Articles with the Tag: suicide
Have coffee with Chief Weaver, visit RPD website, Facebook RONAN — The public is invited to attend “Coffee with the Chief” at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 28, at Ronan Café. Chief Ken Weaver will talk about the operations of the police department, discuss community matters and the impo...
LAKE COUNTY — Your Life Matters, a local group bringing suicide awareness and mental health education to local communities, is offering two $1,000 scholarships to local students. Scholarship money was raised through the annual Light the Night run on Oct. 30, 2016. Eligible student applicants...
RONAN – People dressed in costumes of all kinds, including a real dog wearing a wig on Friday night during the second annual Light the Night race. The Ronan Volunteer Fire Department set up trucks with flashing lights to help direct traffic while people ran or walked through town. More than 120 part...
CHARLO – In an effort to make it easier to talk about suicide prevention, the Your Life Matters Project brought in a comedian to talk to students in schools from Arlee to Ronan. YLMP Youth Member Hailey Schippers introduced the speaker in Charlo on Friday, explaining that the group organized last fa...
Suicide awareness group presents speaker LAKE COUNTY — The Your Life Matter Project will bring motivational speaker Kasey Nickleson into local middle/high schools during school hours in an effort to bring suicide awareness and to encourage asking for help and being a good friend to local kids...
POLSON — While Montana may be a beautiful destination for tourists, it also leads the nation in suicides, according to National Vital Statistics reports and the American Association of Suicidology. Nationwide, suicide has surpassed car accidents as the most common cause of injury-related death. ...
PABLO — A two-day Applied Suicide Intervention Skill Training will be offered Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 14-15 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at Salish Kootenai College in rooms 102 and 104 inside the Math and Science Building #67. Participants must arrive on time both days. Breakfast and lunc...
RONAN – Tyler Joachim finished the Your Life Matters Race wearing a Halloween costume that looked like a giant hotdog along with about 100 other people running in costumes through town in the dark on Friday night with traffic control provided by the Ronan Police and Fire Departments. “I did ge...