The need for wellbeing support at the start of 2021 is a very long list.
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The Border Mail's "Our Towns, Our People" series is highlighting many of those - no more serious than the people of Walla we spoke to for today's edition.
Another hot summer, although one nowhere near as bad, has started to "trigger" memories of 12 months ago for bushfire victims, so it is important they continue to look after their mental health - even as time continues to pass.
Then there are the families of coronavirus victims who did not survive and the businesses struggling to stay afloat in the wake of restrictions that hurt financially.
With Victoria closing its border to parts of NSW and rules changing almost every week, we just do not know what is going to come next. And the detection on the weekend of "viral fragments" in wastewater from the Mount Beauty, Tawonga and Tawonga South areas is a wake-up call that the North East cannot completely relax when it comes to the pandemic.
In all likelihood, based on previous detections in wastewater, these fragments will turn out to be nothing, but the point is, we just do not know.
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But even as the region deals with a pandemic and recovery from a major disaster like the bushfires 12 months ago, there are still plenty of others - like war veterans - who need wellbeing support.
That is why it is heartening to see a project such as Wodonga's $5 million veteran wellbeing centre making progress.
In the midst of the horrible year we have just experienced, it would not be surprising if a project like that was left behind.
Once a location is finalised by March, it is important works get going as quickly as possible.
The centre, which RSL Victoria's chief of veteran services Adam Lawson described as "the absolute premier Victorian, if not national, veterans and families well-being centre", will be fantastic for the Border's ex-military personnel.
They will be experiencing the hardships of 2020 as much as the rest of the region, along with even more.