Weekly Roundup: Drug prevention, school bus incident, LRHSD board representative

Catch up on what happened this week in Shamong.

The power of opiates: Right in Our Backyard

It can be your child, it can be happening in your basement, your schools and your local community.”

Those are the words of Meredith Cohen, director of special projects at Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern NJ.

JFCS was invited to Seneca High School on Feb. 12 by Seneca’s parent group to deliver a presentation titled “Right in Our Backyard.”

This program has the goal of raising awareness on the drug epidemic and to prevent drug/overdose related deaths.

The full story can be found here.

Parents take concerns to the board regarding school bus incident

Parents filled Indian Mills Memorial School at this week’s board of education meeting to discuss their concerns on a recent incident regarding a school bus driver.

According to a press release from the Office of the Attorney General, “staff members from the Indian Mills Elementary School were notified that two children informed their parents that they observed their school bus driver, Franck Lafortune, watching a pornographic video on his cell phone prior to exiting the bus at 8:30 a.m. [on Feb. 4].”

The full story can be found here.

LRHSD board representative resigns after 22 years of service

“You are a family man, you are a community man, you are a Lenape man.”

Those are the words of Lenape High School Principal Tony Cattani as he spoke to resigning Lenape Regional High School District board member John “JJ” Jeffers at this week’s board meeting.

Jeffers was a Mount Laurel representative to the Lenape District Board of Education, on which he has served for the past 22 years.

The full story can be found here.