Bowen Island Undercurrent January 22 2016

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Adventures at sea

An “old sailor”recounts his tale

Keeping afloat

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What’s going on with the ferry?

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Program aims to bring AEDs to community AMANDA OCKELOEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anywhere, and it can happen to anyone at any time: shopping in the Cove, sitting in the ferry line up, reading a book at home.

The Rotary Club of Bowen Island has initiated a program named Jump Start that plans to site Automatic External Defibrillators, AEDs, at many points around the island where the public will be able to access one when needed. The rotary will also be supporting the basic training sessions so that anyone situated near an AED knows how to give CPR and use an AED to help a heart attack victim.

How prepared are you to deal with sudden cardiac arrest?

Many people rely on a first-aid attendant, paramedic, staff member, or bystander to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) until emergency medical services arrive at the scene. Combined with CPR, using an AED may increase the likelihood of saving a person’s life over CPR alone.

This is something very close to my heart as I grew up in a family of first responders. My mum, Pam Still, was a paramedic, and my pops, Alan Still, was a paramedic and fire chief for many years on Bowen. The pager always seemed to go off right when my mum started frying onions for supper. I was left stirring and adding ingredients until they came home. It truly was very exciting, and I was so proud.

It was inevitable that I would join the ranks of paramedics, and then after seven or so years, steer into a calmer direction teaching first aid and how to use AEDs. An AED is a small, portable, and easy-to-use device that assesses the heart of a person in cardiac arrest for a shockable rhythm. If a rhythm is detected, the helper is instructed to press a button to deliver a shock, or series of shocks, to the victim’s heart to allow it to return to a normal rhythm. If no shockable rhythm is detected, no shock can be given, and the helper must continue CPR until medical help arrives.

Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops beating effectively. It is a major cause of death in Canada.

Differing from a heart attack that is something you are conscious with and experiencing, sudden cardiac arrest means no vital signs are detected and the heart no longer pumps blood to the brain. Without the oxygen and nutrients supplied by the blood, brain cells begin to die within minutes and death soon follows. CPR can maintain oxygenation and blood circulation,

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Amanda Ockeloen demonstrates how to use an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) on a practice dummy while student Becky Underdown looks on. photo Louise Loik

More than bike trails for local health

LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Colleen O’Neil has been working to build better health-care support as part of the Medical Clinic Society on Bowen.

She sees a dire need for a health centre so that islanders don’t have to leave the island when they feel least like commuting into town

for health services. O’Neil is flabbergasted that it would appear to Vancouver Coastal Health that we are well-served on Bowen when it comes to medical services as a result of their own survey “My Health, My Community.”

“However, we went in depth and drilled down into their results with a 39-page survey.

Our survey showed that while

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O’Neil says that the high level of engagement in both the VCH survey and the locally created survey indicates that people consider the topic to be important enough to complete time-consuming surveys.

While the VCH survey shows that we get lots of exercise, eat well, and have a high

85 per cent of us have a GP, (general practitioner or family doctor) only 32 per cent use a GP on the island. It would seem like we are well-served here, but we are not.”

She adds: “The fact that so many people are going off island for medical attention is what prompted us to look more closely at how we get health care.”

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Municipal Hall MEETING CALENDAR January 25, 2016 9:30 am Regular Council Meeting

January 28, 2016 7:00 pm Heritage Commission

February 9, 2016 7:15 pm Regular Council Meeting

All meetings are held in BIM Council Chambers unless otherwise noted.

Ö NOTICE TO ELEC TORS O F A N A LT E R N AT I V E A P P R O VA L P R O C E S S

This notice is hereby given to advise electors of Bowen Island Municipality of the intention to adopt Bylaw No. 378, 2015.

The purpose of Bylaw No. 378, 2015 is to exchange an area of dedicated land at the north end of Headwaters Park, as well, a smaller area of non-dedicated land, in exchange for two pieces of land belonging to the adjacent property owner at 564 Cowan Road as shown on the plan below. The purpose of this land exchange is to correct the encroachment of the driveway and bridge access to the house at 564 Cowan Road onto municipal parkland. In exchange, the Municipality will receive land that is already used for a public trail.

A copy of Bylaw No. 378, 2015 and a summary of the proposal are available from Municipal Hall at 981 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island, during offices hours each business day of the week between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.

Lot 45, Block C, Plan 13841 - 564 Cowan Point Road And Municipal land including portions of Lot A, District Lots 1546 and 1547 BCP 16183 and Closed Park District Lot 1547 G1 NWD Plan EPP4559

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The Provincial Health Officer advises all British Columbians with compromised immune systems (such as HIV, organ or bone transplants, chemotherapy or medications that suppress the immune system) to avoid drinking water from any surface water or ground water that is under the influence of surface water, unless it has been boiled, filtered ,distilled or treated with UV. Bowen Island and other areas in British Columbia use surface water sources (lakes, rivers, streams). This is not a general boilwater advisory for the general public, but rather is directed only at persons with compromised immune systems. If in doubt about your immune system status, please discuss this further with your physician.

For additional information please refer to health file www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/hfile56.stm or contact your physician directly directly.

Ö WILDLIFE ON BOWEN Any An sighting of illegal transportation or dumping of wildlife (including skunks) on Bowen Island should be reported to sk o the Ministry of Environment’s Report All Poachers and Polluterss (RAPP) line at a 1-877-952-7277, available 24 hours a day, seven en days da a week. You can also report a violation online at h http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/cos/rapp/form.htm A provincial pr Conservation Officer will investigate your report. eport.

Ö PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Bowen Island Municipality is reviewing application RZ-06-2015 for a Land Use Bylaw text amendment to remove the prohibition on limited speed motorcycle rentals. A Public Open House will be held at the Municipal Office to present the proposed amendment, answer questions and receive comments.

Bowen Island Municipal Council intends to adopt Bylaw No. 378, 2015 to proceed with the land exchange, unless by 4:30 pm on Monday, February 22, 2016 at least 10 percent of the electors of Bowen Island sign an Elector Response Form opposing the adoption of the Bylaw No. 378, 2015.

The number of elector responses required to prevent the local government from proceeding unless a vote is held is estimated to be 291, which is 10% of eligible registered electors (2913) of Bowen Island Municipality based on information obtained from Elections BC and the most recent election in 2014. The basis on which this determination was made is available upon request from the Deputy Corporate Officer, Casey Grundy at cgrundy@bimbc.ca ELECTOR RESPONSES Elector responses are required to be submitted to Bowen Island Municipality and can be obtained from the Municipal offices during regular business hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.

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A life together, full of adventure

Couple recounts tales of travel LOUISE LOIK EDITOR

Most people who live on Bowen have, in all likelihood, been into The Snug.

You’ve also probably placed your order and been called “Blu” by Piers Hayes, one of the partners in the cafe.

“I can’t remember names,” says Piers, who calls everybody by the same name.

What Piers keeps in sharp recall, however, is a life of adventure, particularly as it relates to the decades since he stood in an elevator with a teenage girl who would eventually become his wife.

“She was as young as a poppy seed and I was as old as the sea,” says Piers, referring to their eight-year age difference.

The sign on the door of the Hayes home reads “Welcome aboard, an old sailor lives here with his life preserver.” His wife Joan (his “life preserver”) was the girl in the elevator.

“She asked me which way the elevator was going. I said ‘Sideways,’ and she laughed,” recalls Piers.

Thirty years later, Piers can still make Joan laugh as he recounts the story of their life together. The two have travelled together from South Africa to Toronto, to Abbotsford and then Bowen, and not in the usual manner.

Piers and Joan hit it off from the first moment they met in the elevator. They took up sailing, had small sailing adventures, and began building a life together when Piers got sick.

“It led to a salient moment,” says Joan. She recalls Piers declaring, “Let’s buy a boat. We need to do something with our lives.”

Though the moment has less clarity for Piers, he acknowledges it was “an epiphany.”

When Piers got well, they took their 20-foot boat, and their children, and made a move from Johannesburg to Capetown. There the pair made friends with a sailing family and got talking about a big sailing adventure. They hatched the idea and made it happen over the next five years.

By the time the two families set off across the Atlantic to North America, Joan and Piers had three children (William, Sarah-Jane and Miles) all under the age of 10. The family wound up living on their boat for four years, two of them in dock in Toronto, and two of them spent sailing from Africa to Port Credit, near Toronto.

The couple agrees that the

Piers and Joan Hayes and their son William pose in their bakery, Snug Cove. The Hayes family has sailed through many years of fun and adventure together. As new grandparents, Joan and Piers are now embarking on a new adventure. photo Louise Loik kids learned invaluable lessons from their travels and didn’t get into any dangerous situations. They recall sitting one their boat 200 miles from the mouth of the Amazon where the kids were able to see its power. They also got to spend time in the middle of the South Atlantic on the island where Napoleon had been both exiled and interred. Geography, history, astronomy, it all became part of the kids experiential learning, along with distance education programs that Joan taught on board.

Joan says the family never experienced anything life-threatening.

“The most horrific was when we got flattened when we hit a squall by North Carolina near Cape Hatteras. We could see the squall and kept dodging it. Twenty miles off shore we tried to face it and it came at us like a train. It tore the main reef sail and flattened the boat.”

Joan says she put the kids below deck and told them they were about to go through a squall, giving them instructions about what would happen and what to do. She closed the hatch and helped get the boat through the one-hour squall.

“It righted almost immediately,” she says.

Piers adds that the sailing trip was “90 per cent boredom, five per cent exhilaration, and five per cent naked terror.”

A particularly wonderful

thing for the family was being able to enjoy the kindness of strangers everywhere they went.

“We were in Venezuela at Christmas and got a cab driver to take us around for a couple of days,” says Piers. “We were Christmas shopping and we left the presents we had bought in the cab with him.”

The couple trusted that the presents would still be in the cab when they returned from running errands. “When we tell people that we left the presents with the cab driver, they think we were crazy, but you have to trust your instincts.”

The couple say that travel makes a person more open, more trusting in the good of human nature. “He gave us this ice-pickbottle opener that he made by hand as a present,” says Piers of the cab driver, showing the gift that he still holds dear.

While the Hayes family was separated from their Capetown friends once they hit the Atlantic waters, the two families would re-group on occasion until they got to North America. They travelled through warm turquoise waters to islands like Martinique and Trinidad. They went to the Bahamas, Curacao, Aruba, and Jamaica and spent three months in the Cayman Islands before hitting the United States.

The other family headed off to New Zealand. The Hayes family stayed along the U.S.

coast, making friends as they went. Piers describes meeting an American representative from the Rotary Club. The man, like Piers, was part of the international Rotary Club, “but he didn’t know us from a bar of soap,” says Piers.

With a spirit of generosity, and staying true to the Rotary Club motto (Service Above Self), the man invited the family into his home.

“He asked me how long it had been since the kids had had a bath,” says Joan. “Later that day, the kids were enjoying a warm, soapy, bubbly bath.”

It was something they hadn’t been able to enjoy on board the boat. Piers says that “travel spreads the gospel of generosity of the human spirit.”

He advises travellers to go off the beaten path, trust their instincts and take chances.

“People are afraid of their own shadows now,” he notes. “Go where there are no planes, no roads.”

Piers believes strongly that people are good and kind. He says the less people have, the more generous they seem to be, adding: “After travel, your faith in humanity is much stronger.”

The Hayes family eventually made their way to Ontario, and then to Abbotsford where Piers worked at General Electric. Their sailing friends, now living in New Zealand, had a friend from Canada who said, “Go to Bowen Island.”

When they decided to

follow his advice, Piers says they were heading to the ferry and came over the ridge along the highway from Caulfeild in the fog. They crested the hill and the vista opened up, which was their first impression of the island.

In Snug Cove, the bakery bore the same name as the bakery back home: the Oven Door.

Immediately comfortable, the family checked out the community school and went to a church service where the head of the congregation, Larry Adams, was welcoming and invited the family to stay in his home the following weekend while the Adams family was away. “He didn’t know us from a bar of soap,” says Piers.

They were impressed. Before heading back to the mainland they made a stop at the Snug.

They moved to the island 20 years ago and took over the Snug nine years ago.

“I’ve never worked so hard in my whole life,” says Piers, remembering how Joan had once suggested “it would be nice to retire and open a nice little cafe.”

The night before they were to open the café, a strong wind storm hit the area. The couple were up all night, scared as they listened to screaming winds and tree after tree falling down. Four trees crashed near their home and Stanley Park lost thousands of trees that same time.

Unable to sleep, Piers decid-

ed to head to the café. Halfway across the island, he found an abandoned car under a fallen tree lying across the road and could see another tree across the road further on. He jokes that he wondered if it was a warning to them about their new business.

Piers is up at 2:30 a.m. every day to go down to the cafe.

Ninety per cent of everything they sell is made on-site, the owners will tell you with pride.

They also now have 10 per cent of the business made up of catering to groups. To keep up with demand, the couple hired an ESL student who had been studying at the language school on the island. The astute and hard-working student, Ai Kanezaki, worked her way into the position of business partner.

The couple purchased the building one year ago and now two of their kids, William and Sarah Jane help run the business.

These days, the couple find excitement in running The Snug, tinkering on the piano and singing with the choir.

They stay involved with the Rotary Club, and through the collection jars in their café and personal efforts and generosity, they have helped raise thousands of dollars in support of various causes and charities championed on the island.

“It’s a great community that way,” says Piers. “Very generous and supportive.”

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Community papers matter. In small communities and large, newspapers bring the photos, the stories and the research that unite readers in a shared reflection of who they are and of what matters.

It’s great that our paper can help boost local businesses and events, and help build and support our community. But we also need your support. Every paper you buy, every subscription and every ad are all integral to the continued success of the paper. I hope that next week, with your support, we’ll be back to our full-size publication.

I’m happy this week to introduce Amanda Ockeloen, who will be writing a weekly column for us on a variety of topics based on a lifetime of experience living on Bowen. Her first installment this week is about defibrillators and about being a second-generation first responder. Mary Letson, another new columnist, debuts in this issue. Mary shares her thoughts about the value of training with a friend. In the future Tina Nielsen will be contributing on topics relating to literature and the library. Sarah Haxby, who is a regular contributor, will keep us posted on the community school events.

Professional landscaper and gardener Wynne Neilsen will share insights about gardening. Teresa Plowright, a published travel writer, has some great ideas for family travel. I welcome your submissions for ideas, stories and photos. A special thank you to all our advertisers, subscribers and buyers who help keep this paper going.

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Nepal now, as it recovers from devastation KATE COFFEY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

It’s been more than eight months since two major earthquakes hit Nepal.

The earthquakes devastated the country where more than 8,600 died, up to 300 suffered a spinal cord injury.

Regrettably, the Nepalese government has not distributed the US $4 billion donated in humanitarian aid. Many people continue to live under tarps and in tents during this very cold winter season. Electricity availability has now been reduced to just six hours a day.

In the face of such turmoil, I was impressed during my recent trip to find Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre (SIRC).

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Most encouraging is the Nepal government’s drive to name SIRC as the leading organization to establish Nepal’s Rehabilitation Policy, as well as run multiple training sessions to educate medical and emergency response teams across Nepal on the complexities of spinal cord injuries.

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Nepali dinner for six: Cash or cheque only. Sorry, no credit cards; 100 per cent of proceeds will be for the sole benefit of SIRC. Another Chapter: Nepal Post-Earthquake, Jan. 30 at The Gallery, 3 p.m.-5 p.m., $15; Tickets at Phoenix.

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Building bridges with BC Ferries

Advisory committees, council meet with representatives SUSANNA BRAUND CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The visit of three representatives of BC Ferries to Bowen Island Jan. 15 led to a useful discussion of ways to improve the experience of Islanders using the service.

Mark Collins (vice president of strategic planning and community engagement), Darin Guenette (manager of public affairs) and Chris Morris (manager of the Horseshoe Bay terminal) met with the mayor, councilors and members of the Transportation and Ferry Advisory committees (BIMTAC and FAC).

We toured the Snug Cove Terminal, discussing pragmatic measures and strategic issues that could improve the experience of Bowen Islanders using the ferry service.

The ferries representatives immediately understood the need to improve the design and facilities at the terminal, including reconfiguring the area extending from the washrooms down past the Plexiglas shelter.

We learned that BC Ferries has a standard heated waiting room complete with washrooms that would be ideal for installation there.

They agreed that the sidewalk could be leveled making it more usable for strollers and wheelchairs.

BC Ferries has 47 terminals. We are now waiting to find out how high Snug Cove terminal is on their capital plan upgrades list. The FAC will continue to push for improvements. There will be plenty of consultation with the community during the three-year period the process will take once it’s initiated.

Issues such as moving the light standards and leveling pavement might be dealt with more quickly as maintenance items.

We brought up scheduling issues, especially relating to the reduction in weekend morning services, which have affected young families and shift workers particularly badly. BC Ferries is now waiting to receive our input on desired changes and we are currently designing a community survey to capture the views of ferry users.

We expressed concern about the likely rise in sea levels due to climate change and heard that all work on

terminals now provides for a one-metre sea level rise.

We asked about the planned redevelopment of the Horseshoe Bay terminal and requested the chance to offer input.

The capital plan will be drawn up during the next four years and we were reassured that there will be formal consultation of communities affected via the FAC. BC Ferries plans to move to an all-reservation system for major routes (Bowen is considered a minor route) to reduce the marshalling area required at Horseshoe Bay. This, along with the newer ferries that can load entirely from one level, may make obsolete the upper layer of the terminal where Langdale traffic marshalls, which currently does not meet seismic safety standards.

One concern of BIMTAC is that there is too little communication between BC Ferries and other transportation agencies, TransLink in particular. We were heartened to hear that a meeting between the two is now planned. We urged greater consultation with Metro Vancouver as well as West Vancouver.

While discussing recent service disruptions, Guenette reminded us that there is a BC Ferries Twitter feed (@ bcferries) and that commuters can sign up for email service notifications (go to bcferries.com, click “Manage My Account,” then sign in or create an account to subscribe to email notices).

We asked BC Ferries to consider greater use of water taxis in general. Collins emphasized that, contrary to common belief, BC Ferries likes and welcomes foot passengers.

He also noted that our current ferry is licensed to carry about 400 passengers.

If the need arose, the ferry could be certified to carry about 600.

Although the Cardena Road drop-off area is beyond BC Ferries’ purview, Collins offered the assistance of their engineering department to help us design a safer configuration.

Finally, an intriguing idea: Could BC Ferries devise a customer loyalty program to reward frequent users?

The software is not yet able to handle such a program, but we think that might be

a target.

Susanna Braund is the chairwoman of the Ferry Advisory Committee.

Susanna Braund (centre), along with Bowen’s mayor and council, recently met with BC Ferries representatives on Bowen Island to show them the marshalling situation and discuss customer service. photo Maureen Nicholson

What Education Could Be: A Blueprint For a Better World Join Author and Educator Ted Spear for an “Ed Talk” about his upcoming book.

Monday, Jan 25 6:15-7:15pm Cates Hill Chapel Bowen Island What is happening right now?

What needs to change?

Ted will preview his vision for middle and high school education in the next 5-10 years.

This talk is about educational innovation and will not be focused on IPS.

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Sweating it out together MARY LETSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

They say nurturing friendships are integral to our overall health.

I say seek out friendships in places where you exercise together and the healthy upshot will be positively synergistic.

For all the times you think you don’t have time or energy to exercise, or that you will do it later and then not do it all, your workout mates stand like beacons of happy exercise commitment.

Bailing on yourself is, sadly, always an option. Bailing on a friend is not.

I met my running mates during a half-marathon training clinic I offered in 2008. We trained together for four months, became fast friends, and then ran together for another four years, goal-setting together as we trained for various half marathons.

We trained hard for these events. You can’t fake 21 kilometres. But, really, it was less about the half marathon and more about the road trip, shopping, the pre-run yoga, and the nice dinner out (complete with wine and dessert). It was mostly about the laughing that came with all of this.

William Hayes from The Snug shares the following hearty beet burger recipe.

The Snug’s Beet Burger

Island training buddies Lynn Forbes, Lynn Fuhr and Mary Letson enjoy a warm, sunny vacation after completing the Seattle Half Marathon. photo Mary Letson Sunday morning training was our own kind of worship, a date we worked hard to maintain for ourselves and for each other. With running gear adjusted, water bottles filled, we were out the door and the conversation flowed interrupted only by the Bowen hills we love to hate.

The mileage slipped by as we sorted through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the

last week.

We see the positive in each other, something we can’t always find in ourselves. We keep the good stuff and try to drop the ugly behind us like mud off our sneakers.

Blissfully exhausted, we wind up our run with a stretch and tee-up for the following Sunday, knowing that if we didn’t get our mid-week solo runs in, the next Sunday

would feel less like a social event and more like work.

And then it’s not fun.

Due to life’s complications, our running dates have dwindled over the last few years, but our friendship has not. I am grateful for this and dream of one day completing another half-marathon where the main event is less about running and more about friendship.

750 g beetroot 300 g feta cheese 1 onion 2 cloves of garlic 150 g oats 2 eggs 2 Tbsp olive oil ½ bunch of dill Accompaniments: Ciabatta burger buns or your favourite buns; 1 ripe mango; 1 ripe avocado; mayonnaise; lettuce Grate the beetroot with your hands and squeeze as much of the liquid out as possible. Gloves are a good idea unless you like pink hands.

Lightly whisk the eggs, grate the onion and mince

the garlic; mix with the grated beetroot, feta, oats and a good handful of dill. Cover and chill in the fridge at least two hours.

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Star gazing

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Because of the low level of light pollution on Bowen, as you know, it’s a good place to star gaze.

Really early risers have a chance of glimpsing the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 22 at 5:55 a.m. for two minutes at 19 degrees

above the horizon looking south-southwest before it disappears at 10 degrees south-southeast.

For a later look into the dark pre-dawn sky, Mercury will become visible before sunrise, which is now at 8:02 a.m.

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When Mercury joins this crowd around Jan. 20, you will be able to see all five bright planets simultaneously for the first time since 2005.

from PAGE 1

Collaborative health centre sought from PAGE 1 quality of life, the primary take-away from VCH was that we need more “active transportation” and suggests improved biking trails. O’Neil is not impressed. She refers to the statistics drawn from the survey produced on the island showing that we have some serious health-service needs beyond biking to work. O’Neil explains that the society found “interesting” statistics.

Sixty-five per cent of islanders go off island to see their GP, which is leading to problems with expense and time.

Another issue she points out is that findings show that when people rate health good to excellent, 83 per cent with chronic conditions would still rate their health good to excellent despite having a need for primary care services. In addition, of the people needing primary care with a doctor off island, half have delayed getting health care because of travel involved, and half of that group noted that the delay made their condition worse.

What’s more, 50 per cent of respondents said they had difficulty accessing care they need, 41 per cent said they felt health was at risk because of the lack of

services, and 23 per cent would consider moving off island because of limited health care.

O’Neil said 206 people wrote comments in the survey saying that they have felt scared, worried and anxious. People filled out 95 pages of information in detail. O’Neil feels that having a centre where specialists can provide weekly services for things like osteoporosis, cardiac care and other supportive rehabilitation services would greatly improve the chances of locals being able to age in place.

“We have no weekend care, no urgent care, limited access to GPs, no doctor you can see in the evening.

It’s hard to age in place, and people are reluctant to call 9-1-1,” she says.

O’Neil has put a lot of time and energy into getting the information that she knows now almost by heart.

She read all the comments and saw a common thread throughout, which is why she is confident in what she has to say and presented the information at a Monday morning meeting to the Committee of the Whole.

Some other numbers from survey: 141 respondents complained about time, expense and hassle; 63 per cent feel a centre would help their health; and 93 per

cent would use a health centre.

“We could greatly improve access to health care here,” says O’Neil.

She points out that there are other isolated communities who have found a solution to the same problem and their solution has been to create a collaborative health centre, which is different than a clinic. She explains that the name of the group she represents is a misnomer, but that it would cost money to change the name from Medical Health Clinic Society to an alternative.

O’Neil says other small communities and islands have community health centres where they work as an integrated team. On Gabriola they “do this beautifully where specialists come once a month to a facility.”

The island doctors, along with Docs on the Bay in Horseshoe Bay, who tend to a large percentage of Bowen Island residents, are all in conversation with the board of The Medical Clinic Society of Bowen Island.

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but unless defibrillation is performed quickly, survival in unlikely.

SCA is a medical emergency today, but it doesn’t have to be fatal. For a few minutes before the heart stops completely, it usually goes into a rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF) a fluttering of the heart muscle. During VF, it is often possible to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm with the AED. Through the pads applied to the chest, the AED analyzes the heart’s electrical activity and determines if a shock will be effective. Here is the most important piece: the window of opportunity for using an AED is small.

Defibrillation is more successful if performed within five minutes of the cardiac arrest. Studies show that the chances of survival decrease seven to 10 per cent with every minute that passes after the arrest.

With a lot of homes on Bowen being at least 10 or more minutes from the Cove, unless you have an AED in your neighborhood, your chances of survival might be reduced.

A new system in place is linked with calling 9-1-1. If you have an AED and you have registered it with the BC PAD (public access defibrillators) program (bcpadprogram.ca), when you call 9-1-1 for an emergency, they can direct you to the closest AED. Venues with registered AEDs will also receive courtesy e-mail reminders when AED pads and batteries need to be replaced.

Imagine you are out with a friend who collapses in SCA. By calling 9-1-1, getting an AED, and starting CPR, you can double their chance of survival. But how do you know where the closest AED is? You will if everyone who owns one gets it registered.

In summary, take a first aid course. You can learn how to save a life in as little as four hours. Keep your eye on The Undercurrent for upcoming information of our very own PAD program coming to Bowen with help from the Rotary Club.

Maintain a healthy lifestyle, and remember that you cannot make it worse by doing CPR and using an AED because the machine won’t shock unless a shock is needed.

In the upcoming weeks we will be giving information of the locations of AEDs on the island so far, and where we plan for more, and how you can get involved.