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Even before the pandemic, America's suicide rate was rising. In Tallahassee, the 2012 suicide death of 31-year old Brook Bowers prompted her parents - Mary and Bill - to start a yearly event to raise awareness and resources for local mental health providers. To talk about this year's Labor Day happening at the Alford Greenway are: Mary and Bill Bowers; and Cindy Foster with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Florida.

On tonight’s program: An appeal is pending, but a parent group wins the first round in a legal challenge to Governor DeSantis’s mask mandate ban; There is a Florida precedent for power struggles between the governor and local school districts; Floridians remain politically divided on how to best respond to the pandemic, despite public health experts’ guidance to wear a mask and get vaccinated; Florida’s vaccination rates are starting to climb. But with the Delta variant surging, is it enough?; As Florida’s governor touts monoclonal antibodies, doctors say the treatment is effective, but is NOT the answer to slowing the spread of the coronavirus; And it looks like Apalachicola’s iconic wild oysters may be recovering. But is that process going fast enough?

On tonight’s program: Florida’s governor says after healthcare workers have devoted so much to helping people survive during the pandemic, he doesn’t think they should lose their jobs for refusing to be vaccinated; A university of Miami study suggests some ways in-person school attendance can be made safer in the age of COVID; Years ago, Florida was where the school testing boom got started. Now it may also be where that boom ends; A public corruption scandal in Florida’s Capital City leads to a larger discussion of what should and shouldn’t be considered ethical behavior by government officials; Florida’s manatee population has dropped by 10 percent as the sea cows are starving; And an elementary school helps reinforce positive self-image for its female students by helping them learn they are much more than just the way their hair looks.

Julie M Stamm, Ph.D., neuroscientist and author of The Brain On Youth Sports, discusses the issue of repetitive trauma to the brain. Dr. Stamm focuses on the science behind injuries and the need for parents and the athletic and medical communities to address the issue.

This edition of 411 TEEN welcomes Thomasville High School, home of the Bulldogs, located at 315 S. Hansell St. Thomasville, Georgia. Thomasville High serves a diverse group of young folks. They join the 411 TEEN community participating on a regular basis a panelists. Students will explore and analyze sundry topics and happenings in our universe. This premiere edition discusses the Coronavirus Diaries; student reflect on how their lives have been upended and what they trying to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Oct. 14, Tallahassee's LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts will open an exhibit featuring giant photographs of 17 outstanding women from the local community, all 65 and older. Each photo will be accompanied by a revelatory haiku. To talk about the exhibit and its significance are: Project originator Eleanor Dietrich; Cherry Alexander, one of the portrait subjects; Powell Kreis, programming director of LeMoyne; Becki Rutta, the project's photographer; and Mary Jane Ryals who authored the portrait haikus.

On tonight’s program: After failing to get their proposal on the 2020 ballot, advocates are once again collecting signatures to put before voters a move to legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida; A Florida doctor shares his experience treating COVID-19 patients; Today, misinformation seems to be everywhere. A university initiative arms students with the tools to help them spot it; The new director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who used to be an astronaut himself, talks of future spaceflights while recalling the U-S space program’s past glories; Scientists are learning lots more about how coral reefs protect coastal areas from storms; And environmental groups cheer a plan to cut down on Styrofoam use in Florida.

Five Florida school districts are again challenging a Department of Health rule that bans mandatory mask policies. The rule is an outgrowth of an executive order from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Leon County School District along with 10 others are facing potential fines over their mandatory mask policies. The State Board of education is slated to take up findings that the districts have, or are, violating the state’s effort to ban mandatory masking.

A small group of intrepid kayakers embarks on a 100-plus mile paddle trip in early October. They'll be traversing the Apalachicola River in Northwest Florida from Chattahoochee to the coastal community that bears the river's name. Some of this year's paddlers talk about it: Georgia Ackerman, Apalachicola Riverkeeper; Martha Haynes; Lee Rigby; and Rob Diaz de Villegas who is also a video producer and environmental reporter for WFSU Public Media.