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N E W S P A P E R FOR THE LOVE OF DANCE
The Ammara Dance Company performs Middle Eastern dances at the New West Day of Dance event on Sunday at Westminster Pier Park. The day-long event drew people of all ages down to the river on a hot, sunny day to take part in a variety of free dance lessons and performances, as well as yoga sessions and a kids’ corner with face painting, bubbles and chalk drawing. The day wrapped up with an all-ages dance party in the evening. The Day of Dance was the brainchild of local moms Vicky Wallace, Stacey Burke and Ashley Currie, with funding from a Donald’s Market ONE grant. For more photos of all the fun, see www. newwestrecord. ca. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW
Drug thefts prompt security overhaul
Royal Columbian is getting a multimillion-dollar security upgrade in response to missing narcotics Cornelia Naylor
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A health-care worker getting ready to administer a dose of morphine to a resident at New Westminster’s Queen’s Park Care Centre
in 2013 noticed the colour of the drug didn’t look quite right. A sample was sent off to the lab, and tests found the sample had been diluted. In all, health officials found about 500 millili-
tres of Doloral, an oral morphine liquid, had been siphoned off and replaced with water, but no individual could be tied to the theft. In 2014, 320 milligrams of Methadone and 41 onemilligram tablets of hydro-
morphone went missing from the long-term care facility with no explanation. At Royal Columbian Hospital, 19 five-milligram Oxycontin pills went missing in 2012 and 100 millilitres of morphine went missing last year without explanation. In all, 1,206 units of narcotics (a single unit may be
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a capsule, milligram, millilitre, patch, package, suppository or tablet) went missing at the two New Westminster health-care facilities between 2012 and the first half of last year, according to Health Canada information obtained under an access to information request. To stem the losses, the Fraser Health Authority is
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