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A record 1,808 people took advantage of the federal government’s nutrition program for low-income women and young children last month, Pettis County Community Health Center officials said Thursday.
Participants in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program recently found out they would no longer be allowed to use WIC vouchers for name brands such as General Mills Cheerios, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Quaker Oats.
Pettis County Health Center’s WIC office is hosting its first community baby shower to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at 911 E. 16th St.
The Pettis County Health Center will continue to provide WIC services for the federal fiscal year of 2010.
The Pettis County Health Center on Tuesday announced new income guidelines for families interested in participating in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
The Pettis County Health Center announced that a contract to continue to provide WIC services in 2011 has been signed to provide assistance to 1,950 eligible people each month.
As Diane Alarcon, a registered nurse working as a WIC nutrition educator at the health center, talks to kids about fruits and vegetables, Kayla Valencia, 2, walks up and offers an apple to the puppet next to Alarcon.
Anastasia Walters gives her son, Tanner Carroll, 2, a high five after he finished playing in the obstacle course.
Lori Bohnenstiehl leads a group of kids in a sing along which included mimicking everything she did, much to the delight of the children when they got to stick out their tongues as they twirled around and squinched up their faces.
Trevor Thorne, 3, flexes his muscles and does battle with an inflatable bop bag at one of the activities Wednesday at the Tricycle Rodeo in the parking lot of the Pettis County Health Center. Andrez Hernandez-Smith, 3, left, works off some energy on a cute inflatable zebra. The promotion of different types of physical activity that further development of motor skills coupled with awareness of the nutritional value in fruits, vegetables and wholesome snacks was the focus of the rodeo said Lori Bohnenstiehl, a nutritionist with the Missouri Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program at the Pettis County Health Center. Children from ages 2-5 were invited to event. Free bicycle helmets were given to the first 100 WIC client kids, others had to pay $3.
A tricycle rodeo will be from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Pettis County Health Center, 911 E. 16th St., for 2- to 5-year-olds. The event will include a tricycle obstacle course, snacks, safety tips and free helmets will be given away to the first 100 WIC clients. Helmets will be for sale for $3.
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Pettis County Health Center is offering the Asthma Initiative Program. This program is designed to educate parents and caregivers about the management of asthma in young children.
More than 200 people came out at the fairgrounds Saturday to get some early morning exercise, support a good cause and spend some time with their families during the first SuperMom Walk/Run.
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Several programs at the Pettis County Health Center may have their funding cut as lawmakers decide how to adjust state expenditures to reconcile projected budget shortfalls.
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The cost of milk is at an all-time high, but that might not keep people from their morning cup of moo juice.
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