GCMS' driving safety program wins top honors

GIBSON CITY –You can't beat being No. 1 in the nation.

And that's the regal title a bunch of enthusiastic kids from Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School claimed Friday when their yearlong effort to get kids to buckle up and slow down won the national Project Ignition contest.

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