Grant will boost anti-drug efforts

The city’s Housing Authority has received $234,000 from federal officials to continue anti-drug efforts in Oxnard’s public housing complexes. Officials said the money will be used to support

a number of programs that have been launched in recent years to give young residents an alternative to drugs, such as a computer training program, a video production class and numerous

sporting activities. City Councilman Bedford Pinkard lauded federal officials for focusing on youth in their anti-drug efforts. “It is a great feeling to know the powers . . . are beginning

to understand prevention versus intervention,” Pinkard said in a statement. The Oxnard grant money is part of $217.3 million that federal housing officials are distributing to housing

agencies across the country to run anti-drug programs, officials said. MORE TO READ