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Our locally owned and operated family business has provided a trustworthy, experienced, reliable and qualified service on the Kāpiti Coast for 15 years and will continue to do so into the future.

Join us at NZ Music Month May 2023's Ōtaki free community event Saturday, 6 May 2023 from 11am to 4pm at Memorial Gardens, Main Street, Ōtaki DJ Just Press Play will kick off the day with music, followed by performances from a lineup of talented local and national bands, including Brasso, Jump, Peanut Slab, and Brand New Secondhand. Free children's entertainment, a bouncy castle, and a community sausage-sizzle will also be available. In case of wet weather, the venue will be at Deer Story Museum, SH1, Manakau. Organized by Music Festivals and Events NZ, with generous support from One Foundation. For more information, contact Chris Craddock at 027 410 2420 or visit https://www.facebook.com/KapitiMusicFestival.

Don't miss out on this celebration of local and national music talent.

Whooping Cough

BY ANN CHAPMAN

Back when I was a child, we didn’t have vaccines for measles, mumps and whooping cough, the three childhood diseases that rampaged through communities. Children then went to parties to get it all over with. Fast forward to my own children’s early years when vaccines were available; I couldn’t wait to have them vaccinated, to keep them safe from these often-trivialised childhood diseases. I think my body remembered the drama of being an asthmatic child and then having the extra burden of whooping cough.

They are not trivial diseases, as shown by the recent deaths from whooping cough in New Zealand.

Whooping could – pertussis – is avoidable. There is no cure. And it is distressing for both the child and their carer. It is highly infectious and spread by coughing and sneezing. It can be life threatening and is particularly serious for babies and young children. They may not be able to breathe properly; they may get so ill they need hospital treatment; and there can be serious complications, such as pneumonia. Whopping cough is caused by a bacteria, and carriers are infectious from six days

Lucy Feltham

Physiotherapist

General physiotherapy | no ACC surcharge direct referral for ACC & private consultations | shoulder courses manual & sports physio | post-op rehab | hand therapy

16 Dunstan Street, Ōtaki ph / fax 06 364 7027 | feltham@xtra.co.nz 9am – 6pm | Monday–Friday