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Yardley to share healing stories
PLATTSBURGH — Fran Yardley, the Saranac Lake Storyteller, will perform "Finding a Place of Her Own, and Other Healing Stories of the Adirondacks" at Plattsburgh Public Library this evening.
The event, from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m., is part of the Library's "Cabin Fever Story Time Series" and will be held in the second-floor handicapped-accessible auditorium.
Yardley is a longtime storyteller specializing in stories that heal. She is a member of the National Storytelling Healing Alliance and helped create the "Adirondack Arts and Healing Retreat" held at Camp Sagamore annually to help women cancer patients and survivors.
The program is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization program administered locally by the North Country Cultural Center for the Arts.
Vaccines available from Franklin Co.
MALONE — Franklin County Public Health Services will hold the immunization clinics from 9 to 10 a.m. this Wednesday and Wednesday, March 24, at 125 Catherine St., Franklin County Annex, Malone.
A parent with current immunization records must accompany all children, who are eligible for vaccines if health insurance won't cover the cost otherwise. Health Services is unable to bill insurances for adult vaccines, which include Hepatitis A and B, TD, MMR, Menactra and HPV for ages 19 to 26; tDap through age 64; and the shingles vaccine for those older than 60. For information or an appointment, call 481-1709. Walk-ins are welcome.
Blood donor
clinics continue
PLATTSBURGH — The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center continues offering clinics in March.
Here's the schedule: Monday March 15, Willsboro Fire Department; 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday March 17, Saranac Lake High School; noon to 4:30 p.m. Thursday March 18, Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook; 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday March 18, Mooers Fire Department; 8 a.m. to noon March 19, Curtis Lumber, 140 Tom Miller Road, Plattsburgh; 5 to 8 p.m. Monday March 22, Beekmantown Fire Department, Point au Roche; 4 to 7 p.m. Monday March 22, Brushton-Moira American Legion; 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday March 23, Rouses Point Fire Department; 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday March 23, Chateaugay Fire Department; 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday March 24, Wilmington Fire Department; 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday March 25, AuSable Forks Ambulance Service; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday March 26, Alice Hyde Medical Center;
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday March 26, Glens Falls National Bank; 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday March 30, West Chazy Post Office; and 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday March 30, Sam's Club, Plattsburgh.
Walk-in donors are welcome at the Blood Donor Center from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. To sponsor a drive, call 562-7406.
