Retro Bill accentuates the positive

Memorial Examiner - November 2010

Retro Bill might be a character, but his message is genuine: kids can control much of what happens to them and should seek help from trusted adults about that which they cannot.

He uses a hula hoop to drive that point home as he wraps up a presentation Thursday before students at Spring Branch Middle School. ....MORE

Longview ISD honors distinguished alumni

Longview News-Journal

Longview -Former FBI agent and 1961 Longview High School graduate Charlie Parsons recalled an old saying that a Pinewood Park fifth-grade teacher used to tell him. "She said 'When you think about your life, what do you want written on your tombstone?' " Parsons said as he talked to a criminal justice class Friday at his alma mater. "What you should want written is: 'He left the world a better place than he found it.'".....MORE

DARE Officer Jeff Hughes throws out first pitch

Times Record News -

Wichita Falls DARE Officer Jeff Hughes throws out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers baseball game on June 1, 2008, at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington ....MORE

D.A.R.E. program teaches kids to be true to themselves

Times Record News

No matter what the dream is, it’s possible, Officer Jeff Hughes with the Wichita Falls Police Department told the students. He came into their classroom Wednesdays this winter and spring, taking over the teaching for a while. ....MORE 

Pupils Respond to D.A.R.E. Instructors' Positive Message

RedOrbit.com

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in Richmond County schools is more than just teaching pupils to resist drugs and violence, said Officer Willie Pleasent, one of the program's instructors. ....MORE

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