Columbia Today: Oct. 14, 2009
Today’s News
The Volunteer Action Center is accepting applications for its 26th annual Christmas Program. The Program pairs low-income families with donor families. The donor family provides food and at least one new gift for each child and elderly or disabled person in the receiving household. Read more here.
The first batch of H1N1 vaccines includes 900 doses of the nasal spray FluMist. The vaccine is approved for people ages 2 through 49, and will go first to pregnant women, young children and health care professionals who potentially treat those with the H1N1 novel flu. The health care will be ordering the maximum number of vaccines that they are able to, but for the meantime they offer a seasonal flu vaccine. The Missourian has more here.
Nellie Dodd, a Columbia resident whose heart started failing in 1995, just received a heart transplant from a cadaver donor. Throughout her long wait, she attended MU volleyball games, and credits these games with sustaining her until she received a new heart. The Missourian has the whole story here.
Mizzou’s Human-Companion Interaction class yesterday morning played host to a miniature horse named Cookie to demonstrate the benefits of human and animal interactions in situations in which patients have Dementia, children are hospitalized and more. For the whole story, go here.
What’s Happening?
The movie "Departures," which features cellist Daigo Kobayashi as he adjusts to preparing bodies for the crematorium at a morgue, starts at 8 p.m. in Wrench Auditorium in Memorial Union.
Comedy Wars appears in Bengal Lair, Memorial Union, at 9:30 p.m. to battle again, improv style.
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