Students in Pinellas County public schools today started receiving the H1N1 vaccine. The school district, along with the Pinellas County Health Department, launched the mass vaccination effort at 16 schools. And the plan is to rotate the mini-clinics to different schools each day. "Wonderful, I think it's a great thing that they're offering it," said Paula Nixon, whose daughter, Grace, attends Madeira Beach Middle School. "There are about 1,300 children at this school, K through 8, and that's a lot of children they're exposed to on a daily basis." ...more

November 9, 2009

The summer of 1952 was a defining year of my life. Up until that summer, I was a typical young Nebraska farm boy, full of energy, loved baseball, loved my mother's fried chicken and gravy, loved her home made (everything was) rhubarb cobbler and had no worries about keeping up with the Joneses; the Joneses didn't have anything either. ...more

October 21, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Families new to Florida schools can get free physicals and immunizations for children before school starts. ...more

August 12, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Families new to Florida schools can get free physicals and immunizations for children before school starts. ...more

August 12, 2009

People who live in and around the city could be in on the cutting edge of a major breakthrough in finding a cure a to a disease that affects many families. ...more

March 18, 2009

The smoky smell of pulled pork wafted through the air Friday at Firemen's Field as volunteers prepared about 300 meals to be sold for $6 each in support of a former Sebring police dispatcher, stricken with polio who needed a $6,000 Hoyer lift. ...more

March 14, 2009

Life dealt Lake Placid resident Bill O'Brien a tough hand when he contracted polio as a 3-month-old baby, but throughout his struggles with the disease he's made the most of it. ...more

January 25, 2009

Local Rotarians are organizing a classical music concert to raise money for polio-endemic countries. ...more

October 4, 2008

Rotary clubs around the world are committed to raising $100 million to erase the number of polio-endemic countries. ...more

September 11, 2008

Reading what's on everyone's mind in various media takes me back to my childhood, where I enjoyed some wonderful experiences with my grandfather. He was an astute businessman and was affectionately known to his nine children as "the boss." He arrived in the Midwest from Ellis Island in the late 1800s and began to build his family's future, homesteading on a 160-acre Nebraska farm. His hard work, entrepreneurial spirit, shrewd business practices and persistence resulted in ownership of several farms and numerous bank accounts. ...more

September 9, 2008