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VOICES AGAINST TOBACCO — Tippecanoe Valley High School’s Voice club started last winter to advocate against tobacco use. Shown from left are Live Well Kosciusko Youth Coordinator Natalie Moore, Voice
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members Jetta Hughes, Colton Crabb, Christopher Marquez, Diego Gonsalez, and Voice adult sponsor Mallory Eaton. Live Well Kosciusko gets state funding, which helps run Voice. Photo by Leah Sander.
Valley students advocate against tobacco use through Voice club By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer Tippecanoe Valley High School students want to let others know they shouldn’t use tobacco. “It’s never too late to stop, and there’s always someone out there to help you. You’re never alone,” said senior Colton Crabb. Crabb is one of the founding members of Valley’s anti-tobacco Voice club. Voice is a program run by the Indiana Department of Health. Health advocacy organization, Live Well Kosciusko, receives state funding, which allows it to “help implement the club,” said Live Well Kosciusko Youth Coordinator Natalie Moore. TVHS Assistant Principal Dayna Kolanowski and health and physical education teacher, Mallory, Eaton serve as adult sponsors for Valley’s chapter of Voice, which started last winter. Crabb and fellow senior Jetta Hughes heard about Voice at
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TEACHING KIDS — Jetta Hughes, left, and Colton Crabb spoke to kids at the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office’s Camp HERO recently. Photo provided by Natalie Moore. a Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy event and helped bring it to Valley. They serve as members of Voice’s core team, along with juniors Christopher Marquez and Diego Gonsalez. There are about 10 others also in Voice, said Hughes. Crabb said the core team helps “coordinate events and create the
curriculum for what we’re doing.” He also is serving on the Voice state ambassador group, helping “create the curriculum for the year for the entire state.” So far, Valley’s Voice chapter has spoken to health classes for Tippecanoe Valley Middle School seventh and eighth graders. Students also spoke to children recently at the Kosciusko County
Sheriff’s Office’s Camp HERO. “That was exciting,” said Hughes of speaking to around 200 children at the camp. Future plans for the club include speaking at Akron and Mentone elementary schools and “just having some night events when we come in and educate everybody,” said Crabb. Continued on page 3
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