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10/09/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-AM
(LE MARS)---SEASONAL FLU SHOTS WILL NOT BE OFFERED BY FLOYD VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH AFTER TODAY.
FLOYD VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH IS HALTING THE SEASONAL FLU SHOTS BECAUSE THE MANUFACTURER OF THE VACCINE IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE DOSES ORDERED. .
THE LAST PUBLIC SEASONAL FLU CLINIC WILL BE AT THE HINTON COMMUNITY CENTER AT 10 THIS MORNING. VACCINATIONS WILL BE GIVEN UNTIL THE SUPPLY IS GONE.
H-1-N-1 VACCINE INITIALLY WILL BE RESERVED FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. OTHER PRIORITY GROUPS INCLUDE PREGNANT WOMEN, CHILDREN SIX MONTHS THROUGH 24 YEARS OF AGE; HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS AND CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN UNDER SIX MONTHS OF AGE; HEALTHCARE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL PERSONNEL, PERSONS 25 THROUGH 64 WHO HAVE CERTAIN HEALTH CONDITIONS THAT PUT THEM AT INCREASED RISK FROM FLU COMPLICATIONS.
THIS INCLUDES ASTHMA, DIABETES, HEART, RENAL OR LUNG DISEASE, NEUROLOGICAL OR NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES OR IMMUNOSUPPRESSION.
VACCINE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ESTABLISHED PATIENTS AT MEDICAL ASSOCIATES OF FLOYD VALLEY IN LE MARS AND REMSEN CLINICS, AKRON MERCY MEDICAL CLINIC AND MERCY MEDICAL CLINIC IN KINGSLEY. FLOYD VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH WILL OFFER H-1-N-1 VACCINE AT SCHOOL-BASED CLINICS AS WELL AS PUBLIC CLINICS.
MORE INFORMATION MAY BE FOUND AT www.floydvalleyhospital.org
(LE MARS)--A TEACHER WHO EXCELS IN DEALING WITH THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF LEARNERS IS THE LATEST LE MARS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT "EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH."
JAN MUSSON OF CLARK ELEMENTARY WAS NOMINATED FOR THE EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION BY CLARK SCHOOL STAFF.
AS THE RESOURCE ROOM TEACHER FOR 12 YEARS, MUSSON IS CREDITED WITH BRINGING A SMILE AND AN ENCOURAGING WORD INTO THE CLASSROOM WITH A GREAT DEAL OF COMPASSION AND CONCERN. THE CLARK STAFF SAY SHE WELCOMES EACH STUDENT IN A NON-THREATENING, NURTURING, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
AS A DEDICATED TEACHER, SHE IS SAID TO BE UNWAIVERING IN HER SUPPORT OF THE STAFF AND STUDENTS AS WELL AS THE PARENTS OF THE STUDENTS.
(SIOUX CENTER)--DORDT COLLEGE WILL SHOWCASE NEW CLASSROOM FACILITIES NEXT WEEK.
THE NEW RIBBENS ACADEMIC COMPLEX IS A FIVE-AND-A-HALF MILLION DOLLAR COMPLEX WITH ACADEMIC SPACE.
THE PROJECT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR DORDT'S GROWING ENROLLMENT IN ART-GRAPHIC ART, DIGITAL MEDIA FILM PRODUCTION AND TEACHER EDUCATION.
THE OPEN HOUSE AT THE RIBBENS ACADEMIC COMPLEX IS OCTOBER 16TH FROM 1:30-3:30 IN THE AFTERNOON.
THE NURSING EDUCATION FACILITY WILL BE OPEN FROM 2-5 IN THE AFTERNOON. THE NEW FACILITY IN CONVERTED RESIDENTIAL HOUSING OFFERS LAB-CLASSROOM SPACE, STUDY AREAS AND NURSING FACULTY OFFICES. DORDT'S DEGREE PROGRAM BEGUN IN 2005 HAS 100 STUDENTS ENROLLED.
(SIOUX CITY)--YOUR PLANS TO BE UP, UP AND AWAY COULD BE DELAYED IF YOU'RE LEAVING SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT FOR A MINNESOTA DESTINATION.
AIRPORT DIRECTOR CURT MILLER SAYS PASSENGERS ON DELTA AIRLINES' FLIGHTS OUT OF SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME DELAYS RECENTLY.
MILLER POINTS TO A COMBINATION OF INCLEMENT FALL WEATHER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND THE CLOSING OF ONE RUNWAY AT MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
THIS AFFECTED ONE OF FOUR RUNWAYS WHICH IS UNDERGOING A MORE THAN 17-MILLION DOLLAR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE 38-HUNDRED FEET OF PAVING. THE RUNWAY IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN CLOSED UNTIL THE END OF THIS MONTH.
MILLER SAYS AS A SERVICE TO SIOUX GATEWAY CUSTOMERS, THE AIRPORT STAFF WANTED TO MAKE THE PUBLIC AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL INCONVENIENCE.
(SIOUX CITY)--TWO MEN ARE ACCUSED OF BURGLARIZING BUSINESSES IN SIOUX CITY IN THE PAST MONTH.
POLICE ARRESTED CHAD GOTCH AND LARRY GOTCH JUNIOR, BOTH OF MC COOK LAKE, WEDNESDAY.
POLICE RELEASED WRITTEN INFORMATION THAT THEY RESPONDED TO A BURGLARY IN PROGRESS ON SINGING HILLS BOULEVARD AND ARRESTED TWO MEN AFTER A SHORT FOOT PURSUIT.
THEY'RE EACH CHARGED WITH BURGLARIES AT THREE BUSINESSES IN THE SINGING HILLS AREA AS WELL AS CRIMINAL MISCHIEF IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
(SIOUX CITY)--A DECEMBER TRIAL DATE IS SET FOR A SIBLEY MAN CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CRIMES.
ACCORDING TO WRITTEN INFORMATION FROM THE U-S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, 39-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL MAYER OF SIBLEY WAS INDICTED TUESDAY BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN SIOUX CITY.
MAYER IS CHARGED WITH USING A MINOR TO PRODUCE VISUAL SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL BETWEEN MAY AND AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
PROSECUTORS SAY HE KNOWINGLY RECEIVED AND POSSESSED DEPICTIONS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
HE FACES THREE CHARGES OF PRODUCTION, RECEIPT, AND POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
HE WAS IN FEDERAL COURT IN SIOUX CITY TUESDAY AND HAS BEEN RELEASED ON BOND. HIS TRIAL IS SET FOR DECEMBER SEVENTH.
THE SIOUX AND OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICES WERE INVOLVED IN THE INVESTIGATION WHICH LED TO THE INDICTMENT.
VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) ``CBS Evening News' anchor Katie Couric, in Vermillion to receive the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Media Thursday night, says she's never been to South Dakota.
Couric, whose plane was delayed by bad weather, arrived late Thursday afternoon. Asked her impression of South Dakota, she said it's ``very flat.'
But she says the people are warm and friendly.
Couric says her mother is from Omaha, Neb., and that she's never been there, either. She says she needs to get out more.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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