Students from Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School recently banded together to take on a leadership role in SAFE in Sag Harbor’s Project Sticker Shock. SAFE, which is a program of HUGS, is a substance-abuse-free environment consisting of Sag Harbor educators, representatives of law enforcement, students, members of the business community, local media, community organizations, and others dedicated to educating the youth on various fun and exciting things to do without the use alcohol and drugs.
For Project Sticker Shock, the students, along with SAFE members, applied stickers and hung fliers in local Sag Harbor establishments that sell alcohol. The stickers and flyers encouraged readers to take a “Time Out” and informed them about the fines and jail time one would receive for selling alcohol to minors in Suffolk County and NY State. “The message quickly lets patrons know not to serve alcohol to minors,” said Terri Federico, Pierson reading teacher.
The Pierson students who participated included Chad Federico, senior, Milla Campomar, junior, and Grace Gomolka, junior. Pierson students have been working with SAFE for over a decade.