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Collapse Issue 248 - 13 Sep 2010Issue 248 - 13 Sep 2010
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Record profit at bowling club
Minister seeks details on rehab needs
Chamber warns of housing crisis
Woy Woy Rd limit returns to 80k
More dune vegetation goes, campaigner claims
LEP report will take months
Signs installed 'by mistake'
New plans for Umina Mall
Petrol prices 'more competitive'
Commuter calls for more security
Plaques are presented
Woytopia festival for sustainability
O'Neill confirms Ettalong funding promise
Jameson concedes defeat
Chamber seeks promised funding
Chamber to seek dredging promises
Council may comment on substation
Fire station gets two new engines
Walsingham saga ends with Pretty Beach opening
Club donates to Guides
Council runs holiday activities
Charged for kidnapping
New club raises $2000
Battler wins $1 million
PCYC funded for crime prevention
New pastor starts at Hardy's Bay
Street stall postponed as aged volunteers struggle
Council holds bike week ride
Clothing sale at Pearl Beach
Sea Scouts visit Navy Cadets
Council works
Another dry month
In business for 30 years
Woy Woy butcher wins with sausages
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Cigarette item is astonishing
Doctor shopping must stop
Sea level distracts from real work
Not a by-pass
High rise not needed
Supermarket provides good service
Bring on development
Decent living needed
CCTV is ineffective
Rotting corpses
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Centrelink hold aged seminar
Kinesiologist starts in Woy Woy
Marketing madness film is shown
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Craft show at Empire Bay
Theatre group aims for younger people
Quartet to sing at folk club
First exhibition at restaurant
Trio plays at theatre
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New classrooms at Empire Bay
Parents complain
Oval ideas are wanted
College team wins way to finals
Students in zone carnival
Nominees recognised
Improvement in student behaviour
Anti-bullying group meets
Choir performs at Opera House
Tribute for cleaner
Equipment grants for school sport
Excursion to Rumbalara
Netball win
Preschool open day
Preschool raises $1300
Ettalong hosts spelling bee
Best player
Visit from surf club
Parents called to monitor websites
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Swans juniors play in final
Ettalong wins State title
Bunnies finish eighth
Kevin runs in Games
Former local wins League awards
Two win Oceania medals
Aboriginal football at Woy Woy
Three Roosters' teams in semi-finals
Kai keeps good form
Surf clubs finish in top 20
Strong in pool rescue championship
Beach sand slog is planned
Soccer club wins equipment
Swim club holds presentations
Veterans' day held
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New book records old-time ferries
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Minister seeks details on rehab needs

Minister for Health Ms Carmel Tebbutt has promised to seek more information about rehabilitation needs on the Peninsula, after four members of the Woy Woy Hospital Alliance met with her recently.

She also undertook to investigate the possibility of improving the bus service from Woy Woy to the rehabilitation service at Kanwal, north of Wyong, according to Anglican Rector of Woy Woy, the Reverend Penny Jones, who was one of the four.

"Carmel Tebbutt listened to our concerns and tried to suggest that best clinical practice demands that rehabilitation be co-located with an acute hospital," said Ms Jones.

However, Ms Tebbutt was unable to confirm that there were any plans for such a unit at Gosford Hospital, Ms Jones said.

"She also suggested that current facilities were being used to increase the amount of care in the community, reducing the need for rehabilitation.

"While this is a worthy aim, it does not work for everyone, which is why there is now a rehabilitation unit at Wyong Hospital, in Kanwal.

"This is much too far away for us."

Ms Jones said the Alliance members expressed their concerns about the closure of the rehabilitation unit at Woy Woy Hospital "in the strongest possible terms".

"Of course the people of Wyong and its surrounding district need this facility, but we need one here too.

"As has been pointed out many times before, the Woy Woy Peninsula now has twice the population it had when the Rehabilitation Unit was originally opened," said Ms Jones.

She said the Woy Woy rehabilitation unit had come about due to local efforts and subscription.

"As Member for Gosford Ms Marie Andrews has stated, at 35,000, this is the highest density of population on the Central Coast and we require better services from our hospital, not the removal of the ones we have."

Ms Jones said the Alliance also raised its concerns more briefly with the Premier Ms Kristina Kenneally, Minister for Ageing Mr Peter Primrose and Member for Gosford Ms Marie Andrews.

"It remains to be seen, in an election year, whether or not they will truly listen to and respond to those views."

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