It's always good to get the kids out and get them active. On Wednesday they can bike or walk to school in honor of a national holiday.

The Spokane School District will celebrate Bike or Walk to School Day on October 3. Schools throughout Spokane will focus on both activities that day. In fact, a big group plans to help Stevens Elementary students cross the street to school from 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Wilson Elementary will taking the event up a notch and will hold a kick-ff parade for WALKtoberfest, a month-long walk and bike to school event. Families are scheduled to meet at Cannon Hill Park and walk over to the school together.

The flu vaccine is available from many health care providers in our state. 

Everyone six months of age and older is urged to get a flu shot. The shot is especially important for young children, people 65 and older, pregnant women, parents of newborns and people with various medical conditions. 

There is a variety of types of flu vaccines available. There is a high-dose vaccine available for people 65 and older. Ages 2-49 can get a nasal spray vaccine. There is also a vaccine that has a much smaller needle than regular flu shots. 

This season's flu shot covers three different strains of the flu virus. 

Taking simple precautions such as washing your hands, covering your cough and staying home when you're sick can help keep not only th flu away, but whooping cough as well. 

The Department of Health has bought more than 721,000 doses of flu vaccine for children. The flu vaccine, as well as the whooping cough vaccine, are free for children in Washington up through the age of 18. 

The Department of Health also bought the Tdap vaccine for uninsured and underinsured adults. 

KXLY is teaming up with Project Beauty Share and Northwest Harvest to put on the "Spare A Square TP Drive" this month.

This year's goal is to raise 25,000 toilet paper rolls. Dozens of local charities struggle to provide this basic personal hygiene item every year.

One of those charities is St. Margaret's, a homeless shelter for women and children on Spokane's lower south hill.

Linda is one woman who will benefit from the drive, she is a single mother of 9 children. She was homeless for 2 years before moving into the shelter 9 months ago.

She says she doesn't know where she'd be today without the help of Project Beauty Share and St. Margaret's.

"You have a caseworkers to help, you have friends and, ya know, a bed to sleep on. And you have a bathroom, you can take a shower. We didn't have that last year. We didn't have nothing. No income. Ya know, we were on the street. We had to go to the UGM (Union Gospel Mission). It was hard," Linda said.

Linda is working to get her driver's license and a job so she can move out of the shelter.