Giving Bee

9Health Fair – April 24

7:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Oshkosh Grade School

Sponsors: Volunteers of America

Garden County Health Services

Blood Chemistry Screening of 31 components includes a full cholesterol reading, liver function, blood sugar, thyroid and more. $30

(12 hour fast – drink water and take meds)

Pre-draw March 26 from 5:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Garden County Hospital

Appointments required – call Volunteers of America 308-778-5548.

Other Screenings

Blood cell count $15
PSA - blood test for prostate cancer $25 (men 50 and older or family history)
Colorectal Cancer Take-Home Kit $20 (50 and older)
Blood Pressure
Glucose - finger stick if have risk factors
Height/Weight/BMI
Vision
Memory
Stress Management
Talk with a Health Professional

Giving Bee

One woman started volunteering — making cloth bags and quilts — after hearing that children taken into the foster care system are removed from their homes with a little bit of nothing, and that in a black plastic bag. A group of women, on learning about this, started making cloth bags for foster children and filled them with socks, underwear and toothbrushes.

The women now meet in an empty room in an old school building and make bags and quilts. They have decided that every child taken into foster care will be given a quilt of their own. As they made more and more quilts they have branched out and now give quilts to the neighboring region of the state and to all the boys at an adolescent group home every Christmas.