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WEDNESDAY April 17, 2013
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More funds for upgrade Members of Cooma Lions Club received a much-needed $55,000 cheque last Wednesday from the Member for the Monaro, John Barilaro. The grant is a part of the NSW Government’s Community Building Partnership grant and will be used by the Cooma Lions Club to refurbish the Nurse’s lodgings at the Cooma District Hospital. The building currently houses training nurses, visiting specialists, other medical professionals and people with loved ones in hospital. The Cooma Lions Club and Monaro Committee for Cancer Research (MCCR) have already refurbished the old Matron’s flat for visitors; this upgrade will bring the rest up to the same standard. “When relieving staff and family of loved ones in hospital come to stay in the lodgings this grant means that they will come to a nice surrounding. We will be making it comfortable, clean and tidy so that it’s a pleasant place to stay in,” said Lions Club member, Chris Reeks. The labour for the refurbishment will be generously donated by the members of the Cooma Lions Club. Mr Barilaro said the work is part of the NSW Government’s health care investment in the region, including a $1 million satellite dialysis unit at the Cooma Hospital recently gone out to tender. More than 1235 community projects throughout the state will receive as a part of $90 million allocated to the program over four years. Continued on page 6. Pictured at the old nurses’ quarters last week are Lion Bob Nichols, John Barilaro, Lions project officer John Britton, Lion Chris Reeks, Lion John Neilson and MCCR representative, Sue Litchfield.
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