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[email protected] AT HIGH SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTY TAXING TIMES ‘Invisible’ Volunteers drug use with AARP reported offer tax help on campus By SETH FREEDLAND Students, youth workers The Daily Journal As Tax Day looms closer, some say otherwise successful Mendocino County residents are ditching students using cocaine, that American tradition of procrastinating their tax filings to the bitter end. abusing prescription drugs Instead, go-getters have been assembling By LAURA CLARK in the Ukiah Senior Center, taking part of a The Daily Journal free tax preparation service provided by the Cocaine, Ecstasy, LSD and a slew of American Association of Retired People. prescription drugs are readily available About 150 local residents have sought aid on the average high school campus, from the bank of volunteer “accountants” according to teens and youth workers. this year, organizers said. The service -- While the teens which runs on Wednesdays and Fridays, labeled “stoners” from 9 to 11:30 a.m., until April 14 -- is are easily recog- ‘In the last two believed to be in its third decade in Ukiah. nizable, the “invis- years we have Norma Exley, district coordinator for ible drug culture” AARP in Mendocino County, was one of is not, said Joanna become more and many workers who called the efforts Olson, Mendocino more aware of the “rewarding.” No one is turned away from County Youth the Senior Center, Exley said, but there is an Project program invisible drug emphasis on low-income or elderly resi- director for Project dents.