Immunization clinics set

The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department will conduct walk-in immunization clinics this week in Baldwin and Lawrence.

The first clinic will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. today at First United Methodist Church, 704 E. Eighth St. in Baldwin.

The next clinic will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the health department, 200 Maine in Lawrence.

A variety of immunizations are available, including those for Hepatitis B; DPT, or diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus; polio; Hib, for Haemophilus influenzae b; MMR, or measles-mumps-rubella; chickenpox; and Prevnar, which helps prevent certain strains of meningitis and severe ear infections.

Shots are $7 per dose, but no one is turned away for inability to pay.

Parents are asked to bring immunization records for each child, if possible. Transportation assistance is available by calling the department at 843-0721.

Another clinic will be conducted from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. April 12 at City Hall, 4 E. Seventh St. in Eudora.

Social workers to arrive for 3-day conference event

More than 200 social workers from Kansas and Missouri will be in Lawrence on Sunday for the start of a three-day conference at the Lawrence Holidome.

Sunday workshops include former Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Robert Harder presenting “Advocacy and the SRS Budget;” Jill Peltzer, nurse clinician at Kansas University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center, presenting “Alzheimer’s and Other Forms of Dementia;” and Richard Nelson, director of student counseling and psychological services at Kansas State University, discussing suicide prevention.

Monday and Tuesday workshops range from “Rave Parties and Designer Drugs” to “Strategies for Managing Bullying Behaviors” to the Missouri Department of Corrections’ “Long Distance Dads” program.

The conference is an annual project of the Kansas Conference on Social Welfare. For more information, call 832-3765.

Nobel laureate to speak on global warming at KU

A scientist who helped determine chloroflurocarbons or CFCs are harming the atmosphere will speak April 15 and 16 at Kansas University.

F. Sherwood Rowland, a former KU professor who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will deliver two lectures while at KU. The free lectures are open to the public.

The first, at 3:30 p.m. April 15 in 110 Budig Hall, will be on “Global Smog: Cities and Biomass Burning.” The other, at 3:30 p.m. April 16 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union, will be on “The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming.”

Rowland taught chemistry at KU from 1956 to 1964. He now is a research professor at the University of California-Irvine.

Small Potatoes to perform concert tonight at ECM

Small Potatoes will perform a concert of Celtic, folk, country, blues and swing music at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.

Small Potatoes’ members are Jacqui Manning and Rich Prezioso, who sing, write and arrange songs and play a variety of instruments, including guitar, flute, bodrahn, mandolin and tin whistle.

The Chicago-based duo has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale, N.Y.; Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, Tex., and the Walnut Valley Festival, Winfield.

Admission is $12 for adults and $9 for students. Tickets are available by calling 865-FOLK or visiting www.westsidefolk.org.

Cornell professor to give lecture on climate change

A Cornell University professor will discuss “Climate Change, Sustainable Development and International Justice” at a free public lecture Wednesday.

Henry Shue is best known for his 1996 book, “Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence and U.S. Foreign Policy.” He has written on ethical issues in international affairs, especially those relating to economic rights, obligations across national boundaries, the morality of nuclear deterrence and international cooperation on environmental issues.

The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, is part of the series on Justice, Human Rights and the International Order at Kansas University. It is sponsored by the KU department of philosophy, the Hall Center for the Humanities, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the KU Center for Research and the Self Graduate Fellowship Program.

First Watch breakfast raises $2,000 for epilepsy alliance

The “Breakfast for a Cause” benefit Wednesday at First Watch restaurant raised more than $2,000 for the Alliance for Epilepsy Research.

From 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., diners were urged to donate the price of an omelet to the alliance. The Pilot Club of Lawrence supported the event.