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Youth mental health unit to open JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A new 10-bed hospital unit specifically for youth with mental health and substance abuse problems will open next year at North Vancouver’s HOpe Centre at Lions Gate Hospital.
Jack and Leone Carlile listen to the announcement of their $2-million donation to Lions Gate Hospital. The couple’s largesse will go towards a 10-bed hospital unit in the LGH HOpe Centre for teenagers dealing with mental health and addictions. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
Health Minister Terry Lake made the announcement at the HOpe Centre Wednesday morning. The new unit, which will be built in empty space on the third floor of the HOpe Centre, will focus on psychiatric assessment and stabilization of youth aged 13 to 18 during short hospital stays of two to three weeks. The centre will have private bedrooms as well as access to a gym, lounge, kitchen, areas where
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AMALGAMATION: NORTH SHORE MAY STRETCH ACROSS INLET
BC’s new city: DNV + Burnaby = NoBu
JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
Amalgamation may be coming to the North Shore – just not in the manner many pundits predicted.
After being repeatedly spurned by the city, the District of North Vancouver recently reached out to a more appreciative municipality: Burnaby. “The City of North Vancouver amalgamating with the District of North Vancouver? Too obvious. You put
Financial disputes, hurt feelings made reunification with CNV impossible: staffer chocolate and peanut butter together, not chocolate and chocolate,” said a district staffer who requested anonymity due to numerous warrants out for her arrest.
In order to avoid confusion, the area currently known as the District of North Vancouver will become North NorthBurnaby while Burnaby will be christened South North Vancouver. NoBu will also be used as a catch-all name. The move should create “totally sweet” efficiencies, according to the staffer. “Instead of two municipal halls governed by 14 councillors and two mayors, we’ll have one giant municipal hall
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