The Salt Lake Area Gang Project’s 2017 Utah Gang Conference featured a special award for Granite safe school specialist Maria Garcia. Garcia oversees Granite’s Choose Gang Free and Skills for Success programs that are currently operating in multiple schools throughout the district. In recognition of her service in helping students ...
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West Kearns Elementary ‘mustache’ you don’t do drugs
Every year thousands of students in Utah pledge to be drug free during Red Ribbon Week. At West Kearns Elementary, this season’s slogan invites kids to wear that pledge beneath their noses. “We ‘Mustache’ you do not do drugs” was the theme for one of the Red Ribbon days at West Kearns. As part of the day’s festivities, officers from Unified Police ...
Taylorsville High students return lost wallet filled with $2.7K cash
Unified Police Department’s Taylorsville Precinct recently honored Jordan Cox and Crosby Bringhurst for their honesty and integrity. Last week while leaving school, the two Taylorsville High students stumbled on a wallet filled with $100 and $50 bills. As it turned out, the wallet belonged to a man who was carrying the cash to pay his family’s ...
Students and staff at Eastwood celebrate ‘Real Life Heroes’
Kids may be excited to dress up as their favorite fictional superheroes this month, but it’s clear that each of them recognize who the ‘real’ heroes are in their community. As part of Eastwood Elementary School’s Red Ribbon Week, students dressed in attire that represented the heroes in their own lives. Many chose to wear medical scrubs, lab ...
Students raise funds for K-9 unit during Red Ribbon Week
Red Ribbon Week at West Kearns Elementary had all the sights you’d hope to see during the drug-free awareness campaign, with a few exciting exceptions. During the week, West Kearns students and staff collected donations to help purchase a bulletproof vest for the Unified Police Department’s newest narcotics dog, Loki. The school raised $1,000 in ...