Gastric Bypass Group meets tonight

PLATTSBURGH -- The Plattsburgh Gastric Bypass surgery support group meeting will be at 7 p.m. today at 7 p.m. at the United Way Building on the Tom Miller Road. For more information, call Gloria Durivage at 493-3593.

Blood drives ongoing

PLATTSBURGH -- North Country Regional Blood Donor Center staff will conduct several community blood drives in November: 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake; 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Beekmantown Fire Department; 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday at Clinton County Government Center in Plattsburgh; 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10 at Evergreen Valley Nursing Home in Plattsburgh; 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Plattsburgh State; noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Mountain Lake Services, Port Henry; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at ACAP in Elizabethtown; 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, at Keene Valley Neighborhood House; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25, at St. Lawrence County Human Services Department, Court St., Canton; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, CVPH Medical Center, auditoriums A&B, Plattsburgh.

The Blood Donor Center is closed Thursday, Nov. 27, for Thanksgiving.

For more information, call 562-7406.

Alzheimer support groups to meet

PLATTSBURGH -- The Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center offers free monthly support groups in the tri-county area for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.

The next sessions are 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday: at the Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Center, Plattsburgh State, Sibley Hall, Room 227, Rugar Street, in Plattsburgh, and from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Third Age Adult Day Center, 24th Fourth St., Suite 7, Malone (on the Alice Hyde Medical Center Campus). A session is held the second Wednesday of every month from noon to 1 p.m. at Horace Nye Nursing Home, conference room, Park Street, Elizabethtown. The second Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. is the time for the group at Inter-Lakes Health, Ethan Allen Library, 1019 Wicker St., Ticonderoga.

And in Saranac Lake, a group is held on the fourth Thursday of every month from 6 to 7 p.m. at Adirondack Medical Center, first floor conference room, Lake Colby Drive.

AMC to host

flu-shot sessions

SARANAC LAKE -- Adirondack Medical Center is hosting flu clinics for anyone older than age 18 at the following times and locations next month: 2 to 4 p.m. Friday at Lake Placid Health Center, 29 Church St., Lake Placid; 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at Tupper Lake Health Center, 55 Church St., Tupper Lake; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, at Mountain Health Center, State Route 73, Keene.

For those who do not have Medicare, there is a $10 charge for the flu vaccine, which is partially funded by the AMC Foundation.

Appointments for children's flu shots may be made at one of the AMC health centers.