BRIEFLY : HEALTH CENTER OFFERS FLU SHOTS FOR SENIORS.MOORPARK - Free flu shots will be available for seniors from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Moorpark Senior Center, 799 Moorpark Ave. The flu shots are sponsored by Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. Health Care Services. For an appointment, call (805) 529-6864 Ext. 261. - Daily News Last day to apply for fund committee THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Friday is the deadline to apply for the Community Events Funding Review Committee, which has nine openings. The term of office begins this month and runs for one or two years. Interested applicants must be city residents. For more information, contact the Thousand Oaks City Clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". , 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91362, (805) 449-2151. - Daily News Suspect won't face jail attack charge VENTURA - Facing the prospect of a life sentence without the possibility of parole if convicted of strangling a 14-year-old girl, David Ramiro Alvarez will not be charged for what authorities said was an attack on a fellow county jail inmate last month. The District Attorney's Office decided against prosecuting Alvarez because a conviction would not affect Alvarez's sentence if he is convicted of murder and because no one was injured during the Sept. 4 altercation. ``While our office is declining to prosecute this matter . . . we are forwarding a copy of our rejection to you in case you disagree with Verb 1. disagree with - not be very easily digestible; "Spicy food disagrees with some people" hurt - give trouble or pain to; "This exercise will hurt your back" our decision,'' said Chief Assistant District Attorney Gregory Totten, in a letter to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which is handling the murder case. Alvarez, a 24-year-old Ojai resident, faces murder charges in the strangling of Kali Manley of Ojai last December. A judge last week rejected a motion by Alvarez's attorneys to have attempted rape and special circumstance charges thrown out of court, possibly eliminating the hope of parole if the defendant is convicted. - Daily News Bad beef blamed for fair illnesses CARPINTERIA - Health officials in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. County believe tri-tip sandwiches sickened 189 people earlier this month at the California Avocado Festival. Lab work completed this weekend found that clostridium perfringens Clostridium per·frin·gens or Clostridium welchii n. Gas bacillus. Clostridium perfringens Infectious disease An anaerobic gram-positive spore-forming rod, widely distributed in nature and present in the , a bacteria commonly found in meat, caused the sickness, said Rick Merrifield, an environmental health specialist with the county health department. Health officials believe the tri-tip beef sandwiches served Oct. 3 at a Carpinteria Lions Club fund-raising booth caused the food poisonings. The bacteria may have flourished because the meat was prepared Saturday night and reheated the next day. The health agency will follow up with the Lions Club to look into ways to prevent a future outbreak, Merrifield said. No one was hospitalized, but people suffered food poisoning symptoms that included diarrhea and vomiting vomiting, ejection of food and other matter from the stomach through the mouth, often preceded by nausea. The process is initiated by stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain by nerve impulses from the gastrointestinal tract or other part of the body. , officials said. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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