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Seasons are changing and with the colder weather approaching let’s be gentle with ourselves while reflecting on the previous seasons. If you are in need of a listening ear reach out to Millbrook Health Centre to book an appointment. We have Counsellors that range in different therapeutic approaches for both children and adults.
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For the past 23 years, the Millbrook Mi’kmaw Community have been paying tribute at the Millbrook War Memorial during Remembrance Day. Families of our Sma’knis, come to pay tribute through ceremony that includes Church Service, a March to the Memorial, laying of wreaths and tributes to all those who served. As our Veterans pass on, descendants have picked up the torch to continue what has become tradition.
With the generous support of the Band Council, Health Centre and guidance from the Veterans Committee, we’re extremely proud to present this Tribute: Millbrook First Nation Remembers Those Who Served.
PUBLIC SERVICE ADVISORY
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022
Nova Scotia Health is extending mental health and addictions and community supports to residents of Portapique and surrounding communities until Friday, Nov. 4, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the West Colchester Community Health Centre (Bass River Plaza), #6044 Highway 2 in Bass River.
This is a walk-in service; no appointments are necessary.
Anyone with urgent medical needs should call 911. For general health advice and information call 811, which is a service offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week by experienced registered nurses.
The Mental Health and Addictions Provincial Crisis Line can be reached 24/7 by calling 1-888-429-8167.
Nova Scotians can continue to self-refer to Nova Scotia Health’s Mental Health and Addictions Program supports and services by calling the Mental Health and Addictions Intake Service Line (toll-free) 1-855-922-1122, to be connected to a clinician Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays. This line has voicemail only on evenings, weekends and holidays.
Visit Mental Health and Addiction’s Program website, http://MHAhelpNS.ca, to learn more about our services, resources, and tools.
If you are having a hard time and need to reach out, don't hesitate to get in touch with the following contacts:
Tiana Fusco is available for community members if you'd like to talk with someone about the recent passings in the community. Her number is 902-754-4632, and her email is tianafusco@hotmail.com.
Meaghan Fullerton will also be available, and once we get her schedule, we will post it.
Please reach out to the Eskasoni Crisis Line at any time at 1-855-379-2099.
Family Meal Kits Provided for each week. For families living in Colchester County. No Cost to Participate. Space is limited.
To sign up contact Teresa, the Dietitian
(902)-895-9468 or e-mail: teresaf@millbrookhealth.ca
Millbrook has 25 cases of COVID19 with more people waiting to hear if their PCR tests are positive. The number of positive cases will continue to grow for some time. Public Health is determining if there is community spread in Millbrook. Stay home if you do not need to go out. If you have cold-like symptoms such as a sore or scratchy throat, runny nose, cough or headache, take a rapid test. If you are a close contact of someone who has COVID19, take a rapid test. If you have been to an exposure site at the time of the exposure, take a rapid test. Rapid tests are available by contacting Millbrook Security. If you get a positive test result (2 lines), contact Chief Gloade or text Dr. Blois at 902-890-2779. Then book a confirmatory PCR test by calling 811 or go online at https://www.nshealth.ca/coronavirustesting. Isolate right away and notify your close contacts. Please notify Public Health of your positive rapid test by emailing PublicHealthPOCT@nshealth.ca including your name, date of birth, health card number and contact information.
We can all do our part to prevent the further spread of COVID19 in our community. Limit your contacts to the same 10 people in your bubble. Stay home if you have tested positive with a rapid or PCR test. While isolating in your home, wear your mask properly, physical distance from others, eat and sleep in a separate room, keep your hands clean, and sanitize surfaces you touched in your shared bathroom, or use a separate bathroom. Monitor yourself for worsening symptoms. If you notice that you are having difficulty breathing, call 911. For more information about what to do if you test positive, go to https://www.nshealth.ca/testedpositiveforcovid.
How to interpret test results and when you no longer have to isolate -
A negative test is 1 negative PCR test result OR 2 negative rapid tests done at least 48 hours apart.
If you were in contact with a positive case and you had symptoms, you can stop isolating only after you have two negative rapid tests (e.g., 72 hours after exposure and 5 days after exposure).
Fully vaccinated contacts with no symptoms can stop isolating after a first negative rapid test (e.g., 72 hours after exposure), but you need to complete a 2nd rapid test at least 48 hours later (e.g., 5 days after exposure).
Isolating at a hotel – Do not leave your room if isolating at a hotel. Before you check in, call the hotel from your car so that they can prepare for your arrival. You are not allowed to eat breakfast in the hotel breakfast area (a breakfast bag will be delivered to you). For food delivery, ask the deliverer to stop at the front desk to let the hotel know that you are expecting a delivery.
COVID19 Testing Clinic – A COVID19 testing clinic will take place at the Millbrook Gymnasium for band and community members on January 3rd. Rapid tests will be available there to take home. At the Dec 20th testing clinic, 134 people were tested, at the Dec 21st clinic, 86 were tested, and at the Dec 27th clinic, 84 people were tested. We need more people to go to these clinics to get tested.
Vaccine Clinic – A COVID19 vaccine clinic will take place at the health centre on January 12th for those aged 5 and above. Become fully vaccinated (2 doses) and get your booster dose (for those 18 and above). The vaccine is safe and once fully vaccinated, helps lower your chances of becoming hospitalized because of COVID19. The vaccine needs at least 14 days to become protective; it will not protect you right away, so the sooner you get your first, second, or booster dose, the better.
Millbrook Chief and Council
Millbrook has 23 cases of COVID19 with more people waiting to hear if their tests are positive. The number of positive cases will continue to grow for some time. Public Health is determining if there is community spread in Millbrook. Stay home if you do not need to go out. If you have cold-like symptoms such as a sore or scratchy throat, runny nose, cough or headache, take a rapid test. If you are a close contact of someone who has COVID19, take a rapid test. If you have been to an exposure site at the time of the exposure, take a rapid test. Rapid tests are available by contacting Millbrook Security. If you get a positive test result (2 lines), contact Chief Gloade or text Dr. Blois at 902-890-2779. Then book a confirmatory PCR test by calling 811 or go online at https://www.nshealth.ca/coronavirustesting. Isolate right away and notify your close contacts. Please notify Public Health of your positive rapid test by emailing PublicHealthPOCT@nshealth.ca including your name, date of birth, health card number and contact information.
We can all do our part to prevent the further spread of COVID19 in our community. Limit your contacts to the same 10 people in your bubble. Stay home if you have tested positive with a rapid or PCR test. While isolating in your home, wear your mask properly, physical distance from others, eat and sleep in a separate room, keep your hands clean, and sanitize surfaces you touched in your shared bathroom, or use a separate bathroom. Monitor yourself for worsening symptoms. If you notice that you are having difficulty breathing, call 911. For more information about what to do if you test positive, go to https://www.nshealth.ca/testedpositiveforcovid.
How to interpret test results and when you no longer have to isolate -
A negative test is 1 negative PCR test result OR 2 negative rapid tests done at least 48 hours apart.
If you were in contact with a positive case and you had symptoms, you can stop isolating only after you have two negative rapid tests (e.g., 72 hours after exposure and 5 days after exposure).
Fully vaccinated contacts with no symptoms can stop isolating after a first negative rapid test (e.g., 72 hours after exposure), but you need to complete a 2nd rapid test at least 48 hours later (e.g., 5 days after exposure).
Isolating at a hotel – Do not leave your room if isolating at a hotel. Before you check in, call the hotel from your car so that they can prepare for your arrival. You are not allowed to eat breakfast in the hotel breakfast area (a breakfast bag will be delivered to you). For food delivery, ask the deliverer to stop at the front desk to let the hotel know that you are expecting a delivery.
COVID19 Testing Clinic – A COVID19 testing clinic will take place at the Millbrook Community Hall for band and community members right after New Year’s. Rapid tests will be available there to take home. At the Dec 20th clinic, 134 people were tested, at the Dec 21st clinic, 86 were tested, and at the Dec 27th clinic, 84 people were tested. We need more people to go to these clinics to get tested.
Vaccine Clinic – A COVID19 vaccine clinic will take place at the health centre during the week of January 10th for those aged 5 and above. Become fully vaccinated (2 doses) and get your booster dose (for those 18 and above). The vaccine is safe and once fully vaccinated, helps lower your chances of becoming hospitalized because of COVID19. The vaccine needs at least 14 days to become protective; it will not protect you right away, so the sooner you get your first, second, or booster dose, the better.
Millbrook Chief and Council
COVID-19 Update – December 27
Public Health has not been able to provide an update of positive cases in Millbrook, but once that is available, we will post that information. If you have cold-like symptoms such as a sore or scratchy throat, runny nose, cough or headache, take a rapid test. If you are a close contact of someone who has COVID19, take a rapid test. If you have been to an exposure site at the time of the exposure, take a rapid test. If you get a positive test result (2 lines), contact Chief Gloade or text Dr. Blois at 902-890-2779 for the supports you need. Then book a confirmatory PCR test by calling 811 or go online at https://www.nshealth.ca/coronavirustesting. Isolate right away and notify your close contacts. Please notify Public Health of your positive rapid test by emailing PublicHealthPOCT@nshealth.ca including your name, date of birth, health card number and contact information.
We can all do our part to prevent the further spread of COVID19 in our community. Limit your contacts to the same 10 people in your bubble. Stay home if you have tested positive with a rapid or PCR test. While isolating in your home, wear your mask properly, physical distance from others, eat and sleep in a separate room, keep your hands clean, and sanitize surfaces you touched in your shared bathroom, or use a separate bathroom. Monitor yourself for worsening symptoms. If you notice that you are having difficulty breathing, call 911. For more information about what to do if you test positive, go to https://www.nshealth.ca/testedpositiveforcovid.
How to interpret test results and when you no longer have to isolate -
A negative test is 1 negative PCR test result OR 2 negative rapid tests done at least 48 hours apart.
If you were in contact with a positive case and you had symptoms, you can stop isolating only after you have two negative rapid tests (e.g., 72 hours after exposure and 5 days after exposure).
Fully vaccinated contacts with no symptoms can stop isolating after a first negative rapid test (e.g., 72 hours after exposure), but you need to complete a 2nd rapid test at least 48 hours later (e.g., 5 days after exposure).
Isolating at a hotel – Do not leave your room if isolating at a hotel. Before you check in, call the hotel from your car so that they can prepare for your arrival. You are not allowed to eat breakfast in the hotel breakfast area (a breakfast bag will be delivered to you). For food delivery, ask the deliverer to stop at the front desk to let the hotel know that you are expecting a delivery.
COVID19 Testing Clinic – A COVID19 testing clinic will take place at the Millbrook Community Hall for band and community members on December 27th from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Please get tested. Rapid tests will be available there to take home.
Vaccine Clinic – A COVID19 vaccine clinic will take place at the health centre in early January for those aged 5 and above. Become fully vaccinated (2 doses) and get your booster dose if eligible. The vaccine is safe and helps prevent you from getting hospitalized if you get COVID19.
As we come to the end of 2021, remember to be kind to others and yourselves, avoid shaming people for getting COVID19, help one another through this pandemic, and ask for help when you need it.
Millbrook Chief and Council
Nova Scotians are now able to pick up free COVID-19 rapid test kits at all public libraries across the province during the holiday season. Millbrook band and community members can also pick up rapid tests at the health centre until 11:45 a.m. on Friday, Dec 17th, and then again starting January 6th, 2022.
Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health, said in a news release that the availability of home rapid tests gives people another option to help make Christmas gatherings safer in the time of COVID-19.
"Doing a rapid test can add an extra layer of protection if you're hosting or attending gatherings," he said.
The at-home tests are recommended for those aged three and up.
According to the province, anyone with a positive rapid test should self-isolate and book a PCR test at a testing site to confirm the result.
