Sheriff's Office Preparing to Take Back Drugs
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The Nashville News WEDNESDAY • July 3, 2013 • Issue 51 • 1 Section • 10 Pages • In Howard County, Arkansas since 1878 • USPS 371-540 • 75 cents IN BRIEF Auxiliary t Council moves to has been replace garbage truck Beneit assisting scheduled D.E. Ray three options for the city hospital for News Staff had been proposed by for wreck the insurer: that the in- victim over 30 years MINERAL SPRINGS- surer total the vehicle The Mineral Springs city and cut the city a check A “Ge- D.E. RAY council heard a report by for $61,000, that the city niapalooza” News Staff city attorney LeAnn Dan- accept a $29,000 payment Benefit Co-Ed iel about the insurance and attempt to repair the Softball Tour- NASHVILLE- At How- coverage on the city’s truck, or that the insurer nament will be ard Memorial Hospital in garbage truck, which was pay $60,600 for the pur- held Sat., Aug. Nashville, most patients involved in a major traffic chase of another vehicle 24, from 8 a.m. accident last month, dur- and the city retain the – 9p.m., at the and visitors are assisted Murfreesboro at one point or another by D.E. RAY | Nashville News ing their regular monthly damaged truck as salvage Director of Volunteer Services for Howard Memorial City Park to a volunteer in a pink jack- meeting Monday. for parts. Hospital Susan Wingrove and Hospital Auxiliary member benefit a local et. The Howard Memorial The truck, valued at Council member Martha Graves Hayes in the hospital gift shop. woman injured Hospital Auxiliary have $64,743 by the insurer, Charles Deloney immedi- in a recent car been giving information at operating the gift shop unteer Services at the was only insured to ately expressed interest accident. the front desk, guiding pa- since the mid-1970s. hospital for about two $62,000 with a $1000 in the third option, point- Each team tients and guests to other Susan Wingrove, who years, said the 19 auxil- deductible, Daniel said. ing out that undamaged participating parts of the hospital and has been Director of Vol- See HOSPITAL / Page 4 She further reported that See TRUCK / Page 4 in the tourna- ment will need at least five girls and five guys, ages 16 and older, but anyone under 18 must wear a helmet when they bat. There is a $150 entry “ fee per team, and all teams must supply HALL OF FAMER their own balls. Besides the softball tourna- Local coaching legend to be inducted July 12 ment there will also be a silent CHARLES GOODIN auction, food, I was humbled beyond Editor beverages, live music and lots words when I found out. I’ve is words of of fun for the been humbled many imes, kids. wisdom have Lowery, a but this is a very humbling influenced 29-year-old H wife, mother experience. I’m honored by it. student-athletes and beloved across southwest Arkan- member of the sas for over 30 years, and Murfreesboro community this month local coaching was severely legend Gene Simmons will injured in an be honored along with the automobile ac- state’s finest athletic men- cident on May 31, 2013 and “ tors. was airlifted to Simmons is set to be inducted Christus St. Mi- into the Arkansas Coaching Hall chael Hospital of Fame Fri., July 12. in Texarkana. “I never even expected it in my She had to un- wildest dreams,” Simmons said dergo surgery, Tuesday during a brief interview. and remained “I was humbled beyond words in the intensive when I found out. I’ve been care unit for five days before humbled many times, but this is being released a very humbling experience. I’m from the hos- honored by it.” pital. Simmons has enjoyed a long Her T12 and storied career assisting some vertebrae, as of the area’s most prolific football described by coaches, including Doug Nor- doctors, “ex- wood, David Holloway and Gary ploded” in the See SIMMONS / Page 3 accident, and several other vertebrae in her neck and back were fractured. She also sus- tained a severe concussion, two broken ribs and many Sheriff’s office preparing to take back drugs minor cuts and bruises. Lowery is NASHVILLE – Beginning misuse, and abuse,” Mor- now facing July 1, the Howard County ris said Tuesday via press many months Sheriff’s Department will release. “Rates of prescrip- of rehabilitation give the public an ongoing tion drug abuse in the U.S. and therapy. opportunity to prevent pill are alarmingly high, as are Her medical abuse and theft by ridding the number of accidental bills, present their homes of potentially poisonings and overdoses and future, are dangerous expired, un- due to these drugs. Stud- astronomical, used, and unwanted pre- ies show that a majority of and she, her husband and scription drugs. Bring your abused prescription drugs their two small medications for disposal to are obtained from family children are in the Howard County Sher- and friends, including from need of finan- iff’s Office Prescription the home medicine cabinet. cial assistance. Drug Drop Box located In addition, Americans are Any and all at 101 Isaac Perkins Blvd now advised that their usu- donations and Nashville, Ar. The service al methods for disposing of volunteers is free and anonymous, no unused medicines—flush- are welcome. questions asked. ing them down the toilet Those interest- In April 2012, Ameri- or throwing them in the ed in donating, cans turned in 552,161 trash—both pose potential volunteering or participating pounds—276 tons—of safety and health hazards.” in the softball prescription drugs at over Four days after the first tournament can 5,600 sites operated by the event, Congress passed call or text Willy DEA and nearly 4,300 state the Secure and Respon- Wilson at 870- and local law enforcement COURTESY PHOTO | Howard County Sheriff’s Office sible Drug Disposal Act of 451-4621 or partners. In its four previ- Howard County Sheriff’s Investigator John Eric Glidewell, Deputy Timothy Floyd, Deputy 2010, which amends the Deidre Camp- ous Take Back events, DEA Jade Hughes, Chief Deputy Bryan McJunkins and Investigator David Shelton are pictured Controlled Substances Act bell at 870-681- and its partners took in with an unwanted prescription drug drop box now available for use in the lobby of the Howard to allow an “ultimate user” 0376. over 1.5 million pounds— County Sheriff’s Office. The box was purchased using grant funds from the Southwest of controlled substance All proceeds nearly 775 tons—of pills. Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center. medications to dispose of will toward According to Sheriff tive addresses a vital public issue. them by delivering them to Lowery’s medi- in home cabinets are highly cal bills. Butch Morris, this initia- safety and public health “Medicines that languish susceptible to diversion, See DRUGS / Page 4 2 EDITORIAL Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | The Nashville News | Online at http://www.nashvillenews.org | Call: 1-888-845-6397 he mindset of the left At the heart of the left’s vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws and policies over the years, ranging from urban renewal to ObamaCare. One of the many international crusades by busybodies on the left is the drive to limit the hours of work by people in other countries — especially poorer countries — in businesses operated by mul- tinational corporations. One international monitor- ing group has taken on the task of making sure that people in China do not work more than the le- gally prescribed 49 hours Thomas per week. Why international Sowell monitoring groups, led Creators by affluent Americans or Europeans, would Syndicate imagine that they know what is best for people who are far poorer than they are, and with far fewer options, is one of the many mysteries of the busy- body elite. By A.J. Smith ebrate with our family and fought for our freedom. To skin, or because they don’t As someone who left home at the age of 17, with Managing Editor friends the freedom of the take for granted the quote have the financial status as no high school diploma, no job experience and no “We hold these truths to United States, let’s take a above from our Declaration someone else, or some other skills, I spent several years learning the hard way be self-evident, that all men moment to reflect on our of Independence is a shame reason that people come up what poverty is like. One of the happier times during are created equal, that they past as a country. Our young that all of us should feel. Our with to downgrade your fel- those years was a brief period when I worked 60 are endowed by their Cre- hours a week — 40 hours delivering telegrams during country has known its share community is blessed to be low American. Remember the day and 20 hours working part-time in a machine ator with certain unalienable of grief and has been one to one that embraces our diver- this Fourth of July and every shop at night. Rights, that among these are stand up for what we believe sity, however, there are still day, that each individual Why was I happy? Because, before finding these Life, Liberty and the pursuit in. We have fought for our people who do not feel “that American has these rights; jobs, I had spent weeks desperately looking for any of Happiness.” freedom and have lost many all men are created equal” Life, Liberty and the pursuit job, while my meager savings dwindled down to liter- This July 4th as we cel- of the men and women who because of the color of their of Happiness.