August 14, 2020
Champ packs a punch
(Joe Masroianni) 212981_05
Geelong kickboxing champion Chris Bradford is set to pack a punch in a free online seminar with a message to ight through the COVID-19 pandemic: “No matter how much life beats you down and strikes you in ways you weren’t expecting, we all have the resilience and ability to pick ourselves back up.” The multi-time Australian and international champion in kickboxing and Muay Thai began competing as a youth to “chase discipline”, he told the Independent. “I was a very angry and violent kid due to my own troubles with a broken family,” he said. “My professional career has taught me not only to channel that but how to be a better human being. “With perseverance and endurance, there is nothing that we can’t overcome.” Bradford will speak in GenU’s Training Future Expo, which runs August 25-26. He joins former AFL footballer Dayne Beams, ‘Streets Barber’ Nasir Sobhin and ICAN Network founder and autism advocate Chris Varney in the seminar. Details: futureexpo.genutraining.org.au Luke Voogt
Fourth COVID-19 death By Luke Voogt hree residents at the Opal South Valley aged care in Highton are among four people in Geelong who have died ater contracting COVID-19. An Opal spokesperson conirmed a third resident died in hospital on Tuesday. “We are saddened to conirm that a resident who was COVID-19 positive and was being cared for at the University Hospital Geelong, passed away yesterday,” the spokesperson said on Wednesday. “We would like to extend our sympathy to the family at this diicult time.
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“We also thank the dedicated and compassionate team who cared for the resident, both the Barwon Health hospital team and our Opal team at South Valley.” So far 28 residents at the centre, including the three who died, and 12 employees have been conirmed positive for COVID-19. “Five residents who have been conirmed positive are being cared for in hospital,” the
Opal spokesperson said. he company was continuing to receive negative results for employees who had self-isolated as a precaution, and those employees were preparing to return to work under the guidance of infection experts at Barwon Health, the spokesperson said. “Opal South Valley team members, who had been isolating and have now been cleared by the experts at Barwon Health, continue to return to work. his is good news for our residents who are reassured to see the carers they know well, and with whom they have long-standing relationships, back in the home. “We thank all of our partners in care,
particularly Barwon Health and the ADF for their tireless contributions as we work together to protect the safety of our residents and team.” A worker at Golden Farms Poultry processing plant also died ater contracting coronavirus. Kelvin Nguyen died alone in his Newcomb home and was found by emergency workers on Sunday aternoon, according to reports. Turosi, which owns the plant, conirmed a 51-year-old employee, who had worked with the company for 15 years, had died ater contracting COVID-19. “Our sincere sympathy goes out to his family and friends,” Turosi chief executive Phil Hand said.
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