Hundreds of area students were Wiiding Out Drugs

"Wiiding Out Drugs" at Memorial Gardens (held from May 2-6) and sponsored by the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit. Over the week, 1600 students will have attended this educational event, focused on substance abuse, injury prevention, healthy living and other safety issues. The students rotated through informative "pit stops", than partook in an interschool challenge on a Nintendo Wii Mario Kart game.

Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board
News Release

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Emilie Tessier (pictured above) said she’ll never forget the before and after photos of people who have become addicted to drugs. “This doesn’t even look like the same person,” she said of a pictured female who aged noticea-bly after 10 years of severe drug abuse. “I felt sad to see these faces. They used to look so normal and now they look so sick. I don’t think they even know what they’re doing to themselves."

Emily was one of hundreds of Grade 4 to 6 students from schools across the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board who attended Wiiding Out Drugs at Memorial Gardens this week, where students rotated between 14 stations.

“The topics addressed at all of our stations today are related to the foundations of healthy schools,” said Janet Humble, Chair of the Wiiding Out Drugs Committee of North Bay and Area. “This event aims to help students develop the skills and knowledge they’ll need when faced with having to make good decisions in life.”

Some of the stations, hosted by various community agencies and organizations, included internet safety, healthy eating, anti-bullying, tobacco and drug prevention.

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