Student Rally to Honor Drunk Driver’s Victim
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner commended students at Oakwood High School in North Hollywood on Thursday for their efforts to fight drunk driving, which include a rally this weekend honoring a student killed by an intoxicated motorist.
“There are lives that are going to be saved because of the work that you put into this,” Reiner told a crowd of about 300 students.
The rally, scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Century City Shopping Mall, was organized by Oakwood Students Against Drunk Driving (OSADD) as a memorial to high school senior Alexandra Vincent, who was killed in February, 1986.
The three-hour event, “A Celebration of Life,” will feature speeches by celebrities Mike Farrell, Henry Winkler, Erin Gray and by Leo T. McCarthy, lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate candidate. There will also be performances by jugglers, mimes, a children’s chorus and a Mexican folk dance troupe, said Abby Shapiro, president of the student group.
“We mean to inspire people that it’s not cool to drink and drive,” Shapiro said.
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