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posted December 15, 2011: It's amazing how fast the Holiday Season is approaching! Even though for the most part, this time of year brings many people joy and love it also can bring sorrow and regret due to poor choices. These poor choices could be drinking and driving or driving in any way impaired. If you are planning to party this holiday season, make the smart choice and don't drink and drive. As a friendly reminder, there are many alternatives to getting behind the wheel if impaired. Earlier this month, the Fellowes High School OSAID chapter made a float for Pembroke. The theme of the float was 'The 12 Ways of Getting Home Safely.' They made a special lyrics to sing and changed the words of 'The 12 Days of Christmas' to 'The 12 Ways of Getting Home Safely'. Here's the song they created to have people remember to stay safe this holiday and arrive alive. posted November 20, 2011: As the Region 9 Representative I know that every Region 9 OSAID member has similar goals. Some of our goals include getting more and more schools involved in OSAID by forming an OSAID chapter, getting the community of each town in Region 9 notified of what drinking and driving can cause and much more. However , November is also a time of reflection of not only our successes but also the disappointments and harmful outcomes impaired driving can cause. Sometimes these harmful outcomes can remind and encourage us to work harder to achieving our goal. That goal is to inform more people about the harmful effects about driving when impaired and to stop people from dying from this cause. On August 4, this year, the Ottawa Sun newspaper (www.ottawasun.ca) published many facts about drinking and driving. The article also focused on young teens' lives in Ottawa lost in collisons where impairment was suspected. Our Region, like all the other OSAID Regions experiences the after effects of someone's decision to drive when impaired. Stopping impaired driving is one of our main goals. posted October 20, 2011: Hello. For those of you who don't know, my name is Jessica and I am the Region 9 Representative this school year. As for accomplishments, many different activities and accomplishments have been made in Region 9. But. for the most part, this year we are focusing on starting new OSAID groups and supporting and extending the knowledge about drinking and driving to existing chapters . Some of the accomplishments we have already made are a Region 9 Parent Symposium, a wrecked car crash event, selling mocktails at school dances, creating a OSAID for Life song , including the community in our song; through the radio, I have also contacted most of the schools in my Region - I haven't reached you yet, I can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . I am very happy with the progress we as a Region have already made and I am exctied to be able to reach out to people about the message regarding drinking and driving. I have many ideas about the future activities my Region can complete as a team. I look forward to talking to you again. I like to thank you for reading the blog, and stay tuned for the next all new Region 9 blog. It will include future OSAID information, activities, and what you can do to spread the message about the negative effects on drinking and driving. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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