The 8th of October is world sight day and this year the

Balmoral Lions club are entering in a photo competition

to help promote the day. They have invited the Balmoral

Early Learning Centre to help by all making glasses then

posing with them for the photo they will enter.

We were very excited to participate with this community

group and found it was a great opportunity to teach the

children about the different reasons glasses are worn and

looking after the health of our eyes. The children were

very excited to make their own pipe cleaner glasses.

Over the past month, we have been learning the bear

hunt song. The children have been excited to go on

many bear hunts.

Extending on our learning about spring, we have been

having lots of discussions around insects and seeds. We

have been exploring the different types of insects and

what is special about each one. We even found a

ladybird outside the other week when we were looking

around the yard with our magnifying glasses. We have

also been talking about seeds; what eat them, how we

grow them and how flour is made from some seeds. We

will be growing some seeds in cups over the next few

weeks.

Simone Aitken

Childcare Team Leader

This month at the

Balmoral Early

Learning Centre

It’s looking as though we may still

be fully booked next year; so we

are now looking for expressions of

interest for running a third day

next year. If you are interested in

using our service next year, I

encourage you to pop into our

centre on a Monday or

Wednesday, or call in to the BBNC

and fill out an expression of

interest form to tell us your

childcare needs.

BBNC in a joint project with South

West Dental Services have held their

first dental clinic last week. The

fortnightly visit will bring a much

needed service to our remote

community. This service is funded by

the Commonwealth Government

and is managed by the Dental Health

Services of Victoria.

With alternating visits between Dental

Therapist KyShen Tang and Dentist Dr

Alex Reid, Balmoral will have access

to a broad range of dental care

through both public and private

health support.

Dr Reid will attend to dental

examinations fillings, extractions,

dentures, emergency care,

mouthguards and referrals as

required.

KyShen will undertaken regular

cleaning programs, examinations,

and oral hygiene inspections. He

works with children to introduce and

support good dental care.

Supported by the public dental

service healthcare card holders can

access priority access. The service is

also supported by most public health

funds.

For more information or an

appointment with our dentist or

dental therapist please contact the

Centre for an appointment on

5570 1304

RAN Kim Dufty

welcomes

Amanda Bickley,

KyShen Tang,

Donna Mercado

& Carol

Walkenhorst

from South West

Dental Services

to BBNC

Dental Services in Balmoral

BBNC NEWS

Board Contacts

President

Mr. Neville Trotman

Vice President

Mrs. Georgie Leeming

Members

Mr. Dan Pekin

Mr. Geoff Barcham

Mr. Ryan Lloyd-Jones

Mrs. Dani Smith

Mrs. Katie Little

Mrs. Leeanne Thomson

Executive Administration

Mrs. Sabrina Watt

Centre Contacts

Centre Manager

Lisa Hutchins

Clinical Nurse

Coordinator

Ann Vaughan

Community Services

Coordinator

Lyn Iredell

Administration

Coordinator

Jodie Russell

Quality & Risk

Coordinator

Anita Weaver

Issue 126 | NOVEMBER 2015

Visit us online at www.balmoralbnc.com.au

Contact Details

PO Box 20 Balmoral, VIC 3407

Email: bbnc.admin@swarh.vic.gov.au

Web: www.balmoralbnc.com.au

Ph: (03) 5570 1304 Fax: (03) 5570 1482

Centre Hours

Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm,

Closed weekends & Public Holidays

"Connecting people, promoting knowledge,

investing in the health and wellbeing of our

community for the future"

We value your

feedback

To do our utmost to improve

our services to you, your

feedback is important to us.

If you have a complaint,

compliment, suggestion

or concern we urge you to

let us know. Forms are

available at the Centre or

alternatively phone the Centre

on 55701304.

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

1 2

PAG Melbourne Cup Lunch

3

MELBOURNE CUP DAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

NO DOCTOR

4 5

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

X-mas Party in MtGambier—

Poilice Band

6

Dentist - Dr. Reid

7

8 9

PAG

10

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

Dr. Greta 2 - 4:45pm

Podiatrist

10:20am - 2:50pm

11

Dr. Slabbert (video link)

M&CHN 9:30 - 11:30am

12

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

Men’s Shed from 1:30pm

13

Community Bus >

Horsham

14

15 16

PAG

WDHS Psychologist

Diabetes Educator

17

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

Dr. Coulson & Dr. Moe

10am - 4:45pm

18 19

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

Men’s Shed from 1:30pm

20

Kyshen Tang

Dental Therapist

21

22 23

PAG Trip to Portland

24

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am$4

Dr. Greta 2 - 4:45pm

25

M&CHN 9:30 - 11:30am

Podiatrist

10:20am - 2:50pm

Dr. Slabbert (video link)

26

Pathology 8:45 - 9:30am $4

Men’s Shed Opening

from 1:30pm

Broadband for Seniors

6:30 - 7:30pm

27

Community Bus >

Hamilton

28

29 30

PAG Party with the Ponies

Visiting Services After Hours

Health Advice

National Nurse on Call

Is a phone service that provides

immediate, expert health advice

from registered nurses, 24 hours a

day, 7 days a week. Call 1300 60

60 24 for the cost of a local call

from anywhere in Victoria

Coleraine Medical Centre

NON URGENT OUTPATIENTS will be

seen by the doctor on call

Saturdays, Sundays & Public

Holidays at 9am. Clinic phone

5553 2045 will be answered by a

triage nurse after hours.

Hamilton Medical Group

After Hours Clinic Service 8pm

weeknights. Clinic open 4pm

Saturdays. Sundays & Public

Holidays 10am & 4pm

AH: 5572 2422

Field Name Availability

Doctor Dr. Jan Slabbert Alternate Wednesdays

Doctor Dr Brian Coulson & Dr.

Kenny Yang Alternate Tuesdays

Doctor Dr. Greta Prozesky &

Dr. Steve Yuan Alternate Tuesdays

Dentist

Dental Therapist

Dr. Alexander Reid

Kyshen Tang Alternate Fridays

Psychologist Angela O ’Brien One Monday per month

Maternal & Child

Health Nurse Judy Joyce 2nd and 4th Wed

Diabetes Educator Megan McLeish One Monday per month

Optometrist Glenn Howell May & October

Podiatry Phuong Huyng Two visits per month.

Masseur Darce Penrose Thursdays

Continence Nurse Annabelle Wilson 3rd Thurs month

Dental Prosthetist Andrew Bolwell To be confirmed

Payments can be made by cash, cheque or direct deposit into our bank account

BSB: 083 440 Account: 515592666 Pease include your name as a reference Need to make a payment?

FOOD LABELS

Food labels carry useful information to help you make good choices about food. The food label

will tell you if the food contains an additive that you may want to avoid. The nutrition information

panel helps you to compare the nutrient profile of similar products and choose the one that suits

your needs.

Nutrition claims on labels

Don’t be misled by labelling tricks and traps. The terms used are often misleading. For example:

The term ‘light’ or ‘lite’ doesn’t necessarily mean that the product is low in fat or energy. The

term ‘light’ may refer to the texture, colour or taste of the product.

The claims ‘no cholesterol’, ‘low cholesterol’ or ‘cholesterol free’ on foods derived from plants,

like margarine and oil, are meaningless because all plant foods contain virtually no cholesterol.

If an item claims to be 93 per cent fat free, it actually contains 7 per cent fat, but it looks so

much better the other way.

‘Fresh’ actually means the product hasn’t been preserved by freezing, canning,

high-temperature or chemical treatment.

Difference between ‘use-by’ and ‘best before’

Foods with a shelf life of less than two years must have a ‘best before’ or ‘use-by’ date. These

terms mean different things. The ‘best before’ date refers to the quality of the food – food stored in

the recommended way will remain of good quality until that date.

It may still be safe to eat certain foods after the ‘best before’ date, but they may have lost quality

and some nutritional value. By contrast, foods that should not be consumed after a certain date

for health and safety reasons must have a ‘use-by’ date and cannot be sold after that date. You

will find ‘use-by’ dates on perishables such as meat, fish and dairy products.

Tallie Talay

Live Active

Live Active News

During term 4 playgroup will meet every

second Friday from 10:00 until 12:00. We

will meet at 10:00am in the child care rooms

of the Bush Nursing Centre and then walk

over to the mobile library to have some

library and reading time.

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For more information please phone Anne on

0407 990 662 or check out Balmoral

Playgroup on Facebook or the BBNC website

www.balmoralbnc.com.au under

Balmoral

Playgroup

Mondays & Wednesdays 7pm – 8pm Cost: $5 per session Venue: Balmoral Bush Nursing Centre

For more information contact

Tallie Talay at the Centre

Strength Training

With the AFL Grand Final over

we kicked off October with

our annual Mad Monday

celebrations. We awarded our

Footy Tipping winners for 2015

Congratulations to Laurel 1st

place, Peg 2nd place and in

3rd place our very special

visitor for the day Heather

Smith. It was lovely to see

Heather and we look forward

to more visits in the future.

With the beautiful spring days

upon us we ventured out to

the golf club to search for wild

flowers. We were lucky

enough to see a wide variety

of flowers and the orchids

were just beautiful.

With a full bus we headed

over to Harrow for their annual

Pathways to Harrow. We were

amazed by these five very

brave ladies who presented

their stories. Congratulations to

the Harrow Bush Nursing

Centre, we really enjoyed our

day and we are looking

forward to next year’s final

Pathways.

With the sun shining on a very

warm spring day we headed

for the mountains, our

destination Mirranatwa. Our

first stop was “Crombie”

garden where we enjoyed our

lunch under some beautiful

shady trees and listened to the

many different types of birds

that live in this garden. We

then headed to Ros McArthur

Art Studio to have a look at

her beautiful art work and

enjoyed afternoon tea in the

garden there. Thank you to

Gay and Rex Beveridge

and Ros and David McArthur

for making us feel so

welcome.

Lyn Iredell & Bec Kearns

Community Services

Planned Activity Group

November Program Date Event

Monday 2nd Lunch at the Centre, Melbourne Cup sweeps and bring your

favourite tea cup for high tea

Monday 9th Lunch at the Centre. Community Project

Tuesday 10th Morning Tea Party at Louise Guthries

Monday 16th Lunch at the Centre. Out and about for the afternoon

Monday 23rd Day trip to Portland to tour ‘The Enterprize’

Thursday 26th Opening of the newly renovated Men’s Shed

Monday 30th Party with the Ponies in Hamilton

Men’s Shed

Dates

Thursday 5th

Thursday 12th

Thursday 19th

Thursday 26th

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In Australia there are about

3,000 snake bites per year, of

which 200 to 500 receive

antivenom; on average one or

two will prove fatal. About half

the deaths are due to bites

from the brown snake; the rest

mostly from tiger snake, taipan

and death adder. Some

deaths are sudden, however in

fact it is uncommon to die

within four hours of a snake

bite.

Before the advent of

polyvalent antivenoms it was

extremely important to

positively identify the snake.

Although less important now, it

remains highly desirable,

because snake-specific

antivenoms are less hazardous

to the patient than polyvalent

antivenoms. Snake

identification can be very

difficult if it was seen fleetingly

or in poor light. Scale patterns

and colours can be quite

unreliable, especially for brown

snakes.

The bite site may be painless. It

may have classical paired

fang marks, but this is not the

most common picture. Often

there are just a few scratches

and sometimes these may be

go unnoticed.

Signs and symptoms may vary

Fang marks and swelling

May or may not be

painful and have bruising

Nausea and vomiting

Headache, sweating

Blurred vision

Abdominal pain

confusion

Increased heart rate and

blood pressure

Decreased conscious

state

Blood in the urine

WHAT TO DO

Do not wash the area

Keep the person still.

Apply a pressure

immobilisation bandage.

If the bite is on the arm,

bandage the whole arm.

Bites to the head, neck,

and back are a special

problem - firm pressure

should be applied locally

if possible. This slows down

the movement of venom

around the lymphatic

system.

Splint the limb

Mark the outside of the

bandage with a pen to

indicate where the bite

mark is.

Seek medical assistance.

Do not remove the

bandage as this will

cause a rapid spread of

the venom through the

body.

Only 1 in 20 snake bites

require active emergency

treatment or the

administration of

antivenom. Medical

management depends on

the degree of systemic

envenomation and the

type of venom.

If you would like a Snake

Bite Kit they are

available at the BBNC

for $13.50

Di McLean & Kim Dufty

Health Promotion

Snake Bites