Our Neighbors Speak
Hm Morris^ito and Preston Progress, Thursday, August 29,1996 - 3
If Congress enacts an income tax cut in 1997, what would be
your top two priorities for your extra take-home pay?
KIMBERLY SANTANICOLA
MORRISVILLE
That's a tough question. I’d
save some of it and spend the
rest wisely.
DAVID LARSON
MORRISVILLE
I’d definitely save it for my chil
dren’s college and to buy a new
American car.
LINDA LARSON
MORRISVILLE
I’d use it for college because I
have four children and for furni
ture because we just moved
here.
ORNA DAR
PRESTON
I’d use the money for more
study and take classes of art.
And I’d also use it to make my
life a better quality.
JANE KIERNAN
PRESTON
We’d put some in our savings
account.
Bia KIERNAN
PRESTON
And we’d put the rest in our in
vestments.
New team targets underage offenders, counsels youngsters
By Tammy Hayaa
The stores received their warn
ings - three, to be precise. Still,
out of 53 cashiers, 12 sold tobacco
to underaged teens in an operation
conducted by the Cary Police
Youth Services Team with the help
of three undercover Cary High
School students.
The first warning came when Lt.
Chris Hoina, head of the Youth
Services Team, spoke to the Cary
Chamber of Commerce Merchant’s
Association about the upccuning
operation.
For the second warning, officers
personally distributed "We Card"
educ^on packages to gas stations,
ccKivenience stores, and groceries.
The packets contain information
about laws regarding the sale of to
bacco.
The third warning was issued on
the day before the operation began,
in the form of a front-page story in
the Cary News.
The 12 cashiers who ignored all
three warnings will be tried for sell
ing tobacco to uiulerage teens on
September 16 and 30. The offense
is a class two misdemeanor.
"Overall, it was successful,"
Hoina smd of the operation. But he
added that it would have been one
hundred percent successful if no
one had sold the kids tobacco.
"Then everyone would have come
out a winner."
Hoina said that Cary stores can
plan on a repetition of the team’s
late July efforts.
"This is just one more step for
protecting and serving the public,"
Hoina said.
The Youth Services Team was in
itiated July 1, and is located in the
Police Service Center off High
House Road near Preston. The team
includes two juvenile investigators
and four school resource officers.
The juvenile investigators handle
crimes committed within the city
limits to any individual under age
18, (X by any individual under 16.
The school resource officers are
assigned to the three middle
schools and one high school in the
town. Their job is to counsel, teach,
and patrol the campuses. The mid
dle school officers also teach stu
dents Drug Abuse Resistance Edu
cation (DARE).
DARE curriculum is worked into
classroOTis at various levels. Les
sons deal with resisting peer pres
sure, consequences of drug use, and
preventing violence in inter
personal relationships.
DARE used to be taught in
elmientary schools, but the pro
gram was moved to the middle
school level where drug abuse
problems surface.
One of the goals of DARE, and of
the Youth Services Team, is to cor
rect irresponsible behavior before it
becomes a police record. If a per
son breaks the law before age 16,
the record of their transgression is
confidential. Future employers and
colleges do not have to be in-
famed.
Each officer on the Youth Ser
vices Team has an ongoing special
project to help prevent or correct
youth. Officer Dave Porter, a
school resource officer, works with
the Cary YMCA. He spent two
weeks working with 10 children
identified by school principals as
"at risk."
During that time. Porter and the
students did a ropes course, went
canoeing, helped out in a soup
kitchen, and went hiking in the
mountains. Each day, the group
also discussed citizenship.
"More and more, we realize it’s
impOTtant to intervene earlier in the
fives of children if we are going to
be successful," said Hoina. He
added that these special programs
provide that opportunity.
Hoina is well-qualified to head
the Youth Services Team, having
been a police officer for 15 years.
Before serving with the Cary Po
lice, he was an officer in Arkansas
and Florida. In Arkansas, he
worked as an investigator for the
state university.
"That gave me a lot of experience
. in dealing vdth young men and
women," he said.
In Florida, Hoina developed his
town’s Juvenile Investigative Unit.
With the Cary department, Hoina
was one of the first three officers to
volunteer to teach DARE, and
spent a great deal of time with that
The Morrisville Chamber of
Cranmerce, in 57 personal inter
views with manba^ received in
put on how the chamber can take a
more active role in improving and
shaping the town’s business en
vironment
The interviews woe conducted
by an Ambassadors committee
headed by Jim Huggins and Paul
. Nicholas. Other Ambassadors in
cluded Marc Anstrom, Phyllis
EUw-Moffett Kathy Hawkins, Wes
Lev, Raul Peralta, and Bill Sano.
Suggestions included:
• Helping the town aeate a long
term strategic develt^ent plan.
• Providing a regular forum for
^OTt-term business issues.
• Attracting participation from
leaders of larger businesses.
• Woricing more closely with
other chambers to develop a con
sistency of positive business en
vironments.
John O’Neill of the Environmen
tal Protection Agency will address
chamber members at the Issues and
Eggs breakfast on Sept. 13 at 7:45
ajn. Members are asked to call
380-9026 by SepL 11 to make
resavations.
The next Business After Hours
will be spcmsored by the Budgetel
Inn and Catering Woks. It will
take place on Sept 19 at 5:30 p.m.
at Budgetel.
The latest to sign up as chamber
members include ITS/ETL Testing
Labs, South Growth Policy Board,
Chamber Corner
Raleigh Icecaps, REA Construction
Co., Carolina Ther^utic Massage
of the Triangle, Wachovia Bank,
Cary lYinting, McRae Graphics,
Danka, PayChex, Inc., Research
Triangle Guest Homes, Profes
sional Lawn Care, Delta Dental
Plan of North Carolina and the Na
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Improvement
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Hoina said of the Youth Services
team, that it’s "an exciting place to
be- It’s all new." He added that
while the jHogram is new, "we do
things as a team, and in the team
there’s a lot of experience, training,
and resources."
57 members of Chamber offer their ideas
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