Talbot County businesses are invited to a Talbot Goes Purple informational session from 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. on Tuesday, July 18 at the Tidewater Inn in Easton.
The free event is offered as an opportunity for local businesses to learn about the project and how to participate. Those who attend will receive a Talbot Goes Purple window cling, for display in business windows, or a vehicle magnet.
“Our business community is an important part of this project’s success,” said Lucie Hughes, with Tidewater Rotary – the project’s title sponsor. “As we work hard to implement the program in our high schools, our businesses can help show support to our kids and our community with our clings or magnets.”
Talbot Goes Purple is an initiative from the Talbot County Sheriff’s Office and Tidewater Rotary that empowers our youth and our community to ‘Go Purple’ as a sign of taking a stand against substance abuse. The project promotes education and awareness, including the creation of purple clubs in our high schools, through which students learn that they do not need drugs or alcohol to meet life’s challenges. The project also encourages the ‘new conversation’ between teens and parents, one that includes messages that prescription painkillers aren’t safe to use recreationally.
Talbot Goes Purple is based upon THP Project Purple, an initiative of the Herren Project that helps people struggling with drug dependencies. Former NBA player Chris Herren founded both projects after speaking to a high school about his struggles with drug dependency.
Herren is coming to Talbot County for a community event at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Easton High School, with two in-school assemblies also set for all county students grades 8 through 12. Leading up to Herren’s visit and throughout September, local businesses and communities will ‘Go Purple’ as a show of support and solidarity in addressing our substance abuse program.
Talbot Goes Purple is in partnership with Talbot County Public Schools, Mid-Shore Community Foundation and Talbot Partnership. Generous support for the project at the ‘purple’ level includes: Mariah’s Mission Fund; Aqua Pools & Spas and The Car Pool; St. John’s Foundation; Bryan Brother’s Foundation; Spring & Associations; West & Callahan; and the Michael & Nancy Klein Foundation.
More information is available at www.talbotgoespurple.org. Find us on Facebook @TalbotGoesPurple or contact us at [email protected].
All support is tax-deductible and made through the Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
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