Riverhead CAP

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The brightly colored stickers placed by Riverhead students on pizza boxes at Carlo's Pizza Oven in Riverhead warn adults against buying alcohol for someone under 21 and provide information about the dangers of flavored tobacco and vape products.

Riverhead CAP has received two multi-year grant awards totaling $2.55 million to support its substance abuse and mental health prevention programs.

Riverhead Police said they arrested two people during a tobacco and vape compliance check across town yesterday.

Riverhead Town Police report charging two Riverhead men in a tobacco/vape compliance check at 13 retail vendors in Riverhead yesterday. Eleven vendors were found to be in compliance.

Phillips Avenue Elementary School received a donation of $4,000 worth of school supplies from Riverhead CAP this year, thanks to the generosity of CAP President Brian Stark and New Orleans Saints offensive lineman and former Riverhead Blue Waves football standout Ethan Greenidge.

The Riverhead CAP is seeking community volunteers to help teach its "Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program" to fifth and sixth grade students at Pulaski Street Elementary School for the 2022 to 2023 school year.

CAP's annual march against drugs, alcohol and tobacco will return this year after a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The march is set for Friday, June 10. Tijuana Fulford of the Butterfly Effect Project is this year's special guest and keynote speaker.

The Riverhead Community Awareness Program has been awarded a five-year federal grant to instruct community organizations on how to identify, understand and respond to child and adult mental health and substance abuse issues.

More than half of the litter collected at Reeves Beach — 18 out of 35 pounds — was discarded alcohol products like beer cans, bottles and alcohol products that appeal to youth, the coalition said. Substance use at local parks and beaches are illegal in Riverhead.