CHAPMANVILLE The annual Save a Life Recovery Walk takes place Thursday evening in Chapmanville.
This will be the eleventh year for the annual Save a Life Recovery Walk. The event kicks off the first night of the annual Apple Butter Festival in the Town of Chapmanville, starting at five o’ clock at the Tracy Vickers Community Center.
Heather Gregory is a REACHback Re-Entry Navigator with the REACH Initiative. Since 1989, September has been recognized as National Recovery Month, a national observance held every year to promote and support new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices. On Tuesday’s edition of WVOW’s Brighter Tomorrows, Gregory said it’s no coincidence that this year’s Recovery Walk coincides with Chapmanville’s Apple Butter Festival.
“September twenty-sixth has been made the National Recovery Day, so this will be our permanent date for this walk,” she said.
“What we realized is that this is also Chapmavnille’s permanent date for the Apple Butter Festival, and we’ve realized that Chapamanville’s Apple Butter Festival’s kind of popular in Logan County and we’ve lost some of our foot traffic, and we wanted to make sure that we were able to engage everybody in our county in with our walk.”
REACH (Restore, Empower & Attain Connections with Hope) is a program founded to tackle the ongoing issue of addiction recovery, aiming to help those suffering with drug addiction to both kick the habit and reintegrate into public life.
Activities connected with the walk are set to begin at five o’ clock Thursday evening with the walk itself starting at seven. Resource tables will be set up in town offering information as well as free Narcan and COVID home test kits.
The Save a Life Recovery Walk will feature resources from the Logan County Prevention Coalition, Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia, Mountain Laurel Integrated Healthcare, the Logan Quick Response Team, Jobs & Hope West Virginia, OVP (Other Volunteer Practicioner) Health, Word of Life Church, The REACH Initiative and Chapmanville United Baptist Church.
Brighter Tomorrows on WVOW and online at wvowradio.com is sponsored by Mountain Laurel Integrated Healthcare.