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A DAY AND A HALF: Geelong Football Club mascot Half Cat muscles up to volunteers Leonard Unsworth, Russell Browne, Ray Wood and Paul Ryan at Karginal St Laurence’s Winter Workplace Big Day Out yesterday. About 100 volunteers from Geelong’s business community participated in the day, helping 60 people with disabilities learn circus skills and try other physical activities.
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A private rehab company could provide a “desperately-needed” Geelong clinic two years faster than the State Government, according to its director. Habitat Therapeutics’ Jim Tatlock said his company could set up a five-bed rehab centre in weeks - with government funding. “If they wanted to create 15 beds we could do it in a couple of months. It needs some immediate action,” he said. Mr Tatlock issued the funding call following the State Government’s announcement of $9.7 million for a Barwon residential rehabilitation facility. He estimated the state, which is examining potential sites, would take about two years to finish building - an estimation which Salvation Army addiction expert Neil Loxston said was accurate. Continued page 3 12356506-JV26-17
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