LaVille Junior/Senior High School is switching to virtual learning, starting Tuesday. In a Facebook post Monday, Union-North Superintendent Mitch Mawhorter said it’s due to an increase in the number of students and staff members who’ve either tested positive for COVID-19 or been in close contact with someone who has.
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With sobriety, anything is possible. That’s the message addict turned triathlete Todd Crandell is sharing with students in Starke and Marshall Counties during Red Ribbon Week. He first tried alcohol when he was 13. Crandall says his life was” normal on the outside” but he was pretty emotionally distraught due to his Mom’s suicide 10 years earlier due to her struggles with addiction.
“I had a giant void that I was looking for something to fill it with, and unfortunately trying alcohol at age 13 was the catalyst for the next 13 years of destruction,” Crandall said.
He says he used “anything I could get my hands on” to try to numb the pain. Continue reading
