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High Point City Council got a look at one of the city’s two new portable lead-poisoning-prevention storyboards Monday night.

This launch coincides with the National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which starts today.

The storyboards, several feet high and a few panels wide, explain sources for lead and how children can get lead poisoning.

The storyboard, set up at the council meeting, instructs children to pet a stuffed dog toy at the station and then check their hand under a black light, which shows dust particles on their hands. It includes information on lead-poisoning prevention and proper nutrition to alleviate the effects of lead poisoning.

One storyboard will be set up at the Millis Health Education Center, and a second one will travel around the community.

On Oct. 27, the Guilford County Health Department and Lead Safe High Point, an initiative of the city, will host a lead-prevention outreach and awareness campaign in the West End neighborhood.

Contact E.A. Seagraves at 883-4422, Ext. 241, or elizabeth.seagraves@news-record.com