Students from this year's Tamaqua

D.A.R.E classes help their training officers compete in a dance off during Tamaqua's 21st

D.A.R.E. Challenge, which was held Saturday at the Tamaqua Elementary School. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education classes are offered to fifth-grade students in the Tamaqua Area School District and St. Jerome's Regional School and are taught by Cpl. Dwayne Hacker and Patrolmen Michael Hobbs and Jason Lorah of the Tamaqua and West Penn Township Police Departments.

D.A.R.E graduation is scheduled for April 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Tamaqua School District Auditorium.