12 I The Lovell Chronicle [ September 29, 2011
Hospital
volunteers
schedule
bake sale
The volunteers of the
New Horizons Care Center
and North Big Horn Hospi-
tal recently voted to hold a
bake sale on Friday, Nov. 4.
Soup and pie will again be
featured, along with an ar-
ray of baked goods.
The group purchased 80
folding chairs for the facil-
ity. Also, the Tree of Love
will again be painted on
the window of the gift shop,
which is open for all to come
and shop.
The gift shop will be
open on Saturdays from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., as well as
weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. with the help of 10 vol-
unteers. New items for the
season are featured such as
spiders, bears, angels, San-
tas, bracelets, scarves and
more.
Correction
Morgan owns
Homespun
Gifts
Lisa Morgan was in-
advertently referred to by
her maiden name of Seck-
man in the caption beneath
her photo in last week's Big
Horn County Progress Edi-
tion.
Lisa Morgan is the
owner of Homespun Gifts,
which is operating out of
the Bighorn Basin GeoSci-
ence Center in downtown
Greybull.
We apologize for the er-
ror.
C 00arities
co-host
F:liday BBQ
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Northwest Wyoming and
the Body & Spirit therapeu-
tic riding program will co-
host a barbecue dinner and
open house Friday, Sept.
30, at the McFadden Ranch
north of Greybull.
Events kick off with a
Working Cow Clinic given
by Tim and Jamie Flitner.
The barbecue dinner at
6 p.m. features pulled pork
and baked beans provided
by Dirty Annie's.
All families will receive
a free family game.
Special family rates are
available.
For further informa-
tion contact Jennifer Prent-
iss, program director for
Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Northwest Wyoming, at
PA CARPENTER
Lovell Chief of Police Nick Lewis, Ken Ferbrache of North Big Horn Hospital,
School Resource Officer Randy Davis and panel moderator Chad Lindsey of
Northwest Wyoming Treatment Center listen as Barb Preetorious (not shown),
a former prescription drug abuser, shares information about her addiction and
recovery.
Prescription drug abuse panel
discusses addiction and recovery
BY PATTI CARPENTER
The Big Horn County
Health Coalition committee
for prescription drug abuse
awareness staged a live
panel discussion on Sept.
22 at the Lovell Community
Center. The discussion was
recorded and will also be
shown by TCT on its local
television network.
The panel was moder-
ated by Chad Lindsay of
Northwest Wyoming Treat-
ment Center, and was fol-
lowed by an open question
and answer period. Lind-
say also presented ques-
tions that were submitted
in a questionnaire that was
distributed at the recent
health fair blood draw at
North Big Horn Hospital.
The evening opened
with a moving talk by Barb
Preetorious, a former pre-
scription drug abuser. Pree-
torious shared information
about her addiction and her
recovery.
"I used drugs to numb
my feelings," said Preeto-
rious, who at the height of
. ,her addiction stole the drug
Ritalin from her own chil-
dren's prescription bottles
and lied to her doctor to get
prescriptions for drugs used
to treat conditions she did
not have.
She shared that, during
the lowest point of her ad-
diction, her children were
taken away from her by the
state and she almost died
from an overdose of pre-
scription drugs. Some of the
people on the panel were
among those who helped
her break the bonds of her
addiction.
Big Horn County Sher-
iff Ken Blackburn was the
next to share about his
dealings with the problem
in the county.
"Small towns are dif-
ferent than big cities," said
Blackburn. "We know ev-
eryone here. At some time,
we have to deal with some-
one we grew up with or
someone we know."
Blackburn talked about
how prescription drug abuse
is linked to other types of
crime like theft, larceny,
sexual assault and other vi-
olent crimes,
Lovell school resource
officer Randy Davis spoke
next about prescription drug
abuse among teens and cit-
ed some startling statistics.
The most startling statis-
tic was that 59.1 percent of
the teens interviewed indi-
cated that they were given
a prescription drug for free
by a friend or relative. Only
a very small percentage of
teens said they bought from
a drug dealer or a stranger.
"A lot of the issues we
have as adults start as chil-
dren," he said.
He referred the audi-
ence to the website www.
monitoringthefuture.com as
a resource for parents. The
website summarizes statis-
tics about teen drug abuse
and other destructive teen
behaviors.
Next, Ken Ferbrache of
North Big Horn Hospital
spoke about how difficult
it is sometimes for medical
providers to know when a
patient is lying about the
need for prescription drugs.
"We want to believe
people," said Ferbrache,
who also indicated that doc-
tors are developing more
effective screening proce-
dures. Ferbrache was on
call the night Preetorious
was brought in on a drug
overdose.
Lovell Police Chief
Nick Lewis spoke next.
Lewis has worked in the
law enforcement field for
33 years.
Lewis talked about the
need to be "proactive" rath-
er than "reactive" when
dealing with the problem
and said that prevention is
the key to solving the prob-
lem.
Organizers hope the
discussion will create an
awareness of prescription
'drug abuse and an accu-
rate perspective of what
is actually going on in the
community.
County Solid Waste Board
discusses, nixes mill levy idea
BY JENNIFER BUTLER
During the Big Horn
County Solid Waste Board
monthly meeting last
Tuesday, Sept. 20, the
board members discussed
whether to seek voter ap-
proval to levy three mills
for operating both land-
fills in the county.
The district could levy
up to three mills with ap-
proval by voters.
Board Chairman Ron
McArthur said he. pre-
ferred leaving rates and
revenue options the same
as they are currently be-
cause it is working. He ex-
pressed concern about an
increase to taxpayers.
He added if the pro-
cess began to weaken or
a mill levy is needed, the
board would readdress
this issue.
The board did not take
official action but reached
consensus to not seek a
mill levy for operations.
Also discussed during
the meeting was the effect
of increasing tire rates.
According to a member of
the audience who is also
an employee of the coun-
ty landfill, a couple of
companies have stopped
bringing tires because of
the price.
Board members agreed
the price increase was nec-
essary and it would not be
lowered.
Also in other business,
the board agreed to review
loader quotes for a future
purchases.
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