On May 25-26 this year the local Rotary Club ran the Rotary Youth Driver Awareness program (RYDA) for year 11 students throughout the Mid North. This involved students from Clare, Riverton and Balaklava High Schools, Snowtown Area School and the Horizon Christian School from Balaklava. In excess of 150 students participated in the program on those two days.
The main aim of the course is to highlight the dangers and responsibilities of having a drivers’ licence and being in control of a motor vehicle, and what can be the dire consequences when these responsibilities are not taken seriously.
Our group would like to congratulate the Rotary Club for the instigation and running of this program and their commitment to improve Road Safety in our region, to help keep our young people safe.
I am sure that every parent of those participants in the course are saying a quiet thank you to the Rotary Club too in the hope that this course has made their children a little safer on our roads.
We wish the Rotary Club well in providing this course to Year 11 students in future years.
ANDREW GRAY
Chairperson
Clare & Gilbert Valleys Community Road Safety Group Inc
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