It's flu-shot season already, and for the first time health authorities are urging nearly everyone to get vaccinated. There is even a new high-dose version for people 65 or older. What a difference a year makes: Crowds lined up for hours for scarce shots during last fall's swine flu pandemic. This year, a record vaccine supply is expected. Shipments began so early that drugstores are offering vaccinations amid their back-to-school sales.

Good news for UH men's basketball. Head coach Gib Arnold announced that Davis Rozitis, a 7-foot, 215-pound center who played for USC last season, has transferred to the University of Hawaii. Arnold recruited and coached Rozitis, a native of Latvia, while he was an assistant coach for the Trojans. Rozitis will sit out the 2010-11 season and will have three years of eligibility remaining.

MDA's Fill-the-Boot program is supported by fire departments throughout the country. Starting tomorrow, Sept. 3^rd & on thru Sunday Sept. 5^th, the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association will be out on the streets collecting donations for the Hawaii Chapter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

*Friday: Downtown at Tamarind Park, Bishop Square

*Saturday: Windward City Shopping Center(Kam Hwy& Likelike)

* Sunday: Pearl City Shopping Center & in Waikiki on Kalakaua & Kapahulu Ave.

A Hawaiian plant species thought to be extinct has been found on the Big Island. The Nature Conservancy and Parker Ranch said staff discovered the plant earlier this summer in an upland rain forest on the slopes of Kohala volcano. They were surveying a rare tree snail population on the ranch when they stumbled upon a plant with greenish white flowers and dark green leaves. It was identified it as Cler/mon/tia pele/ana sing/uli/flora, a species last seen on the Big Island in 1909 and last collected in East Maui in 1920. More than 30 plants have been found since, and the conservancy has collected seeds to propagate the species.