For this year’s Red Ribbon Week the JagStrong club decided to host a door decorating contest for all seminar classes to compete in.

According to senior JagStrong president Gus Goetsch the goal of the contest was to spread awareness about the goal of Red Ribbon Week as well as JagStrong.

“JagStrong is Mill Valley’s chapter of S.A.D.D, an organization for students against destructive decisions. Our goal as a club is to promote a healthier and safer environment in our local communities through spreading awareness about various issues like drug awareness and safe driving,” Goestch said. “Red Ribbon week is essential to S.A.D.D.’s mission, high schools in this organization nationwide use this week to advocate for their values of living drug free.” 

Seminar classes had the entire week to work on the decorating doors with the theme: Life’s a puzzle, solve it drug free. For many, they took the puzzle theme literally, but some got a little more creative about it, such as sophomore Lyla Cinnoto.  

“We’re gonna put these words on it that says building a drug free future. The theme was puzzles and we thought LEGOs are like puzzles, that was our inspiration,” Cinnoto said. 

Sophomore Ainsly Leithead, is one of the students decorating science teacher Jill Lloyd’s door, a recurring winner of this tradition. For their door they wanted to make sure they captured the theme well. 

“Red Ribbon Week, this week is about puzzles and staying drug free and we were inspired by “Jigsaw,” the horror movie, and that’s what we’re basing it off of,” Leithead said. “We had everybody in our seminar write something that’s important to them, because our quote is, stay drug free or lose a piece of your life. And that’s what we’re representing, that you’re losing if you don’t stay drug free.”