âSplash into Summerâ planned for May 28 (Source: WFIE) By 14 News Staff | May 11, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 2:36 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - The âSplash into Summerâ donation drive will be held on Friday, May 28, from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Walmart West and Walmart East.
The donation drive is a project of the Evansville Parks Foundation.
The goal is to collect donated items that will be given to children and families to make swimming more affordable while encouraging attendance at city swimming pools and participation in local swimming competitions.
Suggested items for the donation drive are swim trunks and bathing suits in all sizes for children and adults, beach towels and swim diapers.
Children, families take part in community Easter egg hunt in Evansville
Children, families take part in community Easter egg hunt in Evansville By Aaron Hancock and Keaton Eberly | April 3, 2021 at 7:18 PM CDT - Updated April 3 at 7:24 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Kids and their families got into the Easter spirit on Saturday with a big egg hunt at Willard Library.
The local non-profit “4 Good Community” hosted the event. Organization leaders welcomed children to find roughly 2,000 eggs hidden on the lawn of Willard library, and there were lots of free prizes up for grabs, like bicycles, power wheels and even drones.
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The east side Walmart will be using the Moderna vaccine, which requires two shots, while the west side Walmart will be using the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which requires just one shot. The Moderna vaccine is currently being offered to “almost everybody,” according to Amy Vircks, the Pharmacy Manager of Casper Walmart’s Eastside Pharmacy location.
“We’ve got a ton of the [COVID-19] vaccine,” Vircks stated. “That huge weather storm had really hindered us because we were really affected when those 6 million doses did not go out. After that, they sent me double. They only let me do so many [vaccines] per week, so we’re having people sign up for the vaccine online, because almost everybody qualifies now; they just have to have one chronic condition. And they count things like obesity, diabetes, hypothyroidism, anything that count as a chronic condition.”