Health Fair : )

Yesterday, April 13, 2012 there was a health fair at Parkway West. The health fair was all day. The seniors came around to classes and presented their senior projects with a speaker. The senior that came to my class was Matisse and his topic was drug abuse. He basically showed how drug abuse affects the world, others, and the person with the addiction. He showed how most teens smoke weed. And that when you smoke weed for woman it is harder to have children and to reproduce. And for men it is harder for you to get erections. More and more people are dying because of drug addictions. And it is making a bid impact on the world. Only because we are losing many people addictions. A speaker came along with a presenter and his name was Lester Mike Goodman and he worked for dhs. He just spoke about the bad affects of drugs even though it was okay at one time it still doesn't make him good. He said that the decisions you make would always affect you no matter what. And that the choices you make now will decide whether you get a job or not. He also made it clear to make our future the best! They also had a fair in the auditorium where they gave out pamphlets on healthy habits in food, sex, and pregnancy. They gave out fruit, condoms, and informative papers. There was a table about stopping abortion, which I totally agree with. And there was a table about fathers and protected sex. The whole fair was for a good reason and it was helpful and informative.

The article I chose to write about is called "Woman charged with faking cancer for wedding." The article can be found on 6abc Action News http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8615017. The article was released on April 10, 2012. A woman who was getting married pretend to have cancer and she pretended to be dying. All because she wanted to have a upscale and fancy wedding, wedding reception, and honeymoon. Jessica Vega was indicted with grand larceny and scheme to defraud. Jessica was received, given, and accepted thousand of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia according to Action News. The newspaper had a story of vega's wedding in a published newspaper. Jessica Vega had gotten married too Michael O'Connell in the may of 2010 and the newly weds spent there honeymoon in Aruba. And than after four months Michael told the newspaper about Jessica faking her disease. The married couple ended up getting a divorce over the situation. Michael moved to Virginia and then Jessica came later  and they have two children. Jessica had a trial and she pleaded not guilty. She is now being held in the county jail and her bail is set a $ 10,000. Honestly if I was getting married I would never pull a stunt like this. Only because cancer is a serious illness that people struggle with everyday and it has no cure. And to me that is not something that you play around with or joke about having so that you can have a expensive wedding reception and honeymoon. Personally I think that is very low to do. Jessica and her husband was wrong because he knew and she did it! I do think she deserves to be in jail for life.