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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019
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Whaiora office manager Libby Trafford getting her hair shaved by her daughter, Jane Johnston. PHOTO/JAN MCLAREN
Honouring loved ones Relay teams doing their part for the Cancer Society Jan McLaren Libby Trafford is very familiar with the devastation cancer can bring. Last week, the Whaiora office manager shaved her head in support of this weekend’s Relay for Life Wairarapa event, in memory of her friends and family
whose lives have been forever changed because of cancer. “I lost my very best mate to cancer and my sister-in-law to lung cancer even though she had never smoked,” Libby said. “Then my husband who was having a knee replacement had a chest x-ray as part of a preop check and was told he had lung cancer.
“Fortunately, because of early detection, he had major surgery which saved his life. “But the diagnosis was crushing. “And who knows, it could be me tomorrow.” Libby said the decision to shave her head was a simple one. “I am not someone who likes
to make a spectacle of myself, but I did it to raise funds for the Cancer Society who work so hard to help those who need support. My hair will grow again – it’s nothing like losing hair because of chemo. “It’s a token really but a symbolic one. Continued on page 4
A Masterton rest home now has a tasty addition to its premises – a food cupboard where anyone from the community can drop off surplus produce or foodstuffs and pick up something else for the table. Lyndale Care, tucked into Coradine St, just off Cole St in Masterton, was buzzing last Tuesday as it officially opened its Food Share Pantry. Residents sat in rows of chairs as they watched Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson and the facility’s diversional therapist Jo Hayes untie the ribbon on the large white pantry. Creating the food pantry at the rest home was Jo’s idea – she had seen a similar concept on Carterton’s main street – and several others exist throughout Wairarapa. It was also the last legacy of master builder and Rotarian Mervyn Brown, who died on November 5 last year. “The journey really started about two years ago when we turned the flower garden into a vegetable garden,” Jo said. “From that vegetable garden, we supply the kitchen with anything we grow, which then goes on the plates for the residents. “They see the garden through from the start, right through to the eating.” So, when she saw Carterton’s Continued on page 3
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