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Beaver Valley Youth Council takes shape BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
Youth of the Beaver Valley are now officially politically engaged. With the creation of the inaugural youth council for 2012-2013, young people up to the age of 19 now have a voice through the newly created Beaver Valley Youth Council. The seven-person councilâincluding two mayorsâwas created on June 11 in Montrose municipal council chambers, said Jill Prince, the Village of Fruitvale councillor charged with overseeing the council. With lots of resources, energy, connections and plenty of communication being amassed, the seeds of a flourishing council are sprouting, said Prince. âWe have all of the things to make this thing successful,â she said. Thirteen year-old Casey OâHara from Fruitvale was elected as the junior youth mayor for the 12-15 year age group, and 17-year-old Anna Cook from Montrose was acclaimed as senior youth mayor for the 16-19 group.
See COUNCIL, Page 3
ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALM SALMO
Program helps promote rural hospitals the number of rural students seeking medical careers. Nick Leinweber considers And for the Kimberley himself the luckiest medical native, staying in the student in Canada. Kootenay region and conFor the last 10 months tinuing with the lifestyle he the third-year student from grew up with and loved, is a the University of British likelihood. Columbiaâs distributed MD âIâm from the area and I undergraduate program totally intend to come back. has had the sole attention If I could stay here and I of the âfacultyâ of Kootenay didnât have to go back to the Boundary Regional Hospital city, I totally would, but I (KBRH). have to finish training,â he Unlike his UBC academic said. cohorts who have to compete The ICC partnership for doctorâs time and atten- between UBCâs southern tion with numerous other medical program and the students at Lower Mainland Interior Health Authority hospitals, Leinweber was allows budding medical stuthe only medical student in dents to obtain clinical trainthe first year of ing and practice the program at âThe big piece medicine in a KBRH. smaller, rural of this is you As a result, community. get people he was able to The program get some pracfunctions as a to come and tical practise on conduit to give experience procedures and students a chance everything the to complete their into scenarios he would not have training in rural hospital and come close to in the area has to and underserved any other medical communitiesâ offer.â learning atmoslike Trail, Nelson phere. or Castlegarâ CLARE DEWITT âI think there where they are is a bigger dismore likely to crepancy between a bigger return to practice after their centre and here as far as studies. hands on are concerned,â he By 2013, itâs anticipatsaid Wednesday, on one of ed that 32 students will be his last days in the Integrated entering their third year of Community Clerkship (ICC) the MD undergraduate proprogram in Trail. gram with an anticipated âAs far as what I can four to six students pargather from the procedural, ticipating in a clerkship in hands on approach, you get a Vernon or Trail. lot more of that here because âThe big piece of this is you are essentially the only you get people to come and student. Whenever there is a experience everything the procedure to do, the doctors hospital and the area has to are always game to include offer,â said Clare DeWitt, the you.â ICC program assistant for the Leinweber was one of two UBC southern medical prothird-year medical students gram. selected to take part in the âThen there is better likesouthern medical programâs lihood they will call Trail, year-long ICC in Trail. Nelson or the Kootenay Based in Kelowna, the Boundary home once they new southern medical pro- are done all of their studies.â gram is the fourth UBC MD Home is where the heart undergraduate program, is and for Alexander Ednie which aims to improve upon and Katie Eddyâthe next
BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
TIMOTHY SCHAFER PHOTO
A two-person TV crew was in Trail at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital last Wednesday to film a promotional video for the UBC Southern medical program to encourage future medical students to come to the Trail for the Integrated Community Clerkship. The UBCO.TV crew of Jeff Myers (camera) and Rosemary Thompson (right), filmed (from left) Alexander Ednie, Katie Eddy, Dr. Henry Ukpeh and Nick Leinweber in the maternity ward, giving a newborn baby an examination. two students in the programâthey have already fallen in love with the West Kootenay. The two are completing a four-week rural family clerkship at KBRH but they spent the last year in Kaslo, working odd jobs and volunteering in the community. Prior to that they had
crossed Canada in search of interesting places to live, and fell in love with Kaslo on one sunny Sunday morning. âYou feel like you are part of something bigger (here),â said Ednie. âIn Vancouver you are walking around and you are just a number. We found there was a little more to life in the Kootenays.â
They found that answer outside. As avid hikers, bikers, skiers and runners, the easily accessible outdoors appealed immeasurably to the couple, and it will be one of the alluring aspects of life in Trail as well when they return for their third year at KBRH in fall.
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