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view slideshow of this year's March, click HERE.
(June, 2007) Riverhead, NY – Riverhead Community Awareness
Program, Inc. (CAP) sponsored its 22nd Annual Say NO To
Drugs March on Friday, June 1, 2007. Coach Greg Cerillo
and players from the Strong Island Sound, Long Island’s
only professional basketball team, led this year’s
march.
The Strong Island Sound are members of the American Basketball
Association (ABA) and have recently completed their second
season of providing affordable professional basketball to
the fans on Long Island. The team has qualified for the
ABA playoffs in both campaigns and looks forward to the
2007-08 season, which tips off in November. The team currently
plays at Suffolk Community College in Selden and hopes to
call the proposed 6,000-seat arena in Yaphank its home court.
For more information, go to www.strongislandsound.com.
Since 1983 Riverhead Community Awareness Program, Inc. (CAP),
a not-for-profit agency, has been providing drug and alcohol
prevention education programs for the Riverhead Central
School District. Although CAP directly serves over 2,000
students a year through its prevention and counseling programs,
it is best known for its two-year prevention program taught
to over 750 fifth and sixth graders in Pulaski Street School
by community volunteers and student peer leaders. The program
ends with the annual Say NO To Drugs March in which students
march from Pulaski Street School down to Main Street wearing
Drug Free Body t-shirts.
Following the march, Riverhead Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale
emceed a ceremony on the steps of Pulaski Street School
in which Coach Cerillo and the players addressed the students
and community. After the ceremony, the Loyal Order of Moose
Lodge #1742 once again generously served a picnic lunch
to all of the students.
