Show your support for keeping kids off drugs with a ribbon during Red Ribbon week.
The Chandler Mustangs Young Marines, along with 227 other Young Marine units nationwide, are commemorating Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 23-31.
Red Ribbon Week is an effort to eliminate drug usage and sales in the United States.
The Chandler Mustangs will hand out red ribbons 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 22 in front of the Bashas' Supermarket at Chandler Boulevard and Dobson Road.
The Young Marines is a youth education and service program for boys and girls, ages 8 through completion of high school. For more information, call (480) 897-8835 or visit the unit website at www.chandlermustangs.com.
IRME4EVER posted at 4:29 pm on Thu, Oct 13, 2011.
THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM.
THIS PROGRAM HELPS KIDS LEARN RESPONSIBILITY, INDEPENDENCE, MOST OF ALL FAITH IN THEMSELVES.
I LOST MY SON MARCH 20, 2005, A DRUNK DRIVER KILLED HIM, WHILE HE WAS RIDING HIS BIKE, JUST GOING TO CHECK THE MAIL. HE WASN'T 200 YARDS FROM THE HOUSE.
MY SON WAS NO ANGEL, BY ANY MEANS. I LOVED HIM FOR WHO HE WAS, I ACCEPTED HIS SHORT COMINGS.
HIS DAD PASSED AWAY OF CANCER AUGUST 11, 2004, THAT WAS A ROUGH SPOT, IN MY SON'S LIFE.
OUR SON WAS 11 YEARS OLD WHEN HE GOT KILLED.
I WISH I COULD BACK UP TIME, BUT I CAN'T. ACCEPT IT AND GO FORWARD.
I DRIVE CAB FOR A LIVING, AND I WILL PROUDLY DISPLAY YOUR RED RIBBON, WITH HONOR OF MY SON AND THE KIDS OF TODAY.
TRUTHFULLY THOSE KIDS DESERVE A CHANCE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND. GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO PROVE THEMSELVES.
THEY SOMEBODY, THEY ARE NOT A NOBODY.
YOU CAN TAKE THE POOREST KID, LOW SELF ESTEEM AND TURN HIM INTO A MAN/WOMAN. WITH PATIENCE AND INDURANCE. JUST LISTEN TO THE KID, THEY ALL COME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS.
SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD FOR A KID TO CRY, BUT THEY ALSO NEED SOMEONE THERE TO SUPPORT AND GUIDE THEM.
I AM THANKFUL FOR YOUR SERVICES, TOWARDS HELPING KIDS THROUGH ROUGH TIMES.
I WISH MY SON WAS STILL ALIVE, YOU WOULD SEE HIM THERE.