- By Kevin Wyszkowski
- Around Town
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Thursday (May 17th) marked a very special day for Lansing High School SADD. Every three years SADD puts on a mock car crash. The event that lasts only about fifty minutes actually involves months of planning and dozens of people from the community that volunteer their time. The realistic enactment ends up with some students being carried off in body bags while a grieving mother wails, and the drunk driver who caused the accident being led off in handcuffs.
The Lansing Buildings and Grounds Crew is instrumental in setting up for the mock crash as is the Finger Lakes Wrecker Service that supplies us with the wrecked cars and helps place them. Diane Lauzan, Candy Griffen, and Ann Drake have volunteered with the makeup for the past three mock car crashes.
The SADD students that were involved with the mock car crash of 2012 were Nicole Washburn, Hannah Armstrong, Ashley Engles, Dan Hughes, Niranda Owens, and Beth Wagner. The simulation touched the Lansing High School students, faculty and staff as all watched the mock car crash.
Over four hundred sets of eyes were fixed on the six Lansing students as they saw a crash scene that was quickly overrun with Lansing Volunteer Firefighters, Bangs Ambulance staff, Sheriffs Deputies, and a hearse from Lansing Funeral Home to take away the dead.
The SADD students that were involved with the mock car crash of 2012 were Nicole Washburn, Hannah Armstrong, Ashley Engles, Dan Hughes, Niranda Owens, and Beth Wagner. The simulation touched the Lansing High School students, faculty and staff as all watched the mock car crash.
Over four hundred sets of eyes were fixed on the six Lansing students as they saw a crash scene that was quickly overrun with Lansing Volunteer Firefighters, Bangs Ambulance staff, Sheriffs Deputies, and a hearse from Lansing Funeral Home to take away the dead.
Lansing PTSO and SADD are responsible for putting on a very successful after prom party where all attendees of the prom are invited at no cost. PTSO parents have been busy planning, pulling resources and decorating the high school to transform it to one of the funnest palaces in Tompkins County for an evening. Numerous prizes are raffled off throughout the evening and noone goes away hungry.
As the Lansing High School prom takes place this weekend all students will have etched in their memory the scence that they witnessed and make good choices. With every mock car crash over the past twelve years, I have said, "No statistics are the best statistics for prom and graduation season." This one event truely pulls the whole community together to show the students of Lansing how important they are and how important it is to make good decisions.
As the Lansing High School prom takes place this weekend all students will have etched in their memory the scence that they witnessed and make good choices. With every mock car crash over the past twelve years, I have said, "No statistics are the best statistics for prom and graduation season." This one event truely pulls the whole community together to show the students of Lansing how important they are and how important it is to make good decisions.
Photos by Karen Veaner
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