Walk With Sally, a non-profit organization committed to providing mentorship programs to children of parents and siblings with cancer, had a hands-on self-defense training day at the 360 Combat Club in Signal Hill on Saturday, February 27. This free event was one of Walk With Sally’s many annual friendship-building activities for local children living with [...]
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Self-defense training day for families affected by cancer
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Education, Health, News
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H1N1 vaccine clinic coming to SH
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Health, News, Safety
The Signal Hill Park Community Center, 1780 E. Hill Street, will host a clinic providing free H1N1 vaccinations on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 10am to noon.
The vaccine is available for anyone over six months of age for whom the vaccine is not medically contraindicated and who has no other usual source of medical care.
Some individuals [...]
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Government privacy breach affects nearly 50,000
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Government, Health, Politics
Submitted by the office of Bonnie Lowenthal
During an Assembly floor session on Tuesday, February 16, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal gathered her colleagues’ signatures in a letter demanding that the Department of
Health Care Services offer more help to thousands of older adults whose credit was put at risk when state health officials printed Social Security numbers on [...]
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In the Red
February 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Community, Health
Long Beach Memorial (LBM) employees have raised awareness of heart disease this month by wearing red and hosting the annual Women’s Heart & Stroke Seminar on Feb. 6, both events attracting hundreds of participants.
While most people know heart disease is the number-one killer of women, many aren’t aware that twice as many American women die [...]
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LB Boot Camp coming to Bixby…no excuses now!
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Community, Health
Long Beach Boot Camp (LBBC), the one-hour outdoor workout, is coming to Bixby Knolls. On Monday, Feb. 1, LBBC will be at Hughes Middle School, 3846 California Ave., at 5:30am (women only) and 6pm (co-ed) then at Los Cerritos Park, 515 West San Antonio Dr., at 9am (women only).
Shannon Paul, founder and owner of LBBC, [...]
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