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Clean fun helps kids fight drugs
Media Release
Aug. 6, 2006
Police are still going to be fully involved in the local war against drugs, but Holyoke and Chicopee are going to employ basketball, boating and several other activities as healthy alternatives that planners hope will steer young people away from illegal narcotics.
The two cities have received an $890,000 Shannon grant from the federal government to battle the drug trade.
Mayors Michael J. Sullivan, of Holyoke, and Michael D. Bissonnette, of Chicopee, will administer the grant and have turned the programming aspect over to their cities'' Boys and Girls Clubs.
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