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JUNE 12, 2019
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Rural Health High School Skills Day Alexis Salsbury
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Rural High School Medical Skills Day. It was a great experience for a number of reasons. To start with, I was part of the planning process that took place for this day to come together. Covenant health, RhPAP, and Vegreville Region Physician and Health Professional Attraction and Retention Committee worked with St. Joseph’s General Hospital to put on this event for us students. I happen to be a grade 11 student at St. Mary’s and when the idea was brought up to have this event, I was quite excited. My goal is to become a general practitioner so this day was right up my alley. When we got to the hospital, both St. Mary’s and Vegreville Composite were mixed into groups. We started the day talking about the importance of coming back to work in a rural community. We were shown the proper way how to wash our hands with a quick experiment using black lights, and
then we went to our stations. The stations included: mechanical lifts, X-ray, ultrasound, lab tech, dialysis, respiratory, spinal rehabilitation, suchering, IV starts, and injections. My personal favorite was suchering. That particular station was very engaging and I never thought I would have the opportunity to do this at my age. With much trial and error, I was able to successfully complete some stitches. To end the day, the instructors of each station did a mock emergency situation. It was interesting to see all the people and departments involved in a situation. They sent us home with gift bags and opportunities for volunteering and job shadowing. The goal of the event was to not only get students interested in the health field, but to show the importance of coming back into a rural community like Vegreville. This day definitely proved the importance of this. I really enjoyed the day and hope to see it again in the future.
RCL Branch No. 39 Presents Service Pins to Members Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent
People who belong to Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 39 dedicate part of their lives to ensuring veterans receive the honor and respect they deserve. For this reason and more, many members of RCL No. 39 were honored with awards and Legion Service pins for five or more years of service. RCL Branch No. 39 Honors and Awards Representative, Rod Stewart said the legion is an organization which is run by volunteers. They wanted to recognize members who have given their service to them. The pin they were awarded can be worn on civilian attire. Many pins were awarded. Some of the life members who
Branch President, Terry Kuzyk presents Earl Giffin with a 60 bar-long service Legion Medal (lapel pin). (Rosanne Fortier/photo)
gave many years of service and who were present to receive the pins were life members and associate members- Fred Duckett with 17 years of service, Ellen Essery who had 44 years of service, Earl Giffin who was presented with the 60 years bar-long service medal (lapel pin), Myron Hayduk received a pin for 26 years, Don Serediak earned a pin for 28 years of service, Chuck St. Claire was presented a pin for 45 years of service, Rod Stewart received a 35 years pin, Betty Jean Dawson for 20 years of service, Rhonda Hayduk for 27 years, Bessie Pawliuk for 13 years, Heather Paziuk for 40 years, Ria Radcliffe for 23 years, Susan Essery for 20 years, and George Horn for 40 years. As well, Stewart acknowledged Life member, Joyce Stewart who dedicated 45 years of service and couldn’t be at the presentation through no fault of her own and was awarded a 45 Years Service Pin.
