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Since 1927, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has celebrated Better Hearing and Speech Month each May to raise public awareness of speech and language disorders that affect 14 million Americans.

Visitors take a look at the "Our Body The Universe Within" exhibit at the Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The exhibit runs through Sunday.

McLoud schools is participating in the summer food service program.
Meals will be provided to all children without charge. Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service.
Meals will be provided at McLoud Elementary, 200 S. Main. Breakfast will be served from 7:30-8:30 a.m.; lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

A new discount card being distributed by United Way of Pottawatomie County can help lower the cost of medicine by an average of 35 percent, Audrey Seeliger, director of the local United Way, said. It is called the FamilyWize prescription drug discount card.
“If you don’t have health insurance, or you must buy medicine not covered by your insurance plan, United Way provides these cards to our community free of charge to everyone who needs one. There is no age restriction, no income restrictions, no limit on how many times you can use it and no waiting to get a card,” Seeliger said.

An award honoring the state of Oklahoma was presented at a recent reception to celebrate 10 years of Oklahoma’s Children First Nurse-Family Partnership.  Lt. Governor Jari Askins accepted the award, which was given by the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) National Service Office in Denver, Colorado. The award marked the 10th anniversary of the first statewide implementation of the Nurse-Family Partnership model in the United States.

National Nurses Week is May 6-12 and National School Nurse Day is May 7
The work of America’s 2.9 million registered nurses to save lives and to maintain the health of millions of individuals is the focus of this year’s National Nurses Week, celebrated annually May 6-12.  The American Nurses Association has selected “Nurses: Making a Difference Every Day” as the theme for 2008. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) and the Pottawatomie County Health Department take this time every year to recognize the hard work and many achievements of public health nurses in making all Oklahomans stronger and healthier.

Saturday, May 24 will begin a three-day weekend of non-competitive fitness and fellowship walk/jog/run events sponsored by the World Wide Walkers of Tulsa and the Holy Family Walkers Volksmarch Club of Lawton.