Johnston Students Celebrate Red Ribbon Week

Students across the  are celebrating Red Ribbon Week.

The annual week-long event brings drug awareness to the forefront of student's minds.

"Don't drink and drive," said Josh Hall, a  second-grader.

That was just one thing students at Lawson learned this week.

Rena Anderson, fifth-grader at Lawson, said she learned that drugs are bad for you even when you don't know you're taking them.

Two Lawson second-grade classes teamed up with their fifth-grade buddy class to decorate the Administrative Resource Center's sidewalks on Wednesday morning.

Students used brightly colored chalk to write drug-free messages and pictures for district staff.

This is the fifth year students at Lawson have decorated with a message, said second-grade teacher Dawn Canova.

Fifth-graders wrote essays earlier in the week about being drug free.
"Don't do drugs, get hugs," Rena Anderson said.