Coachella Valley parents looking to get their kids vaccinated against coronavirus have more opportunities this week. Local school districts are hosting vaccination clinics for those 5 years of age and older. Riverside County officials said they are already seeing a steady increase in daily vaccinations as the pediatric-sized doses roll out for 5- to 11-year-olds.
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Two new residents of The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, rhinos Jaali and Nia, have arrived at their new Palm Desert home. Calling the cross-country trip “rhinormous,” Zoo officials shared video and insight on how Jaali and Nia made their way to Coachella Valley. The Zoo previously told News Channel 3 that Jaali comes from
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The city of Palm Springs celebrated the grand opening of its new Downtown Park Thursday night. FIRST LOOK: Walk with me through the new @CityofPS Downtown Park ahead of its 5:30pm grand opening tonight! ABBA cover band performs at 6:30pm! pic.twitter.com/rzggbcTN3L— Jake Ingrassia (@JakeKESQ) October 21, 2021 Hundreds of people turned out to celebrate the
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LifeStream Blood Bank’s Second Annual Dream Raffle is underway. Tickets are $25 each and only 5,000 will be sold. Organizers hope the high chances of winning and the selection of prizes will motivate this year’s fundraising efforts. This year’s grand prize winner will get a choice: take home a 2021 Ford Bronco Sport or $20,000
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WASHINGTON (AP) – FDA advisory panel endorses booster doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine. Thursday, a panel of U.S. health advisers endorsed booster shots for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to recommend a lower-dose booster shot for seniors and other high-risk groups. Already millions who
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PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – Palm Springs’ weekly street fair is set to returnto its pre-COVID layout alongside Fall hour scheduling today. This Thursday’s VillageFest will extend from Amado Road to BaristoRoad on Palm Canyon Drive for the first time since its July reopening. The street fair will also begin an hour earlier, at 6 p.m., and rununtil
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JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio is now designated as a Level 4 Trauma Center. Officials celebrated Thursday morning at the hospital. “As the first Level 4 Trauma Center in Riverside County and the first trauma center in the Eastern Coachella Valley, JFK Memorial Hospital will provide 24/7 advanced trauma life support to patients in need.” said Todd
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One valley school district is working toward cleaner air in the classroom, deploying new technology – and spending millions of dollars on it. Thousands of portable, commercial grade air filters have been installed in every Palm Springs Unified School District classroom plus some work spaces, purifying all of the oxygen in a 1,300 sq. ft.
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Here are the latest numbers from the COVID-19 trackers of active cases in the public school systems, according to the Coachella Valley school districts. Palm Springs Unified School District PALM SPRINGS (CNS) – The Palm Springs Unified School District reported 43 active COVID-19 cases among students and staffers today. According to the district’s online
Continue ReadingSouth Coast AQMD Issues Odor Advisory for Eastern Coachella Valley, valid through Tuesday July 27, 2021. This advisory is in effect through Tuesday evening. South Coast AQMD will issue an update if additionalinformation becomes available. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued an odor advisory for the Eastern Coachella Valley due to elevated
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Millions of families have been sent the first payment in the expanded child tax credit. The payments were approved as part of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that President Joe Biden signed into law in March. On Thursday, Congressman Raul Ruiz, MD will be holding a roundtable discussion on how these payments will impact Coachella
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DAP Health sexual wellness clinic is offering free human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or sexually transmitted diseases (STI) testing services and treatment as it sees a surge of infections during the pandemic. “Through the pandemic up until the present day we’ve seen an increase of about 30% of new HIV cases.” said C.J. Tobe, director of
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The summertime heat in the Coachella Valley is brutal for many, especially people experiencing homelessness. Cooling centers open in the summer for people to find relief. Tuesday, July 6th, a 24-hour cooling center will be available to people in the community at United Methodist Church of Palm Springs (1555 E. Alejo Rd.). This cooling center
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As summer temperatures set in, so does the need to beat the heat. The Westfield Mall in Palm Desert gave residents that very opportunity on Saturday as they hosted a “Hello Sunshine” event. It went from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. inside the mall “We are celebrating summer and celebrating indoors and being cool with
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With National Mosquito Control Awareness week underway, Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District are pushing for residents to take action to avoid the pesky biters from spreading diseases. In Coachella Valley vector control says there are three mosquito species that carry West Nile Virus, Dengue, and Zika. In 2016 the Aeedes Aegypti Mosquito was
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INDIO, Calif. – The month of June marked a sign of the times; June 15 was the first time in more than a year the state of California scrapped most of its pandemic-era restrictions, allowing the economy to fully reopen without capacity limitations and guidance for social distancing. Businesses around the state and in the
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Riverside County awarded a certificate of appreciation to Eisenhower Health for being one of the county’s top vaccine distributors. The county’s public health officer, Geoffery Leung, said over 66,000 vaccines were distributed by Eisenhower Health. That’s about one in every 30 vaccines given in Riverside County. The hospital ranks among the top five distributors in
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Coachella Youth Golf is a new program aimed to provide a way for local junior golfers, grades 6-12, to compete and grow the game. O.D. Vincent – Co-founder of Coachella Youth Golf”It’s so obvious that this is so needed in the valley. I just couldn’t believe it didn’t exist.” Randy Duncan – GM SilverRock”Here at
Continue ReadingBy Rett Nelson IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (East Idaho News) — A local woman is hoping to win a national contest and she’s asking for your support. Jo Lawrence has been a personal trainer at the YMCA in Idaho Falls for many years and works as a trainer and nutrition coach at Melaleuca. She’s worked with
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Eisenhower Health is celebrating its 500th procedure of a lifesaving heart procedure: transcatheter aortic valve replacement. It’s a minimally invasive procedure mainly for people who aren’t good candidates for open-heart surgery. Before, medium-risk patients didn’t have an alternative. The director of the transcatheter valve program at Eisenhower Health, Dr. Puneet Khana, was one of the
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