THE streets will be alive with splashes of yellow on August 23, as local residents sell flowers for Daffodil Day.
Each year, thousands of Australian’s across the country take part in the day to raise much needed funds for the Cancer Council to go towards research, education, prevention and support services for the potentially fatal disease.
In the Swan Hill municipality, on average 135 residents were diagnosed with cancer in the five-year period between 2007 and 2011.
On average 80 males and 54 females are diagnosed with cancer in Swan Hill each year.
In Victoria, the five most-common cancers are prostate, bowel, breast, lung and melanoma.
Organiser Mandy Molloy has sold daffodils each year for the past few years and said the bright flowers held a very special meaning.
For more on this story see Friday’s Guardian (August 16).
