Forum Health to offer flu vaccine clinic

Forum Health to offerflu vaccine clinic
CORTLAND -- Forum Health Elm Road Immediate Care will offer flu vaccines for adults and others considered high risk at 8 a.m. Nov. 12 at Elm Road Medical Park, 2630 Elm Road.
The cost for the vaccine is $20 and is free for those with traditional Medicare coverage.
Preference will be given to people considered at risk. Those not at high risk may be requested to forgo the vaccination.
People considered high risk are adults 65 years and older; people 2 to 64 with underlying chronic medical conditions; children 6 months to 18 years on chronic aspirin therapy; women who will be pregnant during the influenza season; residents of nursing home and long-term care facilities; health-care workers involved in direct patient care; out-of-home caregivers; and household contacts of children under 6 months of age.
Man's trial date set
STRUTHERS -- Judge James R. Lanzo set a trial date of March 21, 2005, for Robert J. Vanderpool, 29, of 3941 Riley St.
Vanderpool is charged with child endangerment, drug abuse and menacing. He was arrested in May during a traffic stop. At the time, according to police, Vanderpool had his 18-month-old daughter in the car and he had been smoking marijuana.
The report says both the car and the child's clothes and hair smelled of marijuana smoke. Police confiscated a suspected marijuana cigarette and a blunt from the vehicle's ashtray and change compartment.
Railroad open house
AUSTINTOWN -- The Youngstown Model Railroad Association is set to have its 2004 open house from noon until 6 p.m. today and Sunday and Nov. 13 and 14 at 751 North Four Mile Run Road. A donation of $3 per person is requested, children under 12 with an adult are free.
Blood-pressure screenings
YOUNGSTOWN -- Blood-pressure screenings will be available from 11:30 am. until 1 p.m. Sunday as part of the spaghetti dinner at St. Patrick Church on Oak Hill Avenue. Informational brochures about Wick Neighbors, Inc., will be available and artists' renderings of the Smoky Hollow redevelopment project also will be on display.
School open to walkers
LEETONIA -- The village school district's K-12 building will be open 4 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday when school is in session for community members who wish to walk for exercise but avoid winter weather. School officials encourage walkers to walk in pairs or carry a cellular phone in the event of a medical emergency. Emergency information forms and sign-in sheets are at the front desk. Walkers are to sign in each time they are in the building.
Probing drive-by shooting
AUSTINTOWN -- Police are investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred Friday afternoon at a house while nobody was home.
A witness reported seeing the passenger extend his arm out the front passenger window of an older model, two-door, dark gray Pontiac Grand Am occupied by two men, and hearing six shots.
The shots, fired from a .40-caliber handgun, hit the house at 116 S. Inglewood Ave. at 2:44 p.m., one of them putting a hole in a microwave cabinet, according to Police Lt. Robert Gavalier. There were no injuries and the motive is unknown, Gavalier said.