None are turned away at area flu clinics

BUREAU COUNTY -- The early birds got the first worms, or in this case the first flu shots. Elizabeth Lange of Princeton arrived at the Princeton Moose Lodge at 9:30 a.m. Friday to get in line for the third high-risk flu clinic given this fall by the Bureau County Health Department. When she arrived, Lange said there were already another 25 cars in the parking lot with people waiting for the clinic doors to open. Some of those people had been waiting in the parking lot since 5:30 a.m., Lange said. By 11:30 a.m., about 100 people were in line and the clinic doors were opened. As the line of senior citizens inched its way to the Moose Lodge doors, Craig Beintema, director of the Bureau County Health Department, handed out clothes pins to the