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Subscriber only Residents at Southern Cross Care Banora Point are coming together to keep the Anzac spirit alive and honour veterans and service members. This year, the residents are happy the ceremonial aspects of the day will be a little more normal after COVID-19 restrictions have eased since 2020. Two remarkable veterans living at the aged care facility share their stories about their service. Leslie Atkinson was 12 years old when World War Two began. The 94-year-old had grown up in London and was evacuated to the country area of England to avoid the German bombing of buildings at the time, known as The Blitz.
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Subscriber only Two of the first frontline health workers to roll up their sleeves and get the COVID-19 vaccination have expressed relief after they were earlier involved in caring for positive pandemic cases at Lismore Base Hospital. But Northern NSW Local Health District chief executive Wayne Jones said the vaccination would not be mandatory, even for frontline health workers and clinicians in the intensive care unit. On Wednesday March 17, 2021, Intensive Care Nurse Rachel Benson and Infectious Diseases Registrar Dr David Stephenson received their first of two COVID-19 vaccinations. Ms Benson and Dr Stephenson both worked on the first COVID-19 positive patients admitted to Lismore Base Hospital in 2020.