WHEELING — Ohio County Schools students living in flood-affected communities will receive a gift of caring from the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District when they return to their classrooms next week.

Representatives from the school district in Monroe County delivered 300 “calm-down kits” to Elm Grove Elementary School on Thursday, and these are also to be shared with students at Middle Creek Elementary School and Bridge Street Middle School. Those schools serve areas hardest-hit by June 14 flash flooding that claimed nine lives.

In the kits are items such as fidgets, candy, lip balm and hand sanitizer — which provides “tactile grounding” for students, according to school counselors. There are also stickers and notes of positive affirmation for students in the kids, and in some case

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