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Events focus on prescription drugs
Volume 32, Number 2 © 2010 The Community Recorder ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Speak to legislators
The Northern Kentucky Legislative Caucus meets 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 20, at Boone County High School, 7056 Burlington Pike, Florence. State representatives and senators from Campbell, Boone Kenton and other counties are scheduled to be at the meeting. Residents will be able to ask state legislators questions. The meeting is in the school’s auditorium. For information call state Rep. Sal Santoro at 371-8840 or Robert Schrage of the Northern Kentucky Area Development District at 2831885. To request special accommodations for accessing these meetings, call Schrage.
By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
Neighbors, above, build a snow castle in a yard on Jo Ann Lane in southern Campbell County south of Alexandria Feb. 11. From left in the window are Anthony Ronnebaum, 7, Jordan Ronnebaum, 12, Charissa Swinford, 16, Cayman Riley, 12, and Brenna Swinford, 10. Not pictured are two other snow castle builders, Anna Carrigan, 16, and her brother, third grader Devan Carrigan.
College in high school
Without leaving their own school, high school juniors and seniors are earning college credit in classes taught by professors before they graduate. Both Northern Kentucky University and Thomas More College operate dual college credit classes in association with high schools where students earn grades toward graduating and also transferable secondary education credits good at Kentucky’s public universities. SCHOOLS, A6
Castle builders The snow castle builders of Jo Ann Lane make another wall piece with a five-gallon bucket Feb. 11. From left are Cayman Riley, 12, Brenna Swinford, 10, Anthony Ronnebaum, 7, Charissa Swinford, 16, lifting the bucket, and Jordan Ronnebaum, 12.
Sea scouts
Tim Weber is trying his best not to keep a secret. “The motto for the Sea Scouts is ‘The best kept secret for 98 years,’ and I think it’s about time to change that,” said Weber with a smile. “I think we need to get the word out more to get more people involved, because it’s a terrific program.” LIFE, B1
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Scouts team with businesses to recycle By Chris Mayhew cmayhew@nky.com
The three members of Girl Scouts Troop 257 of Cold Spring are hoping people keep putting thought into what should and shouldn’t end up in the trash can. The troop organized a recycling informational seminar for adults and a craft fair for children as the culminating event for their two years of work on the Gold Award project at the Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service office in Highland Heights Saturday, Feb. 6. The Gold Award is the highest achievement a Girl Scout troop can collectively achieve. The troop has spent two years working with about half the businesses in Cold Spring Crossing shopping center to recycle more.
The girls collected the recyclables from bins they put in the stores including Great Clips, Kohl’s, and the Original Mattress Factory. There are three members of the troop, and all of Cold Spring, Katy Haupt, 18; Demi Michael, 17 and Megan Bell, 16. The goal of the project is to get more people in the city and businesses in the community recycling, said Michael. “We’re trying to get people to keep doing it,” Michael said. The troop was able to get many of the participating businesses to put recycling bins in their back rooms for employees to use for recycling, she said. “We gave them a list of what things were and weren’t recyclable,” she said. With the help of their parents, they took the aluminum to be sold
in Newport. The money paid for the twohour recycling craft and informational event where Haupt, Michael and Bell gave a presentation about recycling for adults and led a craft activity for children using recyclables to make beads and picture frames. They also made reusable grocery bags out of used shirts. The reason they picked recycling as a Gold Award project was because people need to understand the importance of how they treat the Earth, Bell said. “We just thought that recycling is important,” Bell said. Anything like plastic bottles that can be recycled should be, because landfills are filling up and the trash can end up polluting the water, Haupt said. “If you don’t recycle everything gets dumped out somewhere,” she said.
A new campaign to educate adults about thefts and abuse of prescription drugs has led the Cold Spring Police Department to offer two public education seminars open to people across Campbell County. The idea for the free seminars is part of a national community education campaign: Rx OTC Awareness Week Feb. 22-28. The events are organized by police D.A.R.E. officers (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), school nurses and others and sponsored by MedSafe. Seminars will be Tuesday, Feb. 23, at St. Joseph Parish in Cold Spring and Saturday, Feb. 27, at Crossroads Elementary School. The events will include an opportunity for people to drop off their unused or expired medications so they can be disposed of properly, said Andy Hyett, an officer for Cold Spring Police Department who is also a D.A.R.E. officer. Geared for adults, there will also be an hour-long presentation by representatives of MedSafe about how people can guard against people taking their prescription medications using a safe the company sells, Hyett said. “They can destroy this safe and get at it, but then you know you have a big problem,” he said. Even family members sometimes are the people finding and then taking the medications, Hyett said. While not participating in organizing the classes, Campbell County Police Department Chief Keith Hill said he encourages people to take advantage of the programs. “We know that anytime you can get drugs out of your cabinet, that is one less opportunity for a child to get those drugs,” Hill said. Getting prescription drugs out of the home or properly protecting them is important, he said. People can have an accidental overdose and juveniles or others can use the prescriptions for an illicit purpose, Hill said. “You don’t want the availability of these prescriptions to fall in the wrong hands,” he said.
Rx awareness events
The Cold Spring Police Department and MedSafe have planned two Rx OTC Awareness seminars to talk about preventing the theft of and abuse of prescription drugs. The two seminars will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23 at St. Joseph Church, 4011 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring, and at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 at Crossroads Elementary School, 475 Crossroads Blvd., Cold Spring. For information visit www.rxotcawarenessweek.com.