Mayor O’Brien Announces $250,000 for Early Drug Prevention Education
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June 10, 2008
Mayor O’Brien Announces $250,000 for Early Drug Prevention Education
OTTAWA- As part of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement of $5.5 million for youth residential drug treatment facilities, Mayor Larry O’Brien announced the City of Ottawa is committing $250,000 annually to expand early prevention and drug education programs in schools.
“Recovery is a key part of the four pillar strategy, prevention and education are also key,” said Mayor Larry O’Brien. “Today I am very pleased to announce the City will be contributing $250,000 a year, which will be matched by funding from the province and school boards.”
The $6 million capital program, sponsored by the United Way, is co-chaired by Len Potechin and Ron Caza and will be used to acquire and retrofit the two facilities (15 beds for Anglophone clients and 5 for French speaking clients) and provide enhanced education and abuse recovery programming.
“The best way to fight addiction is to educate young people before they use drugs,” said Mayor O’Brien. “But for those youth aged 13-17 who are battling addictions, these two facilities will help them get on the path to recovery.”
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June 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Dear Mayor O’Brien,
I don’t think you understand what blogs are for. I subscribed to your blog’s RSS feed, thinking I would get personal opinions, or at least posts written from your point of view (i.e. they shouldn’t say “Mayor O’Brien Announces […]”, but rather “I’m proud to announce […]”).
Also, press releases have no business being on your blog. Ask Gerry McGovern (a world-renowned usability expert): http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2008/nt-2008-04-21-press-releases.htm
I sincerely hope your blog will improve. We need more posts like “A weekend of reflection” and less “official” stuff.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
[…] Larry’s pretty pleased with himself too for allocating $250,000 a year of our tax dollars to prevention. This so-called prevention strategy is also disappointing. Mayor Larry sees that money being used […]
June 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I have a tendency to agree with Luc’s comments. Let’s leave the “Official Press” out and put in more personal reflective thoughts.
PRs - we can all catch in the papers. Your thoughts are placed in blogs, as they should be.