Rainy River will be the world’s stage on Wednesday

Ken Johnston
Editor

The 11th international and 5th national conference on safe communities got under way today in Fort Frances.
Delegates from all over the world have travelled to the Rainy River District to participate in the World Health Organization’s conference on growing safe communities.
Wednesday the conference will spread out across the Rainy River District. Sessions will take place in Rainy River at the Royal Canadian Legion and the Rainy River Activity Depot. A lunch that is open to the public at a cost o $8 per person will be held at the Legion at Noon. The keynote speaker will be Lieutenant Ed Moses.
Ed Moses is a Lieutenant with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
He has served as a U.S. Army military policeman, a St. Louis police officer, a state trooper assigned to the road, an undercover narcotics agent, drug information officer, and an instructor at the academy. He is the administrator of the state DARE and Midwest Regional Training Center, State Co-ordinator on the State Chaplain and Drug Recognition Expert Program, an A.S. in criminal justice, nationally certified as a Drug Recognition Expert by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Lt. Moses is a charter board member of the National Federation of Parents (NFP), Missouri Federation of Parents (MFP), and Jefferson City1s Council for Drug Free Youth. He is a Speaker for the Nancy Reagan Speakers Bureau, P.R.I.D.E. International and a State Delegate, Drug Watch International.
He will speak on a variety of subjects pertaining to his background and the initiatives he has been involved in.