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NASHVILLE – The Nash County Board of Health kicked off a new year with its first meeting on Friday.Board members Dr. Tom Akers, Sherri Lamm and Billy Morgan – also a Nash County commissioner – were sworn in. The governing body also re-elected Bill Buchanan as chairman and appointed Dr. John Avent as vice chairman. Buchanan said both the present board and the past members with whom he has worked have been "first class." The chairman also said there will be challenges to take on. "Any time you're involved in public health, there's lots of challenges," he said. "Our responsibility is to try and raise the level of the community's health in general, and that's a tall task." The new year is expected to include a county program to prevent full-blown diabetes among 10- to 18-year-olds and changes to the county's animal ordinance. The county will start the Energize! program – based on the system used by Wake Med – to educate at-risk children and their families and to encourage exercise as a means to prevent Type 2 diabetes. Physician evaluations are required at the beginning and the end of the 12-week program. The state awarded $250,000 to Nash County and four other counties to start the pilot program at the local level. Nash County's share was more than $27,000, which will be used to pay for fitness instructors at the YMCA in Rocky Mount. Wake Med's program has seen positive results, Hill said. "That's what we're looking for, to curb or change or even prevent the onset of Type 2 diabetes," said Bill Hill, Nash County health director. Another long-standing issue is to complete the changes to the county's animal ordinance. Officials have been working on it since 2006. "We've talked about it a long time, and we've got 90 percent of it together, maybe more," Hill said. One proposal is to implement a series of escalating fines on people who let their dogs loose in other people's property. Another idea – a leash law – probably will not be added, partly because residents who live in unincorporated areas moved there so their pets could roam freely, Hill said. The county also must determine how their law will coincide with the existing animal ordinances of other municipalities. "We're looking at areas where we will become more or less involved with enforcement within the municipal limits," Hill said. The health director also said the county is not likely to receive $500,000 from the Duke Endowment and Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust for a nurse partnership that would benefit high-risk, first-time pregnant women. (The article from:www.rockymounttelegram.com) Comments (1)
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