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Page 8 —Wednesday, April 22, 2009, The Millen News Need Signs or Banners? Magnetic Signs? Promotional Products for your business? Printing? Call Bonnie, 706-554-2111 Champions reunite The 1999 Region 4A Baseball Champs got together for a reunion April 3. From left, are, first row: Leonard Ray, Wes Lee, Drew Dudley, Jason Boynton and Jamar Dunnum; and second row: Coach Chuck Sanders, Jeremy Dailey, Terry Williams, Ryan Cook, John Herrington, J.R. Gay, Will Newton and Coach Rodney Garvin. Not Pictured: Tai Brannen, Andre Evans, Jake Dailey and Annon Forehand. (Photo contributed) Students urged not to drink and drive THE i PLAYERS DOWNTOWN EXPERIENCE Join the fun at The Downtown Experience in Jacksonville during THE PLAYERS, May 5-9. For information on free events and more go to www.visitjacksonville.com/experience. For Tickets to THE PLAYERS at The Stadium at TPC Sawgrass, May 4-10, visit your local Publix or PGATOUR.COM. Funding provided by the Duval County Tourist Development Council. The day didn’t start out like any other for Jenkins County High School (JCHS) students April 16. as they witnessed a mock car crash and heard speak ers with a tragic story to tell. The mock car crash, Ghost Out 2009, was to prepare stu dents for their prom night Sat urday, April 18. It was con ducted to reinforce to them the dangers of mixing alcohol with driving. The exercise, which ran from 9 to 9:45 a.m. was open to the community and was attended by all JCHS students. The program recounted details of what is in volved in an alcohol-related crash. The scene was realistic, com plete with police, emergency re sponders, wrecked cars, a drunk driver and even fatalities. Narrators, Lavonte Lovette and Whitley Clark, described to students the real life crash de picted and the unraveling of events afterward. The narration included medical personnel ap pearing at the car crash scene. The following students partici pated in the dramatization: Walter Ivey, Jessica Head, Anna Gainey, Mary Alice Becton and Jonathan McBride. The mock car crash pro ceeded through the critical min utes it takes for the victims and perpetrator to get aid. As stu dents looked on, they saw their friends injured and sent to the hospital in ambulances, one stu dent extracted with the jaws of life and one student transported in the Air Med helicopter from Doctors Hospital in Augusta. But the most dramatic event was students observing the lifeless body of a classmate being pulled from the wreckage and a white sheet placed over the body. Deyson George, JCHS stu dent stated, “If it wasn’t real before this, it is now. It was helpful to see what the result of drinking and driving can be first A mock car crash was recently staged at Jenkins County High School to discourage drinking and driving among students. (Photo contributed) Residents observe Child Abuse Prevention Month A cross section of the community attended the annaul Pinwheels ceremony to bring attention to the 30 substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect. The event was held in observance of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Those attending included Jenkins County Family and Children Services staff, Jenkins County Sheriff Robert Oglesby, students and staff from Jenkins County’s schools and other involved community mem bers. (Photo contributed) hand”. The high school is devoted to making students aware of the re percussions of drinking alcohol, using drugs and the toxic mix of combining either with driv ing a vehicle. 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