Greene County anti-heroin event draws crowd
Despite rain, nearly 1,000 people participated in the March for Greene Saturday. Those who marched from the Greene County Airport to the county fairgrounds were lead by police chief Mike Gyurke of Carmichaels Borough, who hosts one of two prescription drug drop-off sites in the county. After the march, recovery testimony from Teen Challenge and a podium discussion of the prescription opioids and heroin epidemic was heard. Senator Camera Bartolotta, Representative Pam Snyder and state Secretary of Drug and Alcohol Programs Gary Tennis described the programs and state laws that help people in recovery get needed treatment and how to apply to have nonviolent drug convictions removed from criminal records after addiction recovery. Coalition for a Brighter Greene is hosting a re-entry job fair in June and has a group page on Facebook to share information.