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El Rio, Food City offer back-to-school shots
El Rio Community Health Center is working with Food City to offer free back-to-school immunization clinics.
Here's when and where they'll be held:
• 1 to 4 p.m. today at Food City, 1221 W. Irvington Road.
• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Food City, 3923 N. Flowing Wells Road.
• 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 6 at Food City, 2000 E. Irvington Road.
Organizers are braced for big crowds this year and are stressing to parents not to get caught off guard when enrolling their children for school and to remember new immunizations could be needed.
Don't forget to bring your child's shot records to the immunization clinic.
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For more information, call 205-4947 or go online to www.elrio.org
sahuarita
Madera Highlands gets ice cream party
Dreyer's Ice Cream sponsored an ice cream party Sunday for some residents in Madera Highlands in Sahuarita.
Dreyer's has a contest every summer for a chance for a neighborhood to win a neighborhood ice cream party — the company provides all the goodies and the winners are featured on the Dreyer's Web site.
Carrie Lane, a resident of Madera Highlands, entered the contest; she had to write a brief essay on why her neighborhood deserves to win.
"Our neighborhood is very closely knit, slower-paced and a bit old-fashioned," Lane wrote in her essay.
Dreyer's sent a "party in a box" package to Lane with all the supplies to host a summer block party for up to 100 friends and neighbors.
Dreyer's sends packages to 1,500 neighborhoods nationwide.
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Nonprofit seeks vehicle donations
Global Community Communication Alliance, a local nonprofit group, is seeking vehicle donations for its outreach programs.
Most beneficial to their efforts would be a donation of a 16- to 22-foot Class B or C RV, a step van, refrigerated box truck, regular box truck, golf carts, or any running passenger car. No junk vehicles will be accepted.
Vehicles will be put to immediate use and allow Global Community to provide services to a greater number of people in need through its Personality Integration Rehabilitation Program.
This program helps rehabilitate troubled youth and young adults through a residency program involving counseling, training in agriculture and spiritual encouragement.
Central to these efforts are the gardening and animal husbandry activities residents participate in at Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm and Ranch in Tumacácori. Animal husbandry is an agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.
The program is rounded out through education and job training.
All donations are tax-deductible.
For more information, call Michael White at 403-6271.
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