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Friday Symposium offers breakfast and hope for families beset by addiction

KDNK | By Mike Lemmer
Published October 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM MDT
The poster for the upcoming symposium on addiction held at TACAW on October 3rd.
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The poster for the upcoming symposium on addiction held at TACAW on October 3rd.

A Way Out has been helping connect families and individuals in crisis with drugs and alcohol to recovery and treatment services for over twenty years. Executive Director Becky Gordon stopped by KDNK to speak with Mike Lemmer about A Way Out's upcoming symposium covering topics including how children are impacted by living in a home with substance abuse, healing as a family, and how technology addiction simulates substance abuse in the brain.

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Mike Lemmer
Mike served as the News Director for KNUJ Radio in Southern Minnesota for over a decade before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2014. Mike hosts the morning news on weekdays from 6am-8am, as well as offering his expertise with additional news reporting duties, engineering, live broadcasts, and DJing his music show ALL MiXED UP when time permits. Mike is also the Entertainment Coordinator at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, and occasionally guides cave tours
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