In 2017, Talbot County Sheriff Joe Gamble (left) and Tidewater Rotarian Lucie Hughes founded an untested substance abuse awareness campaign to engage the Talbot County community, particularly families, to be more informed about the danger of drugs.
As Talbot Goes Purple enters its seventh year, the Spy spent some time last week talking to Sheriff Gamble about this important partnership with Talbot County Public Schools, Saints Peter & Paul School, and Mid-Shore Community Foundation.
In our conversation, Joe makes a strong case that Talbot Goes Purple is making progress but also notes that our local battle to fight drug abuse will be a long one.
This video is approximately five minutes in length. For more information about Talbot Goes Purple, please click here.
Thomas Knight says
Once again, our outstanding Sheriff has bluntly laid out the facts of the scourge caused by these drugs. We’re happy to learn we’re making progress but it’s an all hands on board “issue”. Joe needs the support of each of us. He’s been at this task for many moons and for persistence and intellect, he cannot be touched. Some of you may remember the Fentanyl fire on board the USS George Washington [where our grandson currently serves] which caused bodily harm to many sailors and put the ship in dry-dock for several years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.