KAMLOOPS OFF THE CURB MAY 2011
office and the SPCA, and hoped that
warms my heart! Realistically, the animal
thing to do. So, the next time I find
services might raise awareness around
until they received payment. Instead, as I
or another, I plan on taking a second to
sending them the resulting bill for
the costs of this lack of communication.
He has noticed there is a gap in services here in Kamloops and would like to see
this addressed. Dr. Nichols is proposing
hospital could have held onto the dog
write this, Keisha is home with her family
rather than being in a cage at the hospital, or worse yet, at the Humane Society.
I am happy to say that our agency
myself grumbling about some little thing remember this story and smiling. To you from the curb-side…
Dan
that local veterinary clinics each make a
was able to help financially with some of
PS: I have since had an update from the
situation in the future.
the staff at Riverside Small Animal Hospi-
may come up with some funding towards
donation to a fund to help people in this In this day and age to hear a profes-
sional, like a veterinarian, put the animal and the people before the dollars, just
the after costs, but the real heroes here are
tal and the nameless Good Samaritan. It’s nice to live in a community where people
try to step in simply because it is the right
veterinary clinic and it seems the SPCA
the bill. Otherwise, it looks like By-Law and the local veterinarians will have to take up the slack.
PAYING IT FORWARD – Some of the ASK Wellness staff ‘paid it forward’ on April 16th, 2011 when they visited the Hills of Peace Lutheran Church to help with their spring cleaning. Hills of Peace Church makes lunch every Tuesday at ASK Wellness (north shore) for over twenty women! The accompanying pup will forever remain nameless (or for that matter, ownerless), but a little fertilizer (or entertainment) never hurt ... right?
Hi5 Run Club Blair Jones Hi5 Coach / Pro Racer G blair@askwellness.ca Warm Up … Cool Down
10
ing or before and after you put your body
Benefits
Why do we warm up and cool down
through physical exertion over an ex-
of warming up in-
ing or physical activity? Warming up and
ready for intense work, while minimizing
to increased blood flow through active
but are essential for any athlete in train-
potential to improve and perform.
before we participate in any sort of train-
tended period of time. It gets your body
cooling down are all too often overlooked
the risk of injury and maximizing your
clude increasing your heart rate that leads tissues, which increases metabolism, better use of oxygen, reduces muscle stiff-