Drug Inquiries Hit Home With This Club

We in Optimist Clubs have a particular perspective on the Canadian drug inquiries.

The sponsor of the track club with which Charlie Francis and the others were associated was the Scarborough Optimist Club, the Canadian twin club of my own Covina Optimist Club.

Of course, the prevention of substance abuse is one of the cornerstones of our organization.

The use of one of our own programs to promote the use of steroids leaves us with feelings such as those of victims of violent crimes--a sense of having your soul violated; a sense of having the sanctity of your existence being stripped from you with no means of resisting.

Believe me, the Scarborough problem makes a stark statement that substance abuse can strike anywhere.

BILL NORRIS

Covina Optimist Club President