Senior woodworking students at Clearwater secondary participated in a project to build keepsakes for parents who lose babies at birth

A short lifetime of memories are attached to a project undertaken by Clearwater woodwork students last spring for grieving parents at Royal Inland Hospital.

For the students who carefully handcrafted the beautiful memory boxes, it taught knowledge and skills and also compassion in the face of deep sorrow.

Clearwater and area residents are advised Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital Emergency Department will go on diversion for eight nights, starting at 6 p.m. tonight, due to limited staffing availability. The emergency department will be open during the day.

Wanda (in the blue shirt) and her family

Name: Wanda Handschuh (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Health Services for Community Living (HSCL) Nursing, Clinical Educator RN
Years of Service: 30
Worksite: Day-Break Adult Day Centre
Community: Vernon
Ancestral Territory: Syilx Okanagan / Okanagan Interior Salish
Advice to live by: “If you are going through hell, just keep going,” and “Normal is only a setting on a dryer.”

Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.  

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Jodi Cunningham, pharmacist and owner of Medicine Shoppe Vernon

It takes a team to combat one public health emergency – let alone two.

Pharmacist Justin Dovale and staff at Kelowna’s Two Nice Guys Pharmacy are part of that team.

Creston and area residents are advised the Creston Valley Hospital emergency department will be on diversion tonight, due to limited staff availability.

The emergency department is on diversion:

• 6 p.m. Friday, August 5 until 7 a.m. Saturday, August 6

Interior Health regrets this temporary change to normal operations and reminds residents to take note of the following if they require care while the emergency department is closed:

Celeste hiking at Idaho Peak in Sandon, B.C.

Name: Celeste Hein (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Patient Ambassador and Support Worker
Years of Service: 11
Worksite: Boundary District Hospital
Community: Grand Forks
Ancestral Territory: Syilx – Okanagan Interior Salish

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Clearwater and area residents are advised Dr. Helmcken Memorial Hospital Emergency Department will go on diversion for five nights, starting at 6 p.m. tonight, due to limited staffing availability. The emergency department will be open during the day.