Archive for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Steamboat Briefs: City will offer RSS feed for local news updates
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Lauren Mooney, assistant to Steamboat Springs City Manager Jon Roberts, said Thursday that the city is offering an RSS feed that will provide city news updates.
Anyone interested can sign up for the RSS feed on the Web at http://steamboatsprings.net/news.
Mooney said the feed would provide updates on items including changes to meeting times or meeting cancellations, city news releases and more.
Residents who want to sign up for Steamboat Pilot & Today RSS feeds can do so at SteamboatPilot.com/rss.
Visiting Nurse Association offers swine flu vaccine
The Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association is offering the H1N1 vaccine to high-risk priority groups in Routt, Moffat and Jackson counties.
Those groups include:
- Health care workers with direct patient care responsibilities
- Pregnant women
- Household contacts and caregivers of infants younger than 6 months
- Children 6 months through 4 years of age
- Children 5 years to 18 years of age, with underlying health conditions
The vaccine is free and is being offered at drop-in clinics in Routt and Moffat counties in injectable and flu mist forms. It also is available at certain private provider offices in the area. For more information, call the VNA’s flu hot line at 871-7684 or log on to www.nwcovna.info and click on Flu Season 2009.
VNA offering tools to help locals kick nicotine habits
The Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association and Colorado Quit Line can help residents quit their nicotine habit. Call Liz at the VNA at 875-1882. Free counseling, patches and gum are available through the Colorado Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW, or www.coquitlne.org.
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