I took the left photo at the James Gang HideAway this morning of three guys who’ve been among the many citizens involved in the drug abuse-related discussions here on Locally Grown: L to R: Curt Benson, Bruce Morlan, Scott Oney.
They’re holding up a card, helping to promote next week’s community event: After the Headlines: Current Trends in Alcohol and Drug Abuse: What Communities Need to Know (PDF).
The featured speaker (on the right): Carol Falkowski, the Hazelden researcher whose comments in a Pioneer Press article earlier this year sparked, um, a community-wide discussion about Northfield’s drug problems. (See the original blog post with 294 comments attached as well as the Community response to drug abuse post.
Northfield.org has a new entry about a police ride-a-long in Northfield.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/50193/teenage-wasteland/
Thx, Christine. I wonder if that article was about the party we blogged about in Aug that was part of the ZAP program?
Read a challenge from Jaci Smith in the Saturday paper’s editorial section:
http://www.northfieldnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=26&SubSectionID=62&ArticleID=21305&TM=52449.59