'YES' TO LIFE BUT 'NO' TO DRUGS
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YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD ALL SAY +YES+ TO LIFE BUT +NO+ TO DRUGS, THE COMMISSIONER FOR NARCOTICS, MR GORDON MORTIMER, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE 1986-87 KWUN TONG DISTRICT ANTI-NARCOTICS SOCCER TOURNAMENT FINAL AND PRIZE-PRESENTATION CEREMONY, MR MORTIMER REMINDED YOUNG PEOPLE THAT THEY WOULD ENCOUNTER VARIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE YEARS AHEAD.
+AND, AMONG THEM DRUGS MAY BE ONE+, HE SAID, NOTING THAT THE CAMPAIGN WAS AIMED AT AROUSING YOUNG PEOPLE'S AWARENESS OF THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF DRUGS.
WHILE PAYING TRIBUTE TO LOCAL ORGANISATIONS FOR THEIR ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSES AND SUPPORT TO THE CAMPAIGN, HE APPEALED FOR A CONCERTED EFFORT FROM THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE HONG KONG DRUG-FREE.
+ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT AND PRACTICAL PARTICIPATION FROM THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FORM A SIGNIFICANT PART IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS,+ MR MORTIMER STRESSED.
THE TWO-MONTH-LONG KWUN TONG DISTRICT ANTI-NARCOTICS CAMPAIGN, LAUNCHED LAST DECEMBER, WAS JOINTLY PRESENTED BY THE NARCOTICS DIVISION, THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE (DFCC) AND THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT OFFICE.
MR MORTIMER SAID THE SELECTION OF A SOCCER TOURNAMENT AS THE MAIN ACTIVITY OF THE CAMPAIGN GAVE YOUNG PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO SPREAD ANTI-NARCOTICS MESSAGES IN AN INFORMAL WAY AND IN RELAXING SURROUNDINGS.
+AND, I CAN THINK OF NO BETTER WAY FOR YOU TO USE YOUR ENERGY, + HE ADDED.
THROUGH A SERIES OF HARD AND CHALLENGING ROUNDS, LAM TIN (SOUTH) TEAM OUTPLAYED 13 OTHER TEAMS AND EMERGED AS THE CHAMPION.
MEANWHILE YAU TONG TEAM WERE THE FIRST RUNNER-UP AND THE SECOND RUNNER-UP WERE SAU MAU PING (SOUTH) TEAM.
BESIDE THE SOCCER COMPETITION, ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE
AFTERNOON WAS PROVIDED BY THE CIVIL AID SERVICES BAND.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY'S EVENT WAS AN INVITATION MATCH BETWEEN THE WINNING TEAM AND THE CELEBRITY TEAM WHICH COMPRISED POPULAR SINGERS, TELEVISION AND MOVIE ARTISTES.
OTHER GUESTS OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY WERE CHAIRMAN OF THE KWUN TONG DFCC MR MAU KEI-ON, CHAIRMAN OF THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT BOARD MR LAM HANG-FAI, DISTRICT OFFICER (KWUN TONG) MR EDDY CHAN, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT ANTI-NARCOTICS CAMPAIGN MR LAM KIN-KWOK.
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