If you listen to national media, you would think there is a real shortage of the flu vaccine and the H1N1 vaccine. However, according to the Wilson County Health Department, the local agency gets regular shipments of both vaccines.

“There is no shortage, but there is a delay in shipment from the manufacturers,” said Carla Valdez, supervisor of the Wilson County Health Department, in an interview Thursday. “We have a clinic tonight and we should know when we will have the next clinic by the first of next week.”

From Post staff reports

A 46-year-old Lebanon man has been classified as missing after never returning from a leisurely stroll to a Lebanon convenience market on Monday.

Doug Johnson, a resident of Cedarcroft Home, Inc. on South College Street in Lebanon, went for a walk to a nearby tobacco/convenience store on Monday and never returned, according to a spokesperson at the not- for-profit residential facility.

By DANA BRYSON
The Wilson Post

Mayor Philip Craighead and more than 35 representatives of local non-profit groups and churches attended a meeting at First United Methodist Church in Lebanon on Wednesday to further discuss how Community Homeless Outreach and Support, Inc. will apply grant funding to local residents in need.

Funding realized from the program to be distributed to the needy in Wilson County totals $91,338.40.

The grant program has been created as a result of the federal stimulus package put in place more than a year ago to aid economic recovery in the U.S. The grant funding is realized from what is recognized as the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP) which is a part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that is administered by HUD.

By BEN DUDLEY
The Wilson Post

The Brooks House has helped many people in the Lebanon community and the community has decided to give a little back to them.

A new 15 passenger van was purchased for the Brooks House and was paid in full by donations from local individuals, businesses and foundations.