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NOTES Safe Ride Home: South Whidbey community members, led by Brian Grimm, an IDIPIC panel speaker, have come together to create a safety net to prevent tragedies involving impaired driving. Read more HERE
NEWS Tougher DUI penalties coming? A Washington state lawmaker and two county prosecutors are backing proposed legislation to double sentencing ranges for people convicted of drunken driving fatalities. Read more HERE
How does Washington State rate in stopping DUI? In connection with the fifth anniversary of its Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving®, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is unveiling a Report to the Nation, which rates each state on its progress toward eliminating impaired driving. Check it out HERE.
NASWI NEWS Your command can reserve one of these potentially lifesaving prevention panels with just a phone call or email. Details HERE.
PANELS for January are the 7th in Freeland, and the 9th in Oak Harbor. For future panel dates, check the schedule HERE.
PARTNERS IN PREVENTION Welcome Aboard to State Farm Insurance, which has donated $5,000 and The Walmart Foundation / Oak Harbor Walmart, which has donated $1,000, towards IDIPIC’s youth work. Also welcome to individuals donators Tim Sharkey and Christopher Ceci. See all our Partners HERE.
SCHOOL REPORT Our “Th!nk, Don’t Drink, Drug & Drive” program was experienced by 26 Munros’ Driving Instruction students December 14, most of them attending panel the following Saturday with one or both of their parents (a requirement of all local driving instructors.) That benefits all of us. As Veronica Munro of Munros’ Driving Instruction has said in part “You may never be able to directly measure the impact that a program like this has on society, but if such a program can prevent even one loss of life, there’s no price you can put on it.” and instructor John LaVassar of South Whidbey High School “IDIPIC educates my students about the hazards and consequences of making a decision they may not live to regret, which is why it is an integral part of my curriculum.” To date nearly 4,000 Whidbey driver’s ed. students have experienced both a classroom visit from IDIPIC as well as attended panel.
THANK YOU to our December panel speakers Tim McManus, Ryan Samplawski, Officer Mel Lolmaugh (OHPD), Gus Moncada (twice), Trooper Josh Lancaster, Scott Scrimshaw and Pat Kelley our helpers Phyllis Rainey and Mary Durkee (twice). We couldn’t do these panels without such dedicated support. If you’d like to be a panel speaker, details HERE.
FOR A VERY SPECIAL GREETING, CLICK ON HAPPY NEW YEAR!
AS A LAST NOTE: The Impaired Driving Impact Panel of Island County is the only local nonprofit charity organization working exclusively to protect our children from alcohol and other substance abuse and all of us from DUI as we travel our roads. To make a MEMORIAL or OTHER donation to help fund IDIPIC’s work for “safer kids, safer roads” please click HERE.
