{"id":6059,"date":"2011-02-22T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:32:53","slug":"safe-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/22\/safe-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSafe Choices\u201d presentation to encourage spring break safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn. (Feb. 22, 2011)<\/strong> &mdash; As part of its Safe Spring Break campaign, Lifestyle Educators at Bemidji State University will be sponsoring a presentation by motivational speaker Sarah Panzau on Thursday, March 3.<\/p>\n<p>Panzau, a two-time junior-college All-America in volleyball, will present &ldquo;Sarah Panzau is Living Proof&rdquo; at 7 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer 100 on the Bemidji State campus. The presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 23, 2003, Panzau made the decision to drive while intoxicated with a blood-alcohol level of nearly four times the legal limit. She missed a highway exit and rolled her car four times, suffering serious injury &mdash; including the loss of most of her left arm &mdash; requiring more than 40 surgeries to repair. Her presentation describes the physical and emotional pain of a life forever changed by her poor decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State&rsquo;s Safe Spring Break campaign focuses on encouraging students to make safe spring break plans as alternatives to the typical party-oriented vacations. The campaign encourages participation in Pay It Forward tours or perform other community service projects, or to simply make safe choices during their spring break.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is sponsored by Big North Distributing of Bemidji.<\/p>\n<p>Lifestyle Educators is also sponsoring a March 1 karaoke event as part of Safe Spring Break. Students participating in the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., can sign a pledge to keep themselves and their friends safe over spring break, and by doing so are entered to win a variety of door prizes. The event is co-sponsored by Ntertainment, Relay for Life, Papa Murphy&rsquo;s Pizza, Ground Round, Tutto Bene, Keith&rsquo;s Pizza and Country Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/jpassa\">Jay Passa<\/a>, health education coordinator at Bemidji State University, at (218) 755-2080.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ON THE WEB<\/strong><br>\n&bull; Sarah Panzau: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsjourney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">http:\/\/www.sarahsjourney.com<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. (Feb. 22, 2011) &mdash; As part of its Safe Spring Break campaign, Lifestyle Educators at Bemidji State University will be sponsoring a presentation by motivational speaker Sarah Panzau on Thursday, March 3. Panzau, a two-time junior-college All-America in volleyball, will present &ldquo;Sarah Panzau is Living Proof&rdquo; at 7 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer 100 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43959,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/43959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}