With 130 Americans dying every day from opioid overdoses and the country’s opioid crisis pushing even into rural areas like ours, the Custer School District is taking steps to protect students from death by overdose.
At its October regular meeting, the school board gave second-reading approval to a policy that will allow the administration of opioid antagonists by specially-trained school staff to persons suffering the effects of an overdose.
The theme for the 2019 Custer County Library Summer Reading Program was “A Universe of Stories.”
The program concluded July 24 with a party at Custer Elementary School. Children who participated in the program enjoyed snacks, games and a space-themed presentation by the Journey Museum of Rapid City. Entertainment for the party was provided through a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The party was attended by 102.
Custer High School senior Jon Anker has long dreamed of owning his own business, so when the school offered its first-ever entrepreneur class this fall, Anker eagerly enrolled. He hasn’t been disappointed.
Anker is one of eight students in the inaugural class taught by Tiffany Newman, who says the idea for the course came out of a personal finance class she previously taught here.
