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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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Students share message Billboards around Remer promote safe driving By MONICA LUNDQUIST Cass County Correspondent REMER -- State records released last year showed Cass County is one of the highest counties in the state for drunk driving fatalities. Several people in the Remer and Longville area died recently in alcohol-related traffic accidents.
Northland High School students decided to try to make a difference.
The Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety provided a $25,000 grant last year and an equivalent grant this year to fund Northland Safe Community Coalition's safe driving awareness campaign. Stephanie Williams coordinates the project.
About 15 ninth- through 12-grade students in the Youth in Action program spent several lunch hours at the beginning of last school year designing an emblem for the program. Marisa Hare suggested the "Drive Like You Care" slogan.
Jeff Rodin, Northland social worker and Youth in Action supervisor, said the students have done all the program development work and have been pleased by the amount of community support they have received for their project.
Law enforcement public service announcements aired on local radio stations last year drew positive feedback from the public, Williams said.
During last school year, students distributed buttons at community events to make people aware of the program. They enlisted the Cass County Board's support for their project.
The county sheriff's, highway, environmental services and land departments have worked together to offer six sites on major county highways around the Remer-Longville area where billboards are being placed this month. The billboards are on county administered land near sites where motorists have suffered major injuries or death in alcohol-related accidents.
There will be smaller signs along county highways at exact accident sites.
Additionally, the Minnesota Department of Transportation will permit smaller "Drive Like You Care" signs on state highway signs below city population signs where drivers will see them entering Cass County cities.
Most of all, students who have worked hard on this project hope the next state reports will show Cass County further down on the list of alcohol-related fatal and serious injury accidents.
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