Geneva Housing Authority Board Approves Smoking Ban

Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2015 5:00 pm By DAVID L. SHAW dshaw@fltimes.com GENEVA — Effective April 1, smoking will be prohibited in the 228 housing units managed by the Geneva Housing Authority. The smoking ban is included in the 2015-16 agency plan approved July 28 by the authority’s Board of Commissioners. The plan goes into effect Oct. 1, Read More »

City of Geneva Parks Go Tobacco Free

GENEVA -- It is official. The campaign by a group of Boys & Girls Club of Geneva members has succeeded in having all tobacco products banned from city parks. As a group of by the Boys & Girls Club crusaders looked on, the City Council voted unanimously to ban smoking in all city parks. There Read More »

Wayne County Board Approves Smoking Ban

Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:00 pm By JIM MILLER (jmiller@fltimes.com) LYONS — Despite objections from several of its members, the Wayne County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban tobacco and e-cigarette use on county property. Board Chairman James Hoffman said the three members who opposed the local law, Kenan Baldridge, David Spickerman and Read More »

Students at Clyde-Savannah Participate in a Butt Pick Up

Several students from Clyde Savannah Central School District in Wayne County, New York took part in a six-week introduction to the Reality Check program. The teens were introduced to the messages of Reality Check such as exposing the truth about tobacco marketing and striving towards a clean and healthy tobacco-free outdoors. The summer Reality Check Read More »