Once a year on the final week of October kids pledge to go drug free for a whole week. When Ms. Tammy Parker-Garcia joined Greeley West in the year 2000, she introduced the Red-Ribbon Campaign to the Spartan students.

The Red Ribbon Campaign was founded by the family of a Drug Enforcement Administration Agent named Enrique Camarena. Camarana was in Mexico during the fall of 1985 and got caught by the drug cartel. He was then tortured and killed.

The Camarena family then started the Red Ribbon Campaign in honor of Enrique’s passion to get rid of illegal drugs in high schools. The purpose of the Red Ribbon Campaign is to spread awareness and help students get a jump-start on their drug problems. This campaign has spread like wildfire. Thousands and thousands of high schools around the U.S take part in the Red Ribbon week.

On Monday, October 24, students at West pledged to go drug free. This year there was around 100 Spartans who pledged to go the full week without doing drugs.