This powerful video by Larry Mendte appeared in the Mail Tribune May 24, 2019. It’s about a subject none of us want to think about: kids drowning. In Oregon, drowning surpasses all other causes of death to children age 14 and under.

Larry Mendte is a television, radio, online and print anchor and reporter and a multiple Emmy-award winning commentator based in the New York area. His commentaries have been syndicated around the country. He first started at KIEM in Eureka, California.