Police Department Donates Grow Lights To School

The Bardstown Police Department is hoping to turn a drug bust into new curriculum for high school students.

Their narcotics unit conducted a search warrant on someone growing marijuana indoors, with Bardstown Police Department confiscating several growing lights. Now, since there’s been a conviction, the department is donating the lights to a local high school.

The Bardstown Police Departments says they usually crush the confiscated items they get and send them to the landfill.

However, with grow lamps being so costly, they decided to donate the lights to Nelson County High School to help with the expansion of their agriculture program.

The lights could help give students hands on experience with their classroom lessons and give them state of the art equipment to work on special projects and businesses.

Senior Cecelia Rogers works as a paid lead in the greenhouse and says the new lights will potentially help create new life for students to work with.

The students are hoping to turn a negative into a positive to grow their vegetable products and use them to create profit for their program in their annual Greenhouse Sale.

Now while the Bardstown Police Department did donate these lights to Nelson County High School, they cannot officially accept them pending a vote by the school board.
Source: WAVE