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**** Via Darkside Dippers 🍀ST. PATRICK’S DAY POLAR DIP🍀 Throw on your lucky bathing suit, flip flops and a touch of green and join us for a St. Patrick’s Day Community Polar Dip with @lakecitycider. WHEN/WHERE📍: Lion’s Beach Park (Lake Banook) this Sunday @ 11am. @lakecitycider will be serving up hot cider and drink vouchers […]
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**** NSHA Media Release Mobile primary care clinics for Central Zone Nova Scotia Health’s mobile primary care clinics have these upcoming clinic dates: Cobequid Community Health Centre 40 Freer Lane, Lower Sackville Saturday, March 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, March 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Dartmouth Mobile Primary Care Clinic […]
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**** Fundraiser via GUT Get Up There 2025 – In Memory of Billy Marr Fundraising for Dartmouth General Hospital Charitable Foundation GUT is a community event supporting the fight against colorectal cancer in collaboration with the DGHF. Join us on March 14 as we climb the hills of Wentworth to help improve FIT test return […]
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**** NSHA Media Release DRUG ALERT: This is the first detection in N.S. of a novel opioid. Appearance was described as a brownish rock, with a powder and grainy texture. Sample found in the Amherst area contained a mix of fentanyl, cocaine, xylazine, caffeine and a tranquilizer. Use naloxone to reverse opioid toxicity, call 911 […]
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In photos – Tine keeps on dipping dipping dipping, into the future…. The Darkside Dippers take on the chilly temperatures as they hit Lake Banook as part of their weekly dips! (and fundraiser info) The brave took on the cold today, some new and some veterans, as part of a growing trend said to promote […]
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**** Via HRFE Daylight saving time has begun Please change the batteries and test all your smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms. Only working alarms save lives.
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**** Via HRFE It’s time to push your buttons! Daylight saving time starts this Sunday, March 9, at 2 a.m. Please change the batteries and test all your Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarms. Only working alarms save lives! Learn more at https://www.halifax.ca/safety-security/fire-emergency
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**** NSHA Media Release Mobile primary care clinics for Central Zone Nova Scotia Health’s mobile primary care clinics have these upcoming clinic dates: Cobequid Community Health Centre 40 Freer Lane, Lower Sackville Saturday, March 8 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, March 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Dartmouth Mobile Primary Care Clinic […]
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**** Health / Wellness Release Support for Local Mental Health, Addictions Programs Across Nova Scotia People in need of mental health and addictions services will have more local support options with provincial funding to 23 community organizations. The funding, through the Mental Health and Addictions Community Wellness Grant program, covers three years for most organizations. […]
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**** Via NSHA Verified Drug Alert March 3, 2025: Crack cocaine contaminated with an opioid NSHA have received a report from a community partner of an unexpected reaction to crack cocaine in the Halifax area in Nova Scotia. Based on the reaction observed, it is suspected to have been tainted with opioids. Harm reduction information: […]
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