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Time to roll up sleeve, get flu shot By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb County Public Health Administrator Jane Lux got flu shots along with her staff Tuesday, and they are encouraging everyone else in the county to do the same. “It was amazingly not painful,” she said. Although getting a shot may or may not be painful for some, postponing it can be painful, especially for people more vulnerable to influenza
such as children, senior citizens and pregnant women. Each year thousands of people in the U.S. die from the flu and many more are hospitalized, according to the DeKalb County Health Department. The health department is hosting walk-in flu shot clinics for adults 19 and older Thursday. The department is still waiting on vaccinations to be available for children. Lux said they expect to receive that vaccine in October. Communities as a whole can benefit if more people
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receive the shot, Lux said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu vaccinations prevented an estimated 13.6 million flu cases, 5.8 million Jane Lux medical visits DeKalb Co. and roughly public health 113,000 flu-readministrator lated hospitalizations in the U.S. between 2005 and 2011. “That’s why we are big
into public health prevention because the more people get vaccinated, the more people are protected,” she said. An annual flu shot is recommended because the flu strain changes every year and the shots can only protect people for that amount of time. People should also get the shots before flu season begins, which can start as early as October and can peak in January or February. The DeKalb County Health Department isn’t the only one offering flu shots.
KishHealth System also is offering flu shots at their KishHealth Physician Group locations in Genoa, DeKalb, Plano, Sandwich and Waterman. Flu shots, which are expected to be available next week, will be offered for $28. People should call ahead time to receive a shot, said Theresa Komitas, KishHealth director of marketing and public relations. Lehan Drugs and Schnucks Pharmacy are among the local
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If you go n What: Walk-in flu clinics for adults n When: 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday n Where: DeKalb County Health Department. 2550 North Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb
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LOCAL GOLF COURSES TRY TO BEAT THE HEAT, ECONOMY
SEASONAL ADJUSTMENTS
By DAVID ESPO and JULIE PACE The Associated Press
Barack Obama U.S. president
John Kerry U.S. secretary of state
Sergey Lavrov Russian foreign minister
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said in a nationally televised address Tuesday night that recent diplomatic steps offer “the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons” inside Syria without the use of force, but he also insisted the U.S. military will keep the pressure on President Bashar Assad “and be ready to respond” if other measures fail. Speaking from the East Room of the White House, Obama said he had asked congressional leaders to postpone a vote on legislation he has been seeking to authorize the use of military force against Syria. Acknowledging the weariness the nation feels after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said, “America is not the world’s policeman.” And yet, he added, “When with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional. “Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria.” The speech capped a frenzied 10-day stretch of events that began when he unexpectedly announced he was stepping back from a threatened military strike and first asking Congress to pass legislation authorizing the use of force against Assad. With public opinion polls consistently showing widespreadoppositiontoAmerican
Photos by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com
Mike Gunderson uses a machine to aerate the course near the 14th hole Tuesday morning at Kishwaukee Country Club in DeKalb.
Golf courses cope with unpredictable weather By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com
Golfer John Jacobson of DeKalb hits out of a sand trap on the 10th hole Tuesday at Kishwaukee Country Club in DeKalb.
SYCAMORE – Well before the sun had begun pushing thermometers in Sycamore to extremes Tuesday, Kirk Lundbeck was out loading Sycamore Golf Club’s six water stations with ice. Some water, but mostly ice that he hoped would stay cool all morning for golfers. As the golf course’s su-
perintendent of golf operations, Lundbeck has seen his course on the banks of the Kishwaukee River flood 17 times over the past nine years, but this week he’s dealing with a different menace: unbearable heat. His ground crews were closely monitoring for dangerous “hot spots” on fairways and working to keep golfers hydrated Tuesday.
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See SYRIA, page A6
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