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Summer 2016/17 Newsletter
The latest Barunga newsletter is now available to download.
Barunga Boomers raise $5000 for Cancer Council
In a wonderful finish to several months of fundraising the Barunga Boomers – Ageing with Attitude took to the Kadina Football Oval to be part of this year’s Upper Yorke Peninsula Relay For Life. With help from Barunga staff, volunteers and residents, and the wider...
Barunga Village leads local football club’s premiership
With five minutes to go in the A Grade 2016 Grand Final for the Northern Areas Football Association the Port Broughton-Mundoora Football Club was 17 points down. In the next 300 seconds of footy – the team, coached by Barunga Village’s Education and Safety...
Barunga’s diversional therapist recognised at national awards
The diversional therapist at Barunga Homes, Darren Robinson, has been recognised for his work at a national level. On Friday, 7 October, Darren attended the Diversional Therapy Australia (DTA) Awards for Excellence at the Mercure Hotel in Sydney. Darren was a finalist...
Bringing Hawaii into the rooms of Barunga Village
The distance between Hawaii and Port Broughton has not stopped Barunga Village residents enjoying a concert performed at The Plaza at Pearl City – an aged care home - in Honolulu. Barunga Village diversional therapist Darren Robinson said on New Year’s Eve he received...
Barunga by the Sea resident Sandy Owen elected RSL president
Barunga by the Sea resident Sandy Owen was recently elected president of the Port Broughton RSL Sub-Branch. Barunga by the Sea resident Sandy Owen was recently elected president of the Port Broughton RSL Sub-Branch – the first female to hold the title in 20...
Butterfly Household Model of Care launches at Barunga Village
October marked the fourth month of Barunga Village implementing the ground-breaking model of dementia care developed in the United Kingdom more than 20 years ago – the Butterfly Household Model of Care. The model is a total transformation in the way people with...
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