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The Matakana community is holding a black tie masquerade ball to raise funds for two local children and their oncology ward at Starship Hospital.Early childhood teacher Monique Jansen is organising the event, coming up with the idea after meeting 4-year-old Point Wells resident Emilie Johns while working at former preschool the Crib last year.“Emilie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and by that night she was at Starship Hospital. During the summer I decided I wanted to do something to help. At the same time my neighbour Jaxon Waters was also treated for leukaemia in the same ward as Emilie,” says Monique.Jaxon, 9, had a relapse on his last day of treatment while for Emilie, whom staff described as “a fierce little woman”, it wasn’t a matter of it “all being better”.“It’s a journey and it’s going to take years. I spoke to Emilie’s mum Kerri and she said she’s met many other families in the same situation and suggested doing something for the wider community so the whole ward could benefit.”Kerri says Emilie was diagnosed a year ago and spent the first six months receiving intensive treatment, including blood and platelet transfusions. The family stayed at home most of the time for fear of picking up a cold. Emilie has now begun maintenance treatment, involving daily pills, chemotherapy and monthly steroid treatments until mid-2014.“She’s often tired, sick or grumpy, but now that

Point Wells 4-year-old Emilie Johns will undergo a regime of daily pills, chemotherapy and monthly steroid treatments until mid 2014.she’s on maintenance she can get out and do more activities. She’s been back at day-care in the last two months but there have been lots of weeks she hasn’t gone. It’s lovely to have the community behind us with an event in Emilie’s name.”Around 100 local businesses have come on board to donate their time, money and goods. The plan is to raise $30,000. The ball will be held at the Stables Restaurant on August 31 from 7.30pm. There’ll be canapés and buns and a glass of bubbles at entry. An auction will be held and each ticket will go into the prize for a mystery weekend for two worth $1200.

Monique says she is “very pleased and excited” at the big community response and believes the ball will be a great night. “When I have an idea I won’t settle for anything else.”Mahurangi College student Ruby Garner, 14, is shaving her hair off for the ball. Ruby has around 20 sponsors so far and hopes to gather more at the event. She will chop her hair off the following weekend.Starship Children’s Health provides world-class health care for more than 120,000 patient visits from children each year from all over New Zealand.

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A study by AUT University shows the amount of money New Zealanders spend on takeaways has risen by a quarter in the past four years, drawing complaints about the cost of fresh food.University of Canterbury researcher Professor Ekant Veer says many families have multiple breadwinners who are tired at the end of the day or don’t have time to learn how to cook properly and healthily. He says the situation has resulted in a culture of quick, easy solutions for dinners.“We’re relying on third parties to provide our ready-food solutions because it costs to make our own food. It costs too much money, costs too much in time, and costs too much in skills.”Warkworth Wellsford Budgeting Service advisor Jo Walker says it is possible to buy fresh food without breaking your bank balance.“Don’t go shopping without a list, and when you’re making a list plan around the supermarket specials,” Ms Walker says.“Buy fresh fruit and vegetables that are in season, locate your local growers and the Hospice shops that sell fruit and vegetables. These are usually significantly cheaper than supermarket prices.”She recommends using extra vegetables to make meals go further: “Adding more potatoes or carrots to a casserole is inexpensive.”She says vegetables such as beans, peas, lettuce, silverbeet or spinach are easy to grow, while herbs such as Italian parsley, mint and chives are good for dressing up the flavour of cooked meals or salads.“We usually overestimate the amount of meat we need to eat in a week, so

use alternative protein products like lentils, beans and quinoa.”Ms Walker advises against going shopping when you’re hungry and says: “If at all possible don’t take the kids with you.”She explains weekly shops are better than regular shops that can result in the purchase of extra items.“Taking a lunch to work that you’ve made at home can save a considerable amount, while another big saving can be made by not buying coffees. If there is only instant available and you don’t like it, take a plunger and some nice coffee.”Ms Walker says if you have a freezer full of homekill meat but find yourself getting bored with the lack of variety, try swapping with others.“If you feel that your cooking skills let you down, join one of the classes run by Homebuilders and local churches from time to time.”She says homemade pizza and hamburgers can be very healthy and cheaper than buying from a takeaway outlet.Warkworth Wellsford Budgeting Service is running a competition for Money Week, which is an initiative by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income to increase financial literacy awareness. Submit a menu for dinner (main and dessert) for two adults and two children ages 8-12 years and be in to win a $120 supermarket voucher. Entries will be judged on value for money (all costs must be included) and how healthy and tasty the meal is.Post your entries to Warkworth Wellsford Budget Service, PO Box 90, Wellsford, 0940 or email to [email protected]. Entries close 5pm on August 23.

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All playgrounds, skate parks, sports fields, parks and reserves throughout Mahurangi have been declared smoke-free, following a decision by Auckland Council to impose a voluntary ban across the Auckland region.Council approved the new policy last week and it has come into immediate effect. The ban covers all outdoor facilities, including swimming pools and stadiums, as well as outdoor areas associated with Council such as service centres, local board offices, libraries, community facilities and halls, museums, recreation and arts centres, as well as transport areas such as bus stations and ferry terminals.The policy was the subject of heated debate among Rodney Local Board members earlier this year.Some board members feared the policy was going too far. Tracey Martin described it as a “dumb idea” that would become a “bloody minefield”, and compared it to the Prohibition era when it was illegal to sell alcohol. Given that cigarettes were not illegal, “it’s just a different substance”, she said.James Colville said he was concerned the ban might become compulsory, rather than voluntary, and Brenda Steele also opposed it.  However, the

rest of the board backed the policy, saying the public had the right to be protected from secondhand smoke.Council is not yet proposing a bylaw that would give the policy more teeth.   It plans to erect signs, and admits it is relying on peer pressure to ensure people comply.  It has acknowledged it cannot afford the cost of policing the policy, and therefore no fines will be issued.

However, it says it will reconsider whether a bylaw might be necessary in 2016.From June 2015, Council will extend the ban to include shared spaces and all plazas and civic squares.   From June 2018, it intends to add the areas around sports clubs, outdoor dining areas, urban centres, public beaches and common areas of council housing.The Government has a goal that New

Zealand will become a smoke-free nation by 2025.However, the Council ban is not happening fast enough for the Cancer Society, which wants Auckland to become smoke-free by 2015.According to the society, research carried out last month by Wyllie & Associates and Reid Research showed strong support for the ban coming into effect sooner rather than later.Public support was particularly high for places people use regularly such as bus stops, train stations and building entrances, it says. There was also overwhelming support for places where families socialise, such as outdoor eating areas. John McEnteer, general manager of the Southern Initiative, a collective of South Auckland local boards, where smoking rates are highest across the Auckland region, is also very supportive of the move.Mr McEnteer says the ban will help reduce cancer rates, and save children’s lives as well.“Tamariki are our gold — our treasure for the future — and introducing smoke-free public places as soon as possible is an important way of helping to protect this treasure,” he says.

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Hestia Rodney Women’s Refuge has noticed an increase in referrals of drug addicts who have been harming their parents. Manager Oriel Heseltine says the problem involves people aged between 15 and 30 who still live at home and need money to feed cravings for drugs such as P. “They steal, become bullies, physically assault their parents and make demands that frighten them. It’s become more prevalent and more people are reporting it,” she says.Ms Heseltine says older people could find themselves short of money if younger relatives emptied their bank accounts or removed goods to sell.They could get a protection order but that was “difficult emotionally”.“Parents or grandparents often don’t want to do that because it means being mean to the person they love. All your life you’ve tried to love and nurture your child. How do you go to court and take action against them? They could end up with a criminal conviction.”She says guardians often want someone else to lay a complaint so they don’t have to. “If they don’t take action, maybe no one else will and what might happen in another year?”Ms Heseltine says drug addicts can make family settings threatening and unsafe for younger siblings, which is a situation

Women’s Refuge could help with.“We can offer women support, taking into consideration they might be parents to other children as well, but we can only give support and information. We encourage them to take action. Police can’t do anything unless they lay a charge.”Ms Heseltine says in the last year the agency has supported more than 1500 clients at its safe house and through other work in the community. The safe house has had 37 families for more than 3500 bed nights.“The year before there were more families but less bed nights. One of the reasons is it’s becoming harder for families to leave safe homes because of housing shortages. Families can’t leave because they haven’t got a house to go to.”She says there’s been an increase in financial stress with more families experiencing extreme hardship. Delays in court proceedings were also making life difficult.“Using the Family Court has become more complicated and it’s harder to get legal aid. Fewer lawyers are providing it and more women don’t qualify for it.”Ms Heseltine says a woman who felt unsafe in her home with three teenagers and earning $40,000 a year, wouldn’t qualify for legal aid.

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Mahurangi residents are being urged to take a bowel screening test by a man who calls himself the luckiest person in the country.Bruce Ogilvy, a healthy and active 59-year old, took part in Waitemata District Health Board’s free bowel screening programme. The test picked up his cancer early, when it could be successfully treated.Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in New Zealand and the second-highest cause of cancer death.“I had no signs or symptoms of anything wrong at all. But my initial test at home came back positive and a follow-up colonoscopy showed cancer. I had surgery and chemotherapy and now I feel great. I am so pleased I took part in the bowel screening programme,” says Mr Ogilvy.Bruce has a simple message for everyone living in the region who is eligible to take part in the pilot.“Take the test. Just do it. It is the best thing I have ever done – I feel like I have won Lotto,” he says. He is one of 60 people found to have had bowel cancer during the first 12 months of the pilot.The programme’s clinical director,

surgeon Mike Hulme-Moir, says cancers are being found in people who had no signs or symptoms to suggest there could be a problem.“More than 60 percent of the cancers detected during the first year of the pilot are early-stage bowel cancers, which is a higher percentage than is seen in a normal clinical setting where people have symptoms.” Mr Hulme-Moir says the good news is that early-stage cancers can be treated more successfully, and the outcomes for patients are generally good.The Ministry of Health has just released data from the first year of the pilot, from January to December 2012, showing: y bowel cancer was found in 60 people y 54,450 people were invited to take part in the pilot

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aren’t prepared for a disaster so local emergency response teams have been established to communicate with emergency services and Civil Defence.Ms Murray is responsible for 14 groups from Tauhoa to Te Hana and says it has been easier getting support from rural people than urban.The Warkworth Emergency Response group was started last December. It recently carried out a mock disaster based on a gas bottle explosion at the Kowhai Festival. The Mahurangi East group started under the former Rodney District Council.The Red Cross disaster trucks will respond to requests from the Civil Defence welfare advisory group and can be used until long-term welfare centres are set up.

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Mahurangi residents suffering from the blinding effects of glaucoma have access to a new device that dramatically reduces healing time.iStent implants are being used at the Rodney Surgical Centre in Warkworth and cut down healing time from three months to two weeks. Eye surgeon Dr Mark Donaldson is the first to use them in Australasia and says they are an important advance in the surgical approach to glaucoma.It is glaucoma awareness month in New Zealand. The disorder is the leading cause of preventable blindness in New Zealand and affects 2 percent of the population over the age of 40.“Standard glaucoma surgery can take up to three months to come right and leaves scarring,” Dr Donaldson says.“It can be a tricky and demanding thing for the patient so the search has been on for better ways.”The iStent, made by Canadian company Glaukos, is a response to that. Previously the only alternative to standard surgery was eye drops, but they didn’t suit everyone.“It only takes two weeks to recover from an iStent procedure. It offers a surgical option in the middle if getting the pressure down a bit is all you need. It gives us more tools to deal with middle-ranked glaucoma sufferers

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Is gluten-free all it’s cracked up to be?It seems everyone knows someone who is, has been or should be gluten-free. So what’s it all about and is it really necessary?Gluten is best described as a protein that is found predominantly in wheat and wheat products.There are similar proteins found in rye and oats although they are technically slightly different to those in wheat.There are more and more people who have trouble digesting gluten and similar proteins that can cause certain problems and contribute to many health ailments.The reason behind this is thought to be due to the huge rise in the amount of highly processed wheat products that we are now consuming as a society. Pasta, bread, breakfast cereals, buns, cakes, muffins, pastries and pizzas contain highly refined wheat.While they are okay for most people in small amounts, for many these foods have become the basis of our diets and are well out of proportion to what our bodies can handle. Over years of unbalanced consumption of these foods, our digestive systems have become less able to digest such food.Early signs of too much wheat can be low energy, and general sluggishness. This can lead to many digestive issues such as bloating, pain, constipation, diarrhoea and gas. Other problems can include weight loss or weight gain; nutritional deficiencies due to malabsorbtion, such as low iron levels; fat in the stools; aching joints, depression, eczema, headaches; exhaustion, irritability and behavioural changes; infertility, irregular menstrual cycle and miscarriage; cramps, tingling and numbness; slow infant and child growth; and decline in dental health.Celiac disease is another condition that requires people to be gluten-free. This is an autoimmune disease where people have a severe allergic reaction to gluten. Celiac disease is diagnosed via a blood test that your doctor would need to arrange.The good news is there is a lot that can help gluten intolerances. The most important of all is to remove gluten from the diet. This may be for a short time in mild cases or a long time in more severe cases.There are now many good options for people who need to be gluten-free. Warkworth has a great supplier of gluten-free products at Elocin, which is located at 18b Glenmore Drive. Nicole is passionate about gluten-free products and has a huge range to choose from.Café Q, Chocolate Brown and Fresh café all have great gluten-free foods too, and many supermarkets also stock them.Once the gluten is not being eaten, the digestive system can begin to repair. Slippery elm, colostrum and probiotics can all help this phase of recovery. Eating wholegrains that are gluten-free is also very useful.

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Phone 09 425 820156 View Road, Warkworth

www.warkworthbirthcentre.co.nz

Around 12 babies a week are born in New Zealand with a congenital heart defect (CHD), a condition they have to live with for the rest of their lives and for which there is no prevention or cure. A congenital heart defect occurs when parts of the heart do not develop as they should, or as a result of a childhood affliction such as rheumatic fever. Living with CHD can involve many surgeries, often beginning just days after the baby is born. This means a lot of time spent in and out of hospital, a reduced ability to carry out normal daily activities most people take for granted, and an uncertain life expectancy. Some heart babies go on to live a normal life span while others lose their battle at a very young age.Children with heart defects will face challenges throughout their lives, and they and their families need support in many ways. For families of children with CHD, it means constant disruptions to work and home life with frequent stays in hospital and regular time needed off work for at least one parent. This can see finances stretched and even job prospects compromised, all on top of coping with the uncertainty and anguish about the health of their child and often the needs of siblings as well.

Heart kid Johnny Grimstone wears his badge of bravery. Johnny was featured in last year’s @Heart Awareness campaign.

The charity @Heart, which supports the needs of those with CHD throughout their entire lives, is not well-known in New Zealand.August is @Heart Awareness Month and in the first week the charity, which relies solely on donations, will embark on its nationwide street collection and a series of fundraising activities throughout the country.@Heart’s support for CHD children and their families comes in many forms – both practical and emotional – and includes services such as providing hospital advocates and advisors for CHD patients and their families, assistance with travel and accommodation for families needing to get to hospitals out of town, counseling and psychological support, help securing specialised equipment, attending camps and even financial assistance.@Heart is different to the Heart Foundation, and receives no government funding.To make an automatic $3 donation, text HEART to 2427, go online to givingatheart.org.nz, or send a cheque payable to At Heart NZ to PO Box 108 034, Symonds St, Auckland 1150.Info: @Heart’s Family Support Worker Stacey Lee Kobus on 021 051 9394 or call freephone 0800 543 943.

Cordially invite you to their

2013 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Date: Tuesday 13th August, Time: 10:30am – Morning tea 11:00am – AGMVenue: In the lounge at the Wellsford District Community Centre 1 Matheson Rd, Wellsford

You are most welcome to join us for morning tea and the AGM.

WELLSFORD

Please RSVP by Thursday 8th August 2013 to:

Citizens Advice Bureau Wellsford1 Matheson Road, Wellsford

Phone 09 423 7333Email: [email protected]

Charity raises awareness of kids with heart faults