Photo by Billie Jean Gabriel

Chris Bose’s artistic fingerprints are all over Kamloops.  

Take a stroll and you will likely run into one of his murals. Maybe it’s the one at the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society … or the one behind Immigrant Services … or the one at the Interior Health building downtown. 

Summerland residents are advised the Summerland Health Centre Outpatient Laboratory, located at 12815 Atkinson Road, will be reopening this week.

Beginning Feb. 3, 2022, the laboratory will be open two-days per week, on Mondays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for walk-in service only. Laboratory service at the Health Centre is prioritized for vulnerable patients, people who are unable to travel, or for urgent collections at this time.

Walk-in service and appointments are also available at nearby locations in Penticton and Peachland.

In partnership with the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the Secwépemc Health Caucus, the Two Rivers Métis Society and the RIH Foundation, Interior Health is pleased to announce Indigenous artist Chris Bose as the lead artist to design the ‘cultural wall’ in the new Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower at Royal Inland Hospital.

After fifteen years in working in the travel industry, Maureen felt is was time for a career change. She returned to college in 2002 to take Health Information Management. 

She completed her student practicum at Vernon Jubilee Hospital and has been with IH for 17 years now. 

“During my practicum, I was offered a position in Health Information Management, so my husband and I packed our two cats and moved from New Westminster to Vernon.”  

Local pediatricians and Interior Health are encouraging families to set a goal this winter: get everyone in your household age five and over vaccinated before Family Day (Feb. 21). 

Our social media platforms are a great way to engage with our Interior Health community and share information. Check out these recent posts, and consider sharing them with your friends and family on your own social channels. 

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A few weeks ago I took my daughters for their first COVID vaccine. It was a day I'd been looking forward to since vaccines first became available, and my wife and I were relieved to be finally able to provide our girls with more protection from this virus.

As any family with young children can attest, raising kids during a pandemic is stressful. It was more stressful before the children’s vaccine was available and it will be even less stressful after they get their second shot.

Even helpers need help sometimes.

When I first arrived in Kelowna last year, the magnitude of the change in my work life and home life hit me pretty hard. Although it was a positive change for me, I realized in pretty short order, almost everything about this big new role in a new city was getting harder and harder.