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Increasing suicide awareness by ‘Chalking the Walk’ at Baptist Health Corbin

  Abagail Dezarn, Lilly Shearer and Makayla Isaacs were among a group of eight North Laurel High School JROTC cadets, who helped ‘Chalk the Walk” in front of Baptist Health Corbin Monday as part of National Suicide Awareness Month. Baptist Health Corbin is attempting to...
Posted On 16 Sep 2023

Suicide awareness walk held in honor of local teenager

Over 50 people turned out Saturday in Williamsburg for a suicide and bullying prevention one-mile walk in memory of Bethany Faith Lawson, a student at Whitley County High School, who killed herself last year. Savanna McKiney with Cumberland River Behavioral Health Community...
Posted On 18 Sep 2019

Whitley teen remembered at suicide prevention walk

Melissa Lawson knows a little something about suicide. Less than two months ago, her 16-year-old daughter, Bethany Faith Lawson, killed herself. “I just want everybody out there to know it is OK to not be OK. It is OK to ask for help,” Melissa Lawson told a crowd of about 150...
Posted On 26 Sep 2018