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DELAND -- The Volusia County Health Department will conduct a free H1N1 swine flu vaccination clinic targeting students in DeLand, Deltona and Orange City Saturday, Nov. 14.

The school vaccination clinic will take place between the hours of 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. or until the vaccine supply has been exhausted.

The vaccination clinic will take place at Pine Ridge High School, 926 Howland Blvd., Deltona. This clinic is for students, teachers, and school staff who live in the Deltona area (ZIP codes 32713, 32725, 32738, and 32764) and DeLand/Orange City/Lake Helen areas (ZIP codes

SOUTH DAYTONA — The South Daytona Police Department will conduct a pedestrian safety operation on Wednesday, Nov. 11 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the intersection of South Ridgewood Avenue and Ridge Boulevard.

The primary focus of South Daytona’s operation is to raise awareness of pedestrian safety and to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

For more information about Operation Pedestrian Safety contact Sgt. Pignataro at 386-322-3030 or Lt. Doug Quartier at 386-322-3058.

DELAND -- When PBS television celebrity Charlie Carlson emcees 'A Night With Johnny Duncan' this Friday night, he will be returning to a stage where he performed as a child more than 50 years ago.

"When I was about 13 years old, I was a stooge in the audience for magician Harry Wise in his Dr Jekyll Weird Show, said Carlson, of New Smyrna Beach.

"When Harry asked for volunteers to go on stage, I was always among those picked. He would eliminate the real audience members, and I was the one chosen to remain and be hypnotized."

DELAND -- Staff from the Volusia County Personnel Division will meet with representatives of the Teamsters Local 385 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. Thursday, to discuss contract negotiations for Sheriff's deputies.

The meeting will be in the fourth-floor conference room of the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand.

Joseph Thompson Jr., 82, of New Smyrna Beach, a retired inventory control supervisor for Corning Glass Co., Walpole, Mass., died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009.

Bruce Lee Johnston, 52, of New Smyrna Beach, owner and operator of Goldfinger Furniture Restoration, Stripping and Refinishing, died Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.

Thomas William Ravenscroft, 59, of Edgewater, a trucker, died Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick. Mayor-Elect Adam Barringer spoke with NSBNEWS.net about the swearing in ceremony for himself and Commissioner-Elect Judy Reiker, as well as Commissioner Jack Grasty who won re-election outright in the Sept. 22 primary. Barringer said he anticipates a final commission vote on the proposed Hampton Inn for Flagler Avenue, which he predicted would be very "emotional." He also put to rest opposition campaigning that had the Babe James Center closing if he were elected, which he again dismissed as "politics." He added, if anything, the facility's services would be expanded. He wanted NSBNEWS.net to do its interview with him at the Babe James Center to make that message perfectly clear.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Two brothers, ages 10 and 7, with severe burns on their faces, chests and arms, are hospitalized in critical condition and their mother commited under the state's Baker Act, for psychiatric evaluation, New Smyrna Beach police said of the early Monday incident at a duplex in the 400 block of 10th Street.

ORMOND BEACH - A 53-year-old Ormond Beach man walking from the Iron Horse Saloon parking lot was struck and killed Sunday night after walking in front of an oncoming pick-up truck he apparently did not see as he stepped onto U.S. 1, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Bruce Bolduc was pronounced dead at the scene of the 8:08 p.m. accident. The driver, William Groat, 58, of Grand Blanc, Mich., who was driving in the outside lane, was not charged.

PONCE INLET -- Home to more than 365 species of birds, Volusia County becomes an avian highway during the fall as thousands of birds migrate to spend the winter or pass through to wintering grounds farther south.

Visit the Volusia County Marine Science Center (MSC) in Ponce Inlet from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, for the annual “Wings on the