| What is the Drug Quiz Show? |
| Each year the show challenges more than 30,000 adolescents statewide to test their knowledge of alcohol and other drugs during a game show style competition. The annual Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show strives to heighten school/home/community substance abuse awareness by providing middle school students with the opportunity to have fun, while gaining the knowledge, skills and self-confidence needed to make safe, healthy, real-life choices regarding the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. The competition is open to students in 5th to 8th grades who compete for the regional title with that winner moving on to the New York State Regional playoff in Syracuse, NY. Among the schools in Herkimer County that have participated in past years are Little Falls, Mohawk, Frankfort-Schuyler, Ilion, Dolgeville, Mt. Markham, Poland and Town of Webb. The competition starts several months prior at the local school level when schools register and receive learning center materials provided by the Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show containing information to study from about tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. Each participating school forms a team with as many as 7 members- 4 designated players and 3 alternates. Teams usually study up to the day of the competition. In Herkimer County, the competition has been held during the month of March at Herkimer County Community College. The regional quiz show has been sponsored for the past 7 years by the Herkimer County Prevention Council of Catholic Charities of Herkimer County. Participating teams earn prizes donated by local businesses. All officials for the game show, moderators, judges, mediators and score keepers are local volunteers. |
| 2010 Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show |
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2010 Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show
The Herkimer County Prevention Council sponsored the 10th regional annual drug quiz show Thursday, March 18, at Herkimer County
Community College. Nine (9) Herkimer County schools competed for the title of “Regional Champions.” The schools were:
Dolgeville, Frankfort, Herkimer, Ilion, Little Falls, Mohawk, Mount Markham, Poland, and Town of Webb.
Each of the nine teams played two games. The two teams with the highest cumulative scores went on to compete in the Championship
Game. The teams competing for the championship were Mount Markham Central School and Mohawk Central School.
Mount Markham won the title of “Regional Champions” with a score of 19; Mohawk scored 10 points. Both teams will be competing at the
state level on April 7, 2010, at the Marley Education Center in Syracuse. They will compete against each county’s “regional winners.”
Good luck!
The Prevention Council would like to thank all of our volunteers for generously volunteering their time for this event: Jack Kilty (Retired),
Sam Salamone (Teacher from Little Falls High School), Herkimer County Sheriff Chris Farber, Sgt. Ron Petrie (Little Falls PD), Wendy
Marchese (HCCC), and Doug Gay (Rite Aid Pharmacy Manager.)
Also volunteering was Catholic Charities/Herkimer County Prevention Council staff: Terry Leonard, JoAnn Salamone, Barbara Countryman,
Jacqueline LaPlante, Laura Jacquays, Kelly Cave, Michael Kapala, Lynne Wiliczka, Melissa Tyrrell, Amanda Connor, Sarah Foster, Kathy
Countryman, Cleo Adams, Brendan McGrath, and Crystal Gerhardt.
We would also like to thank the local businesses and agencies for their generous donations: Adonis-Avanti Transportation Service Inc.,
Herkimer Applebee’s, State Bowling Center, Marquee Cinema, Primo Pizzeria, Burger King, Mac-Clark Restaurants, Sorrento Pizzeria &
Restaurant, Herkimer County Stop DWI, and the Herkimer County Community College.
The schools placed in the following manner:
If you are a school in Herkimer County and you are interested in becoming a part of the 2011 Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show, please contact the
regional coordinator, Maureen Petrie, by email at mpetrie@ccherkimer.org or by phone at 894-9917 ext. 223.
The Herkimer County Prevention Council sponsored the 10th regional annual drug quiz show Thursday, March 18, at Herkimer County
Community College. Nine (9) Herkimer County schools competed for the title of “Regional Champions.” The schools were:
Dolgeville, Frankfort, Herkimer, Ilion, Little Falls, Mohawk, Mount Markham, Poland, and Town of Webb.
Each of the nine teams played two games. The two teams with the highest cumulative scores went on to compete in the Championship
Game. The teams competing for the championship were Mount Markham Central School and Mohawk Central School.
Mount Markham won the title of “Regional Champions” with a score of 19; Mohawk scored 10 points. Both teams will be competing at the
state level on April 7, 2010, at the Marley Education Center in Syracuse. They will compete against each county’s “regional winners.”
Good luck!
The Prevention Council would like to thank all of our volunteers for generously volunteering their time for this event: Jack Kilty (Retired),
Sam Salamone (Teacher from Little Falls High School), Herkimer County Sheriff Chris Farber, Sgt. Ron Petrie (Little Falls PD), Wendy
Marchese (HCCC), and Doug Gay (Rite Aid Pharmacy Manager.)
Also volunteering was Catholic Charities/Herkimer County Prevention Council staff: Terry Leonard, JoAnn Salamone, Barbara Countryman,
Jacqueline LaPlante, Laura Jacquays, Kelly Cave, Michael Kapala, Lynne Wiliczka, Melissa Tyrrell, Amanda Connor, Sarah Foster, Kathy
Countryman, Cleo Adams, Brendan McGrath, and Crystal Gerhardt.
We would also like to thank the local businesses and agencies for their generous donations: Adonis-Avanti Transportation Service Inc.,
Herkimer Applebee’s, State Bowling Center, Marquee Cinema, Primo Pizzeria, Burger King, Mac-Clark Restaurants, Sorrento Pizzeria &
Restaurant, Herkimer County Stop DWI, and the Herkimer County Community College.
The schools placed in the following manner:
If you are a school in Herkimer County and you are interested in becoming a part of the 2011 Rite Aid Drug Quiz Show, please contact the
regional coordinator, Maureen Petrie, by email at mpetrie@ccherkimer.org or by phone at 894-9917 ext. 223.
1st place: Mount Markham
2nd place: Mohawk
3rd place: Town of Webb
4th place: Herkimer
5th place: Poland
2nd place: Mohawk
3rd place: Town of Webb
4th place: Herkimer
5th place: Poland
6th place: Frankfort
7th place: Little Falls & Dolgeville (tied)
8th place
9th place: Ilion
7th place: Little Falls & Dolgeville (tied)
8th place
9th place: Ilion
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