Pertussis (whooping cough) cases continue to grow. The California
Department of Public Health has reported 1,496 cases; Orange County has reported 122 pertussis cases to date. Forty percent of Orange County cases are in infants. Many cases are assumed to be unreported.
under 6 months of age. With an additional death reported this week, there have now been six deaths in California, all infants under six months of age.
Pertussis is a highly contagious disease and young infants are very vulnerable.
Whooping cough is bacterial. It starts with symptoms like a cold. Serious complications develop about a week after exposure to the bacteria. Severe episodes of coughing start about 10 to 12 days later. The cough sound sometimes occurs in children .It is produced when the patient tries to take a breath. Coughing spells may lead to vomiting or a short loss of consciousness due to lack of oxygen. Pertussis should always be considered when vomiting occurs with coughing. In infants, choking spells are common. Other symptoms are runny nose, low fever (102 °F or lower) and diarrhea
Vaccination prevents the disease. Pertussis is bacterial. Frequently wash your hands. Often in summer, we forget when we are outdoors or at the beach to wash with hot water and soap twenty seconds. Be extra cautious if you feel you have a cold and are handling children.
8/02/2010
Vounteer in Trouble NEED Your HELP
Volunteer in Trouble We need your help.
My son Carson’ football coach has been suspended from his volunteer position because he offered a running camp before our season began. My son is an honor student and great athlete. He signed up for Mission Viejo Cowboys Team because the Patriots did not have enough gentleman or enough volunteers to coach. He is outraged that our team and a good man are being punished for doing no wrong.
Our league is run by OCJAAF. Our coach been in place seven years, and had this same running camp somehow this year he was singled out as being in violation of a preseason rule.
The league states the rule is that no two boys from a team should be in any camp together. The rule is being applied in a arbitrarily crazy manner. My son plays several sports. Last year he enjoyed Junior Guards and there were more than four boys on his team last year who attended the cap- and that would have been a violation. If he went to any baseball camp (which he did in the past) it also would be a violation of the rule as many of the local boys who are in football happen to be active in other camps and sports.
With more than forty boys on a football team having a rule that never allows any two to attend an outside camp as some bad relationship is crazy.
Other teams in our OCJAAF league offer camps before season begins.
The intention of OCJAAF rule is to avoid having boys from a team injured under their name umbrella, to avoid having a team run football plays year round, and to create a level playing field. Many high school coaches offer camps for sports and training that is fee based out of season. Coaches do this to supplement their income and to keep the boys in shape. It would be Un-American to say a coach has no right to supplement his income. Our situation is different. Coach Kevin Pierce offered the running camp for free.
Our coach is a volunteer for middle school boys’ football he is also not paid for this huge job. The small group of boys who chose to join the running group was half from our football team and half from other sports.
Coach Kevin Pierce has been suspended for the year because of his kind and generous heart. What does this teach our young men?
The community meeting is Tuesday night. A crowd of hundreds are expected to attend in his support. Hopefully OCJAAF can see through the forest of politics and understand that is unfair to punish one man for doing something good.
It will be this Tuesday, August 3rd.
Location: City of Villa
Park Town Hall 17855 Santiago Blvd, Villa Park, CA 92861. Time: 8pm to 10pm
If you can not attend please send an email to : bobbarna@gmail.com the commisioner
My son Carson’ football coach has been suspended from his volunteer position because he offered a running camp before our season began. My son is an honor student and great athlete. He signed up for Mission Viejo Cowboys Team because the Patriots did not have enough gentleman or enough volunteers to coach. He is outraged that our team and a good man are being punished for doing no wrong.
Our league is run by OCJAAF. Our coach been in place seven years, and had this same running camp somehow this year he was singled out as being in violation of a preseason rule.
The league states the rule is that no two boys from a team should be in any camp together. The rule is being applied in a arbitrarily crazy manner. My son plays several sports. Last year he enjoyed Junior Guards and there were more than four boys on his team last year who attended the cap- and that would have been a violation. If he went to any baseball camp (which he did in the past) it also would be a violation of the rule as many of the local boys who are in football happen to be active in other camps and sports.
With more than forty boys on a football team having a rule that never allows any two to attend an outside camp as some bad relationship is crazy.
Other teams in our OCJAAF league offer camps before season begins.
The intention of OCJAAF rule is to avoid having boys from a team injured under their name umbrella, to avoid having a team run football plays year round, and to create a level playing field. Many high school coaches offer camps for sports and training that is fee based out of season. Coaches do this to supplement their income and to keep the boys in shape. It would be Un-American to say a coach has no right to supplement his income. Our situation is different. Coach Kevin Pierce offered the running camp for free.
Our coach is a volunteer for middle school boys’ football he is also not paid for this huge job. The small group of boys who chose to join the running group was half from our football team and half from other sports.
Coach Kevin Pierce has been suspended for the year because of his kind and generous heart. What does this teach our young men?
The community meeting is Tuesday night. A crowd of hundreds are expected to attend in his support. Hopefully OCJAAF can see through the forest of politics and understand that is unfair to punish one man for doing something good.
It will be this Tuesday, August 3rd.
Location: City of Villa
Park Town Hall 17855 Santiago Blvd, Villa Park, CA 92861. Time: 8pm to 10pm
If you can not attend please send an email to : bobbarna@gmail.com the commisioner
You don't need 3D Glasses, just look at what's around you
I was in Minnesota last week. After hours I captured a picture of the lightning storm from my seventh story window over the flat land near St Paul. The next morning after no sleep for two nights I was excited, energized and ready to share the greatness I had seen. Every local to whom I expressed my bubbling enthusiasm about the beauty of the storm seem unimpressed by the noise of the thunder that was unimportant. I never see the flashing show of a storm at home, it's always too foggy even though we might hear the thunder I was thrilled to see God's fireworks. It made me think that our perspectives created our seperate response. If only we could all see the wonder right around us, the secret to happiness would be in appreciating the good right under our toes. This morning I drank my Major Dickenson's Blend Peet's coffee and really tasted the roasty flavor that I love. Then I cut some Rosa Bonheur roses from my side yard and put them in my sleeping teenagers rooms. I am a lucky woman to be alive in this time at this moment and I thank God for a world which is always full of wonder.
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