Students celebrate Red Ribbon Week
Students throughout the Glendale Unified School District pledged this week to live a drug-free life as part of Red Ribbon Week, which is celebrated each October at every Glendale public school.
The national campaign dates back to the death of Kiki Camarena, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration who was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico City in 1985 while he was investigating a major cocaine and marijuana dealer.
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Following his death, parents in the United States started wearing red ribbons to protest the devastation caused by drugs, according to the National Family Partnership. The campaign spread to U.S. schools, where students now wear red bracelets to express their intolerance of drugs.
-- Kelly Corrigan, kelly.corrigan@latimes.com
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