Central Park — The Above the Influence #Bay at Hudson’s Bay High School earned a $500 grant from State Farm and used the money to create a brochure and posters about the dangers of texting while driving. A survey conducted by the club showed that 77 percent of students at the school have been in a car while the driver was texting.
The group also received a scholarship to attend last month’s Spring Youth Forum in Centralia, where six members presented the group’s distracted driving campaign.
The group has a dozen members, and have also provided facts about cigarettes and drugs, helped local law enforcement agencies at a prescription drug take back event and evaluated local retailers’ advertising displays and healthy food options. Susan Peng-Cowan, prevention/intervention specialist at the school, is the group’s adviser.
