1993-1994 Harry Singer Foundation National Essay Contest
White Hats: People Who Are Trying To Make A Difference
Teacher: Debbie Wiatrek
Falls City High School, Falls City, Texas
1st Tim Pawelek 
2nd Emily Wiatrek 3rd Leann Fleming
"Mad
Dads is a group that mobilizes men in the community to become role
models."
Keri Wiatrek, Falls City High School, Falls City, Texas
"Kids
Against Crime offers a hotline and a center with child fingerprinting,
graffiti cleanups, and crime prevention training. The leader, Linda Warsaw-Champin,
also organized a crime busters group of junior high students who created
posters, attended trials, and put on plays concerning drugs and gangs."
Leann Fleming, Falls City High School, Falls City, Texas
"A
local television station (CBS's KENS-TV in San Antonio) newscast (Eyewitness
News) also has several projects they use for good intentions. One was a pilot
project that started about one year ago, called "The Wall of Shame".
It shows pictures and footage of rundown, vacant buildings that are not only
eyesores, but also are hangouts for vagrants, and places that run rampant with
crime. After showing the area, if the problem is not taken care of, the owner is
identified and later interviewed. This has been a very successful program.
Another project is titled 'Eyewitness Wants to Know'. This one tackles a wide
variety of topics around the city, like several tons of old tires stuck in a
field, or a public baseball park being vandalized, and many other things similar
to this. Both projects have brought about lots of changes and are extremely
successful and popular."
Tim Pawelek, Falls City High School, Falls City, Texas