Today on High Plains Morning, we were honored to host someone who has been doing incredible work in the greater Texas Panhandle to prevent the tragic loss of life from opiod overdose. Angie Duncan, a.k.a. the Amarillo Narcan Lady, launches her first-ever Texas Panhandle Overdose Awareness event to be held from 5 to 9 p.m. CT this Saturday, Aug. 23, at Sam Houston Park.
The Amarillo event will feature an evening full of live music, local food trucks, community vendors, an art show, and a creative Chalk the Walk contest. Duncan will also hold a memorial service to read the names of loved ones who have died from overdoses.
This event will be based on the one that first inspired Duncan to take on this work. “This is my first event, and making this happen was my goal in the first place. I used to drive down to Denton to attend one, and that’s how I even started this organization,” Duncan said. “I was like, ‘Why do we not have that here?’ And so I started doing my own thing here based off of theirs. The ultimate goal was to do this event.”…