R-2 sixth graders can handle risky situations — DARE program helps them learn life skills

The Pattonsburg sixth graders have spent the past several months learning life skills that will help them handle risky situations. This year’s D.A.R.E. essay winners are pictured, left to r ight, front row, Chase Mann, Kylie Crone, Heather Booth, Matt Huskey; back row, from left to right,: Tyler Virtue, Carly Cornett, Abby Feck, Ethan Teel, Sean Sweat. First place went to Ethan Teel; second place to Carly Cornett; and third place to Kylie Crone. Chief Richards expressed his appreciation to KJ’s Two Stop and the XI IOTA TAU (Beta Sigma Phi) Sorority for their support of the Pattonsburg D.A.R.E program. Without community support like theirs this program could not exist.