www.katherinetimes.com.au KATHERINE TIMES, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 2014 5

Cancer Council gears up to fightON TUESDAY next week cancer suf-

ferers, survivors and those affected by theglobal cancer epidemic will come to-gether to unite in the fight against cancer,when World Cancer Day is being markedon Tuesday, February 4.

The Day is an initiative of the Unionfor International Cancer Control, a lead-ing international non-governmental or-ganisation that unites the cancercommunity to reduce the global cancerburden, to promote greater equity, and tointegrate cancer control into the worldhealth and development agenda.

Cancer Council NT CEO KathySadler said that this year Would CancerSay was aiming to debunk myths sur-rounding the disease.

“There are so many myths out thereabout the disease and this day is the per-fect opportunity for people to talk aboutthem with the aim of balancing out theconversation”.

“Unless urgent action is taken to raiseawareness about cancer and the govern-ment develops practical, multisectoralstrategies to address the disease, millionsof people around the world will continue

to die prematurely or suffer every yearbecause of this devastating disease,” MsSadler said.

“That is why we are working with thecommunity to address some of the issuesthat Katherine has in terms of cancercare.”

The Cancer Council’s representativein Katherine, Nicola Brien, said she wascurrently working on an events calenderfor the year.

“More than a third of cancers can beprevented by reducing exposure to riskfactors including tobacco, obesity, phys-

ical inactivity and alcohol,” she said.“Cancer Council NT aims to help you

understand how people can take steps toprevent cancer and live a healthier andlonger life.”

Ms Brien said the first communityevent this year will be a Girls’ Night In,held on Thursday, February 20.

Ms Brien said the Girls’ Night In wasa good way of getting together with oth-ers who have suffered or are sufferingfrom cancer to share experiences.

For more information visit www.can-cercouncilnt.com.au.

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Heavy rain brings back Aus Day

flood memoriesTHE recommendedcover price of theKatherine Times willincrease to $1.30 asfrom next week, Febru-ary 5 issue.

The 10 cent increaseis in line with coverprice rises in most paidnewspapers over thepast 12 months, and rep-resents an increase ofapproximately four percent a year since the lastincrease two years ago.

Division GeneralManager GrantCochrane said increasesin production and distri-bution costs necessi-tated the increase.

The annual postedsubscription rate, effec-tive February 5, will be$127.40 includingpostage.

As well as the paidprinted copy, theKatherine Times isavailable in a digital on-line e-edition.

The subscriptionprice of the e-editionwill not be affected bythe paper’s price in-crease.

A 12-month sub-scription for the Kather-ine Times e-edition is$30.

With an e-editionsubscription readers getthe latest version of thenewspaper online everyWednesday morning.

The e-edition in-cludes all the pages ofthe newspaper - includ-ing general news, sport,entertainment and clas-sified ads - and links inads and stories can eas-ily be accessed throughthe online version of thepaper.

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ON AUSTRALIA Day 1998tropical cyclone Les caused heavyrainfall in the catchment of theKatherine River.

With the rain came a flood as theriver peaked at 20.4 metres.

More than 2,000 people had tobe evacuated and over 200 homesand businesses were destroyed bythe flood waters that rushed downKatherine Terrace.

And with recent heavy rainslong-term residents memories of thetragic events from 1998 came backfor many long-term residents.

“The water went 1.5 metres thrumy house, 2.3 metres through mydress shop in the Main Street,”Katherine mover and shaker ToniTapp Coutts said.

“It was a tough gig for sure, butwe survived and came out astronger and more unified commu-nity.

“Australia Day is a time to re-flect, gather strength, think withcompassion and move forward withrespect and integrity.”

In the past seven days 135mm ofrain fell in Katherine and Nitmilukrecorded 111mm.

Ngukurr recorded 86mm of rainand Mataranka recorded 80.

Only 43mm of rain fell in Tim-ber Creek

Roper Gulf Regional Council Customer Service Officer Keely Wallace took this photo of the flooded CrawfordStreet last week.

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