Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving Prevention Presentation

Last Monday Chad was asked to speak to over 1000 high school studens for an Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving Prevention Presentation in Basin, they had to have it outside at the fairgrounds so they could have a place to hold all the kids. It was an alcohol prevention assembly to stress the importance of not driving while impaired. Chad’s dad was killed by a drunk driver when he was four; they asked him if he could talk about that and how it has impacted his life. He used Quinn as a visual aid since Quinn is the same age he was when he lost his dad to a drunk driver. It was really touching when Chad got up to speak, there were so many kids there, but they were so quiet the whole time he was talking and Quinn was so good, he stood by his daddy while he spoke. It was sad to think of my little guys not having their daddy due to someone’s ignorance.

They also had a mock crash and had several rescue vehicles there to simulate an actual crash (we hung out behind the bleachers and threw rocks and picked flowers during this part, it was a little too graphic for Quinn and Carissa), after the assembly the kids were allowed to walk around the fairgrounds and look at the rescue vehicles and do the climbing wall as well (Quinn was too little to do the rock wall even though he really wanted to, so we talked uncle Tyler into doing a demo). They fed all the kids and had several booths set up with free anti-drug /anti-alcohol items to hand out to the kids. It was a beautiful day and Quinn had a blast checking out all the rescue vehicles.