Free flu shots available next week

It’s time to get ready for flu season.

Meridian Health Services is hosting its annual Flu-Lapalooza event from 1 to 6 p.m. Oct. 5.

Flu-Lapalooza features free flu shots at Meridian location. Shots are available to anyone 6 months and older.

Meridian will offer the shots at the MeridianMD locations at 406 W. Votaw St., Portland, and 1150 S. Main St., Dunkirk.

Festival scheduled

Ball State PBS will host its second annual Happy Little Fest on Sunday.

The Bob Ross-themed festival is scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at University Green, 1120 N. McKinley Ave., on the campus of Ball State University. It is a celebration of “all things Bob Ross.”

The main event of the festival is a “Paint Like Bob” workshop from 3 to 6 p.m.

“As the home of the popular ‘The Joy of Painting’ series and America’s favorite television painter, Bob Ross, who inspired generations of people to try their hand at creating art, we’re proud to bring this event back to East Central Indiana,” said Dr. Phil Hoffman, assistant dean of media and general manager of Ball State Public Media. 

To learn more, visit ballstatepbs.org/happy-little-fest.

Dunkirk celebration

Dunkirk Public Library will host an open house, ribbon-cutting and plaque presentation at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

The event will celebrate renovations to the facility made possible via a $140,000 grant from The Dunkirk Foundation’s Gayle & Marilee Gaunt Library Fund. The open house will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.