Times Advocate, 1991-02-27, Page 3Times -Advocate, February 27, 1991 Pape 3
Joined voices
entertain at Choirfest
EXETER - More than 170 members of several district choirs
arrived in Exeter Saturday for a day -long Choirfest workshop
on 'church music at the Exeter United Church. The singers en-
joyed a full day of working with noted choir director Ken
Fleet (above) and then joined voices Saturday evening for a
free public performance. With most of the audience relegated
to the balcony of the church and the choir taking up most of
the pews below, there is no doubt that the choir was one of the
very largest ever to sing in Exeter.
The offering at the evening totalled nearly $1,000 and will be
dedicated to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Drug education - OPP Constable John Marshall. displays his "drug
kit" to the Precious Blood PTA.
Drug awareness now
taught to younger grades
EXETER - The dangers of drug
and alcohol abuse are being taught
to a much younger age group of
children nowadays, the Precious
Blood PTA were told last Wednes-
day evening.
The Knights of Columbus spon-
sored the special meeting at which
Constable John Marshall of the
Godcrich 'OPP attended.
After Marshall showed video-
tapes which arc targeted at class-
rooms of children aged 4-11 years,
he displayed a "drug kit which
contained realistic -looking sam-
ples of commonly abused drugs.
Marshall told the parents that by
grade six, quite a few children
have already been drunk, and two-
thirds of them have smoked a cig-
arette. These statistics have
caused the VIP (Values Influences
and Peers) program to be shifted
from a grade 8 target group down
to grade 5.
Actually, said Marshall, the
most common place children say
they get access to alcohol is family
occasions like waddings.
Marshall also provided alarming
statistics to the approximately 20
parents assembled at the meeting
(chairs had been set out for 132).
For instance, 20 percent of the
world's marijuana supply is grown
in Canada. Crack, a form of co-
caine, is about 95 percent baking
soda, but is so potent one can be-
come an addict from only the first
use. Also, crack is very deadly,
and 12.3 children on average in
North America die from heart at-
tacks from its use every day.
The use of the hallucinogen LSD
is also on the rise in Huron County,
partly because it is derived from
rye grain; and the reason so many
veterinarian clinics are broken into
is because PCP is actually a seda-
tive for horses - it should never be
taken by humans, warned Marshall,
usually because the "trips" it in-
spires arc disturbing and danger-
ous.
A lot of stimulants which are
considered prescription drugs in
Canada can be bought across the
counter in the United States as diet
aids or pep pills and find their way
across the border illegally.
Unfortunately, modelling cement
still has hallucinogenic,
said Marshall, who said �-
ally saw the result of one person
who thought he could fly off a wa-
ter tower after inhaling its vapors.
Even • the animal steroids which
achieved such notoriety during the
1988 Olympics are available ille-
gally. They now have street names
such as "smarties" or "milk" de-
pending on whether they are in pill
or liquid form.
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Plaque dedicated - The Exeter and Area Firemen's Association dedi-
cated this plaque to the new Exeter Fire Hall. It has photographs of
all the firefighters serving with the department at the time of the
hall's opening. At left is association president Danny Smith with fire
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