Belleville Township West High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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Wfe are part of our community -1 u Mr. Dan Wolford, assistant principal, is rightfully proud of Belleville Parents in Action. On February 7 the group of concerned parents he organized three years ago was awarded the Outstanding Organization Award for 1986 from the Illinois Community Education Association. BELLEVILLE PARENTS IN ACTION 2600 West Main Belleville, IL 62221 Mrs. Ceil Baker of Belleville Barents in Action and Mr. Dan Wolford and Mr. Cole Shannon represented the Parents in Action group at Springfield on March 7 when the group won first in the state as a community action group to prevent chemical abuse . A crowd of concerned citizens Filled the Cafeteria on March 18 to hear Delbert Boone, community relations coordinator for CareUnit Hospital of St. Louis, share ideas and feelings about chemical problems and ways to stay chemically free. The program was sponsored by the Belleville District 118 Parent-Teacher Association and the Belleville Parents in Action. Delbert Boone illustrated to an attentive audience that “a dope fiend is a dope fiend is a dope Fiend is a dope Fiend ...” regardless of the kind of drug he uses because the end result is the same . . . loss of the ability to reason. Community action programs 25