Prince Rupert Grain receives its award, the RCMP seek a suspect in an east side assault and Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District goes on the defensive over its comments policy.
Daily News front page headline story
PRINCE RUPERT'S YOUNGEST TEACHER -- Kids are always good for circulation numbers and Friday's Daily News mines that vein of gold with a story on a project at Pineridge School called Roots of Empathy which tracks the various facets if life for a baby.
Prince Rupert Grain receives its award, as the Canadian Wheat Board acknowledged the local grain elevators success as Grain Handler of the year.
And Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District defends its controversial policy limiting questions from the public during the course of their meetings.
The Sports section features a look at the mid season tournament of the Kaien Island Slowptich League.
(Daily News Archives for Friday June 25, 2010)
Prince Rupert's Youngest teacher
PRG presented with award
NDP backing Liberals on tankers
Twenty-four MLAs on the HST hit list
Kristoff defends SQCRD decision
The Northern View
Prince Rupert RCMP release sketch of man involved in assault of 17-year old girl -- Prince Rupert RCMP release details of an early morning assault of a girl on the city's east side, included in the story is a sketch of a possible suspect in the attack (see story here)
CFTK TV 7 News
Open Fire Restrictions Imposed in Northwest --Areas east of the North coast Forest District have new fire restrictions in place as of this weekend (see article here)
CFTK TV 7 News
Prince Rupert Teenager shaken up but not harmed -- Some background on an assault on the city's east side early Wednesday morning. (see article here) Sahar Nassimdoost also filed this report for CFTK (see report here)
CBC News Northern BC, Daybreak North
Daybreak North is only posting selected items on their website now.
The most recently posted items can be found on the archive page for Daybreak North click here
Daily News, front page, headline story
Prince Rupert's youngest teacher
By Monica Lamb-Yorski
Staff Writer
Prince Rupert Daily News
Friday June 25, 2010
He’s cuddly, cute and changing by the moment.
Not usually the words to describe a teacher, but in this case it’s true. For the last ten months Baby Nicholas Cresswell has been a teacher to children in a kindergarten class at Pineridge Elementary School. He’s been leading them through a program called Roots of Empathy.
Nicholas has visited once a month and around each visit the students have learned about safety, sleep patterns, growth and more.
“Three times a month I come into the classroom and work with the students,” said Pineridge principal Kathy Dann, who is one of two facilitators trained to assist with the program in School District #52.
“We prepare for the baby’s visit, he visits us, and then we follow up. His mom is prepared ahead of time, too, so she can answer the children’s questions,” explained Dann.
The program focuses on brain connections between babies and children. It was developed by educator Mary Gordon of Toronto in 1996 to help reduce levels of aggression among schoolchildren by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.
It is geared for children from kindergarten to Grade 8, but in the last few years there has only been the funding to deliver the program to kindergarten children in Prince Rupert.
Pineridge had two babies come into classrooms last year and Dann said she can’t wait to bring another one into the classroom next year.
“It’s a fabulous program. The babies don’t necessarily have to be from the school community, but we’ve found that the children see the baby more often when they are.
“They see the baby when he comes to the school with his mom to the Strongstart Program or to pick up her son. They see him a lot and make wonderful connections,” said Dann.
Crystal and her husband Rob have enjoyed being part of the program. Rob always took his lunch hour early so that he could attend the sessions.
“Nicholas is our third and final child and being part of the program gave us time to recognize his growth and changes, which we might not have done because he is our third. It’s been nice,” Crystal said.
On Thursday the students, representatives from the school district, teachers and staff attended the program’s final session at Pineridge.
Several of the students carefully helped Dann lay out a bright green fleece blanket to cover the floor.
Lucas, who was sitting against the wall, realized for the first time that one of the boys in his class was Nicholas’s big brother.
“Nice”, Lucas told Christopher.
Going around the room, Dann asked the students what they’d enjoyed the most about the program. The majority of the students said they liked watching Nicholas develop.
It took a few visits for Nicholas to notice.
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Podunk Below the Masthead (Friday, April 16, 2010)
Getting ready to ride for modern hospital equipment, remembering Emmalee Rose and a review of the Northern Transmission Line is underway, some of the items of interest from the Friday news cycle.
Daily News, front page headline story
PAYING IT FORWARD - LOCAL NURSE RAISING FUNDS FOR HOSPTIAL-- A preview of the journey ahead for a Prince Rupert Regional Hospital emergency nurse, who in May is about to set out on a long distance bicycle trek to raise funds to help purchase some high definition equipment, which would replace the current items some of which date back twenty years or more.
Details of the fee increases planned by the City as part of their budget deliberations of the last week, which will contribute towards helping keep the current planned tax increase of 3.5 per cent intact, as opposed to a possible increase of as much as 5.4 per cent.
Friday's paper features a lengthy profile of Emmalee Rose McLean, the Nisga'a teenager's body was discovered in the waters of Cow Bay last weekend, a discovery which the RCMP is still investigating as a suspicious death. George T. Baker profiles her short life and poses some tough questions for local residents as they try to come to grips with the tragedy.
The Sports section features a look at the high school golf season ahead with some background on both the PRSS and CHSS golf teams.
(Daily News Archives for April 16, 2010 )
Paying it forward - local nurse raising funds for hospital
Fee increases part of City’s budget
Remembering Emmalee...
School District assessing numbers of teacher required
The Northern View
Drowning ruled the preliminary cause of death in case involving 16-year old girl -- A few details are released from autopsy of Emmalee Rose Mclean, the 16 year old Nisga'a youth discovered in the waters of Cow Bay last week, the preliminary findings indicate that the cause of death was drowning (see article here)
CFTK TV 7 News
Transmission Line Review Begins -- The formal environmental assessment of the Northwest Transmission Line project is underway as the B-C Environmental Assessment Office will conduct a 180-day review of the project (see article here)
CBC News British Columbia, Daybreak North
Basketball UNBC -- Daybreak looks at the upcoming changes to the UNBC basketball program for the fall of 2010 (listen to interview here)
Daily News, front page, headline story
Paying it forward - local nurse raising funds for hospital
By Monica Lamb-Yorski
The Daily News
Friday, April 16, 2010
A Prince Rupert nurse has decided she wants to do something to give to the community.
During the month of May, Nurse Rae, an emergency nurse at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital, will be cycling from Red Deer, Alberta to Prince Rupert.
Three years ago she had a total knee replacement performed at the Prince Rupert hospital.
“I can nurse again. My life is so good, because this is what I feel I should be doing, so I’m paying it forward,” Nurse Rae explained.
She’s using the trek as a way to gather pledges to help her assist the hospital in purchasing some new high-definition equipment. And she admitted, she’s not a natural fundraiser. “This is so beyond my comfort zone.”
“Why should the doctors in this hospital be using equipment that’s twenty years old?,” Nurse Rae asked in an interview with the Daily News.
“[High-definition equipment is] the monitors that the surgeons use for doing Endoscopy surgeries - this is where instead of making large incisions they poke small holes and insert a camera and the equipment that they are going to use. They do things like gallbladder removals, cancer surgeries and bowel surgeries. These are also the things they use for looking at joints and the equipment they are using is quite old.”
It doesn’t mean the old equipment isn’t safe, she added, but it is more difficult to work with than something that is better, like high definition equipment.
A poster for her ride contains a quote from local general surgeon, Dr. Phillip Nel.
“Almost every home in Prince Rupert has HDTV. Why should our surgeons be using 20-year old monitors and equipment when providing their best care?”
“In order to buy this new product for the doctors, each one is ninety thousand dollars each - and we want three. The North Coast Health Improvement Society has been fundraising for this for some time. I’m just one more in a long line of fundraisers,” Nurse Rae explained.
Showing off the old monitors, she described them as “ancient”.
“It may pay for itself through the fact that less people will have to go down south for surgeries because the surgeons will have better visualization in their field.” Rae suggested.
After the surgery on her knee, she believed her career as a nurse was over, so she enrolled to take a massage therapy course at a college in Red Deer.
She’s now completed the course and had originally planned to ride her bike home after graduation.
Her plan was just a casual ride, she said, until one of the doctors suggested she should fundraise. With encouragement from the hospital’s administrator, Murray Webster, and the director of nursing, Jane Wilde, she decided she’d make her ride into a cause.
“Every single penny I raise will go toward the equipment, none of it will go to the ride or the advertising. Every cent will go directly where it should go.”
Nurse Rae will leave Prince Rupert on April 28 to fly to Red Deer and will begin the ride home from Red Deer on May 3.
Her anticipated arrival home is May 28.
“I hope to have a really big party here at the hospital,” she commented.
In anticipation of her journey, Robin Knox, one of the lab technicians at the hospital, created a wall poster that will help the staff plot Nurse Rae’s journey.
“Each time someone donates they can write their name on a card. You will be riding with me, believe it or not. You can see I go through Rocky Mountain House and Saskatchewan River Crossing. Then I go up a little hill called the Sunwapta Pass and Jasper and then I have a little bit of a long ride in between McBride and Prince George - about 238 kilometres.”
She will be stopping at hospitals along the way to say “hi” to those who ship patients to the local hospital. “And then I’ll be coming home to Prince Rupert.”
Donations for the cause will be accepted at the hospital’s main desk and at Northern Savings Credit Union.
Daily News, front page headline story
PAYING IT FORWARD - LOCAL NURSE RAISING FUNDS FOR HOSPTIAL-- A preview of the journey ahead for a Prince Rupert Regional Hospital emergency nurse, who in May is about to set out on a long distance bicycle trek to raise funds to help purchase some high definition equipment, which would replace the current items some of which date back twenty years or more.
Details of the fee increases planned by the City as part of their budget deliberations of the last week, which will contribute towards helping keep the current planned tax increase of 3.5 per cent intact, as opposed to a possible increase of as much as 5.4 per cent.
Friday's paper features a lengthy profile of Emmalee Rose McLean, the Nisga'a teenager's body was discovered in the waters of Cow Bay last weekend, a discovery which the RCMP is still investigating as a suspicious death. George T. Baker profiles her short life and poses some tough questions for local residents as they try to come to grips with the tragedy.
The Sports section features a look at the high school golf season ahead with some background on both the PRSS and CHSS golf teams.
(Daily News Archives for April 16, 2010 )
Paying it forward - local nurse raising funds for hospital
Fee increases part of City’s budget
Remembering Emmalee...
School District assessing numbers of teacher required
The Northern View
Drowning ruled the preliminary cause of death in case involving 16-year old girl -- A few details are released from autopsy of Emmalee Rose Mclean, the 16 year old Nisga'a youth discovered in the waters of Cow Bay last week, the preliminary findings indicate that the cause of death was drowning (see article here)
CFTK TV 7 News
Transmission Line Review Begins -- The formal environmental assessment of the Northwest Transmission Line project is underway as the B-C Environmental Assessment Office will conduct a 180-day review of the project (see article here)
CBC News British Columbia, Daybreak North
Basketball UNBC -- Daybreak looks at the upcoming changes to the UNBC basketball program for the fall of 2010 (listen to interview here)
Daily News, front page, headline story
Paying it forward - local nurse raising funds for hospital
By Monica Lamb-Yorski
The Daily News
Friday, April 16, 2010
A Prince Rupert nurse has decided she wants to do something to give to the community.
During the month of May, Nurse Rae, an emergency nurse at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital, will be cycling from Red Deer, Alberta to Prince Rupert.
Three years ago she had a total knee replacement performed at the Prince Rupert hospital.
“I can nurse again. My life is so good, because this is what I feel I should be doing, so I’m paying it forward,” Nurse Rae explained.
She’s using the trek as a way to gather pledges to help her assist the hospital in purchasing some new high-definition equipment. And she admitted, she’s not a natural fundraiser. “This is so beyond my comfort zone.”
“Why should the doctors in this hospital be using equipment that’s twenty years old?,” Nurse Rae asked in an interview with the Daily News.
“[High-definition equipment is] the monitors that the surgeons use for doing Endoscopy surgeries - this is where instead of making large incisions they poke small holes and insert a camera and the equipment that they are going to use. They do things like gallbladder removals, cancer surgeries and bowel surgeries. These are also the things they use for looking at joints and the equipment they are using is quite old.”
It doesn’t mean the old equipment isn’t safe, she added, but it is more difficult to work with than something that is better, like high definition equipment.
A poster for her ride contains a quote from local general surgeon, Dr. Phillip Nel.
“Almost every home in Prince Rupert has HDTV. Why should our surgeons be using 20-year old monitors and equipment when providing their best care?”
“In order to buy this new product for the doctors, each one is ninety thousand dollars each - and we want three. The North Coast Health Improvement Society has been fundraising for this for some time. I’m just one more in a long line of fundraisers,” Nurse Rae explained.
Showing off the old monitors, she described them as “ancient”.
“It may pay for itself through the fact that less people will have to go down south for surgeries because the surgeons will have better visualization in their field.” Rae suggested.
After the surgery on her knee, she believed her career as a nurse was over, so she enrolled to take a massage therapy course at a college in Red Deer.
She’s now completed the course and had originally planned to ride her bike home after graduation.
Her plan was just a casual ride, she said, until one of the doctors suggested she should fundraise. With encouragement from the hospital’s administrator, Murray Webster, and the director of nursing, Jane Wilde, she decided she’d make her ride into a cause.
“Every single penny I raise will go toward the equipment, none of it will go to the ride or the advertising. Every cent will go directly where it should go.”
Nurse Rae will leave Prince Rupert on April 28 to fly to Red Deer and will begin the ride home from Red Deer on May 3.
Her anticipated arrival home is May 28.
“I hope to have a really big party here at the hospital,” she commented.
In anticipation of her journey, Robin Knox, one of the lab technicians at the hospital, created a wall poster that will help the staff plot Nurse Rae’s journey.
“Each time someone donates they can write their name on a card. You will be riding with me, believe it or not. You can see I go through Rocky Mountain House and Saskatchewan River Crossing. Then I go up a little hill called the Sunwapta Pass and Jasper and then I have a little bit of a long ride in between McBride and Prince George - about 238 kilometres.”
She will be stopping at hospitals along the way to say “hi” to those who ship patients to the local hospital. “And then I’ll be coming home to Prince Rupert.”
Donations for the cause will be accepted at the hospital’s main desk and at Northern Savings Credit Union.
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