COUNTY NEWS ONLINE - MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014 - DARKE COUNTY'S DRUG PROBLEM
Butts: intervention or prevention?
By Bob Robinson
GREENVILLE – “Put 100 people in a local inpatient treatment facility
who are not ready to beat their addiction, you will have zero percent
success,” said Greenville Police Chief Dennis Butts. Add to that, it’s
expensive. Local estimates range from $700 to $800 a day. The national
average is $898 a day. An inpatient program needs a minimum of 28 days
to (hopefully) get an addict clean. Figuring the halfway cost ($800 a
day)… $22,400 per person. According to one source, inpatient... Read
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DOING IT RIGHT!
Local newspaper recognized with distinguished honor!
DARKE COUNTY -The Early Bird newspaper, locally owned and operated with
distribution to 28,000 homes in Darke County, OH, was recently
recognized as "One of Ten Newspapers that do it Right'' by Editor &
Publisher (E & P), a national newspaper and magazine trade
industry publication. E & P makes its... Read
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DARKE COUNTY SOLID WASTE
Trash Bash 2014 T-Shirt Contest Winners Announced
The Darke County Solid Waste District and 1 Shot Services recently
sponsored a t-shirt design contest for Trash Bash 2014. Students
in grades K-12 were eligible to enter the contest. With over
fifty (50) designs received, the Darke County Solid Waste Policy
Committee selected Rachael Schmitmeyer’s entry as the winner. Rachael’s
design will be put onto t-shirts that will be... Read More. More Community.
DARKE COUNTY CANCER SOCIETY
Pohlman to speak to cancer support group
Pam Pohlman, licensed social worker, to speak at the “Living with
Cancer” support group on March 6, 2014 at Wayne Healthcare. The
meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. It will be held on the 1st floor
Board Room at Wayne Health Care. Pohlman is a licensed social worker
with a bachelor’s degree in social work and psychology from Ohio
Northern University. She has over 25 years... Read
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DARKE COUNTY PARKS
Watching for Woodcocks
This usually secretive shorebird species shrugs off his enigmatic ways
in early spring in hopes of wooing any passing females. Many male birds
have bright colors or other ways to impress females; the American
Woodcock takes it one step further, launching into the air, feathers
twittering only to dive quickly towards the ground then resuming his
nasal “peent” calls. Join the Darke... Read
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FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EDGE....
Even a Full Drink, from Life’s Glass,….Won’t Leave It Empty
By Joe Facinoli
Half full,….or half empty? It’s up to each of us to
decide,….how we will live. A friend of mine died in a plane
crash in Atlanta last week, ….you may have seen it on the news.
Another friend, who is much closer to our mutual buddy than I,
understandably took it much harder. They were boyhood pals, and that
singular relationship had lasted until... Read
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION
She Dreamed Obamacare Was Harmless
Amy Payne
Obamacare is working, and it’s not costing any jobs. Shhh…keep quiet,
or you’ll wake Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
from her dream. “There is absolutely no evidence, and every economist
will tell you this, that there is any job loss related to the
Affordable Care Act,” she said on Monday. In the land of the... Read
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