Mount Vernon News
By Pamela Schehl
June 24, 2009
MOUNT VERNON — The Knox County Career Center Board of Education on Tuesday accepted a substantial donation from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in the form of equipment and materials to the horticulture program. The items were seized by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and are part of its “Weed and Seed” strategy in Knox County.
Weed and Seed is a philosophy the KCSO uses in regard to indoor marijuana grows, drug houses and clandestine meth labs, Sheriff David Barber said. The weed part of the strategy, he explained, is to weed out the problem, as evidenced by the closing of five major growing operations last year. The seeding part of the concept is to do something positive as a result. For instance, with mandatory drug fines and asset seizure and sale, a portion of that money goes toward the DARE program.
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