Mock Drill to be held April 21st

Monday, April 19th, 2010

The Nursing Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College will being hosting a Mock Disaster Drill on Wednesday, April 21 at 11:00 AM on the SKCTC Cumberland Campus. This annual event provides the college’s nursing students an opportunity to gain valuable insight and experience that will better prepare them in the event that an actual disaster occurs. In addition to the college’s nursing students, numerous volunteers including college faculty, staff, and area students will be participating in the “Disaster” playing the role of victims, distraught family members, friends,  and the media.  Many of the area’s First Responders and Law Enforcement Personnel will be included in the drill, and WCPM-AM 1280 will also be reporting from the college during this time to keep listeners updated.

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URGENT: Census Information for Harlan/Letcher Co.

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Taken from a letter to staff from Tim Saylor, Harlan County Public School System … Everyone needs to read it:

Some of you have received your U.S. Census form in the mail. However, due to complications with addressing, a large number of residents in Harlan and Letcher have not received their form. It cannot be stressed to you enough the importance of getting as many people as we can to complete the census form and to return it ASAP.  The population count is used in awarding grants and other funding for all aspects of the community, education, health care, transportation, etc. If you did not receive a form or if you know of family and friends who did not receive a form, please have them visit one of the following locations and obtain a form to complete and mail.  

• • Harlan Water Works
  • Harlan Public Library
  • Evarts City Hall
  • Clover Fork clinic
  • Lynch City Hall

You are encouraged to talk to others in your community, at your church, ballgames, grocery store and the other places you frequent to help spread the word of the importance of obtaining a form, filling it out and mailing it in. In particular, if you receive your mail at a post office box, you are most likely not going to receive one in the mail for the 2010 count. 

 While it is understandably an inconvenience to visit these sites to pick up a form,  with the current condition of the state and national economy, it is imperative that all of our Harlan County people be counted in this census. If our count is inaccurate and low, then we cannot expect a return of state and federal tax dollars to our community for various programs, projects and other important activities. The information gathered now, will be utilized for the next 10 years. The census is very short this year and should only take a few minutes to complete. It does not ask for financial information, social security numbers or other personal information.  If you have questions about the census, you can visit the U.S. Census Bureau’s website at http://www.census.gov/.

 Officials are concerned that due to the addressing problem, rural areas, such as Harlan County, are going to be significantly hurt in the 2010 census count.

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