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Seventh graders attend Youth Health Day
By Josie Sellers
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COSHOCTON – Coen Bible found Youth Health Day to be
fun and helpful.
“It’s been really entertaining and we’ve learned les-
sons on how to treat yourself and take care of yourself,”
said the River View Junior High Student.
All seventh graders in Coshocton County were invited
to Youth Health Day on May 11 at Kids America. The
event is sponsored by the Coshocton County Family
& Children First Council and Becky Beiter from the
Coshocton County Health Department enjoys helping
organize the day.
“It’s my baby, but it’s a team effort,” she said. “This
all started a while ago when we got a little grant to do
a young women’s health day. After that we thought we
should do something to include the guys too and focus
on health and safety. Seventh grade seemed like a good
age that we could make a big impact.”
The day started off with a presentation by Dave Culb-
ertson who lost his son to a drug overdose and started
a group called Arms of an Angel to help prevent other
families from having to deal with the same tragedy.
“He was a good presenter,” said Shania Weingarth,
a student at Ridgewood Middle School. “I think we all
paid attention because everyone was quiet.”
After hearing from Culbertson the students went to
different sessions dealing with exercise safety, nutrition,
self defense, depression, texting/sexting, stress manage-
ment, learned about yoga, ATV safety, cardio drumming
Josie Sellers | Beacon
Coen Bible from River View Junior High is pictured
working his way through the National Guard obstacle
course set up at Youth Health Day on May 11 at Kids
America. For more photos, visit www.coshoctonbea-
contoday.com.
and competed on the obstacle course set up the Army
National Guard.
“It was my first time doing yoga and I enjoyed it,” said
Emily Bradford from River View Junior High.
The students also received some safety tips from
Coshocton Regional Medical Center emergency room
doctor Josef Lowe, M.D. and got to visit with Coshocton
County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Dave Stone and his K-9
Henata.
“It’s been a good learning experience and a chance to
hang out with other kids,” said Melany Wine from River
View Junior High.
Gabe Culver is new to River View Junior High and said
he enjoyed his first experience at Kids America while
his classmate Logan Wolford said the activities they did
were pretty fun.
The students were served lunch while at Youth Health
Day and Frank Polen from the Buckeye Career Center
wrapped up the event by delivering the closing remarks.
“We couldn’t do this with out everybody coming
together,” said Beiter. “They’ve all donated their time
and energy to this and we especially appreciate all three
school districts carving out time for the students to
attend.”
She also appreciated Coshocton Regional Medical
Center making it possible for every seventh grader to
leave with a bicycle helmet.
“We felt doing this tied in well with the day’s theme
of health and safety,” said Melissa Snider, director of
operations, clinic administrator at the hospital. “Right
around 400 helmets were donated by the hospital.”
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