Posts in Category: Health
Going green for Garden Releaf tomorrow
THE community is being encouraged to get off the couch, go outside and spend time in the garden as part of the garden therapy challenge.
SLEEP DEPRIVED
ORGANISATIONS connected to education and youth services will compile a strategy to help teenagers get more sleep following results from a university profile of Wangaratta…
A better life comes with people’s hand
AN Oxley man’s 17-year battle against a rare disease and his motivation to raise money for a cure so his daughter can have a better…
Community consciousness of how to beat heat is helping save lives
AN increase in home health care during heatwaves for the elderly and other vulnerable people is decreasing the risk of severe heat related illnesses and…
Heat Health Alert for North East
A HEAT Health Alert has been issued for the North East tomorrow and Wednesday due to high daytime and overnight temperatures forecast.
Friends, family rally in support of Hayden
The countdown to Christmas is a busy time for every family, but last year the Sampson family’s lives took an unexpected turn, when their 15…
$2.7M backs community wish for more youth mental health support
THE Federal Government yesterday announced $2.7 million to back a Wangaratta community driven bid to improve local mental health services for young people aged 12…
43 years on the job enough for Jill Lawn
AFTER more than 43 years supporting blood donors and the Red Cross, Jill Lawn will finish up as a volunteer at the Wangaratta Blood Donor…
Emergency demand UP
WANGARATTA’S public hospital has returned a $2.364 million deficit in the 2017/18 financial year, mainly due to increased activity demand and complexity of patient care.
Call for training centre to break the drug cycle
INDEPENDENT candidate for Ovens Valley, Tammy Atkins, has proposed a Wangaratta Recovery Community and Training Centre be established to break the cycle of drug dependency,…
Not wind nor rain can stop the Relay For Life
Local volunteers raise more than $52,000 for Cancer Council
Fish farm, quarry idea hits a snag
Markwood landholder also wants to lease his land for excavation of vital concrete resource