Two grade 11 students from Morrin School have been selected to serve as Youth Ambassadors for a new national teen driver safety campaign.
    Brittany Cawiezel and Kyle Montgomery, founding members of the Morrin School Students Against Drinking & Driving (SADD) Chapter, will be heading to Oakville, Ontario from May 9th until the 12th, acting as representatives for Alberta to meet up and work alongside fellow ambassadors to help develop the new campaign.
    “Getting the email was a pretty good moment,” said Cawiezel. “We didn’t really think that we’d get picked to go, out of all of Alberta.”
    Selected through a competitive process, the students demonstrated a commitment to the cause with a keen eye for creating change amongst their peers.
    “We just thought it would be a really good experience if we got picked, and to go see if we could make a difference,” said Montgomery. “Once we started looking into it, they only picked about six kids from across Canada and two from our small school. It was pretty amazing.”

Grade 11 students from Morrin School, Brittany Cawiezel and Kyle Montgomery, have been selected to serve as Youth Ambassadors for a new national teen driver safety campaign.  They will be heading to Oakville, Ontario this May to act as representatives for Alberta.

    Following the workshop, the students will be attending the Canadian Youth Against Impaired Driving (CYAID) Conference, hosted by the Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving group.
    The project is being spearheaded by Parachute and State Farm who have joined forces to address the primary cause of death for young Canadians – motor vehicle crashes.
    Despite progress due mainly to graduated driver licensing, Canadian teens ages 16 to 19 remain at a higher risk of death per kilometre than any other age group.
    Approximately 13 per cent of licensed drivers in Canada are between the ages of 16 to 24 years old, yet 24 per cent of fatalities and 26 per cent of serious injuries on the road tend to be attributed to this young age group.
    “The main goal of the campaign is to bring awareness to teen driving hazards,” said Montgomery.
    “It should be good, it’s a once in a lifetime experience for sure.”

    The 15-year-old male suspect in a break and enter and attempted break and enter in Nacmine on March 18, 2013, pleaded guilty to all counts and received sentencing at the Drumheller Provincial Court House on Friday, April 12.
    The youth, who cannot be named under Youth Criminal Justice Act, was sentenced to 14 weeks of open custody, less time served, plus seven weeks of supervision. Being in open custody, he is allowed to seek treatment.
    In an agreed statement of facts read to the court, on March 18, the youth entered a Nacmine residence through an unlocked door late in the morning. The occupant of the house woke and found the youth climbing the stairs. When he noticed the house was not empty, he fled. RCMP were called to the residence and found the youth attempting to open the door of another house in Nacmine, where he was then apprehended.
    In addition, the youth was in breach of his probation stemming from a string of break and enters on January 21 of this year.
    The youth stated he broke into homes to find money to purchase marijuana.