Prescription Take back Day, Kids Get drunk on Hand Sanitizer

Things you need to know on September 15.

Thanks to MetroNews Source for the following.

Newtown is set to spend the last of the more than one-million-dollars in donations sent to the town after the Sandy Hook tragedy. The final 17-thousand-dollars of donated money is being awarded to a parent group that helps the Newtown High School marching band. The group will use the money towards the purchase of a box truck, allowing them to stop using rental trucks for the band's travel. The Board of Finance still needs to approve the allocation.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is holding their annual Prescription Take Back Day on September 26. The event allows people to clean out their medicine cabinets and bring old prescription drugs to designated locations for disposal. There will be collection locations this year in Danbury, Newtown, Fairfield, Greenwich, Trumbull and Weston.

Best to keep those hand sanitizers out of the reach of kids. Hand sanitizer is proving to be very dangerous around children. Since 2010, poison control hotlines report a 400-percent increase in calls involving children under 12 swallowing hand sanitizer. With alcohol contents ranging from 45 to 95-percent a few drops can get kids dangerously drunk and often cause alcohol poisoning.

Parents take note - Ohio University is "Playboy" magazine's top party school of 2015. Ohio earned top honors for its huge Halloween block party as well as the abundance of bars within a short distance of the campus. The University of Iowa is the runner-up, followed by Florida State, Tulane, and the University of Illinois. And now you know!