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SIMCOE, ON, JULY 20, 2009 – Building on the success of previous campaigns, the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s Youth Action Alliance, Fresh Heir, will be cleaning up cigarette butts in both Haldimand and Norfolk on Sunday, July 26. Fresh Heir’s teenage peer leaders and volunteers will collect as many cigarette butts off the ground as possible […]

SIMCOE, JULY 17, 2009 – There were 50 suicidal deaths and 557 emergency department visits for suicidal attempts in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties during a recent five-year period. These findings were revealed today by the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit in a report entitled, Haldimand and Norfolk Mental Health Report with a Focus on Suicide. The death […]

SIMCOE, ON, July 14, 2009 – The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s youth group, Fresh Heir, will hold a “flash mob” this Saturday, July 18, along the Port Dover beachfront to protest flavoured tobacco. Fresh Heir members and other youth volunteers will all “freeze” at predetermined times during whatever activity they are doing. After the youth un-freeze, […]

SIMCOE, ON- June 29, 2009- The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit has received confirmation of a second H1N1 flu virus case in Haldimand County. To date there have been two confirmed H1N1 cases in Haldimand County, and one confirmed in Norfolk County. “World Health Organization announced on June 11th, 2009, that the pandemic alert level was raised […]

SIMCOE, ON- JUNE 17, 2009- The youth tobacco prevention program run by the Health Unit has been cancelled by the Ministry of Health Promotion as of August 31, 2009. The Youth Action Alliance program was launched provincially in 2005 to support youth development, prevent children and youth from starting and becoming addicted to tobacco products […]