The Dakota Radio Group’s Pierre based stations held our 17th annual “Think and Drive, Stay Alive” event for area middle and high school students this week (Tues.) at the T.F. Riggs High School Theater in Pierre. Think and Drive focuses on making good choices, both behind the wheel and in life.
Keith Kraft is the pastor at the United Church of Christ in Mobridge, SD. He and his wife Debra lost their 24-year-old son Ben to suicide about four years ago.
Kraft says his son didn’t show signs of being suicidal.
Kraft says Ben went to counseling for a short time and had been doing well for several years.
Kraft wrote a book about going through the grief process. It’s available by searching “Keith Kraft grief” on Amazon.
You can view the 2019 Think and Drive, Stay Alive program on the KGFX Youtube channel.
Middle school students from Pierre Indian Learning Center and high school students from Sully Buttes, Highmore/Harrold, Crow Creek, Jones County, Stanley County and T.F. Riggs high schools were all invited to participate in this year’s program.
Think and Drive, Stay Alive programs have brought messages to our listeners and close to 14,500 students in these 17 years.
Thank you to this year’s sponsors: Dunes Golf, Beck Motors, Pierre Indian Learning Center, Sanford Health Pierre, Peitz Heating and Air Conditioning, the South Dakota Office of Highway Safety, the South Dakota Department of Transportation, CHS, Avera St. Mary’s Hospital, Pierre Family Dental Clinic, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. and FischerRounds and Associates.
