DeKalb West Observes “Kick Butts Day”

March 22, 2019
By: Bill Conger

Normally, ‘kicking butts” is something schools discourage, but on Wednesday March 20^th, those words had a more playful yet serious meaning.  “Kick Butts Day” is observed nationally, as part of a campaign for tobacco-free kids, to encourage young people to steer clear of smoking and smokeless tobacco.

At DeKalb West School, 4^th-8^th grade students signed a banner provided by the DeKalb Prevention Coalition with the pledge to “#Be the First: Let’s Make History Together and Help Create the First Tobacco-Free Generation.”  Students had the opportunity to check out displays like “Mr. Gross Mouth” that showed the damage tobacco can cause in that one area of the body alone. They also observed a model of a healthy lung next to a blackened, cancerous lung that had been exposed to years of smoking.

For more information about the campaign, check out https://www.takingdowntobacco.org.

March 22, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

March is Extension Month in Tennessee. Extension is a national educational program supported by USDA through the nation’s land-grant universities and administered with funding from state and local governments in Tennessee through offices in each of the state’s 95 counties.

County Extension offices across the state are planning various celebrations and commemorations for the state’s 107-year-old Extension program. Here in DeKalb County, the UT-TSU Extension office will be hosting a Meet & Greet for the public on the sidewalk, directly in front of the Extension Office on Wednesday, March 27 from 11AM-1PM.

The office is located at 722 South Congress Blvd, Smithville in the County Complex. There will be various displays and information about what the Extension program offers as well as free hot dogs, popcorn, and drinks.

March 22, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

A Mount Juliet man was airlifted after being seriously injured in a motorcycle crash Thursday afternoon in Alexandria.

Trooper Brent Collier of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 45 year old Brian King was traveling east on Highway 70  on a 2002 Yamaha motorcycle when he lost control while passing a truck and crashed into the yard of a residence at the intersection of Academy Avenue.

King was taken by DeKalb EMS to a landing zone on Highway 53 from where a helicopter ambulance airlifted him.

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