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SAN DIEGO – A Vista High School student was diagnosed with tuberculosis, prompting county health officials Monday to notify classmates, faculty and staff who may have been exposed.School officials have notified about 120 students, teachers and staff that were potentially exposed to the disease between March 1-28, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency.

“Tuberculosis is in our community,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer. “Fortunately, it is curable. We want the public to be informed about TB, in hopes of keeping the disease from spreading.”

Symptoms of active TB include persistent cough, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss, according to the HHSA. Most people who are exposed to tuberculosis do not develop the disease.

There were 280 cases of tuberculosis reported in San Diego County in 2007, according to the HHSA. So far, there have been 46 cases of the disease reported locally this year.

http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/cocaine_2982___article.html/wielenga_officials.html

April 3, 2008

NEWBERRY SPRINGS - Officials confiscated approximately $1 million worth of cocaine during a routine traffic stop late Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 40 at Newberry Springs.

During the traffic stop, officials said the driver began acting suspiciously. While searching the vehicle officials said they uncovered 25 kilograms of cocaine according to Sgt. Gregg Wielenga of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s High Intensity Criminal Interdiction Team.

“This is our biggest seizure of 2008 so far,” said Wielenga. “This was obviously part of a large drug-trafficking operation.”

On the street, a kilogram of cocaine is worth approximately $40,000, making the entire load worth $1 million, he said.
The vehicle transporting the cocaine had began its journey in the Los Angeles-area with North Carolina as the destination, said Wielenga. The origin of the cocaine or where it entered the U.S. is still unknown.

Deputy Antonio Juarez was conducting the stop due to the driver’s failure to wear a seat belt, when the driver’s actions warranted a search of the vehicle, said Wielenga.

A Patriot was sentenced for ripping up a Mexican flag that was flying alone on U.S. soil.

http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=8103472 

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - An Albuquerque jury today convicted a University of New Mexico student who hauled down and ripped apart a Mexican flag flying over the campus last year.

Peter Lynch, 30, had claimed he acted out of patriotism, not racism, but jurors agreed with the prosecution that he committed criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor.

The jury heard testimony on Monday and closing arguments this morning.  The verdict was returned shortly after noon.

El Centro de la Raza, a student group that claimed ownership of owned the flag, called it an act of racism.  Shortly after the incident Lynch told KRQE News 13 he wanted to replace the flag for them.

However Lynch, who did not testify during the trial, has said it was inappropriate for a foreign flag to be flying alone on U. S. soil.  The Mexican flag had been raised with administration permission for a campus event, and it later came out the U. S. flag was missing because of a communication breakdown involving UNM ROTC cadets.

Lynch said he alerted UNM officials that the Mexican flag was alone, but no one did anything.

Today in court his attorney said he was protecting an American symbol.

“I respectfully submit to you if the constitution on the First Amendment permits burning an American flag belonging to another, Peter Lynch’s actions protecting the symbol of the United States is protected activity,” defense attorney John D’Amato said in his closing argument.

But prosecutors said Lynch took it too far.

“There is no reasonable doubt in this case,” assistant district attorney Greer Rose told jurors.  “We have two different admissions by the defendant that he ripped this flag in half and testimony he didn’t have permission to do that.”

Lynch is not happy with the decision plans to appeal.

“We were fairly disappointed with the verdict, and we’ll see where it goes from here,” D’Amato said as he left the courtoom.

Immediately after the verdict Metro Court Judge Clyde DeMersseman sentence Lynch to a six-month deferred sentence plus anger management, 48 hours of community service and supervised probation.  He also must replace the flag for El Centro de la Raza.

News 13 contacted Centro de la Raza for their opinion on the verdict and sentencing, but a representative did not want to comment.

Also today KRQE.com Web Question asked for opinions on Lynch destroying the Mexican flag.  By late afternoon the responses were:

• 86 percent saying it Lynch was right
• 14 percent saying he was wrong

http://www.enewscourier.com/statenews/local_story_093111653.html

WAYCROSS, Ga. (AP) — A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently were mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, authorities say.

That led the third-graders, as many as nine boys and girls, to plot an attack on the teacher at Center Elementary School in south Georgia.

Police Chief Tony Tanner said the students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife.

The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child’s job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, and another was supposed to clean up after the attack.

“We’re not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher,” Tanner said.

School officials had alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had taken a weapon to school.

Tanner said the teacher told detectives the children weren’t known as troublemakers.

“You can’t dismiss it,” Tanner said. “But because they are kids, they may have thought this was like a cartoon — we do whatever and then she stands up and she’s OK. That’s a hard call.”

The purported target teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.

Two of the students were arrested on juvenile charges Tuesday and a third arrest was expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said other students told investigators they didn’t take the plot seriously or insisted they had decided not to participate.

“Some of the kids said, ‘We thought they were just kidding,”’ Currie said. “Another child was supposed to bring a toy pistol, and he told a detective he didn’t bring it because he thought he would get in trouble.”

Currie said the children are too young to be charged as adults, and probably too young to be sentenced to a youth detention center.

“We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely,” Tanner said. “We feel like if they weren’t interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don’t know.”

Currie said he decided to seek juvenile charges against two girls, ages 9 and 10, who brought the knife and paperweight and an 8-year-old boy who brought tape. He said they face charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls are being charged with taking weapons to school.

Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.

School system policy says any student who brings “anything reasonably considered to be a weapon” is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis.

El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 4/1/08

Organized Mexican narco traffic has succeeded in virtually occupying Guatemala after creating powerful and dangerous organizations of Guatemalans to smuggle Colombian cocaine to Mexico and the U.S. and by penetrating a series of strategic political, business, police, security and judicial systems. Allied in the multimillion dollar business of narco traffic, Mexicans and Guatemalans have cast a web of corruption that brought death, fear and silence in Guatemala. “If we say that Mexico is a narco state, Guatemala is a criminal state,” said Iduvina Hernandez, director of Security in Democracy, a nongovernmental organization. “Guatemala suffers a transnational siege by organized crime.” The crisis of the incursion in Guatemala by the Sinaloa, Tijuana, Gulf and Juarez cartels, among others, was revealed last Tuesday with the gun battle between narco groups in a town east of Guatemala City that left 11 dead. “The slaughter put in headlines a reality that was a secret for too long,” added Hernandez.

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El Universal (Mexico City) 4/1/08

1. Four municipal police and a public official died of gunshots in an ambush by an armed group in Ayutla, Guerrero. The public Security and Protection Agency (SSPPC) reported that five police officers and two public officials traveling in a patrol vehicle were fired upon yesterday resulting in the five deaths and two wounded. The attackers then took their money and firearms.

2. In Ocampo, Guanajuato, after an 18-hour search, police and military located the bodies of three executed smugglers after a fourth one reported the killings. The group of four had been attacked by an armed group and left for dead. However, one was only wounded and made the report. The police later arrested two suspects. “The victims and the aggressors were involved in the illegal traffic of people destined to the U.S.,” the official noted.

3. In crimes related to organized crime yesterday, four people, one of them a 15-year-old, were killed in Sinaloa, two in Durango, two in Morelos and another who died from a shooting last Friday, and six in Chihuahua. In Tabasco, a police chief was wounded and his neighbors’ houses shot up when gunmen fired some 80 rounds at him.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/1/08

1. The Mexican government will send a delegation to Nicaragua to plan the transfer of eight members of the Sinaloa drug cartel confined in a maximum security prison near Managua. The “special commission” will arrive in Managua within the next 20 days to coordinate the transfer of the prisoners to Mexico to complete their sentences. Some 21 members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the eight Mexicans, have been confined since last April serving sentences of 10 to 22 years. The group was convicted of drug trafficking and possession of restricted firearms. The Sinaloa cartel had bought a ranch 40 miles north of Managua where they constructed a clandestine landing strip to transport drugs from South America. The petition for the transfer was made by the Mexican government which has great interest in having their nationals complete their sentences in Mexico where they are considered “high risk.” The group had failed in an escape attempt last October.

2. The Mexican government sent a diplomatic note of protest to the U.S. regarding the Supreme Court decision rejecting the judgment of the International Court of Justice to revise the death sentences of 51 Mexicans in the U.S. The message informed the U.S. that Mexico reserves the right to continue pursuing, by all means available, respect for the international Court’s decision.
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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja California) 4/1/08

The states of Jalisco and Zacatecas are Mexico’s principal suppliers of cheap underage labor to the U.S. In the past five years, the flight of minors has continued to increase due to a lack of economic opportunity as well as the lack of hope for improved conditions. These kids often cross the border intending to work a few months, but then do not return home until after they become adults. An investigative report by the University of Guadalajara stated, “unfortunately, when minors cross the border they nearly always end up in juvenile prostitution, drugs and frequently kidnapped by smugglers. Some return, but others die and no one knows under what circumstances.”
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 4/1/08

An encounter between police and military in Juarez, Chihuahua resulted in one policeman gravely wounded. In the confrontation, six municipal police were arrested for transporting marihuana and use of unauthorized firearms. The incident took place shortly after midnight today when the police vehicle refused to stop for a military inspection. The soldiers then opened fire.
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Norte (Cd. Juarez) 4/1/08

In an op/ed, a columnist who goes by the name Don Mirone writes, in part, that along with the military operation in Juarez, there will be more attention given to the importation of firearms from the U.S. The port of entry into Juarez is one of the principal points of crossing of such weapons. He claims that “hundreds of assault rifles, pistols and even .50 caliber machine guns pass through the port. He refers to an arrest of three men in El Paso on March 23 having to do with a load of 24 firearms they had acquired in different sales places that they intended to cross over the border. He also cites two men arrested in Mexico on March 25 who had come through the crossing at Santa Teresa with 17 firearms and thousands of cartridges without incident at customs. He calls for increased vigilance by Mexican authorities.

-end of report-

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=6175

http://www.casademaryland.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246 

Mar 31, 2008, by Jason Flanagan, The Examiner

BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Walter Abbott lost his house, his drywall company – twice – and now his freedom.

When he discovered Maryland funds pro-immigration group CASA de Maryland, he fired off an angry letter to Gov. Martin O’Malley containing a threat on the governor’s life.

“It was out of frustration,” Abbott said.

Now is he on home detention awaiting a trial. “[CASA] helps find them a job – an American’s job that they help take away. They took away my job,” said Abbott, 44, of Parkville.

Abbott epitomizes part of the hotly contested immigration debate.

Many people are furious that governments from the General Assembly to the city of Baltimore give millions of dollars to CASA de Maryland, which assists legal and illegal immigrants in finding work, social services and legal aid.

“The state cuts [Chesapeake] Bay funding in half but found millions for CASA’s new headquarters? That’s bordering on criminal if it’s not already criminal,” said Brad Botwin, director of Help Save Maryland, a group opposing illegal immigration.

However, CASA officials said taxpayers’ money should help anyone in need, even if they are here illegally.

“The government should serve everybody – [immigrants] are the house cleaners, the kids going to school. They are part of the community, and part of government’s role is to help the poor and vulnerable,” said Jennifer Freedman, director of development for CASA.

Some state lawmakers tried to halt CASA’s funding and introduce bills to curb illegal immigration. But those bills failed, while bills to support CASA’s efforts passed.

Del. Ron George, R-Anne Arundel, said groups such as CASA make Maryland friendly to illegal immigrants who burden the state’s infrastructure, such as the Motor Vehicle Administration. MVA was processing 1,000 driver’s license a month last year; now it is processing 2,000 a week due to illegal immigrants’ ease of obtaining licenses.

WHAT CASA DOES

CASA does provide humanitarian work such as AIDS/HIV testing, youth counseling and financial education to low-income immigrants, and is considered the largest and most organized group reaching the immigrant community.

But the political and legal aspect of CASA has many questioning government support.

A pamphlet by CASA tells immigrants not to say anything, answer the door or provide identification to immigration and law enforcement officials. CASA asks its members to carry a card saying the person will not speak and demands a lawyer.

Each time Freedman was asked why CASA serves illegal immigrants, she referred to CASA’s mission statement of helping all low-income immigrants.

“We can do that without asking immigration status,” she said.

When asked if CASA would report its clients if they were found to be here illegally, Freedman again said, “We serve everyone in need who walks through our door.”

She added that CASA’s policy is no different from other nonprofits like Catholic Charities, which did not return calls for comment on its policies.

At CASA’s Baltimore center, where immigrants can find work, a man who identified himself as Ennrique said, “The community here is united, and [CASA has] been helping the community.”

About 2 percent of the city’s population is Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which does not ask for immigration status, just ethnicity and place of birth.

WHO PAYS?

More than $2 million in money from local governments this year went to fund CASA, mostly from Montgomery, which has the highest Hispanic concentration in the state, according to the Census Bureau.

Baltimore City gave much less, mainly for grants to promote job placement and AIDS health education.

Mayor Sheila Dixon’s office did not return several calls for comment.

The state government doled out $628,000 in bonds and grants in 2005 and 2006, and is considering paying another $500,000 next fiscal year for CASA’s multicultural center in Prince George’s.

Since 2005 the project has received $4.2 million in tax credits for required renovations of the historic mansion the center will occupy.

“Why should we be taxed in order to fund groups of people who shouldn’t be eligible to be funded?” said Dee Hodges, president of the Baltimore-based Maryland Taxpayer’s Association.

No other Baltimore-area counties fund CASA, mainly because the group hasn’t solicited funding.

“Illegal means illegal, and citizens of [Anne Arundel] resent taxpayer dollars going to those who break the law,” said Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold, who opposed funding CASA but supports aid for groups that help people here legally.

WHAT TO DO

To deny CASA funding would be a great disservice to the community, advocates say. Less than half of CASA’s funding comes from governments, but the group uses the money to leverage private donations, Freedman said.

Some have suggested requiring CASA to ask for immigration status from its clients as a reasonable solution.

But CASA will not do such a thing, as it would go against its policy as a humanitarian organization, Freedman said.

CASA’s remedy is to enforce current immigration laws, not create new ones that anti-immigration supporters say are needed to compensate for failing federal laws.

“We recognize it’s a broken system and we look to the federal government for comprehensive immigration reform,” Freedman said.

Others say no matter what CASA does, all of its funding should be cut.

“There should be no CASA de Maryland,” Abbott said.

jflanagan@baltimoreexmainer.com

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/fuel_85574___article.html/prices_martinez.html

http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/police_2964___article.html/rumors_school.html

April 1, 2008

Parents take about 500 students out of BHS after fight; Police step-up presence at school.

BARSTOW — Rumors of more violence following a Monday fight at Barstow High School prompted hundreds of parents to take their children out of school Tuesday.

BHS Principal Claire Ellis said that about 500 students left school on Tuesday after parents became concerned for their safety. The Barstow Police Department increased the number of officers on and around the Barstow High School campus as well and despite no fights occurring Tuesday, intends to continue patrols throughout the week.

“When people are worried, it’s difficult to assuage people’s fears,” Ellis said after the school day ended on Tuesday. “We all want our school to be safe.”

The school was never locked down, Ellis said, and parents were free to pick up their children if they wanted to throughout the day. Besides fewer students and smaller classes, the day proceeded without incident, she said.

On Monday, several students were involved in a fight on campus that appears to have started at a party over the weekend, Ellis said. Rumors then started that there would be further violence at school, possibly during a lunch period, on Tuesday. Ellis said that because of the rumors, parents were notified of the situation at the school Tuesday morning through the district’s automated phone system. Hundreds of parents mobbed BHS after receiving the calls and stood in lines at the school’s attendance office.

Parked in a long line of cars outside the school, Alfred Duran said he didn’t know what to expect as he waited for his son, a BHS freshman.

“I’m pulling my son out,” he said. “Who knows what could happen? I ain’t going to take any chances.”

BHS senior Amanda Belmont, 17, stood on the steps waiting for her grandparents to pick her up early. She was going to go to her lunch period but saw only three or four students remaining in each class and became scared that something might happen.

“I leaving. I’m afraid. It might be just a rumor going around,” she said, “but everyone’s taking it seriously.”

Although many students were leaving, the school’s first and second period lunches appeared to go smoothly.

“It’s probably just an April Fool’s Day joke,” said Paige Davidson, a 17-year-old senior. She said she felt safe at the school.

Sgt. Andy Espinoza said the reaction of parents prompted the police department to place three officers on the campus and conduct roving patrols around the campus. He said students used cell phones to text and call parents, notifying of the rumors and police presence. To ensure safety, the police will continue to patrol the school grounds in the coming days, Espinoza said.

The students involved in Monday’s fight were put up for expulsion and not on campus on Tuesday, according to Ellis. Espinoza said the police department has done follow-up checks on the students and is continuing to investigate the matter. Anyone with information can call the police station at 255-2211. To remain anonymous, call WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME or leave information on the WeTip Web site at www.wetip.com.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/31/MN8MV94C7.DTL

At the Center to Aid Migrants in Exodus shelter, would-be immigrants to the United States shared stories of violence at the hands of human smugglers working for drug cartels.

“You used to be able to walk across” the border, said Javier Corazon, 48, who says he lived in Tucson for decades before being deported two years ago. “Now you never know what’s going to happen. They may leave you, beat you or worse.”

The 30 or so beds at the shelter in this small Mexican town near the Arizona border were filled mostly with Mexicans and a few Central Americans, some of whom remain determined to cross the border.

“The only thing they have to look forward to when dealing with the ‘coyotes’ is more abuse,” said Rosa Soto Moreno, a shelter volunteer.

Immigrants as commodities

As U.S. border security has tightened, Mexican drug cartels have moved in on coyotes, human smugglers who are paid to bring illegal immigrants into the United States. The traffickers now use their expertise in gathering intelligence on border patrols, logistics and communication devices to get around ever tighter controls. They are slowly gaining control of much of the illegal passage of immigrants from Mexico to the United States, U.S. border officials say.

“This used to be a family business. The coyote and the migrant were from the same town; they were connected,” said Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, chair of the department of transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o studies at Arizona State University. “Now, because of the so-called security needs of the border, what’s been created is this structure of smuggling in the hands of really nasty people who only treat the migrant as a commodity.”

U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Special Agent Joe Romero and other law enforcement officials say the Mexican drug cartels have even merged human smuggling with drug trafficking, forcing immigrants to act as “mules” in transporting drugs as the price of passage.

“The drug cartels have determined this is big business,” Romero said as he overlooked a narrow strip of desert between El Paso, Texas, and the nearby Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. Drug cartels “control these corridors. Just like we’re watching them here, they’re watching us. … It used to be, ‘Get across the fence and run.’ Now it’s a lot more organized.”

Moreover, crimes committed by drug gangs that have become common in Mexico are now crossing the border, police officials say. Phoenix Police Cmdr. Joe Klima notes that 350 kidnappings were recorded in the city last year, a crime he describes as previously nonexistent.

Another cartel novelty is the numbers of “drop houses” - homes on the U.S. side where illegal immigrants take refuge after crossing the border. Last year, Phoenix authorities discovered a record amount - 163 such sites - according to Alonzo Peña, special agent-in-charge of the Phoenix Office of Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Not surprisingly, Arizona police say there have been numerous reports of violence committed at drop houses, usually when immigrants fail to pay the entire fee. Peña says many typically pay half in Mexico and half after they cross the border.

Phoenix tries new strategy

Klima and Peña say tighter border controls in Texas have made Arizona a more popular spot for crossing the border, forcing them to change tactics. In the past, officials mainly targeted illegal immigrants for deportation. Now Klima says Phoenix police are relying on a new strategy: reaching out to illegal residents for information on the infrastructure behind the human smuggling business.

Some analysts say that program may be in jeopardy after Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s recent decision to allow police to ask a suspect his or her immigration status - a reversal of a 10-year-old policy - which may make many illegal immigrants reluctant to talk to police. Phoenix is the only major U.S. city that allows its police to ask criminal suspects for residency status.

Meanwhile, drug cartel coyotes from Texas to California are playing an increasingly sophisticated game of cat-and-mouse, of surveillance and countersurveillance, with U.S. authorities, border agents say. When coyotes are caught, violence against U.S. officials is becoming more common. Romero says that even though illegal immigration and crime has decreased in the El Paso area, attacks on U.S. agents have increased by 150 percent.

The rampant violence on both sides of the border has not gone unnoticed by the governments of both nations.

Just last week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent 2,500 soldiers and federal agents to Ciudad Juárez to tamp down a bloody drug war. In October, Calderon and President Bush announced the Merida Initiative, a $550 million aid program to help fight transnational crime and drug cartels, and to improve border security. The White House calls the plan a “new paradigm for security” between the two countries.

But some Democrats have not embraced the initiative. They are upset that they were not consulted and that Mexico receives financial aid while funding for the federal Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program, which provides money for local drug task forces in the United States, has been cut from $520 million to $170 million.

“As long as there is demand for illegal narcotics in the United States, suppliers will sell their cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin on our streets,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said at a February congressional subcommittee hearing on the plan. “So we have to fight the scourge here at home just as we help our partners to the south address the problem in their countries.”

Coyote abandon immigrants

Back at the Agua Prieta shelter, some would-be immigrants to the United States complained that coyote fees had increased dramatically, from $500 in 1993 to $2,500. Others said the coyotes left them at the first sign of the U.S. Border Patrol or when weather conditions worsened. With most of their money in the hands of the coyotes, they had little choice but to return to Mexico.

Gabriel Clemente, 34, said he is looking for work on the Mexican side because of high coyote fees and the increased difficulty in getting across the border without assistance.

Corazon, the migrant worker who lived for years in Arizona, has decided to stay in Agua Prieta, earning $80 a month unloading boxes of food. “This is home now,” he said.

One can only wonder how much this is costing the American tax payer to support medical care and clinics for illegal aliens.  One can also only wonder how much of these services will be put to use by American citizens or how many American’s will be turned away in favor of illegal aliens.  

Kings County Health Care Clinics Schedule For Month Of April 

By Sentinel Staff

Corcoran — Immunization Clinic, Corcoran Clinic, 1002 Dairy, 1 to 3:30 p.m., every 1st Monday, April 7.

Lead Clinic, same schedule as Immunization Clinic.

Hanford — Immunization Clinic, in the Mobile Unit at the new Wal-Mart Parking Lot (12th Ave), 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., every Tuesday, April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.

Immunization Clinic, 330 Campus Drive, 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., every Wednesday, April 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30.

Lead Clinic, 330 Campus Drive, 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., every 2nd and 4th Monday, April 14 and 28.

Adult Immunization Clinic and Travel Immunizations, 330 Campus Drive, 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m., every 1st Thursday, April 3.

Appointments are required.

Kettleman City — Immunization Clinic, 304 Becky Pease, 9 to 11 a.m., every 3rd Monday, April 21.

Lead Clinic, same schedule as Immunization Clinic.

Family Planning

For more information and appointments, please call 582-2795.

Walk-in Pregnancy Testing are provided on Mondays in Hanford, 8 to 10:45 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m.

Avenal Health Clinic — 590 Skyline, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., every 1st Tuesday, April 1.

Corcoran Health Clinic — 1002 Dairy Avenue, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., every 2nd Tuesday, April 8.

Hanford Health Clinic — 310 Campus Drive, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, Tuesday-Friday, April 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 30. (except 3rd and 4th Tuesday 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.)

Women Infant and

Children Supplemental

Nutrition Program (WIC)

For appointments and information, please call 582-0180.

Avenal — Avenal Health Clinic, 590 Skyline, April 3, 4, 7, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21 and 25.

Corcoran — Corcoran Health Clinic, 1002 Dairy, April 1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 22, 23 and 30.

Hanford — WIC Office, 310 Campus Drive, April 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29 and 30.

Kettleman City — Kettleman City Health Clinic, 304 Becky Pease, April 14.

Lemoore — Lemoore Health Clinic, 229 “C” Street, April 1, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29 and 30.

Lemoore NAS — Fleet and Family Support Center, 930 Franklin Ave., April 2 and 16.

Communicable

Disease Services

The following services are available by appointments. Please call 584-1401 for services or more information.

Confidential HIV Testing and Results — 330 Campus Drive, Walk-in Service 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., every Monday-Friday (except Tuesday).

HIV/AIDS case management and medical services. Sexually transmitted disease clinic — 330 Campus Drive, 8 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., Monday thru Thursday 1 to 4 p.m., Fridays.

Appointments are required.

Employment and School

Tuberculosis Clearance

Avenal — Avenal Clinic, 590 Skyline, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., every 2nd Wednesday, April 9.

Corcoran — Cororan Clinic, 1002 Dairy, 9 to 11:30 a.m., every 3rd Wednesday, April 16.

Hanford — 330 Campus Drive, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., every Monday, Tuesday, and every other Friday, April 1, 4, 7, 8, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 28 and 29. With extended hours on 3rd and 4th Tuesday (Standard time 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.).

Lemoore — Lemoore Clinic, 229 “C” Street, 1:30 to 4 p.m., every 3rd Wednesday, April 16.

Kettleman City — Kettleman City Clinic, 304 Becky Pease, 2 to 4 p.m., every 2nd Wednesday, April 9.