Alcohol And You Presentation Tonight In Kenansville Alcohol and You is a presentation of the new DWI laws and an eaplanation of the mental and physical effects of drinking. The presentation is April 5 in the Dunlin County Courthouse in Kenansville at 7:30 p.m. featuring guest speaker Steve Streater. a former athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Steve Streater, SADD Coordinator Steve Streater, former UNC football player, will be the featured speaker representing the organiza tion. SADD. Students Against Driving Drunk. According to SADD statistics, about 8,000 teenagers and young adults lose their lives each year and 40.000 are injured in drunk driving incidents. The presentation of Alcohol and You is sponsored by the Duplin County Agricultural Extension Home Economics Program Committee. Ac cording to Alcohol and You Planning Committee Chairman Mark Vinson of Kenansville, the presentation is focused on young adults age 19 years and younger. Laws and sentencing guidelines for the newly-enacted Safe Roads Act will be presented during Alcohol and You. Vinson pointed out the new DW1 laws ar.d sentencing guidelines will be ? explained for all age groups. Featured with Steve Streater will be speakers 1st Sgt. William Autry of the 4th District N.C. Highway Patrol. Assistant District Attorney of the 4th Judicial District Dewey Hudson Jr., Dr. Kenneth Lee, M.D., internist with Goshen Medical Center and Plainview Medical Center of Duplin, Rebecca Judge from Duplin-Sampson Area Mental Health, North Duplin High School athletic director Ken Avent and J9orth Carolina Siate University Human Development specialist Dr. Leo Hawkins. Steve Streater began his work as state field coordinator of Students Against Driving Drunk in September of 1983. A native of Sylva, Streater received a football scholarship and played varsity football for the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until injured in an automobile crash on a wet highway. Streater coordinates the organi zation of SADD chapters throughout the state. He is also developing a public awareness program directed toward North Carolina's young people and will organize a statewide conference for students on preven tion of teenage driving and drinking. Currently. Streater makes about three presentations per week as the SADD representative. DUPLIN TIMES - PROGRESS SENTINEL Published Weekly by DUPLIN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Ike Rlddick, publisher P.O. BoxM Kenansvllle, NC 28349 Second Class Postage Paid at Kenansvllle, NC 28349 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Single Copy 11 Cents In Duplin and adjoining Counties 8Mos.-S1.83 1 Yr.-S3.66 Outside of Duplin and Adjoining Counties 6Mos.-S2.35 1 Yr.?S4.70 Outside North Carolina 35.50 per year y - . Along The Way \> 1 * ' ?" By Emily Klllmtt* / Not-all of Duplin County's history can be found in print of the old DUPLIN TIMES editions. Last week Duplin suffered from tornadoes which are said to have been worse than any other natural disaster in the last 100 years. Visiting the site of the most populated area hit by the tornadoes in Duplin County reveals a type of damage beyond belief. Within the Pine Forest housing development near Mount Olive, though many of the 25 homes and three mobile homes were leveled, the residents agreed on their great luck because no one died. Reading history and seeing it made is far different. Photo^raphm# walls of homes with no roof, metal forced through trees like arrows, automobiles twisted and upside down, tin wrapped around trees like foil, insulation hanging from broken tree tops Jike decorations, and families carefully sifting through the rubble to find their possessions are all quite different from reading that it happened to someone else in another state or country or even in the county's past. Later, when time comes to describe the devastation of the storm, words just seem to be inade quate to describe the human suffer ing of our neighbors. Picking up, starting over ? but, how do our neighbors find the courage when so much of their lives was spent in a home which is now leveled by tornadoes. Within the home they lost, not just furniture and appli ances, but family photographs and documents can never be replaced. Starting over, picking up the pieces has been made easier by the many volunteers and relatives helping the victims of the tornadoes. Duplin and the State of North Carolina can be proud to know there are. mi man) '..volunteers who leave theW warms, Safe homes to help Z people suffering In natural disasters. ' Rescue workers, firemen and the National Guard turned out to assist in treating the injured, finding the missing people, and transporting the homeless victims to shelters. 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