Your Local Community Pharmacy

from March Rollingstone Rag 2023

by Rollingstone Rag

DECEMBER 2022

Bluewater Healthsave Pharmacy

2 Purono Parkway, Yabulu 4818

PH: 07 4778 6233

FAX: 07 4778 6733

8.30am – 6pm Monday – Friday

8.30am – 1pm Saturday

Balgal Beach Healthsave Pharmacy

114 Mystic Avenue, Balgal Beach 4816

PH: 07 4770 7400

FAX: 07 4770 7399

8.30am – 5pm Monday – Friday

CLOSED SATURDAY & SUNDAY

*NDSS Agent – Diabetes Supplies Blister Packaging for your medicines

*Hire Equipment

*Full Prescription Service

*Delivery available for those in need

*Ear Piercing *Faulding Vitamins MLE – Making Life Easy (Large range of Home Healthcare aids) Pharmacy Choice Brand Products (Quality product made affordable with 100% money back guarantee). Easy parking available

Welcome to the new year, We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and welcomed the New Year in with a bang. Just a reminder that our Pharmacy hours are:

Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5pm

Closed Saturday, Sundays and Public Holidays

Our Bluewater Pharmacy is open Saturday 8:30 – 1pm

The wet season is well and truly upon us and with that we remind you to keep your medication in a cool, dry spot and if your medication is to be refrigerated to keep it on one of the shelves and not in the door.

If for any reason (Cyclone, flooding etc) you are required to leave your home, have your medication in a sealed container or zip lock bag to prevent any water damage to your medication. Make sure you always have at least a weeks supply available.

Services that we offer to our Community:

 Free blood pressure checks

 Personal medication packs (Blister packs)

 We are a Diabetes agent NDSS

Home Medication Review:

 Do you take multiple medications, and are unsure about what each medication does? For extra peace of mind, our Pharmacists can visit you in your home to conduct a home medication review. During your visit, our Pharmacists may explain your medications, suggest changes, or offer advice on storage of medication, dosages, and side effects.

Prescription Management:

 It can be daunting managing multiple prescriptions. That’s why we offer a free ‘scripts on file’ service. Leave your scripts with us, and we’ll keep them on file, so there’s no risk of losing or forgetting your scripts when it comes time to get a refill. Ask in-store to find out more.

We are on Facebook and you can find us under - Balgal Beach HealthSave Pharmacy

Your local Pharmacy Team…...Frank and Kristie

Bluewater Medical Practice

2 PURONO PARKWAY, PURONO PARK

BALGAL BEACH MEDICAL PRACTICE

120 Mystic Avenue Balgal Beach

Open Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm Saturday 8.30am to 1pm

Tel: 07 4778 6444

OR you can book ONLINE via our website www.bluewatermedical.com

General Practitioners and Allied Health Services

Queensland Health has provided the Rollingstone Community Centre with a quantity of Covid 19 Antigen Self-Test kits.

The RAT kits come at no cost to the public and can be picked up from the RTC Mon-Fri 8am-4pm.

Please wear a mask and use hand sanitiser if you are experiencing flu like symptoms.

Tel: 47707 244 Fax: 47707 100

Email: manager@balgalmedical.com.au

OPEN Monday to Friday 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

CLOSED Saturday, Sunday & all Public Holidays. Appointments are required

The General Practitioners:

Dr Olga Hasa (via Telehealth)

Dr Vladimir Hasa

Dr Diana Hopkins

Dr Lucia Rajnoch

Dr Clyton Banya

Dr Renee Brown

Physiotherapy

Free Movement Physio (Fortnightly)

Pathology collection

Wednesday 8.30am-11.30am

Every third Saturday of the Month

18th March 2023

For all other appointments and dental emergencies, we welcome you to your dental home at MYTOOTHDOCTOR TM Family, Paediatric and Special Care Dentistry

Bushland Beach Medical Centre www.mytoothdoctor.com.au T 07 4751 8999

• The Christmas/New Year/Summer Break always brings some sadness. This year it came in the shape of the loss of Jan Giles, Trevor Phillips, and John Bewert (Orchid John). These folk were all mighty contributors towards the betterment of our local community and in turn, they will be mightily missed. Vale Trevor, Jan, and John.

• Dickie Charleston has been extremely ill, but at last report was slowly improving. A local identity, Dickie has been around for a long, long time, and is very popular within his local group. We send our very best wishes for his recovery. We’ve just heard that Gwen Cahill has been in hospital for some time; and we’re hoping she’s feeling better as well. Not too many details, so we’re unable to elaborate.

• Well, we’ve hit the deck running for 2023. No longer, in today’s world, does anything slow down for the summer break. Just crank up the air-cons and go, go, go. They were knocking the doors down on Jan. 3rd and it hasn’t stopped. I remember when January was a summer holiday month and one had time to read books, etc. – do whatever one felt like doing…..or not! But that no longer seems to happen, more’s the pity; and people wonder why they’re stressed! I know Chrissie and I are already worn out and it’s only February!!

• We were unable to run our Drone Demonstration and Workshop morning due to the seasonal wet weather. Our man requires fair weather and dry ground; so we’ll reschedule later on during the milder time of our year.

• In the meantime, we’re planning for our Volunteers Luncheon (during March); our Newbies’ Meet and Greet Morning Tea (in April); Pot Luck Dinner and Guest Speaker, and Cancer Morning Tea (in May); Camp Oven Cooking Workshop, and Bee-Centric Day (in June); Car Boot Sale & Art Exhibition (in July); Oldies & Youngies, and the Pineapple Festival (in August); Country Music Evening featuring the Gottani Girls (in September); and our “Closing the Gap” Cultural Day – date yet to be decided. Along with EVERYTHING else that we do at the Centre, that list should keep us all very well occupied!!

• There is a new café opened up at Paluma. There is an article elsewhere in this Newsletter. Methinks it’s time to take a trip up the Mountain to offer some much-needed support to these intrepid folk. Reports to date are very good.

• Australia Day was most successful this year. So much better that the past few years. We played it quietly this time and very basically and it actually worked. Still very few kids and their parents, but that’s always been so; and as we’re celebrating our wonderful Country, that is what we did on the Day, which seemingly worked this year. We had about 120 attend, which is very good and everyone stayed on after cleaning up the Dampers (best dampers ever) and the Corned Beef and Puftaloons and enjoyed the activities and the Gottani Girls – who are booked for next year! Suzi Vincent is 2023 Citizen of the Year, Reg Geritz is Senior Citizen, and Marley Parker is Junior Citizen – all very, very well deserved, and CONGRATULATIONS to everyone nominated for an award this year.

• We’re looking at running Crafty-type workshops for people wanting to learn to knit, crochet, patchwork, quilt, and hopefully many other diverse and entertaining “things-to-do”. We used to do this many years ago but let it slip because of more serious-type workshops. However, it’s time for a change

• We’re also looking at putting in place some trips away. Will keep you posted as these decisions are made.

• Sue Thompson tells us that the Company in town that processes all the plastic bottle tops we collect is in business actually “making stuff” and she hopes to have some of those items available at this year’s Pineapple Festival. Wonderful result…….

• Purple Poppy (aka “Animals in War”) Day dawned with a sunrise, something we hadn’t seen for a few weeks, so we figured it had to be a good omen – and it seemed that was so. We had an excellent turnup of both man (approx. 150) and beast and everyone agreed it was a wonderful morning and a success all round. There was great representation from the community-at-large and around 30 students from our little school (Prep and Grades 1 and 2); service and working dogs representing diverse groups; a Lighthorseman and his steed; musicians from the 1RAR Band; 2 extremely special men in our Padre and our Master of Ceremonies; and outstanding input from numerous kind-/big-hearted volunteers.

• So in between all this organising and preparing, we’ve been VERY busily engaged doing all the other stuff we do routinely on a daily basis. Many and varied are the services provided from the RTC and they are all accessed regularly. Along with that, there’s the running of the Big Hall, the Op Shop, and the Bus, and we’re presently working on a second edition of our earlier published Recipe Book, putting together a new local Phone Book and funding for an EcoToilet and a Shade Shelter on Pace Park. It all takes a lot of work and much time – so we sometimes need to ask for your understanding into where/when we can fit everything. But, we’ll have a second employee again soon, so hopefully that’ll be a big help.

MIRACLE GROW: 4 litres Water; 1 tabs. Epsom Salt; 1 teasp. Baking Soda; ½ teasp. Ammonia. Mix and use once a month on all plants.

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Did you know you can reheat Pizza by turning your toaster on its side?

Try these. My sister tells me “they’re beaut”!

3-ingredient Bread Rolls: 2 cups SR Flour; 1 cup Milk; 3 tabs. (1/4 cup) REAL Mayonnaise; 1 teasp. Sugar; Salt. Mix flour, salt, and sugar.

Add Mayo and (Whole or 2%) Milk. Mix gently for a couple of minutes. Using a heaped Tablespoon, put into Patty Cake cases and cook at 180 in Air Fryer for 5 to 8 minutes. (You might like longer). Or cook in 180-190C oven in 12 cup Muffin Tray. Add Spray oil to patty cases or muffin tray, whatever is your preference. Cook (12 – 15 minutes) until toothpick/skewer comes out clean. Remove and stand on cake cooling stand for 5 minutes before serving.

Live well, love much, laugh often “Sancho Panza”.