YMCA Hosts Annual Turkey Run

Back again for the 15th year, the YMCA Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot is a fun, family-friendly event open to all ages and abilities. Burn some calories before your holiday meal by running or walking in person or virtually (Trot at Home).

There’s never a shortage of activities, and the YMCA invites you and your family to join them for what will be another beautiful fall at the Lincoln Y. Read more in their November highlight.

Home for the Holidays

Most of us look forward to gathering with friends and family over the holidays. Missing out on it because we’re home, sick in bed, really stinks.

Being sick any time is no fun. Being sick over the holidays or infecting your loved ones when you meet for holidays dinners is even worse. Older family members and babies under 6 months are particularly at risk of serious illness and hospitalization.

The sooner you and your family get vaccinated, the less likely you are to be down with the flu over the holidays.  

Separate flu facts from flu fiction in our latest Health & the City column in the Lincoln Journal Star, cowritten with LNKTV Health.

LPS Wellness Program

The Super Friends of Wellness

The LPS Wellness Program brings together wellness champions in a variety of areas in the school system to advocate for student health.

Like the Super Friends League of Justice, PE and health teachers, nutrition services, LPS counselors and social workers, and before and after school programs are wellness super heroes for LPS students, helping kids to be their best selves with a "super" future.

Learn more in their November highlight.

Dr. Rauner Update

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Bob Rauner, MD, MPH, President of Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln is a public health expert. In his latest video, Dr. Rauner answers questions about COVID, flu, and RSV and looks at:

• how 3 years of data debunks persistent COVID myths
• how to keep people on the job, keep kids in school, protect older and vulnerable family members at holiday time, and guard against overwhelming our hospitals,
• Novavax vs. the mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna) COVID vaccines, and
• what the future might hold.

Find more information.

LNKTV Health

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If you didn't get a chance to attend Streets Alive! on Sept. 24, the latest Shape of City lets you experience some of the fun and see why thousands come every year.

Learn how the Mayor's Youth Employment Program and the Lancaster County Youth Employment Program help kids gain experience while earning.

Find LNKTV Health videos:

• on their website,
• You Tube channel,
• TV channels, and
• on KZUM FM radio podcasts!

Lincoln Salvation Army hosts their annual Harvest Festival fundraiser dinner and auction, 11/3 5:30PM. Homemade comfort food and desserts. Adults $6.50, kids $3.50

NeighborWorks is hosting a Community Discussion Forum with city dept.s at the Roy Story Student Center on the NWU campus, 11/4 from 10AM - 4PM. More info or register.

El Centro de las Americas hosts Dia de los Muertos at Auld Pavilion on 11/5 from 11AM - 4:30PM. Traditional face painting, crafts, food, music, and more.

Pioneers Park Nature Center will host a Twilight Walk on 11/17, from 5:30 - 7:00PM. Pre-registration required, 402-441-7895.

Community Action Partnership and the Health Department are hosting a flu and COVID vaccination clinic on 11/20 from 3:30 - 4:45PM for under-insured, uninsured, and those on Medicaid at the Gathering Place.