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Drawing the Line
West Van Museum showcases the work of Ann Kipling in new exhibit
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FACILITIES FAIL TO MEET STANDARD
Seniors care short-staffed, advocate says BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Not one of the seven publicly subsidized seniors care homes on the North Shore is meeting the provincial guidelines for staffing of nurses and support workers. B.C. seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie released her annual tally on Wednesday showing only 10 per cent of all public care homes in the province were meeting the guideline of 3.36 hours of staff time per patient per day for direct care like bathing and hygiene or help with eating and social interaction. The report also compiles incidents that put seniors at risk like disease outbreaks, abuse or neglect, missing or wandering persons, medication errors, falls resulting in injuries, and aggression between persons in care. Kiwanis Care Centre in the Seymour area ranked closest to the provincial staffing guidelines at 3.29 hours, however, with 22 cases of aggression, it exceeded the provincial average by about 7.5 times. (In 2016, the Kiwanis manager said the facility has a very low threshold for what it considers aggression and only one of those cases resulted in an injury).
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‘A ray of sunshine’: friends remember homicide victim JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
The Bridgman Park Trail that runs beside North Vancouver’s Lynn Creek is a quiet place. Sword ferns sprout in the nearby forest floor and slim trees lean over the trail, covered with moss. The creek washes over stones. It was here, on Nov. 28, that a dog walker made a grisly discovery: a charred body inside a picnic shelter. It took another six weeks before homicide investigators publicly identified the victim as 41-year-old Lisa Dawn MacPherson of North Vancouver. Those who knew MacPherson were shocked and left struggling to understand what happened.
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SALMON STORIES Co-creators Quelemia Sparrow and Michelle Olson present the premiere of Raven Spirit Dance Society’s new TYA (theatre for young audiences) production, Salmon Girl, at Presentation House Theatre tonight at 7 p.m. See story page 13. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD 3025 ELIZABETH WAY, EDGEMONT $3,788,000
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