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2005-2013 Archives of Press Releases

The most recent at the top. Most are in pdf format and will open in a new window for you to view. Recent postings are in bold.

May 2013

• "Are You Listening To Me?"
• Are You Gearing Up for Bike to Work Week June 2-8?
• No Safe Time, No Safe Type, No Safe Amount:
  Help give your baby a healthy start! Have an alcohol-free pregnancy.
• Local Youth Share Their Views through Film
• Get to know Canada’s Low-Risk Alcohol Drinking Guidelines: A hangover is the least of your worries!

March 2013

• April is Oral Health Month! First Birthday – First Visit
• A TB Skin Test is sometimes required for Work/School
• Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit is Moving to a New Location in Kemptville on March 28th, 2013

February 2013

• Almost 2 out of 3 Canadians Struggle to make Healthy Food Choices
• Reading, Writing and Communication Skills Begin at Birth!

January 2013

• Video Contest Urges Youth to Express Opinions
• Extreme Cold Weather Warning in Effect
  
• Health Unit Alerts the Public to be Cautious during Cold Weather
  
  

December 2012

• Influenza has arrived in Eastern Ontario
• Tips for Dealing with Cold Weather
• Sherwood Park Manor's Staff Exceed Health Care Immunization Rates

November 2012

• Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit has a New Location in Almonte
• Be Tick Smart During the Hunting Season
  

October 2012

• Take a Walk in My Shoes
• Paralympian To Speak At Recreation Summit
  Ottawa’s Jason Dunkerley – Winner of 5 Paralympic medals!
• Flu Season is Approaching
• Health Unit Taking Part in a Provincial Campaign to Promote Early
  Brain Development

September 2012

• Challenge Kicks Off World Breastfeeding Week
• Look Who's NOT Talking!
• New Resource from Health Unit Encourages Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Community Members to Protect their Prescriptions

August 2012

• Preventing West Nile Virus Infections
• Rabies Vaccination Clinics
• Health Unit Raises Awareness About Bats and Rabies
• Health Unit Lifts Heat Alert
• Health Unit Issues Heat Alert

July 2012

• Blue – Green Algae
• Health Unit Lifts Heat Alert
• Health Unit Issues Heat Alert
• Check Your Immunizations - Whooping Cough Advisory

June 2012

• Health Unit Lifts Heat Alert
• Beach Water Quality
• Health Unit Issues Heat Alert

May 2012

• The Health Unit Encourages Young Adults to Join the "World's Biggest Up"
• Speak Well, Hear Well, Live Well” May is Speech and Hearing Month

April 2012

• Lanark Village Water Survey
• April is Oral Health Month: Are You Kissable?

March 2012

• Concerned About Your Health - Open Wide
• Health Unit Food Safety Initiative Offers Free Food Safety Training

February 2012

• Developing Social Skills in Preschoolers
• Knowledge is Power When It Comes to Making Decisions about Nutrition
• Health Unit encourages more well water testing

January 2012

• National Non-Smoking Week acknowledges breaking up is hard to do.
  Health Unit sweetens the deal for local quitters.
• Health Unit Adds Two Well Water Testing Sites

December 2011

• Are You Concerned About Your Child's Speaking or Listening Ability? Don't Wait and See!

November 2011

• Local Health Unit Unveils New Organizational Structure

October 2011

• Raising Awareness about Poverty in our Community
• Quitting Smoking? You may be eligible for FREE nicotine replacement.
• Public Health Symposium in Gananoque
• Lanark Village Water Survey
• Weighing in on Body Talk: Girls Inc. and the Health Unit Partner to Challenge You to a “Fat Talk” Free Week

September 2011

• Update on Board of Health Meeting September 22, 2011
• The Health Unit is Celebrating Canada's Healthy Workplace Month
• Know Your Well
• Photovoice: See the Bigger Picture

August 2011

• Important Facts About Speech and Language
  Development in Preschool Age Children
• Rabies Vaccination Clinics

July 2011

• Health Unit Lifts Heat Warning and Alert
• July 28, 2011 is World Hepatitis Day
• Health Unit Issues Heat Warning
• Health Unit Issues First Heat Alert of 2011
• Health Unit Encourages Tobacco-Free Sports & Recreation
• Baby Friendly Initiative: Helping mothers to breastfeed their babies giving them the best start in life.

June 2011

• Beach Water Quality
• Health Unit Board Meeting Summary
• Fraudulent Public Health Inspections
• Be Aware of Poisonous Weeds

May 2011

• Health Unit Board Meeting Summary
• A Quit Smoking Plan for Couples - Be Healthy Before Pregnancy
• Lyme Disease

April 2011

• Health Unit Board Meeting Summary
• Take Me Outside & the Health Unit Team Up to Encourage Youth to:
  Play, Learn, and Grow Outside
  
• Celebrate National Immunization Week from April 23rd to April 30th, 2011

March 2011

• Health Unit Concerned with Oral Health of Teens
• Pap Tests Save Lives!
• A TB Skin Test is Sometimes Required for Work/School

February 2011

• Prevention is the Key to Reducing the Spread of Norovirus
• Health Unit Concerned that almost 61% of
  Tri-County Residents do not Eat Enough Vegetables and Fruit
• Language is the Foundation of all Literacy and Learning
• Health Unit Receives Accreditation Award
• Health Unit asks for Parents’ Help to Update Immunization Records

January 2011

• Food Safety Outreach Campaign Begins in February
• Health Unit Board Meeting News
• Health Unit Alerts the Public to be Cautious during Cold Weather for the Next Few Days
• Health Unit Alerts the Public to be Cautious during Cold Weather
• Health Unit Food Safety Initiative Offers a One Time Free Food Safety Training Blitz

2010

• Influenza has arrived in Eastern Ontario
• Food Handling Tips for the Holiday Season
• Tips for Dealing with Cold Weather
• Know Your Well
• Local Leaders Volunteer to Live Exclusively off of a
  Food Bank Hamper to Raise Awareness about Poverty
• Be Tick Smart During the Hunting Season
• Flu Season is Fast Approaching
• Giving Leeds, Grenville and Lanark area Kids Healthy Smiles, McGuinty Government Launches No Cost Dental Care For Eligible Children
• Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten?
• Are You at Risk for Hepatitis C?
• Rabies Vaccination Clinics
• Know Your Well
• Keep Your Kids Healthy and Safe This Summer!
• Have a Ball Together!
• Health Unit Lifts Heat Alert
• Cook Your Chicken Products
• Extreme Heat Continues
• Health Unit Issues Heat Alert
• Beach Water Quality
• New Building and Location for Health Unit in Smiths Falls
• Do Your Homework When Choosing Your Personal Services
• Fraudulent Restaurant Health Inspections
• Smog Advisory Due to Wood Smoke in Effect
• Health Unit Issues Warning of High Heat and Humidity
• Health Unit to Start Food Inspection Disclosure System June 1, 2010
• Food Safety Awareness: Be an Informed Shopper!
• Lyme Disease
• Health Unit Launches New Design for Website
• National Immunization Week being celebrated April 24, 2010 to May 1, 2010
• New Location for Health Unit in Kemptville Opens April 22, 2010
• Pap Tests Save Lives!
• More Families in Leeds & Grenville to Benefit from a
  Successful Positive Parenting Program
• March 24th is World TB Day
• Temporary Location for Health Unit in Smiths Falls Opens March 29, 2010
• Celebrate Local Food….. From Field to Table
• Food Inspection Report Disclosure System
• Value Every Kid... Ideas for Parents
• Funding Ends for Local Alcohol & Drug Prevention Projects
• H1N1 Wrap Up
• Tips for Dealing with Cold Weather (updated)
• Quitting Smoking?... What’s your Motivation?
• Let’s Celebrate Environmental Public Health Week January 18-24th, 2010!
• Health Unit to Start Giving Seasonal Flu Vaccine at Clinics Next Week
• Prevention is the key to Reducing the Spread of Norovirus

2009

• Tips for Dealing with Cold Weather
• What is Happening with Seasonal Influenza?
• Protect Yourself and Your Family Against Rabies
• Important Information for Residents of Lanark Village about Drinking Water
• Health Unit reminds everyone of the importance of getting the H1N1 Vaccine
• Flu Centres Closing as Influenza Activity Slows Down
• H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Open to All Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Residents this Thursday, November 19
• New Developments in H1N1 Vaccine Eligibility
• Drug Awareness Week November 15-21, 2009
• Health Unit Confirms a Death in an Individual Who Had H1N1 Flu Virus
• Three Flu Centres Open in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Counties
• H1N1 Vaccine Update - November 5, 2009
• H1N1 Flu Outbreak on the Wane
• H1N1 Vaccine Update - October 29, 2009
• Four Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 cases confirmed in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark
• Seasonal Influenza Immunization Clinics Start Next Week
• H1N1 Vaccine & Immunization Strategy
• Tri-County Breastfeeding Initiation High, but Duration Short
• Pap Tests Save Lives!
• Health Unit to work with local schools to promote hand hygiene
• Prevent the "brain drain" with healthy foods this school
• Health Unit confirms cases of Influenza in a summer camp
• Swimming Pools Admission Standards
• Beach Water Quality
• Pandemic Alert Level Raised to Phase 6 by WHO
• Health Canada Funds Local Partners to Deliver the “Value Every Kid” Initiative
• Dead Birds No Longer Accepted For West Nile Virus Surveillance
• Health Unit confirms first case of novel H1N1 Influenza A in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Counties
• Public Information - Pandemic (N1H1) 2009
• Health Unit clarifies meaning of WHO "phase 5" alert
• LGLDHU Health Unit staying on top of swine flu information
• April Is Oral Health Month
• Immunization Week
• Important Information Sessions for Small Drinking Water System Owners
• Pap Tests Save Lives!
• Raize Your Voice! Open Mic
• Prevention is the key to Reducing the Spread of Norovirus
• Get Active, Eat Well…on a Budget
• Catch-Up Vaccinations Offered to Young Adults at Risk for Contagious Mumps
• The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit is helping tobacco users turn their willpower into horsepower!
• Influenza has arrived in Leeds Grenville and Lanark
• Health Unit to Close Almonte Office on February 11th, 2009
• January 19-25 is Environmental Public Health Week
• More Active Seniors Activities
• Health Unit reminds you to be cautious during cold weather
• Is your child ready for Kindergarten?

2008

• The 2008 Nutritious Food Basket Survey
• Prevention is the Key to Reducing the Spread of Norovirus
• Smiths Falls FOCUS Community Coalition advocating to renew funding
• Discontinuation of BOIL WATER ADVISORY: Businesses, Facilities and Households on the Municipal Water Supply for the Town of Gananoque
• Local Breastfeeding Mothers invited to join the Quintessence Challenge next
  weekend in support World Breastfeeding Week
• Positive Blue Jay for West Nile Virus - Smith Falls
• Over 1/3 of women do not take enough folic acid
• Pap Tests Save Lives!
• HPV Update for September - Second Year HPV vaccine available to Grade 8 girls
• Children who eat breakfast learn better
• Dead Crow Found in The Perth Area is Positive for West Nile Virus
• Local Youth Continue to Take Action to Prevent Tobacco Use
• Health Unit raises awareness about bats
• Health Unit warns residents of Blue-Green Algae
• Health Unit more targeted about tick submissions
• "I Didn't Know" campaign designed to educate parents about ATVs and the risks to children
• HEALTH UNIT LIFTS HEAT ALERT
• HEALTH UNIT ISSUES HEAT ALERT
• Racing Against Drugs
• Contract Ratified by Local Health Unit Cupe Employees and Board Of Health
• Lyme Disease
• Be Safe: Be Seatbelt Savvy
• Keeping Your Child's Immunization Records Up to Date is Important
  National Immunization Awareness Week April 20-26 2008
• April is Oral Health Month
• Flooding
• March 24th is World TB Day
• Raize the Truth Launches - Raize Your Voice - Open Mic Event
• Trade in your Cigarettes for a New Car!
• Prevention is the key to reducing the spread of Norovirus

2007

• More children in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark County will go hungry
• Local Youth “Raize” Awareness of Smoking in the Movies
• November 18th – 24th, 2007 - Is Drug Awareness Week
• Language Express celebrates 10 years of helping children
• Tri-County Health Unit Testing Emergency Plan with Mass Immunization Exercise
• Ontarians to Receive Free Medication to Help Them Quit Smoking
• Learn to RECOGNIZE and RESPOND to Preterm Labour
• Fall 2007 Pap Test Clinics
• Food program calendars help those in need find food
• Flu Season is Fast Approaching
• Health Unit completes infant feeding survey
• Join the Health Unit staff for a “Walkolution”
• Challenge Raises Awareness about Breastfeeding First
• Ensuring Your Protection Against Mumps
• HPV Vaccine
• Bat Awareness
• Heat Alert Over
• Barbecuing, Picnicking, Hiking & Camping - Food Safety Tips: Preventing foodborne illness
• It's Time Again for the Health Unit's Bathing Beach Water Quality Program
• Be Realisitic Not A Statistic" All-Terrain Vehicle (Atv) Safety Campaign
• Preventing West Nile Virus Infections
• Information for residents about lead and drinking water
• Bird Surveillance
• Roadsafety (ATV)
• No Cases of Mumps Reported in Leeds, Grenville & Lanark
• Lyme Disease
• New or old, vaccines remain effective and efficient weapons in Public Health's fight against infectious diseases
• Rabies Awareness Month
• Regular Pap tests can prevent cancer of the cervix
• Postpartum Depression - Life with a new baby is not always what you expect
• Nutrition Month - Eat Well with Canada’s Food Guide
• Smoke-Free Ontario Act Withstands Challenge
• February is Heart Month
• Influenza has arrived in Leeds Grenville and Lanark
• Let’s kick butt together!
• Make no mistake - Drinking unpasteurized milk is not good for you.
• Jan 15-21 Environmental Public Health Week: Environmental Health – A career worth inspecting
• New Year's Resolution Planning - Movin' around the Tri-County

2006

• Prevention is the key to reducing the spread of NOROVIRUS
• World Aids Day
• Health Unit Prenatal Classes Return to Gananoque in 2007
• Food security - increase in cost of food for the Tri-county
• November 19th - 26th, 2006 Drug Awareness Week
• Medicine Clean Out Campaign - November 2006
• Lyme Disease Facts
• Charges Laid Under Smoke-Free Ontario Act in the Gananoque area
• Local Health Unit Receives Quality Award Four Years Running
• Family night - 'Building Self-Esteem'
• Violence Film - Violence against women
• Breast Health Month
• West Nile Virus summary release
• Quintessence Breastfeeding Challenge
• More Charges Laid to Private Smoking Club
• Charges Laid Under Smoke-Free Ontario Act - September 2006
• Free Meningitis-C Vaccine for College and University Students
• Dead Crow found in the South Elmsley Area of Rideau Lakes is Positive for West Nile Virus
• Hot Weather Precautions
• Bat Awareness
• Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix
• Roll out Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer!! Be wise! Protect your eyes - and other parts!
• Bathing Beach Water Quality
• A hangover may be the least of your worries
• The Smoke-Free Ontario Act comes into effect in the early morning hours of May 31st
• Racing Against Drugs: A team effort to promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle
• June 10th is our Leeds Grenville and Lanark Trails Day and we are celebrating with a Trails Blitz!
• Women Recommended to Supplement with Folic Acid
• West Nile Virus – Dead Bird Surveillance Resumes May 15, 2006
• Free Meningitis-C Vaccine for High School Students
• Mumps outbreak in Iowa being followed by local Health Unit staff
• Health Unit encourages families to consider safer renovating practices 
• Take the Challenge!  Turn off your screens for the week of April 3rd-9th
• The Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015
• Make Wise Food Choices Wherever You Go! 2006 National Nutrition Month 
• Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Area Attracts Medical Officer of Health
• Health Unit Offering Meningitis-C Vaccine for High Risk Groups
• What is Pandemic Influenza?

2005

• How do you measure your health?
• Health Unit wishes to recognize local pharmacies for their contribution to poison prevention.
• Will your 3-year-old be ready to start school in one year
• Seeing the light: Sun Safety and Vitamin D
• Do You Know Someone who is Pregnant? They May Be at Risk and You Can Help
• Appointment of Dr. Rani G. Tolton
• Why Use a Booster Seat?
• Dr. Charles Gardner leaves LGL Health Unit
• First Postive Crow, Merrickville Aug 18, 2005
• Staying Well-Hydrated in Extreme Heat
• Walking Chain Challenge - Summer Active
• CUPE Ratification June 2005
• Farmers Market May 2005
• Dead Bird Surveillance
• Car Seat Safety
• Clean-Up Flooded Wells Before Using
• Colorectal FOBT.
• Health before Pregnancy
• Immunization Week
• Meningitis C Vaccine
• OBSP 5th Anniversary
• Parent Conference
• Pool Safety
• Preterm Labour
• Preventing Falls
• Rabies Clinics 2005
• Rail Safety2005
• Railroad Safety Blitz 2005
• TB Week
• TV Turnoff Week