EDUCATION

Fountain Hills students learn about health, safety at fair

Beaker, the Fountain Hills Falcon, encourages enthusiasm as Elizabeth Watters, with microphone, prepares to read prize-winners’ names from a bucket held by Shawn Uphoff at the Red Ribbon Week Health Fair on Oct. 24 at Fountain Hills Middle School.

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Mike and Susan Modrak staff the Fountain Hills Elks Lodge No. 2846 table at the Red Ribbon Week Health Fair on Oct. 24 at Fountain Hills Middle School.

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A student attempts to shoot a basket while wearing the “impaired” goggles during the Red Ribbon Week Health Fair on Oct. 24 at Fountain Hills Middle School.

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Fountain Hills Middle School students were running, jumping rope and shooting baskets in the FMS gymnasium on Oct. 24.

None of that is unusual gym activity. The tables and information set up around the gym — as part of the Red Ribbon Week Health Fair — were the less-common site.

Red Ribbon Week is where school staff and community organizations encourage young people to be drug-free.

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