Vol. 52, No.39
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October 08, 2014
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El Monte Police Help Kick Off Red Ribbon Week by Michele Earle El Monte
The Mountain View School District is joining the nation in celebration of the 29th anniversary of the National Red Ribbon Week campaign with a variety of events for students focusing on the importance of living drug, tobacco and alcohol free lives. Helping to kick off the Red Ribbon activities, members of the El Monte Police Department visited schools throughout the District sharing the message of “Say No to Drugs!” The special assemblies featured
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motorcycle officers, police cars, police trucks, equestrian police officers and the department mascots, Officer McGruff and Officer Steve. A favorite among the students were the K-9 officers who showed off their skills. Officer Nick Stratis and Officer Jesus Rojas reinforced the importance of staying away from drugs and people who do drugs. “Celebrating Red Ribbon Week and staying drug free are very important,” said Officer Stratis. “I’m happy to come out to the schools and talk with you students about this very important topic and I will do everything in my power to keep all children drug free. Just know that there are people in your life and in your community who you can go to for help if you are having trouble. Drugs are never the answer.”
Joining together, the students recited the Drug Free Pledge, promising to stay drug, alcohol and tobacco free and got high-fives from Officer McGruff, Officer Steve and at some schools, Clifford the Big Red Dog. To the students’ delight, the officers passed out police badge sticker and posed for pictures. “It was exciting to see the horses and to high five Clifford and the officers,” said Ramon, a kindergartner in Ms. Suggs class at Miramonte School. Later in the month schools will hold a variety of activities including poster contests, writing contests, wear red days, and other events promoting being drug-free. “We greatly appreciate the police department taking the time to present these assemblies to our students,” said
The El Monte Police Department presented Red Ribbon Week assemblies at schools throughout the Mountain View School District. Courtesy photos
George Schonborn, MVSD’s Coordinator of Pupil Personnel. “Hearing about the importance of being drug free from the officers and seeing
the different police vehicles, the horses and K-9 officers really makes an impact on our kids.”
Breast Cancer Awareness
by By ww5.komen.org/Devette Johnson National
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Those of you may have seen or heard that it is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The images of large muscular NFL players wearing pink symbolizing their support for the cure and research for breast cancer is a powerful show of strength. Prevention is the key component to help women detect this terrible disease. Every day, we take steps to prevent unwanted events from happening. For example, we brush our teeth to prevent cavities. We would like to ensure some events never happen, but the best we can do is lower our risk. We know people who brush their teeth can still get cavities. We do what we can to improve the chances of a good outcome, but we don’t always have complete control. The same concept applies to cancer and other chronic diseases. In the public health setting, the term “prevention” mainly refers to lowering the risk of getting a disease rather than completely removing the
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risk. You may also hear the term “risk reduction.” Cancer tends to be caused by a combination of factors. Some factors we may be able to control (like exercise), some are out of our control (like age) and some are still unknown. Since many factors drive cancer risk and we can control only some of these, we cannot avoid some amount of risk. For example, the two most common risk
factors for breast cancer, being a woman and getting older, are not things you can control. For breast cancer, most risk factors that we have some control over have only a small effect on risk. This means there is no one behavior that will prevent breast cancer. But, it also means there’s no one factor that will cause it. Even a woman
with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation doesn’t have a 100 percent chance of getting breast cancer. In fact, most people diagnosed with breast cancer are at average risk and we don’t know which factors came together to cause the cancer. Because the disease process is so complex, it’s hard to pin down how a certain set of risk factors will affect
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