• With the registration deadline come and gone, we're working on the brackets, getting the umpires lined up, getting our basket raffle settled, and so much more!  This year we're going to be raffling off a 32 inch television autographed by Jay Leno! Keep checking www.karenscrusade.org in the weeks and months ahead!
• CAID spoke at several high schools this prom season warning teens of the dangers of drinking and driving - thanks to all the students and staff at Eden High School, South Park High School, Springville Griffith Institute, and Orchard Park High School.
• CAID wants to say thank you to all who supported them at the Walden Galleria Mall on Sunday, December 6.  Officers from the Cheektowaga Police Department showed shoppers the intoxicated goggles while staging sobriety tests, and volunteers from Mount Mercy Academy, West Seneca West, and Crusade Against Impaired Driving teamed up to remind everyone to drive safe this holiday season.  We were able to raise more than $160 for CAID - that money will go toward educating the community about the dangers of DWI. A big thank you to Cindy Henning (pictured here in the red shirt) for all her help!

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• Deanna Russo and CAID were honored on Thursday, November 12 at the Mt. Mercy Honors Dinner at Romanello's South in Hamburg.  Deanna received the Spirit of Mercy Award.
   
•  Crusade Against Impaired Driving, Inc. is dedicated to spreading the anti-DWI message and encouraging all young people that there are alternatives to drinking and driving.   We spoke at several schools in October to commemorate Red Ribbon Month, and we're happy to say all the students who heard the message were very receptive.  Here's hoping that something Deanna said will stick in their minds next time they're tempted to drink and drive or get into a vehicle with an intoxicated driver.  There are safer options to DWI.  These students are the latest to hear CAID's message and Karen's story:

                        Sophomores at South Park High School on October 7
                        Mount Mercy Academy (full school assembly) on October 9
                        Students at Trocaire College on October 23
                        Students at West Seneca West on October 28

Deanna spoke at 8-10 different schools in the spring of 2009.

 Read More about speaking engagements in 2008...

Plans are already underway for the 2010 CAID Softball Tourney.  It's scheduled for Saturday, August 14, 2010.  If you'd like to register for the tourney, email info@karenscrusade.org.  To read about the 2009 and 2008 CAID Softball Tourney, click here.

About one hundred people gathered at St. John the Evangelist Church in South Buffalo on March 6, 2008 to mark the 10th anniversary of Karen Kwiatkowski's death at the "Remembering Karen" Candlelight Vigil .  Read More...