At the Eielson Air Force Base Boys and Girls Club, young people celebrated CC! Week by creating posters representing the Six Pillars and showing how the youth perceive themselves. The children picked Pillars they felt represented their character. Base personnel hung the artwork on the pillars in the building for all to see.

The CHARACTER COUNTS! Council gave an awards dinner on October 19, just one facet of its CC! Week celebration. Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Lynne Battaglia delivered the keynote address.

Earlier, on October 18, students, parents and staff attended a daylong conference on CC! and discussed the program. The featured speaker was Gary Smit, CC! national faculty member and former superintendent of schools in Lombard, Illinois.

"We’ve seen [CC!] working equally as well with five-year-olds, 15-year-olds and even 35-year-old employees," said superintendent Linda D. Burgee, according to The Gazette. "This is a constant message about who we want to be as a school system."

Middletown High School junior Morgan Kellman said her favorite aspect of CC! is its universality. "All types of students can get involved," she said. "You don’t have to be a strong student or an athlete. This is something for everyone. I use the Pillars every day, or at least hope I do."

Sharon Boettinger, supervisor for counseling and student support for schools, noted how delivery differs by grade. With citizenship, for instance, she said, "In kindergarten, you might talk about helpers in the community and have students identify police officers or firefighters. As students grow older, they can look at larger agencies of help, such as the county and state health department or Heartly House. They get a broader view and transfer the Pillars to a larger status."

The Nevada Police Department will receive a $2,200 grant for CC! training from the Community Foundation of Greater Story County. Nevada Police Chief Michael Tupper said Nevada community members can also take part in the training. The Department will use a small slice of the funds to buy CC! decals for police vehicles.

Chief Tupper gives much credit for the grant to Pam Carnine. "I'm proud of the work Pam put into writing the grant," Mr. Tupper told the Nevada Journal. "She did an outstanding job, and we couldn't have done it without her."

CC! Nevada chairman Mark Frideres called CC! "an awesome forum to teach kids valuable life skills and lessons," and added, "Of course it is used extensively in the Nevada schools, but also it is utilized by the businesses, churches and city programs. For example the Parks and Rec Board uses Pursuing Victory With Honor in their calendars and has signs in the local parks displaying the character Pillars. There is a downtown business owner that let us paint a character mural on the side of his building."

From October 31 to November 4, 2005, Salazar Elementary School celebrated CC! Week in conjunction with Red Ribbon Week, the anti-drug program. Teachers highlighted the Pillars with special lesson plans, according to the Nueces County Record-Star, and students wore six-colored T-shirts that read: "I Show Good Character." Maintenance workers also painted Salazar's standing pillars in the Six Pillar colors: red, yellow, purple, orange, green, and blue. And students at the "gifted and talented" level held a program called "CHARACTER COUNTS!" where they described the Pillars, showed how the route to character lies through sound decision making, and explained the virtues of being drug-free.

Sharply-drawn "ghost flames" that change color under sunlight adorn two new PT cruisers at the San Ramon Valley Fire District. And fire safety instructors Danielle Bell and Erick Hubbard are using them to teach CC! to some 4,000 students at 25 schools.

The fire district adopted CC! in 2002, the first Northern California fire service to do so, and led the way for other departments.

The flame cars are a natural fit for the fire department's program, which integrates CC! with fire safety, Mr. Hubbard told the Contra Costa Times in November 2005.