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August 1, 2007

Teens' conference combating drunken driving begins

SMITHFIELD -- About 160 high school students from across Rhode Island are at Bryant College in Smithfield for a four-day conference on teenagers combating drunken driving.

The conference falls a week after the memorial service for a Barrington teenager who died in a boating accident. The teenage driver of the boat is charged with underage possession of alcohol and refusing to submit to a breathalyzer, among other charges. Just nine hours after the service for 17-year-old Patrick Murphy, the Barrington police broke up a house party with dozens of teenagers and arrested four for underage drinking.

The conference, sponsored by the Rhode Island chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, includes workshops on coalition building for teenagers interested in getting others to avoid drinking.

The workshops end tomorrow afternoon with speaker Kathy Andreozzi, whose daughter, Tori, was struck by a drunken driver while she walked home from Deering Middle School. Tori Andreozzi is now in a wheelchair.

-- Journal staff writer Amanda Milkovits

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