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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Lawmen gear up for prom season

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With the arrival of prom season, the Hancock County Sheriff's Office is stepping up enforcement and education efforts to make sure teens celebrate safely.

Throughout May, deputies will be increasing patrols in areas where proms are scheduled, and assemblies are scheduled at schools to remind students of dangers surrounding alcohol and speeding.

Sgt. John Clevidence said officers will be concentrating enforcement efforts on operating a vehicle under the influence offenses, plus underage consumption, right of way violations, as well as speeding and safety belt infractions.

The purpose, he said, is to reduce fatalities and drunken driving-related injuries, and to increase safety belt use in the county.

“The patrols will be concentrated in the school districts which are having proms, and routes to and from the prom designations,” Clevidence said.

The prom season runs the next four weekends. The Blanchard Valley Center prom was Friday. Proms will be held May 3 at Vanlue and McComb; May 10 at Arcadia, Cory-Rawson, Liberty-Benton, Van Buren and Findlay; and May 17 at Arlington.

Deputies working prom details will be paid through a federal grant from the Ohio Governor's Highway Safety Office.

Meanwhile, high school students will attend programs at their schools put on by Hancock County YIELD (Young Individuals Educating Local Drivers).

Deputy Dave Spridgeon said the programs have been held for juniors and seniors each spring for the past nine years.

This year, as in the past, the assemblies will focus on the effects of alcohol on driving, as well as speeding and safety belt use.

Speakers will include a man who was driving while impaired when he crashed a vehicle in 2007, killing his girlfriend; a mother who lost her daughter in an alcohol-related accident in the late 1990s; and a representative of the Family Resource Center, who will talk about the dangers of alcohol use.

The YIELD program will be presented at Arcadia, McComb and Vanlue on Thursday, at Cory-Rawson and Arlington on May 6, and at Findlay and Van Buren on May 7.

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