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Police officer saves a life Cayley Dobie
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An off-duty New Westminster police officer is being credited with saving the life of a young man at a Coquitlam hockey game recently. Const. Curtis Heath had arrived at the rink early to watch his son play hockey when he noticed a crowd of people gathered in the middle of the ice. As he rounded the boards, he realized someone was performing CPR on a hockey player – the player had suffer cardiac arrest and collapsed on the ice, according to a press release from the New Westminster Police Department. Heath rushed on to the ice to help. He took over the CPR duties and, with the help of a Justice Institute of B.C. grad, the two were able to stabilize the player long enough for someone to find an automated external defibrillator (AED), according to the release. “My training and instincts kind of kicked in, and I did everything I could to save this man,” Heath said. “I chose this line of work to help people, and it’s a 24-7 job. It’s nice that I was able to be there for a fellow hockey player.” The player, a 27-year-old man, was taken to hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, police say.
REMEMBERING: The New Westminster and District Labour Council held its annual Day of Mourning ceremony at Westminster Pier Park Saturday, commemorating workers who have been injured or died on the job. Since 2016, the labour council has held the ceremony at the site, which is a stone’s throw away from the spot where four workers lost their lives in a workplace accident on Jan. 10, 2003. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
New pool not adequate, club says Theresa McManus
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The Hyack Swim Club is floating the idea of adding more lanes to the city’s new pool – and is prepared to sink some cash into the project. For the past two years, the City of New Westminster has been consulting and planning for the replacement of the Canada Games
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Pool and Centennial Community Centre. It’s proposed that the future aquatic facility include a 50-metre, eight-lane pool tank, but the swim club is concerned that size will preclude the city from hosting regional, provincial or national competitions as those require 10 lanes. “We have in the past been able to host the provincial championships, as well as the western champion-
ships.We will not ever get a chance to bid on those meets with the current design.The city acknowledges this.Their point is the budget is what it is and this is what they are going forward with,” said Mark Bottrill, the club’s director of swimming. “I would think that inside a $100-million facility we could find the space to put in a 10-lane pool, which is the modern requirement
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for any meet pool.” Bottrill said the club pays the city more than $100,000 a year for pool time and is prepared to pay an additional $100,000 annually in pool rental costs to help fund a ninth lane – with the hope the city will then pay for tenth lane.The Hyack Swim Club is a non-profit that leases pool space from the city. Continued on page 7
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