Bayou Vista Elementary School students in Marita Voisin and Cindy Chaisson’s fifth-grade physical education classes decorated shopping bags for grocery stores Thursday in preparation for the first day of Red Ribbon Week. The slogan for the first day of Red Ribbon Week is “Decoration Day.” From left, Kevin Hannigan, Riley Dubois, Jackson Mayea and Robert Breaux decorate grocery bags revolving around this year’s current theme, “Keep your balance, don’t waste your talents, be drug free.”

Motorcade helps kick off week of Red Ribbon activities

 
Staff Report
The Operation Red Light motorcade, actively kicking off Red Ribbon Week Saturday, will begin in Amelia, running through the parish and ending in Glencoe.
Saturday, a convoy of emergency vehicles lines up under the Amelia bridge at 8 a.m. before traveling through every St. Mary Parish community via U.S. 90 and ending in Glencoe.
The motorcade begins at 9 a.m., breaks for coffee and soft drinks at the Central Office Complex in Centerville and ends at Glencoe Charter School where lunch will be served.
An award will be given to the department with the most participants.

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