(Top Row: Sheriff Branch, Deputy Clatterbuck Binns SRO, Sergent Owen Bullard Bottom Row: Paige Hockman, Jace Cook, Danya Abutaleb)
Culpeper County Sheriff's office presented the 2008 - 2009 D.A.R.E. Graduation on Friday, April 24th. The Drug Abuse Resistance program (D.A.R.E.) is a five week program that 6th grade P.E. students participate in. The program teaches students realistic ways to think through, plan, act and reflect on their actions when faced with tobacco, alcohol or illegal drugs. The program is designed to help students develop the skills that are needed when faced with potentially violent situations. The program was taught by our school resource office Deputy Gail Clatterbuck during their PE time. Each year students in the county compete in an essay contest. In the essay students are to share what they've learned in D.A.R.E and how they can apply it to their life. Each middle school in the county has a girl and boy winner and then one overall winner is picked for the county. The Binns girls essay winner was Danya Abutaleb and the boys winner was Jace Cook. The overall essay winner receives the Sergent Marjorie J. Scott Memorial D.A.R.E Award and the 2008 - 2009 recipient was Paige Hockman a student from Binns Middle School.
