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NEWS BRIEFS Set your coordinates to fun Treasure hunters get prepared; geocaching is coming to Fort St. James. On June 27, the UNBC Project Management Class will be hosting a Geocache Event with FSJ Geocaching. Geocaching - the marriage of treasure hunting and GPS - is a fun activity enjoyed by people around the world. Caches are hidden in various locations and co-ordinates are given as clues to where the treasures are hidden. Inside the cache are various objects left by people who have previously found the site. The idea is to take an object and leave an object for the next treasure seeker. These caches often contain unique or quirky items from people around Canada, North America and the World. Leon Erickson, organizer of the event, said the event will be for groups and will have a twist to the type of geocaching where there are word puzzles and clues to find the location of ten sites around town. “The coordinates give you a general (area) and the clue gives you a little bit more detail as to where the geocache is,” Erickson said. He added the event is open to all ages, but FSJ Geocaching are requesting that groups with participants under 19 have an adult regisPlease see, Country, page 5
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Dr. Anthon Meyer: Changing the face of healthcare
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The team at the Fort St. James Medical Clinic: From left, Marion Illerbrun, Kate Stent, Joanna Pierre, Dr. Anthon Meyer, Kathy Marchal, Indy Schamehorn, Lucia Deveau, Allison Eytcheson and Leah Erickson.
Physician to be honoured as one of best in province MICHELE TAYLOR Caledonia Courier
Dr. Anthon Meyer will be honoured with the My Family Doctor Award at the end of May; the patient nominated award celebrates the doctor-patient relationship. A relationship Meyer knows is an integral part of good health care, improved health outcomes and better patient satisfaction. Back in 2012 the district of Fort St. James was in desperate need - Dr. Paul Stent was the sole physician in the town caring for close to 5,000 people in the district - Northern Health, the Municipal District and First Nation groups were working to recruit and retain doctors for the community. That’s where Dr. Anthon Meyer
comes into the picture. Dr. Meyer - operating as a community health recruiter of under-serviced areas in Northern Ontario and Manitoba at the time - was approached to help with recruiting for the Fort St. James area. “The recruits from Northern Health were aware of my company,” he said. “They had conversations at times with me … could I begin to help them with recruitment in (the Fort St. James) area.” Meyer’s daughter and son-in-law were both looking to practise in British Columbia and as International Medical Graduates they would be required to start their practise somewhere in northern B.C.; it was the perfect combination for bringing a new care model to healthcare in the
Fort St. James region, he said. “When Northern Health expressed a need, they were accepting that we could start a new care model,” he said. “For me that’s the challenge in medicine is the chance to change outcomes.” Historically, Meyers said over time remote communities are neglected with fragmented approaches to chronic disease patients, rather than comprehensive care. With doctors not staying in the community there was a discontinuity in care for acute patients. “For me, to make a difference is to focus on population health, wellness and well-being,” he said. “To identify chronic disease that has been neglected over time, put programs in place that can address that adequately
and then put management systems in place that it becomes a uniform system approach and not an individual practitioner.” With the aid of a health record management system called the Medical Office Information System (MOIS), Meyer said setting up a program where all physicians can have access to set standards, and could be in tune to elevate the standard of care and how the team sees patients, was able to be put in place. This method sees a group of physicians working together as a care team that are partners in a patient’s care management plan. “We change the access to patients in the community,” Meyers said. Please see, ‘Revolutionary, page 3
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Nak’azdli recycle program hits one year mark MICHELE TAYLOR Caledonia Courier
The Nak’azdli Recycling Depot hits a milestone this past week. The facility will celebrate one year of operation under the MultiMaterial BC (MMBC) program. MMBC, a non-profit organization, shifted the financial responsibility of recycling to businesses that manufacture or supply items such as residential and printed paper packaged products to consumers. The organization, which provides financial incentives to First Nation’s to offset the
cost of operating depots and collecting residential recycled materials, rolled out its curbside program in May 2014 to meet the BC Recycling Regulation which came into effect on May 19, 2014. Kat Slorstad, Nak’azdli recycling depot manager, also runs her own recycling business for rural customers in tandem with the Nak’azdli recycling program. She said although she lost some business with the new program coming in to Fort St. James and area she’s excited the band got the contract and that recycling has increased
for the district. “They took more stuff and it was free,” she said. “It was kind of crazy how quickly everything happened.” Slorstad said her commercial and rural pick-up accommodates the depot schedule, adding the curbside pickup for in town happens alongside waste management days for garbage pickup for various sections of town and the Nak’azdli reserve. MMBC held its first conference in April this year which Slorstad attended, she said there are now 162 collectors and 198 depots now operating across British
Columbia. The conference focused on capture rates, contamination of recyclables and sharing best-practices between depots, she added. “Having more communication between all the depots … which was actually a really cool part of (the conference) ... and hearing how everyone else has done it,” she said. “There were so many unknowns starting this program.” She said the recycling program will be looking to increase awareness of the depot and what can be returned at the depot or through its free curb-
side program, adding there are some areas where the program would like to increase use of the program. The program has diverted 10,669 kilograms with its curbside program, and 14,259.6 kilograms at the depot. That totals over 24,000 kilograms from the Fort St. James landfill since the start of the program last May. “Right now we pick up between 60 and 80 on the North side, and between 30 and 50 on the South side,” she said. “As you can see we get more depot material than curbside. It’s obviously something we want to up.”
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Kat Slorstad, manager Nak’azdli recycling depot, shows how the process works at the recycling depot from drop-off to end transportation.
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Courier ‘Revolutionary system’ for recruitment Continued from front “When we started there was everyday between 40 and 60 patients that could not see a physician. We were able to bring that down to 25 to 30 patients per day. “We are playing a leading role in terms of the regional medical fraternity new initiative in terms of health programs that the Ministry wants to put in place in terms of recruitment,” he said of the revolutionary system. “We’ve increased the physician staffing position from four to five and now to six physicians. Through factual base … there are just facts that speak.” Meyer said with the Acute Care Clinic, short-term access can be provided to patients to help identify acute problems and identify long-term problems in patients who before were not able to book appointments ahead of time can get guided
management for their care. “Each patient now has a most-responsible physician,” he said. “We have opened the hospital on a 24-7-365 day basis. We were able to start a low-risk obstacle program in the community … we were able to integrate with other care providers.” The model Meyer introduced into the community, brings nursepractitioners into the model where all care providers can share the same population base, patient profiles and share the same style of care and expectations of disease management. He said this approach allows assisting with care plans and providing the best standard of care across all types of care providers and is looking to fill a second nurse-practitioner position in the community. “This is a team approach.” Meyer’s said besides increasing staff and
bringing nurse practitio- vices than the rest of the ners to the community, population. outreach has been initi“They have a very ated between his team harsh deal in terms of and other surround- the social determinants ing First Nation com- of health,” he said. munities, something “Clean water, housing, which is a passion for and the employment ophimself and Dr. Stent. portunities; the things A prescription drug that really value and abuse cammake a difpaign has ference. been put in “I think place to try there’s a and change lost genthe pattern e r a t i o n ,” and profile he said. through “I think better care that knowand advice ing that … over time - Dr. Anthon Meyer why would for patients. that person “ T h a t ’s comply to a neglected population waste nice medicine? over time that histori“Because the syscally, has been tremen- tem did not take care of dously neglected,” he them. said. “That focus is so, “I come from a so important.” world where discrimiMeyer said his first- nation is in my bones – hand experience with that I hated with a pasFirst Nation groups has sion - that it just doesn’t provided an in-depth make sense,” Meyer understanding of how said. “For me to observe they are a neglected de- that kind of ‘lesser than mographic with much the others’ in this first lower healthcare ser- world country … and
“It is not them that is changing, it is us that is changing.”
I see in the community of Pikangikum where I lived for many, many years and worked, there was still no running water. Meyer added he comes from that background, “I’ve slept more nights on a bed on-reserve than I’ve slept in my own bed for the past 14 years in this country. I think we can do better as a people, but also in (healthcare) we can do better.” He said his goal in working with First Nation’s is to build an relationship of trust; to achieve an intimacy and to be able to get a patient as a partner in the healing journey; that holistic care is not a cultural approach of Western versus First Nation
culture; that there can be a uniformity and a respect for that natural way of life. “You see how you change people’s attitudes and behaviour
patterns and you see how you change compliance,” he said. “Then you begin to recognize it is not them that is changing, it is us that is changing.”
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NOTICE OF NOMINATIONS For 4 Councillors Nak’azdli Band Members
Nominations will be for four (4) Band Councillors for a three year term. Date: June 01, 2015 Place: Kwah Hall, Nak’azdli I.R. #1 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Voter’s list and Election Code are available at the Band Office.
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Reaching for new heights Pat Short, Chair, FSJ Community Foundation Society, has lofty goals for the society. The society was given an opportunity to attend the CFC Conference in Calgary where Joyce Helweg and Pat Short shared knowledge, experience and opportunities with other commnity foundations from across Canada, May 7-9.
“As a student in two of my senior trades classes, Ben Rokaratu exemplifies the perfect leaner. He never seeks to take the simple path but strives to complete projects that not only challenge him but deepen his understanding of each given trade. His resolve and determination to conquer each difficult problem he encounters should be described as nothing short of impressive. Finally, Ben works impeccably well with his classmates; seeking only to deepen their own understanding alongside his own.”
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B.C.’s forest fire season arrives early As a wildfire near Prince George continues to grow and three fire departments successfully extinguish a stubborn brush fire near Lumby on Monday, it’s not difficult to proclaim that the forest fire season has come early this year. That’s why it makes sense for the Kamloops Fire Centre to declare an open fire prohibition beginning Friday, the unofficial start to the summer season and the Victoria Day long weekend. Hot, dry weather has dominated most of B.C. for weeks and the forecast is for more of the same so it only makes sense to exercise extreme caution in the woods this weekend, even though it’s only mid-May on the calendar. The prohibition covers all B.C. Parks and Crown lands but does not ban campfires of a reasonable size, so please use common sense and practise fire safety procedures at all times. It is a weekend to be enjoyed
and celebrated but it must be done responsibly and within the rules that keep all of us, and our forests and wildlife, safe. And the province takes its bans seriously as anyone found in contravention of an open fire prohibition can be issued a $345 ticket or, if convicted in court, be fined up to $100,000 and sentenced to one year in jail. If the contravention furthermore contributes to a wildfire, the person can face a further $10,000 penalty and a bill for all firefighting and associated costs. However, all it takes to avoid catastrophe in the forests is a little common sense, a respect for the great outdoors and following the rules of the land, which now includes an open fire prohibition. By all means, enjoy the long weekend wherever you are, but do it responsibly. -– Campbell River Mirror Black Press
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NEWS BRIEFS Continued from front tered with the group. The family fun event will take place from 10 - 2pm in Cottonwood Park, Erickson said there will be a barbeque and a prize draw. He said you can find more information on the website: www.fsjgeocache. weebly.com, on the Fort St. James Geocache Facebook page or contact Maria at 250-996-1744.
Country food alert – fiddleheads
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Health Canada has issued a food safety alert concerning the proper cleaning, preparation, cooking and storage of fiddleheads, a popular vegetable which grows along river and stream banks. Fiddleheads are often available at the grocer and fruit and vegetable stands. Health Canada advises that eating raw or undercooked fiddleheads can cause the following symptoms normally associated with food poisoning; diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and headaches. Symptoms usually occur within 30 minutes to 12 hours after eating undercooked or raw fiddleheads. If you experience these symptoms after eating fiddleheads, contact your health care professional. The following steps will greatly reduce contamination and possible food poisoning: CLEANING: • Wash your hands with hot soapy water • Remove as much of the brown husk as possible. • Wash fiddleheads using several changes of clean, cold water. COOKING: • Cook fiddleheads by boiling for 15 minutes or steaming for 10 to 12 minutes, until they are tender. Discard the water that was used for cooking. FREEZING: • Clean fiddleheads thoroughly, as described above. • Boil for two minutes and discard the water. • Rinse fiddleheads in cold water and drain. • Store in the freezer for up to one year.
B.C. Nurses’ Union president Gail Duteil speaks to rally at B.C. legislature Thursday. Their contract expired more than a year ago.
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VICTORIA – Members of the B.C. Nurses’ Union brought a sea of pink umbrellas to the B.C. legislature Thursday to call on the B.C. government to honour a provision that requires health authorities to replace absent nurses. BCNU president Gayle Duteil said 2012 contract provision replacing absent nurses can’t be implemented without more registered nurses hired to provide the relief. “It’s a sad fact that we don’t have enough nurses to deliver safe care for meeting the staffing mandated by our collective agreement,” Duteil said. “We don’t have enough nurses to backfill vacancies, to backfill absences, and we don’t have enough nurses to meet the daily spikes in acuity.” The recent settlement of 1,600 union grievances for staffing includes $5 million for specialty nurse training, $1 million to support increased RN staffing and $2 million in “grievance
settlement funds” paid to nurses affected by staffing shortages. The staffing fund is available to licensed practical nurses who want to upgrade their training. Health Minister Terry Lake said the interim agreement is a step towards renewing the latest BCNU contract, which expired in March 2014. “We worked through a mediator in the last month or so and came
to an agreement, so I think we’re in a good place to work towards our new contract,” Lake said. “We recognize there are some areas like specialist nursing where we do have challenges, and we have committed some of our funding to recruit and train more specialist nurses, and more community nurses as well.” Nurses cheered as Duteil reminded them
that their “grievalanche” had an effect. She said the union documented 10,000 shifts that were not filled during a six-week period at health facilities around the province, and represent only the “tip of the iceberg.” NDP leader John Horgan addressed the rally, promising that his 2017 election platform will put nurses “front and centre in the health care model.”
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Curtis Macdonald, left, Chris Greenwood, Abigail Moore, Dalton Rogers and Ben Barak set up for fire rescue practice May 11.
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Eagle home after rehabilitation at O.W.L. Released near Stuart Lake after year-long recovery MICHELE TAYLOR Caledonia Courier
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An eagle, right, that was found injured in June, 2014 was rehabilitated and released back to her habitat May 12.
An eagle that was found injured last June out at Stones Bay and sent to the O.W.L. Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Chilliwack, was returned to Fort St. James for release, May 12. The eagle, a female, which was originally brought in by Kenny Goddard to Monika Grill during a spay and neuter clinic in Fort St. James, was eventually assessed at O.W.L., with a broken humerus - a bone that make up part of the wing - Catherine Albertson, bird care staff at O.W.L., said of the raptor’s injuries. Albertson added the
bird spent a year at the rehabilitation centre recovering from surgery to repair the broken bone. “She stayed for a year because of moulting,� Albertson said. “She had lost all her flight feathers and it took a bit longer for her to rehabilitate.� She said the eagle spent time in intensive care which allowed the bone to heal after surgery. Albertson said the raptor also went through extensive physiotherapy which involved stretching the wing to build muscle tone and flexibility and then was slowly introduced into increasingly larger enclosures as the eagle’s healing progressed. The eagle’s final kennel was a 300foot outdoor run with alternating doors
which assisted in flight and manoeuvering Albertson said of the final rehabilitation process, “That’s where she spent a long time, building up endurance.� The Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society, a non-profit organization founded in 1978, takes in over four hundred birds of prey such as eagles, owls, hawks and falcons each year. The society intakes birds of prey from B.C., other Canadian provinces and the United States of America. Albertson said transportation of birds back to their originating locations is taken care of through donations from companies such as Pacific Coastal Airlines and Bandstra Transportation Systems Ltd.
Canada North Resources Expo & Resources Expo Society Team Up to Do Good The Resources Expo Society may not be well known outside of certain circles, but the quiet work they do to give back to the Prince George community and create educational opportunities in the resources sectors won’t stay a secret for long. This not-for-profit organization’s mandate is to facilitate training and educational opportunities in the resources sectors – like forestry, oil, gas and mining – in central and northern British Columbia. The current group came together when its predecessor, the Forestry Expo Society, recognized that, although the forestry sector is a crucial component of the central and northern BC economy, there were other equally important resources. This led to an expansion of the society’s mandate to ensure it was more inclusive. As part of this mandate, the society draws from the business community in recruiting volunteers to sit as directors, helping to fulfill its mission and make decisions about the projects it will support. Throughout its history, a key initiative for the Resources Expo Society (along with the previous Forest Expo Society) has been a tradeshow – to bring industry members together, share information on what’s new, and raise funds to create scholarships and give back to local not-for-profit organizations. In 2013, the Resources Expo Society entered into a partnership with trade and consumer event management company Master Promotions Ltd. to take over the role of producing the extremely successful and growing Canada North Resources Expo (CNRE). This biennial trade event focuses on equipment and services for forestry, heavy construction and project infrastructure for Northern Canada’s resource projects. CNRE takes place in Prince George on May 29th and 30th, 2015. At the completion of each CNRE, Master Promotions makes a contribution to the
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Vanderhoof — Logging trucks, excavators, and bobcats are just a few pieces of equipment kids got to work on during this year’s Project Heavy Duty. Selected Gr 10-12 kids from Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake, Burns Lake and Fort St. James took part in the 29 annual event in Vanderhoof on May 14-15 for a hands-on taste of working with various heavy equipment machines. Each year the equipment and personnel to run them are donated by local industry and we couldn’t do it without them, Darren Carpenter, career coordinator for SD91 said. “If we had to pay it would probably cost upwards of $40-$50 thousand to rent all the machines for two days. There are some pretty expensive ones here,” he said pointing to a large excavator on site.
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Students from Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake, Burns Lake and Fort St. James took part in the 29 annual event in Vanderhoof on May 14-15 for a hands-on taste of working with various heavy equipment. Historically the project is a four day event where students firstly take a tour of LNM saw mill in Vanderhoof. On May 13 the group did just that and were able to listen to operators talk about their trade for an insider sneek-peek of various jobs including millwright, boiler operator and mechanic to name a few. Last year the second day was a tour of Endako which was cancelled this year because of the
mines closure. The students did however spend two days outside rotating through ten stations in groups of two working on 17 different machines.“We try to replicate the work site by having the loader fill the truck or excavator fill the rock truck and then come back and dump it so the grader can flatten it into a road. We try to make it as real and relevant as we can so it’s actually what they would be doing on
the job,” Carpenter said. Each station has an operator that gives a short orientation on safety and what to do and not do with the machine. Nick Thompson,15, from Lakes District Secondary School ,was seen using the clam grapple which is used to sort or load logs. “The hardest thing is remembering what joy stick does what, all the while keeping it smooth,” he said.
There were 67 applicants this year but only 24 students were chosen based on interest and academics. “We would like to take them all so that’s why the opportunity to come back a second year is not realistic,” Carpenter said, adding this year had the most amount of industry partners with the biggest scope and scale of previous years. A Vanderhoof fire truck was also present at the pretend work site with two second year fire fighters teaching students about the trucks gadgets. “The halogen tool can break windows, break into doors, pry things open, basically anything you wan tot get into you can,” Kevin Leslie, second year fire fighter said. Rob Anthony, a heavy duty machine operator with M-4 Enterprises, has been instructing students at Project Heavy Duty for
the last six years. “The kids are always enthusiastic to run the machines. It’s good too for me to see their potential as future contractors. Ten kids could come into the shop but the one here I see, they
got a heads up because I’ve seen their potential and attitude,” Anthony said. Anyone who didn’t get to go to this year’s project can sign up next year at their schools careers office.
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David Nutbrown, left, Dawn Gauthier, Yvonne Gilbert, Chris Greenaway, Pieter Van Zyl, front, Keith Gordon, Jana Burgart. Missing from the picture is Morgon Bennison. MICHELE TAYLOR Caledonia Courier
Chris Greenaway, left, passes water to Pieter Van Zyl during the Vanderhoof to Fort Relay.
The 36 running of the Fort to Vanderhoof Relay took place May 10.
Keith Gordon, organizer for the run, said both teams were closely matched running from Vanderhoof to the Fort. He said, “Up until stage 4 the teams were
almost step for step with each other but then the effects of the heat set in and Team Conifex ended up falling a bit back and finishing 19 minutes later in a time of 5:29. David Nutbrown of Not Conifex who ran stage 8 in 29:39. The fastest female runner was Lisa Spingle of Conifex who did stage three in 40:13 who was only 6 seconds faster than Dawn Gauthier in stage 7. Gordon added there were also 5 cyclists who did the entire 62 kilometers including Nolan Sampson, Sean Houghton and Roma Jane Boschman.
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