News
May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb Prevention Coalition will be hosting another Community Naloxone (NARCAN) training for anyone interested. If you work in a public place or live around or with a person in addiction please feel free to attend.
Naloxone is a nasal spray that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and SAVE A LIFE.
To attend and receive your free Narcan spray or ask questions just call Lisa Cripps, DPC Coordinator at 615-684-6378 to sign up.
The training will be June 4th from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the UT Extension room of the DeKalb County Complex. (if you already have Narcan Spray check the expiration date).
DeKalb School System to Offer Summer Meals to Children
May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
DeKalb County Schools are participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service (not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.).
Meals will be provided, at a first come, first serve basis, at the sites and times as follows:
Smithville Elementary School
- Week days beginning May 28th – June 20th.
- Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
- Lunch served from 11-11:30 am
Northside Elementary
- Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
- Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
- Lunch served from 11-11:30 am
DeKalb High School
- Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
- Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
- Lunch served from 11am -12 pm
DeKalb West School
- Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
- Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
- Lunch served from 11am – 11: 30 am
Justin Potter Library
- On Thursdays May 30th- June 27th
- As a part of the Library’s Summer Reading program
- Program starts at 2 pm
- Contact the Library for more details regarding the Summer Reading Program
Meal times may be adjusted as needed. Any changes will be posted on the School Nutrition portion of Dekalbschools.net
Twenty Six DWS Fifth Graders Graduate from D.A.R.E. Program (VIEW VIDEO OF GRADUATION HERE)
May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
Twenty six fifth graders at DeKalb West School graduated from the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon.
D.A.R.E. is a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department-led series of classroom lessons that teaches fifth graders in DeKalb County how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.
Lewis Carrick, the Sheriff’s Department’s School Resource Officer at DeKalb West School, doubles as the D.A.R.E Officer instructor for the fifth grade classes.
The 10 week course identifies fundamental, basic skills and developmental processes needed for healthy development including: Self-awareness and management, Responsible decision making, Understanding others, Relationship and communication skills, and Handling responsibilities and challenges.
IMG_6537 from dwayne page on Vimeo.
D.A.R.E. believes that if you can teach youth to make safe and responsible decisions, it will guide them to healthy choices, not only about drugs, but across all parts of their lives. As they grow to be responsible citizens, they will lead healthier and more productive drug-free lives.
As part of the course, students prepared essays on what they have learned from D.A.R.E. and a winner was selected from each fifth grade class. The winners at DeKalb West School were Carter Vickers from Ms. Nadina Martel’s class and Autumn Dies from Ms. Jeanna Caplinger’s class. Vickers was the overall winner and he received a $50 check from General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge Bratten Cook, II presented in his absence by Tish Summers and Megan Cook.
D.A.R.E. students in Ms. Caplinger’s Class were Cole Bain, Mireya Barrett, Will Bouldin, Abby Crook, Autumn Dies, Xavier Floyd, Peyton Key, Nicholas Maddox, Cameron Mitchell, Hudson Moss, Ethan Reynolds, Landon Roehner, Madeleine Schwenke, Isabella Tarpley, and Caleb Tipton.
D.A.R.E students in Ms. Martel’s Class were Darci Blair, Isabelle Hendrixson, Jonathan Keith, Chaylea Lunsford, Nicholes Murphy, Caitlin Shoemake, Kolby Slager, Cameron Stanley, Conner Talley, Carter Vickers, and Brennan Winfree.
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