Competitive wage Students’ union staff well-paid for quality services. PAGE 22 Grooving tunes Toronto band plays three Nanaimo shows in one day. PAGE 29 T-men cut down Lacrosse squad beat by league’s top, bottom teams. PAGE 5
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NRGH repairs require further concrete fixing
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passion for getting involved and encouraging others to do so as well has earned a Nanaimo student a national award. Mingye Chen, 17, is one of Youth in Motion’s Top 20 Under 20 award winners this year. The award recognizes young Canadians who demonstrate a significant level of innovation, leadership and achievement and includes $5,000 toward her post-secondary education and a trip to Toronto to meet the other winners. “When I heard I received it, I was just freaking out,” she said. “The other 19 recipients just blow me out of the water. I have impostor syndrome. I’d like to think they’re recognizing not what I have done, but CHEN what I’ll do in the future.” Chen’s long history of community involvement started several years ago when she started helping out in the bookstore at Literacy Central Vancouver Island. In the summer of her Grades 9, 10 and 11 years, she volunteered at the Pacific Biological Station, helping to prep test tubes for sample collection amongst other things. “It was a great opportunity to work with top-notch scientists,” said Chen. When she was 15, Chen decided to move to Vancouver on her own to attend Britannia Secondary School’s International Baccalaureate program – a high-quality international education program – for her senior years. ◆ See ‘STUDENT’ /7
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Richard Hoang, 7, contemplates the workings of a water feature at Harewood Mining Community Water Park, Friday. The first days of hot weather brought families out looking for places to cool down.
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The repair job on a water line break in the basement of Nanaimo Regional General Hospital last month requires fixing. The break occurred June 23 under the concrete slab in the basement, affecting three offices, a mechanical room and the medical device reprocessing department, which cleans and sterilizes surgical instruments. Workers had to cut up the floor, as the pipe was plugged with gravel due to the rupture, and while new concrete was poured the next day, health officials discovered the floor is now uneven and will need to be redone, said Anya Nimmon, Vancouver Island Health Authority spokeswoman. “I don’t know the details as to why that happened,” she said. Unfor tunately, the floor affected is in the medical device reprocessing department, where it is essential the floor is seamless so that there are no opportunities for moisture to enter. This means redoing the entire floor, not just where the hole was made. “The department has to be completely clean – no cracks,” said Nimmon. The department has two areas: the decontamination room where surgical equipment is cleaned, which has the uneven floor, and the sterilization room. ◆ See ‘LEVEL’ /4
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