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$5,000 Raised for Cancer Research

Last Thursday 11th March, some very brave souls at Otway Health kindly put their hands up to shave their luscious locks off to help raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.

Toni Rooke, Megan Gray, Steve Hughes, Bill ‘Mad Dog’ Fraser from the Otway Health Kitchen and Chris Frearson a volunteer at the Second Sails Opportunity Shop raised nearly $5,000 towards research of Leukaemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma.

A national target of $13.5 million was set by the organisers of the ‘World’s Greatest Shave’ with a current total of $7,685,747 so far being raised.

Toni Rooke who had shoulder length hair before the shave also donated her locks to ‘Locks of Love’ who make wigs for children with alopecia. When asked why she decided to donate her hair, Toni explained ‘A fellow staff member suggested that we put our hair to good use once it came off. So we researched on the Internet and ‘Locks of Love' came up.’

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Otway Health and Community Services is one of the first three Multipurpose Services established in Victoria. We commenced operation on 1 January 1995 and provide community health, hospital, aged accommodation, child care centre, adult education, neighbourhood house, rental units for older people (Seamist Villas), palliative care, community (district) nursing, allied health and home based community care services to people residing in our catchment area.

The area covered by Otway Health and Community Services is on the coastal side of the Otway Ranges including the townships of Lavers Hill, Beech Forest and Horden Vale, and extending along the coast from Apollo Bay to Wye River. Home and Community Care Services, including home care, property maintenance and delivered meals extend even further to cover the southern part of the Colac Otway Shire.

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