Youth Services Office Opens at Junior High
Sheriff’s deputies and school officials Wednesday dedicated a new DARE and youth services office at Rio Del Valle Junior High School in El Rio.
Officials held a ceremony at the school to welcome the new office, which two Ventura County sheriff’s deputies will use. Officials say the office is intended to increase interaction among students, deputies and school staff. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
“This really frees the [deputies] up,” Deputy Robert Davidson said. “It allows them to be on campus more because they don’t have to drive back and forth from our station. It’s really an exciting time for us.”
Davidson said the new office is a precursor to a bigger sheriff’s storefront, which will be incorporated into a new gymnasium project on the campus. The gym will double as a community center for the El Rio area and is tentatively scheduled to open in June 2000.
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