HOPE -- Flu season immunizations for Hope Public School District students, faculty and staff will begin Oct. 17.
District Nurse Renee Sells, RN, said parents may register their children for flu shot clinics at their school through the Arkansas Department of Health website at https://ADHSchoolFluPreReg.Arkansas.gov online.
Sells said the district immunizations will begin at the Hope Head Start unit on the Yerger Middle School campus in the morning hours on Oct. 17, to be followed by shots for YMS faculty and staff in the afternoon.
Shots will be available all day Oct. 18 for Clinton Primary School students and personnel.
Beryl Henry Elementary School shots are set for the morning hours Oct. 19 to be followed by Hope High School in the afternoon; and Hope ABC Preschool is scheduled for the morning of Oct. 20, with the Hope Academy of Public Service campus to follow that afternoon.
The series of flu clinics at public school campuses will precede the annual Hempstead County Mass Flu Clinic at Hempstead Hall on Oct. 28 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. That event is open to the general public.