Purple is not only the color of the Northern Nighthawks. It's also the color of the pancreatic cancer ribbon. The type of cancer Leslie Deaton is currently facing.
Sheriff Sam Page says there were 11 fentanyl-related deaths in the county last year. He hopes new outreach will make a difference, especially among teens.
”Melanoma is a serious skin cancer that derives from melanous sites in your skin which is what gives us our color,” said Leslie Deaton, a nurse practitioner at Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky.