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Taking the DARE District 21 students graduate from drug awareness program.(Neighbor)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20030127
Author:Fuller, James

Byline: James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer

Booth Tarkington Elementary School in Wheeling Township District 21 recently graduated 88 fifth-graders in its latest DARE program class.

This year's Drug Abuse Resistance Education ceremony had a special element in guest speaker Tom Zbikowski, a star football player at Buffalo Grove High School. Zbikowski delivered a message of the uselessness of drugs and how they never help anyone succeed.

Hundreds of students, parents, police officers and teachers were on hand to hear that message, an echo of the values instilled by ...

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