{"id":12306,"date":"2020-10-29T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12306"},"modified":"2020-10-29T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:48:51","slug":"red-ribbon-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12306","title":{"rendered":"Red Ribbon Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/redribbonweek.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/redribbonweek.jpg 980w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/redribbonweek-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/redribbonweek-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>LFCISD offices along Texas Highway 100. Photo: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL<br><\/strong>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone noticing that students from Los Fresnos school district are wearing strange outfits this week it\u2019s because they are participating in an event held each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s called Red Ribbon Week and it generally takes place from Oct. 23-31.<br>The campaign is the largest drug-abuse prevention campaign in the nation, which has been going since 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although quite a few things have changed since then, the program\u2019s mission of promoting a healthy and drug-free student population has not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Gonzalo Salazar, the district\u2019s superintendent, said students &#8211; whether at home or on campus &#8211; are encouraged to wear something different this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That could be pajamas, crazy hats or funny-looking shades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRed Ribbon Week stresses the importance of staying healthy,\u201d he said, \u201cand, above all, staying drug-free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the pandemic going on here and all over the country, about one-third of the student population is attending classes right now, while the other two-thirds are staying home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salazar said he understands that parents are nervous, but pointed out that students learn better in a classroom setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELLLFN Anyone noticing that students from Los Fresnos school district are wearing strange outfits this week it\u2019s because they are participating in an event held each year. It\u2019s called Red Ribbon Week and it generally takes place from Oct. 23-31.The campaign is the largest drug-abuse prevention campaign in the nation, which has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12307,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions\/12307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}