Photos by Shirin McArthur
Santa Clara's Central Elementary School celebrated Red Ribbon Week October 26-30 as part of the DARE program to keep kids off drugs. The week's activities finished with a Drug-Free Parade on Friday, with Snell Middle School cheerleaders marching along and members of the WNMU Mustang football team backing up the parade.
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
From left, Jocelyn Rodriguez and Toya Ortiz, seventh-grade members of the Snell School cheerleading squad, are ready for the parade
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Kindergarteners and first graders line up for the parade
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
From left, Jackie Keith Shaffer, 8; special education teacher Clyde Montes; Sami Huerta, 5; and Adrian Alvarado, 6; join Smokey Bear in one of the fire department trucks
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Preschool students and their teachers wave from a parade float
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
The Snell cheerleading squad is ready to march
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
The DARE lion pumps up the crowd
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Randy deLaO and Cheyenne Zuniga, along with their one-year-old son RJ, prepare to cheer on their older children in the parade
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Mrs. QuinteroG??s kindergarten class rounds a corner of the parade route
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Snell cheerleaders chant an anti-drug slogan
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
The parade makes its way down the street
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Mrs. LoweryG??s first grade class marches with their banner
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Mrs. DiazG??s third grade class members march with their banner
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
Members of the WNMU Mustang football team march behind the sixth graders
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
From left, sixth graders Vance Arthur and Marley Gutierrez pose for a picture
DARE Parade in Santa Clara 103015
From left, football players James Lee (from Santa Clara), Siafega Umu and Frank Martinez answer questions from Marley Gutierrez and Vance Arthur
