For Immediate Release

February 9, 2024

Contact:

Bridgette Norring, Founder, Devin J. Norring Foundation

Phone: 651-354-2794

Email: bnorring@dnfhelp.org

Theresa Chatelle, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church

Phone: 651-437-9052

Email: Theresa.chatelle@osel.org

Come Back Home Video Premiere

Hastings, Mn ─ In collaboration with Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, the Devin J. Norring Foundation, with The Confluence Hotel’s generous sponsorship, will be hosting an in-person movie premiere of Come Back Home on March 21st, 2024, in The Confluence Hotel’s beautiful ballroom. The Confluence Hotel is located at 200 2nd St. W., Hastings, MN 55033. 

Come Back Home, a film by Dominic Tierno & Christine Wood, delves into the lives of younger people who survived the loss of their loved ones to fentanyl. We will have our Resource Colleagues available from 6-7pm, with showing of Come Back Home and our young adult guest panel from 7-8:30pm.   

This is a free event, aims to raise awareness to the impacts of the fentanyl crisis as told from the youth perspective. We strongly encourage parents to bring their teens and young adults to learn more about the dangers of illicit fentanyl and its impact on our youth and our community.

We are honored to have the following youth guest speakers in attendance: Caden Norring, Natalia Shevtsova, Noah Latzer, and more.

Eventbrite registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/come-back-home-tickets-830948137247?aff=oddtdtcreator

For inquiries or further information in regard to the Come Back Home event, please contact:

Bridgette Norring - Devin J. Norring Foundation│Phone: 651-354-2794│Email: bnorring@dnfhelp.org

Theresa Chatelle - Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church │Phone: 651-437-9052│Email: Theresa.Chatelle@osel.org

Sherri Lohmann - Our Saviour's Lutheran Church│Phone: 651-307-6220 │Email: sherri.lohmann@osel.org

Devin J. Norring Foundation, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Dakota County Drug Task Force, Hastings Police Department, V.O.I.D. and fellow community organizers are proud to announce that The Confluence Hotel has generously agreed to sponsor our 3rd Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, 2023.

This is a free event, open to the public. The doors to The Confluence Hotel located at 200 W. 2nd St., Hastings, MN 55033, will open to the public at 6pm. The program will begin at 7pm with guest speakers from Dakota County Drug Task Force, Hastings Police Department, Dakota County Youth, and more. 

At the conclusion of the program, The Confluence Hotel will be lighting the cupulas purple in honor and remembrance of those who lost their life to an overdose or fentanyl poisoning. Mayor Fasbender will be issuing the Proclamation for IOAD and will also have the entry lights at City Hall lit purple in honor and remembrance of those who lost their life to an overdose or fentanyl poisoning.

Factory Motor Parts is also a proud sponsor of the evenings event. Factory Motor Parts has generously provided two sets of two Minnesota Twins Tickets for the September 23, Twins vs. Angels game to be raffled off to two lucky attendees; you do need to be present to win. Winners will be drawn towards the end of the event.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:

Theresa Chatelle – Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
Email: Theresa.chatelle@osel.org
Phone: 651-437-9052

Sherri Lohmann – Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church

Email: sherri.lohmann@osel.org

Phone: 651-307-6220

Bridgette Norring – Devin J. Norring Foundation, V.O.I.D.
Email: bnorring@dnfhelp.org

Phone 651-354-2794

Please join us on September 16th at 2pm for an in-person Community Naloxone Training at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, located at 400 W. 9th St., Hastings, MN 55033

This is a free event, open to the public. Participants will learn the signs of an opioid overdose, and how to administer the lifesaving medication, Naloxone, to reverse an opioid overdose. Everyone who attends will receive a free Overdose Prevention Kit.

This event is brought to you by Steve Rummler HOPE Network, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Devin J. Norring Foundation, and V.O.I.D..

If you have any questions please feel free to contact:

Theresa Chatelle

Email: Theresa.chatelle@osel.org

Phone: 651-437-9052

or

Bridgette Norring

Email: bnorring@dnfhelp.org

Phone: 651-354-2794

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

Central Square Community Center 100 7th Avenue, South St. Paul, MN 55075 

At this training participants will learn: 

• How to recognize an opioid overdose 

• All about naloxone (NARCAN®) • About Steve's Law (Minnesota's Good Samaritan and Naloxone Legislation) and will also: 

• View a demo of naloxone administration 

• Have the option to receive a naloxone kit 

To Register dc-mn-naloxone1023.eventbrite.com/ 

Registration deadline: October 23, 2023 

***Important Update*** Due to one of our main presenters having another engagement to attend, we will be beginning the presentation at 6:30pm and not 7pm. Thanks for your understanding. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, the Devin J. Norring Foundation invite parents, caregivers, grandparents, teens and young adults to a special presentation given by Dakota County Det. Olson on the dangers of social media, how social media is fueling the opioid and fentanyl crisis, and what you can do to safeguard yourself and children. Hear from those who have been directly impacted by social media harms.

Students, teens and young adults we encourage you to attend as we will have a special young adult-led group to have an open discussion with your peers about the fentanyl epidemic and how you can safeguard yourself.

We will have our Resource Colleagues available to meet and greet with attendees from 6-7pm with the presentation beginning at 7pm.