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July 24, 2014 l 36 pages

Youth group making big gains in Manotick emma.jackson@metroland.com

News – A youth movement is gaining momentum in Manotick as the two-year anniversary of Tyler Campbell’s death creeps closer. In the past year, the Youth of Manotick Association (YOMA) has begun a weekly drop-in session on Friday nights; the Manotick Lions have chartered a Leo Club and the Kiwanis Key Club has expanded. Working with YOMA, Wat-

son’s Mill has even started its own Leaders in Training volunteer program. All of this came from a crisis two years ago, when a spike in break and enters lead police to realize that a small group of local teens were hooked on a potent prescription painkiller called fentanyl – an epidemic that lead to 17year-old Campbell’s overdose death on August 4, 2012. Ottawa Police staff sergeant responsible for break and enters, Kal Ghadban, said all that has changed in the past

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two years. “Now I don’t hear about those issues in Manotick,” he said. “The break-ins that are occurring are the same that are occurring across the city. There’s no more, no less.” Ghadban said the small cohort of affected teens has largely received the help they needed, and peers who watched the crisis unfold have since stayed away from the drug. That doesn’t mean there aren’t still drugs in the village, but Ghadban said there’s no reason to believe there’s more experimentation here than anywhere else in the city. “I’m not seeing anything that’s sort of out of the ordinary,” he said, noting that ecstasy has been a growing issue in all parts of the region. “There’s certainly no indication that the Manotick area is seeing more use than another part of the city.” Ghadban said one of the biggest factors in solving the fentanyl issue was how quickly all factions of the community came together.

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Music in the Park for YOMA Maria Hawkins sings a Beatles tune during Music in the Park – a fundraiser in support of the Youth of Manotick Association – on July 13. Manotick Kiwanis organized the festivities, which included a barbecue and bake sale at Centennial Park.

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