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VOL. 23 NO. 123
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DARE running out of money Donations drying up; police department’s drug-abuse awareness program has $206 left BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — A decline in donors to the town’s youth drug awareness program fund has the program running out of money and the police unable to ask for help.
“We’ve never been in this situation before,” chief Ed Wagner told the police commissioners on Tuesday. The DARE program, which the department has run for decades, is funded through donations, aside from the one dollar the town puts in to keep the budget
line item open. The police are restricted from soliciting donations, but in the past private individuals gathered donations to keep the program going. see DARE page 8
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The proposed budget figure recommended by the Conway School Board and the Conway Municipal Budget Committee will go forward to a vote Aug. 16. Here, school board chairman Janine McLauchlan finishes addressing the legislative body at the deliberative session Tuesday night at Kennett High. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
School budget flies through deliberative meeting in just six minutes BY LLOYD JONES THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
CONWAY — It took longer to make sure the microphones were working than for the 130 citizens who turned out to Loynd Auditorium to move the proposed 2011-12 school
budget forward to a vote next month. The $32,798,634 budget recommended by the municipal budget committee and Conway School Board drew not a single question from the audience as the deliberative portion of school meeting wrapped up in just six minutes.
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"Now that's my type of meeting," former school board member Justin Frechette said leaving the air-conditioned confines. "I'm very surprised, but pleased, too," Dick Klement, of the school board and its repre-
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