We Need Your Help With Funding

By Kelly Dagenhart

Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), the oldest anti-DUI national organization in the U.S., was formed in 1978 in Schenectady, NY, by Doris Aiken. RID of Oak Ridge/Anderson County was formed in January 1982 after Oak Ridger San San Peng and her two children were killed in October 1981 by an intoxicated driver. Since that time the deaths due to DUI have steadily decreased and now are about 33% less than in 1982 even though the number of drivers has increased. We think that this would not have been possible without the outcry of RID and other anti-DUI organizations to support legislative efforts, our Judicial System, and to support our law enforcement personnel.

We appreciate those of you who continue to support RID with your contributions. However, our cash flow balance has been negative for some time and now has reached a point that decisions have to be made. We need your continuing support if we are not to further reduce our newsletter distribution (we cut down from four issues a year to two) and other items. We have already had to terminate Dial-A-Ride, which had been ongoing since about 1986.

Please send as much as you can, as often as you can, as many times as you can. The drunk driving menace is still with us and we need your help to reduce it in the coming years.