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Heroin Awareness Event!

Save R Children and Strike Ten Lanes sponsoring a Heroin Awareness event that can help save lives!

Please join us on Friday March 4th at Strike Ten Lanes at 800 E. Nerge Rd in Roselle at 6pm for an informative and eye opening Heroin Awareness event. Sponsored by Save R Children (saverchildren.org). Receive a free Naloxone Overdose ”kit” with training by A Man in Recovery Foundation (AMIRF.org). Hear how Heroin is taking 129 lives a day and how you can help prevent the loss of another life!

The LTM Heroin Awareness and Support Foundation (http://ltmfoundation.org/) will be there with resources and a presentation that you do not want to miss!

Save R Children was founded after the overdose death of Stephanie R. Chiakas. At only 17, her life was just getting started. Her Father Ken Chiakas vowed to fight the fight. No parent should have to bury their child. The money raised by this event will go to supporting programs that distribute Naloxone (Narcan) ”kits” and training for free to the community as well as fund awareness programs and speakers to go into our neighborhood schools to talk to our children with firsthand accounts about how addiction and specifically, Heroin can take your soul before taking your life. If you cannot make the event, please donate!

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