Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty member Danielle Ivey popped by on her lunch hour earlier this week to receive her influenza immunization from Occupational Health nurse Kristine Brown. Workplace Health and the Staff/Faculty Family Practice Clinic are hosting flu shot clinics for Western faculty, staff and postdoctoral scholars again this year in the University Community Centre’s Health Services Resource Centre. While no appointment is necessary, the shots are only available to university employees, not family members. Staff is asked to have their health cards with them when they arrive at one of the next immunization clinics, scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 13 and Nov. 20.
Pulling up roots after 46 years
If you glance out Janet Williams’ office window in Middlesex College, you’ll see a lovely, mature 35-year-old beech tree. She remembers the day it was planted. “There used to be two, but about three years ago one suddenly died,” said Williams, an academic counsellor...