TCNN Member Focus: Carantouan Greenway

Tioga County is facing a growing public health concern for Lyme disease, which accompanies the growing tick population in our region. In response, the Carantouan Greenway is sponsoring the “Youth Ticks and Lyme Disease Educational Awareness Campaign,” bringing information resources and presenters to 1,330 students at six Tioga County schools. 

The project is collaboration between Southern Tier Lyme Support and A Hope for Lyme, PA Lyme Resource Network, the Tioga County Department of Health, Binghamton University, Waverly and Tioga Central School Districts and the Carantouan Greenway.

The project has been funded by Community Fund of the Community Foundation for South Central New York (CFSCNY) and the Floyd Hooker Fund of the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers (CFTT). Information resources, presenter time, and tweezers were donated by the Tioga County Health Department. The Morning Times provided packaging materials.

Want to hear more about Ticks and Lyme? The public is invited to a free Dare 2B Tick Aware Lyme Prevention seminar at the Sayre High School Auditorium on Monday, March 26 at 6 p.m. 

For more information on this presentation, email to valleylyme@gmail.com. 

Mark your calendars; the Carantouan Annual Dinner Meeting is Wednesday, April 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Tomasso’s Restaurant. 

For more on Carantouan Greenway, visit www.carantouangreenway.org.

The Tioga County Non-Profit Network (TCNN) is a grassroots effort to bring together leaders from non-profit organizations to address common interests and to better serve the people of Tioga County. TCNN typically meets every other month on the fourth Wednesday from noon to 1:30 p.m. 

For more information, visit http://tioga.cce.cornell.edu or contact Andy Fagan, CCE Tioga executive director at (607) 687-4020 or email to agf1@cornell.edu.