The Flathead City-County Health Department is giving away prizes to encourage children to get their immunizations early.
All children who attend public and private schools in Montana are required to have specific, age-dependent immunizations. Students traditionally need to get their immunizations before August. However, for students who get them in June and July at the health department, they’ll be able to enter into a drawing for a variety of prizes, including iPods, bikes, backpacks, school supplies and passes to the Alpine Slide at Big Mountain at Glacier National Park.
Children starting kindergarten in the Fall 2016 through the age of 18 years are eligible for the drawings. A child can only place their name in once for the drawings. There will be a total of seven drawings, with two drawings in June and one drawing occurring every Friday in July.
Children can receive their immunizations at the Health Department during the walk-in clinic hours. No child will be denied vaccine due to inability to pay. Walk-in hours and locations include the Flathead City-County Health Department office in Kalispell on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 4 p.m. and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. On the second Tuesday of every month, the clinic moves to the Columbia Falls Ambulance Building from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and the Whitefish Community Center from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
For more information, visit www.flatheadhealth.org.