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Jul 6 Club Meeting - Cittamani Hospice [Speaker Sarah Kickhefer, Business Support Officer and
Melanie Bruhn Executive Director, Cittamani Hospice]
Jul 9 Garden Show Setup - Car Parking Setup
Jul 10 Garden Show Parking - Friday Roster Roster
Jul 11 Garden Show Parking - Car Parking Saturday
Jul 12 Garden Show Parking - Car Parking Sunday
Jul 13 Club Meeting - Crime Awareness [Speaker Sarah Brough, Senior Constable Sunshine Coast
District Crime Prevention Unit]
Jul 20 Club Meeting - EndEd [Speaker Vocational Visit ]
Oct 27 Club Meeting - Finalists in The Telling Stories Writing Competition [Speaker The Children of
The Sunshine Coast]

Members' Communications
Birthdays

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Kevan DACEY (7 /6 )

Tony SPORTON (2 /6 )

Rotary Information

Portable kidney failure treatment will keep patients in the remote communities they
love
By Amy Hoak

There are two main ways to reach the community of Natuashish in Labrador. Travellers can
go by plane or, in the summer months, take a boat up the coast. No reliable roads connect the
subarctic Innu community of about 1,000 residents with more populated towns to its south.

Frequent transportation delays and high prices for plane tickets also are strains on those
trying to make the journey. These issues make it challenging for people with some medical
conditions to get treatment, including life-sustaining dialysis that cleans waste and excess
fluid from the blood when a person's kidneys aren't working properly.

Supporters celebrate at the project launch to provide portable dialysis equipment that allows
patients or family caregivers to administer treatments.
A better life at home

The first Natuashish resident to use the machinery purchased with Rotary Foundation
global grants was able to live at home while getting treatment nearby. He previously had
moved away for his frequent dialysis sessions but had the chance to return while using the
new equipment for several months near the end of his life.

It also was a special accomplishment for the Rotarians and others who worked on the
endeavour, says Mike Spurrell, past president of the Rotary Club of Happy Valley-Goose
Bay Labrador, a grant applicant and one of many clubs that contributed funding. Patients
"are not away from their families and are able to stay in their communities," says Spurrell,
now a member of the Rotary Club of Clarenville in another part of the province. That goes a
long way in bringing comfort to a person receiving exhausting treatments several times a
week.