Aware

Monday: Well, as the town of wheatland yet again is hit with an under 18 death, another one that couldve been prevented. Saturday night marked the 4th HS student from Wheatland to have died in the past year. For a small town this is insanely high and is hitting everybody hard, because the past 3 were car wrecks and ones that couldve most definetly been prevented!! It's just so weird hearing of people dying that i have grown up knowing since i can remember. This last kid was only a freshman, and i remember he road my bus for years, and we always goofed off together. It seems that our community is so hard on cracking down on minor tickets, drinking citations, when what they really need is the drivers ed program a mandatory thing like it is in most schools, a class that has to be taken before you graduate. There needs to be more videos on the local wrecks, hit the students hard emotionally on what is happening to their friends and how they can stop future friends (and themselves) from being inexperienced behind the wheel. This is the first wreck related to alcohol the other 2 were just driving too fast. This is the first death this year, is it going to come in threes like last year? I hope not but strap up drive sanely and stop friends from doing nething stupid! Prom is this weekend and graduation the 22nd, i myself am avoiding driving on saturday nights for awile when im in wheatland, last year all 3 deaths happened on mondays right in a row, im hoping it wont continue on saturdays here!