Blood Drive Mundelein High School will hold a Blood Drive on Saturday April 9, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Cafeteria. We all need to support this event because it provides funding to the school through scholarship donations! Students who donate will also receive a free “hoodie” from Life Source! Antioch High School just had a blood drive and generated over 450 units of blood!!! Mundelein, the challenge is on to beat this! Students today spend 7.5 hours per day in class and doing homework. They spend an average of 4 hours in athletics and other programs. They spend 5 hours Facebooking, Texting, Tweeting and IM-ing! In less than 1 hour all of us can donate blood that can save 3 lives!!! 
Donating blood is safe and simple. The entire process, from registration to refreshments, takes approximately one hour. Strict procedures for every step of the process ensure the safety of the donor and of the blood supply. Every measure is taken so that the donation is safe for the donor and the blood recipient. Please spread the word to anyone and everyone you know. Please make this a great success. To schedule an appointment please contact Lifesource at (877) 543-3768 or visit www.lifesource.org and use sponsor code MN07. Read more… >> DID YOU REMEMBER?  Daylight-saving time March 13, marked the 23rd anniversary of the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program, sponsored by Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, which reminds us to change and test the batteries in our smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Detectors should be replaced once every ten years. This message is simple and the habit can be lifesaving.
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UNUSED PRESCRIPTION & MEDICATION DISPOSAL  The Mundelein Police Department will serve as a collection site for the disposal of . Mundelein has just begun participating in the Save A Star Drug Disposal Program, a drug awareness program aimed at preventing abuse of prescription medications and over-the-counter drugs by youth. "The availability of prescription drugs particularly to the juvenile population is growing," said Deputy Police Chief Eric Guenther. "People often have expired prescription drugs sitting around their homes and unfortunately it's becoming popular for juveniles to take these medications out of the medicine cabinet to use them for purposes that they were not intended to be used."
Guenther said often teens will abuse unused prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications or mix them with alcohol, which can be a "dangerous concoction" and in some cases can be deadly. Front lobby To give people a safe alternative for disposing of these drugs, the police department will now have a Save A Star collection box in the first front lobby of the police department. Accepted items can be dropped off 24-hours-a-day and police won't question people about the items that are being dropped in the box, Guenther said. Among the drugs that will be accepted include prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, pet medications, medicated ointments, liquid medication, controlled substances, medication samples, vitamin and supplements, and homeopathic remedies. Items that will not be accepted needles/sharps, thermometers, bloody or infectious waste, empty containers, syringes with needles, IV bags, personal care products and hydrogen peroxide. "There are certain things we don't want for obvious reasons," he said. After medications are collected, Guenther said they will be taken to disposal facility in Indianapolis, where they are incinerated. The Save A Star Drug Awareness Foundation was started in 2007 after 25-year-old Daniel Katz of Highland Park died from an overdose of prescription drugs, according to Katz' father, David, who helped found the program after his son's death. David Katz said the purpose was to raise awareness about the dangers of prescription drug abuse, which he called an "epidemic that's out of control." Since the program was started, several area communities have joined Save A Star's Drug Disposal Program, including Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Deerfield, Northbrook and now Mundelein, as well as other communities nationwide, he said. Persons who would like to learn more about the program can call the Mundelein Police Department at (847) 968-4600 or can call Save A Star at (847) 579-1300. www.mundelein-review.com |
LOCAL NEWS Residents of Del Webb have approached the Mundelein Fire Department questioning if we are recommending the replacement of the current model of smoke detectors with a different model in your homes. The Fire Department has not made any such recommendation. We would like to clarify this issue by providing you with the information below. You have both combination Smoke/Carbon Monoxide detectors and single smoke only detectors in your home. These detectors are designed to be interconnected with each other throughout your home. This feature means that when one detector activates, all the detectors in the home will activate alerting residents throughout the home, not just in the area of activation.  For this reason, it is important that the correct type of detector be used when replacing a unit or this feature will be lost and the detector may not function properly with the others installed in your home. Residents have had some issues with detectors in their homes. One of the major problems has been bad batteries, while others have been malfunctioning detectors. If the detector in your home sounds and you see no smoke or fire, it could be the Carbon Monoxide function of the combination detector alerting. These combination detectors are located above the door outside of the bedrooms in your home. The detectors located inside the bedrooms are single smoke only detectors.
If your alarm sounds and you feel there is an emergency, call 911 immediately and we will respond to your emergency. If you believe your detectors are malfunctioning (no smoke or fire or reason to believe the carbon monoxide detector should be activating), or if you have questions, please contact the fire department at 847-949-3260 and we will assist you. There is a reset function to the units and we have provided those steps below for your use: 1. Remove the detector from the mounting bracket and remove the battery. 2. Turn the power off to the detector by turning off the breaker in your electric panel. 3. Press and hold the Test button for 60 seconds. 4. Replace the battery and turn the power back on. 5. If after completing this and detector still sounds, the detector is potentially bad. The detectors have a five-year warranty. Please contact First Alert for a replacement at 800-323-9005, press 3 and give the operator the model number for the detector, which is . Advise the operator you have tried to reset the detector without success and request a replacement. If you would like assistance with this or if you have additional questions, please contact the Mundelein Fire Department and we will be happy to assist you. |
