By BRENNAN, Nicola Fastway Couriers will zip around the Waikato today delivering the last of thousands of fresh blooms for tomorrow's Daffodil Day. Thousands of volunteers will join them in their cause to help raise funds for the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Division Cancer Society's Daffodil Day appeal.

By Zach Spicer, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind. Feb. 2--She's back. After a year away from the Daffodil Days fundraiser, Connie Geis is back to lead the charge with this American Cancer Society program, which she has chaired locally for more than 20 years.

It follows an announcement by the H-S-E that the mammography centre at the Midlands Hospital in Mullingar will shut down next year. The move is part of the gradual scaling back of smaller cancer care centres, to be replaced by eight designated treatment centres countrywide.

An important service offered by the Cancer Society is the Lions Cancer Lodge currently situated in the grounds of Waikato Hospital.

By BROWN, Kath DAFFODILS signal the arrival of spring, the season of hope and expectation.