Have you gotten your flu vaccine yet?  No one ever “plans” to get sick, but every year, more than 200,000 Americans are hospitalized because of flu or its complications. The best way to prevent influenza is to get a seasonal flu vaccine. The Sacramento County Immunization Assistance Program is sponsoring two low-cost community flu clinics to help you stay healthy. The clinics will take place from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18 at the Pannell Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road, and 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19 at the Robertson Community Center, 3525 Norwood Avenue. Injectable and intranasal flu vaccines will be available. A $10 donation is requested. The new vaccine is a com

The Sacramento City School District held a board meeting on 10-15-09 at Kennedy high school in which many issues that the school district is facing for the year were discussed in a public forum. The big issue at the board meeting revolved around the hours being to cut to instructional aides who work with special needs children. The aide’s hours are being cut from 6 hours to 5 hours. Some parents were extremely upset about the cuts. One parent Rebekah Norris whose daughter has been going to school for almost 14 years expressed her frustration over the cuts. Ms. Norris said “the budget cuts have put her special needs daughter safety at risk.”Her concerns were of such things as bathroom duti

Sacramento may not be New York or Mexico city, but it can get crowded and the flu can spread quickly. As summer nears, H1N1, also known as swine flu or Mexican flu, is expected to die down before returning in the fall--possibly stronger than it is now. Health officials are eyeing similarities between the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed between 20 and 100 million people, and H1N1 in order to learn more about the path H1N1 might take. Like H1N1, the Spanish flu began in the spring as a new and relatively mild flu but died out as summer arrived. When fall and flu season returned, it turned deadlier. Like H1N1, it's descendant, young adults were targeted by the disease thanks to their healthy