PILLS FOR ILLS: Pharmacist Cammy Han doesn’t...

PILLS FOR ILLS: Pharmacist Cammy Han doesn’t need to be told by health authorities that flu season has started in earnest. For days, the Sav-on Drugs in Arleta where she works has been flooded with sniffling, sneezing, aching people looking for relief from the Beijing flu outbreak. “It’s been swamped this week and last week,” Han said. “I haven’t seen a flu season like this in four years.”. . . What do feverish customers ask for most? Antibiotics, antivirals and “Tylenol, definitely.”

WORRYWART: Chris Yergensen, the kicker on the Utah football team, has a confession: He’s scared to death that the outcome of a game could hang squarely on his foot (C8). . . . For the former Antelope Valley High player, the jumpy nerves start two days before a game. He should be plenty nervous tonight: Utah plays USC in the Freedom Bowl in Anaheim.

LONELY DUTY: The view from Fire Station 28 in Porter Ranch is spectacular. All the $1.8-million station needs are firetrucks. . . . and somebody to protect (B2). The subdivision that was supposed to arise around it has been delayed by the recession, so the station and its three-man skeleton crew watch over an empty hillside.

POLITICAL ACTOR: Movie actor Ed Begley Jr.--famous for his electric car--is getting even deeper into environmental politics. Already named to the L.A. Environmental Affairs Commission, Begley has now been nominated to represent the city on the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (B1). The conservancy--frequently involved in controversy--is a state agency that acquires land in the mountains.

ANOTHER WORLD: In North Hollywood is another universe. Here, Toshiko Takeshi teaches initiates the secrets of the Japanese tea ceremony. . . . Around the Valley (B5) enters a world of peace, harmony and contemplation steeped in centuries of religious and artistic teachings.