Heard on the Street

ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK

If you think you, a friend or family member might have a problem with addiction, this may be the week to do something about it. The week of Oct. 22-26 is National Alcohol Awareness Week and Ozarks Counseling Center offers a resource center for immediate response to substance abuse problems. OCC offers help on a sliding scale per session, with the least amount charged $8 per counseling session. It also provides a neutral service for substance abuse assessment, referral, education and recovery support. Specifically for those who live with or are close to someone who abuses drugs or alcohol, OCC offers a new seven session interactive class called "How to Cope." Some other organizations to contact for help include the Burrell Behavioral Health Center and Alcoholics Anonymous.

WHO'S YOUR ADDY?

It's time for Springfield Ad Club members to pull out their best work for the 23rd annual ADDY Awards. Each fall the national competition among the American Advertising Federation's starts at the local level with the Ad Club's 210 members. The Ad Club will accept entries between noon and 5 p.m. Nov. 2, according to Stephanie Copeland of KSMU, Addy committee chairman. Entries must be brought to the Public Affairs Classroom Building, 900 S. Holland, at Southwest Missouri State University. A report that summarizes multiple entries, categories and entry fees must accompany the entries along with the entry fees. Judges will be from the Tulsa area and the awards will be given out at a banquet Jan. 26, 2002, at the University Plaza Hotel. Winners will not be notified in advance, Copeland said. Local winners automatically compete among 14 regions, then the winners proceed to the national competition in the spring.

SHOW ME A MOVIE

A film shot entirely on location in Kansas City premiered last weekend to an invitation-only audience. Titled "Control," the movie stars actress Sean Young, William Devane and Will Schaub. Shot in November and December last year, the movie is a story about a troubled ex-boxer, played by Schaub, who searches for his missing brother at the request of his domineering father, played by Devane. Young plays the psychologist who is being investigated by police after several men disappear, including the missing brother. Charles Nelson is the executive producer, Dennis Fallon, the producer, Tom Whitus, the director and Fred Paddock, the director of photography. The film, by Waldo West Productions, was made in cooperation with the Missouri Film Commission. It will be distributed by Dickinson Theaters.

WASHA YO HANDS

You remember when your mother said "Wash your hands!" Now that it's cold and flu season, hand washing can't be done enough, according to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. A cold is not influenza, which is a highly contagious infection of the respiratory tract caused by a pesky virus. It's transmitted from person to person through the air and it can infect your body and make your life miserable for two to three weeks. An annual flu vaccination, in addition to hand washing, can help prevent an outbreak. The Influenza Hotline, 417-864-1166, tells when and where flu shots are available. Symptoms include high fever, headache, aches and pains, fatigue, weakness and exhaustion. Other symptoms, which can be confused with the common cold, are stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat, chest discomfort and cough. Keep the antibacterial spray handy! And remember what Momma said.

SLICE OF NICE

Don your favorite sports costume, grab your bowling ball and head for Junior Achieve-ment of the Ozarks' 15th annual Super Bowl-A-Thon fund-raiser Oct. 27 at Enterprise Park Lanes. Karmically and accidentally occurring on "National Make A Difference Day," the two sessions of the bowl-a-thon "are the party to reward the fund-raisers" for JA, according to Tom Slaight, director of JA. Registration for the morning session is 9 a.m., for the afternoon session, 12:30 p.m. JA offers business and economic education programs for kindergarten through 12th grade. Vol-unteers from the business community and college business students partner with the classroom teacher in "dissemination of information and reinforcement of vocabulary and concepts in relation to the grade level." Students learn information that they will be tested on on achievement tests. Slaight hopes the bowlers will exceed the record $21,000 raised in 1999.