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Week by: PGK Dave Melander As you know the purpose of Red Ribbon Week is to display red ribbon as a symbol of the community's commitment to a drug-free healthy lifestyle. Our goal as Knights is to help support that effort and to heighten peoples awareness of the drug problems we face and to encourage children and adults alike into action to help build a drug-free Pleasanton. Thanks to the Knights and their family members, and to the St. Augustine Middle School Youth Community and Youth Minister Kevin Staszko for joining people of other churches , and civic organizations in putting up and taking down ribbon to support this effort. Special thanks also to the Faith Formation staff of St. Augustine and to Father Dan Danielson for providing a Youth Mass where the issue of addiction and recovery was addressed. Also addressed was the important message that those who suffer from the illness of addiction have a place in the Church, and receive support and compassion as they struggle for recovery. "If just one child in Pleasanton...understands the message and abstains from drugs, the campaign is more than worth it" (slogan for Red Ribbon Week, Pleasanton). Dear Brother Knights |