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PARC takes campaign to schools
04.06.08
"It's not cool to
drive like a fool"
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen
Independent
INISHOWEN Road safety campaigner Susan Gray is
bringing her message to the children of the
peninsula this June. The Culdaff woman, who lost her
husband Stephen in a road collision, hopes to erect
a PARC road safety flag at every school in
Inishowen.
The first of the flags will be raised at Culdaff
National School next Tuesday, the 10th of June. Four
more flags, at Gleneely, Whitecastle, Greencastle,
and St Columb’s, Moville, will be in place by the
end of the month.
The 6ft by 3ft flags will be white with the red PARC
emblem and contain a short road, as yet to be
determined safety message, possibly ‘it’s not cool
to drive like a fool.’ |
Mrs Gray is still
looking for sponsorship for the first five PARC
flags and flagpoles, the total cost of which is
€1,800.
“It’s important to start educating children about
road safety at primary school level. I hope that
these flags will be flying at all Inishowen’s
schools in the next few years. Some schools offered
to put up banners, and the school in Moville offered
to alternate the PARC flag with green schools flag,
but I think it’s best if the PARC flags go up
permanently on their own flagpoles.”
Also on the 10th of June at Culdaff National School,
the winners of PARC’s national school road safety
picture competition will be announced. |
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The entrants’ pictures
will be judged by a panel of road safety figures
this Thursday, the 5th of June. Judges will include
Donegal Road Safety Officer Eamonn Browne, Stephen
Lambert from the National Roads Authority and Moira
Mills, a member of the North West Alcohol Forum. If
you would like to sponsor a PARC flag, contact Susan
on 0863773784. |
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