Music, speakers offer anti-meth message

Fifteen bands and artists played, six recovering meth addicts spoke and events including a watermelon-eating contest were held at the Music over Meth concert June 21 at Riverfront Park in Marysville.

"I see it as a great success," Amber Royer, program coordinator for Friday Night Live in Marysville, said of the event.

About 700 people attended, Royer said.

Along with the anti-meth messages from the speakers, several of the bands referred to the impacts of the drug.

"A lot of them," Royer said, "have seen the devastation."

The bands were from this region, she noted, and familiar with the meth problem.

A second concert is planned for next summer, when the concert may switch from daytime to later.

"Maybe an evening event," Royer said. "It was really hot."