good way.
Destiny Brown
I’ve learned that when you start something bad for you, you
might never quit! In our DARE pledge, I like the part where it says
to be drug free and violence free, I strive for great goals that will
help my life when I get older. My dad at home always says “make
good choices in life! ” All the time.
Sara Katherine Mitchell
I promise to not do drugs and to resist violence. So, the rest of
my life, I will not end up in jail like the others who didn’t listen to
Major Bennett.
Coleman Gray
Drugs and alcohol do not make you popular, and they are defi
nitely not cool... they turn you into someone that you were not
created to be.
Samantha Mallard
While I have been taking DARE this year, something really told
me that drugs are horrible. With all of the facts that I have learned
about these terrible things, it really scares me. Gold and Lt. Wells
really came into my heart and told me to never do drugs. It amazes
me with how many bad things are in there.
Mira Cain
In DARE, I learned that drugs are not for us. We learned about
tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, peer pressure, friendship founda
tion, inhalants arid how to be in charge.
Ashley Freeman
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