Coming Soon!! Turn Off the Screens Week – June 7th – 13th Watch for your child’s Tracking Sheet and Calendar of Events being sent home soon from your child’s school! The Thunder Bay District Health Unit – Manitouwadge Branch along with many community [Read more]
Seeing Diabetes education in the North by Karina Hunter The Canadian National Institue for the Blind Eye Van (CNIB) has partnered with the Northern Diabetes Health Network (NDHN) in an initiative being funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to bring screening and education [Read more]
Triple P winds up by Karina Hunter Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) Public Health Nurse (PHN) Jackie Jung and Kristie Nicholas, Mental Health and Addictions Counselor with North of Superior Programs (NOSP) wrapped up their three session Triple P Parenting Program seminar in [Read more]
Parents’ programs progressing positively by Karina Hunter Practitioners with Manitouwadge’s Triple P Program Team, Jackie Jung, Public Health Nurse (PHN) Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) Kristie Nicholas, Mental Health and Addictions Counselor with North of Superior Programs (NOSP) [Read more]
Parenting program begins Wednesday by Karina Hunter The Ontario Early Years Centre (OEYC) – Manitouwadge Best Start HUB’s Triple P Program or Positive Parenting Program, begins Wednesday, January 20th, at the Family Place on Oshweeken at 7pm. Many parents have registered for the series [Read more]
These are the people in your neighbourhood… Jackie Jung, RN, CDE by Karina Hunter Jackie Jung, RN, CDE, moved to Manitouwadge in 1985 with her husband of one year Ron; she was ‘over the moon’ to be getting a brand new house. They began new careers, he in mining with the instrumentation [Read more]
Breast health campaign wraps up in Manitouwadge by Karina Hunter Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Styling for Life the breast health campaign partnered by Thunder Bay District Health Unit, Northwestern Health Unit, Regional Cancer Care and area salons, wrapped up last week. In Manitouwadge, [Read more]
Manitouwadge represented at the 20th Annual World Diabetes Congress by Karina Hunter The Manitouwadge Diabetes Health and Wellness Program’s (MDHWP) Coordinator Jackie Jung, R.N. C.D.E. has returned to Manitouwadge having spent a week in Montreal, Quebec at the International Diabetes [Read more]
Styling for Life launches at local salons by Karina Hunter Storefronts of Manitouwadge salons were decorated with pink ribbons and balloons Thursday to mark the launch of the Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s (TBDHU) Styling for Life campaign which will continue to run throughout [Read more]
Thunder Bay breast health campaign launched via teleconference by Karina Hunter October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Styling for Life a breast health program, piloted in Thunder Bay last year with great success, was launched via teleconference across the Thunder Bay District and [Read more]
Thunder Bay breast health initiative extends to Northshore by Karina Hunter October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Styling for Life a breast health promotion campaign, piloted in Thunder Bay last year with great success, is being launched across the Thunder Bay District and Northwest [Read more]
Page A4 in today’s (June 29th) Chronicle Journal, my article about the Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s Turn off the Screens Week, OPP Bike Rodeo in Manitouwadge finally printed :). Pick up a copy and do district health nurse, Jackie Jung’s “Egg Experiment” for your [Read more]
This was the 2nd to last day of Turn off the Screens Week in Manitouwadge. The Manitouwadge Conservation Club and Thunder Bay District Health Unit sponsored an afternoon on Perry Lake Trail. Lloyd & I had been taking photos for the Leisure Services Youth Soccer Program and arrived a little [Read more]
Saturday morning, Turn off the Screens Week fun continued in Manitouwadge with a Bike Rodeo sponsored by the Ontario Provincial Police, Manitouwadge Leisure Services and the Thunder Bay District Health Unit. The rec centre auditorium was packed with young bikers, eager to show off their knowledge [Read more]
Ok, so the article for Turn off the screens week is giving me a hard time… I’d love to blame it on Jackie from whom I’m waiting for a couple numbers but really can’t as I could, in theory, write it out with fake numbers and then just fill them in when I have them. [Read more]
