‘Memory Van’ visits Ballina, Mullumbimby, Byron Bay and Ocean Shores
March 7, 2010
Are you worried about your memory?
The Alzheimer’s Australia NSW Memory Van is a mobile education resource that travels statewide to help raise awareness on the importance of brain health and dementia risk reduction.
The Memory Van provides communities with information designed to help educate and assist people living with dementia, their carers and health professionals.
Staff can also assist with enquiries about memory loss.
The Memory Van is fully equipped with Help Sheets, Fact Sheets, DVD and video resources and a Nintendo Brain Game.
MP takes breast-screen petition to parliament
February 24, 2010
Ballina MP Don Page has submitted a petition to the NSW Parliament containing over 1300 signatures of local people opposed to the removal of mobile breast screening on the Far North Coast.
The terms of the petition brought to the NSW Labor Government’s attention: Read more
Closing the Gap: Outreach workers for Lismore and Grafton
February 19, 2010
Page MP Janelle Saffin says the Federal Government’s efforts to close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation will be helped by two outreach worker placements in her electorate.
Ms Saffin said two of 83 new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander outreach workers nationally will join the Lismore-based Northern Rivers General Practice Network and Grafton’s Bulgarr Ngaru Medical Aboriginal Corporation by the end of June.
“These organisations are dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Indigenous people in the region, and these outreach workers will help increase community engagement with primary health care services,” Ms Saffin said.
“The Federal Government’s $805.5 million Indigenous Chronic Disease Package includes $42 million to fund a total of 160 such positions to build the capacity of the Indigenous health workforce over four years.
Free seminar for seniors
February 19, 2010
A free seminar is being held at Pinevale Villas Goonellabah to provide information to seniors on the options available to them as they age.
“All indicators point to happier, healthier lives for people who plan early for their senior years. In order to have full control over our lives it is important to understand what is available for us as we age,” a spokeswoman said.
These seminars are designed to help people decide what is right for them. The seminars are free, informative and friendly and there is a morning tea provided.
There will be information on the following subjects:
• Supported Living Communities presented by Ruth Harrison, manager Pinevale Villas
• Disability and Aged Care Information Services, by Dona Graham of Daisi
• Financial Planning for the Elderly by Rick Rutten, RetireInvest
• RSL LifeCare @ Home
• Wills and Powers of Attorney from Guy Latham of Sommerville Laundry & Lomax
• St Carthage’s Community Care, Lesley Martin RN.
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Linear accelerator machine arrives at Lismore Base Hospital
February 18, 2010
Member for Page Janelle Saffin today welcomed the arrival of Lismore Base Hospital’s first linear accelerator as a major boost in enhancing cancer care services on the North Coast.
Ms Saffin and State Member for Lismore Thomas George inspected the near-completed Integrated Cancer Care Centre at the hospital, where they received a briefing from North Coast Area Health Service CEO Chris Crawford.
One of Ms Saffin’s major election commitments was $15 million in Commonwealth funding to fast-track the cancer care centre so that it will be operational from the end of May this year. The NSW Government’s contribution is $12 million.
Murwillumbah Street shows the way in Sustainable Street program
February 10, 2010
The Mayor of Tweed Shire Council has congratulated residents of a Murwillumbah street who have broken down barriers and improved community life through a groundbreaking project to improve sustainability at the grassroots level.
“The Sustainable Street program is a joint initiative of Tweed and Byron shire councils which aims to bring neighbours together for local environmental improvements,” Councillor Warren Polglase said.
“This project has been so successful that Tweed and Byron shire councils are now seeking more streets to take part.
“Tweed and Byron councils are pleased to announce that we have secured State Government funding through the Tweed-Byron Bush Futures Program to deliver the Sustainable Streets package to two streets in each shire in 2010.”
Lismore MP to join the ‘teal team’ during Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
January 28, 2010
The Nationals Member for Lismore, Thomas George, says it’s time to join the teal team and wear a ribbon during Ovarian Cancer Australia’s Awareness Month in February.
Mr George said politicians will be joining the cause and wearing their teal ribbon on Wednesday 24 February 2010 to support sufferers and raise the importance of prevention.
“There are 1500 women in Australia diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year and more than half will die from the disease,” Mr George said.
“The goal of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month is to see that every woman in Australia knows the symptoms of ovarian cancer because an early detection significantly increases the chances of a full recovery.”
Saffin turns first sod in $19.7 million Grafton Base redevelopment
January 28, 2010
Grafton Base Hospital early next year will boast three new operating theatres and an Emergency Department ‘equal to the best in Australia’ after Federal Page MP Janelle Saffin turned the first sod for the $19.7 million project today.
Ms Saffin said: “I am delighted to be able to turn the first sod for the long-awaited Grafton Base Hospital redevelopment work. It is an election promise to our Clarence Valley community and today’s sod turning with the immediate start of works that can be seen by the community makes it a seeing is believing reality.
“This is an election commitment made by me, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Minister for Health Nicola Roxon that gives me the greatest of pleasure. The people of Grafton fought hard for this and I am delivering.
20-year-old student involved in groundbreaking research
January 7, 2010
When 20-year-old Amy Coy enrolled at Southern Cross University, she had no way of anticipating that she would be involved in groundbreaking research on a new way of measuring blood pressure.
But Amy, a Lismore-based second-year student studying for her Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science in the School of Health and Human Sciences, has had her first research project supported by a Summer Scholarship from the Heart Foundation.
Ballina/Byron U3A to hold course sign-ons
December 28, 2009
The University of the Third Age (U3A) has nothing to do with the modern idea of a university with its connotations of qualifications and prior studies.
Rather, it is a group of like-minded people satisfying an inner urge to learn. It offers low-cost, self-paced learning opportunities and the sharing of interests, skills and knowledge.
This voluntary, self-help learning movement started in France in 1973, and has since spread world-wide.
The Ballina/Byron branch, using the same guidelines as the international model, began in 1994.
