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Sunday, March 16, 2003 Page: 2B
DIAMONDS
… to Jeanette Good. The 20-year-old woman – and three peers – showed
courage and fortitude by admitting she is a recovering drug addict and a
methadone user. She did so at a public meeting crowded mostly with people
strongly opposed to a proposed methadone clinic in Plains Township. “Nobody
has any other solution,” said Good, of Kingston, who travels six days a week
to Phillipsburg, N.J. to get methadone. Recovering addicts “are normal, normal
people, like in this community,” she explained. The best of luck to these very
fallible, very stalwart, very human beings.
COAL
… to GAR boys basketball coach Paul Brown. With charges of underage
drinking pending against two of the players on the team and the school board
deferring the decision to the head of the team, Brown let both players onto
the court in the first quarter of a playoff game.
“It was the easiest decision I ever made in my life … (The players) did
not break any rules we have as a team.”
High school teams should play to build character as much as win. And we
despair for the program if the coach thinks this one is “the easiest
decision.”