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vour on its 29th mission to the space station. On that flight, Payette served as the flight engineer, the most senior position a non-American can obtain on a space shuttle. She was one of two Canadians and the only woman aboard. “After a while, characteristics like nationality, mother tongue or gender become very secondary,” Payette said in an interview from Washington D.C. “Other people expect you to do your job. If you do it well and with competence and you’re reliable, those little differences are secondary.”
Greater Victoria seniors needing roundthe-clock care will have a modern 260-bed facility in two years as construction gets underway this week in Saanich. The seven-storey residential care building is the next addition to the Mount View Heights campus of care on Carey Road, and will replace two seniors facilities in the city. The Heights at Mount View includes 220 residential care units and 40 dementia units, funded through a $60.5-million partnership with Capital Regional Hospital District, the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Baptist Housing. Each unit is designed as a private room with an ensuite washroom and shower, and each floor has a central living area. Howard Johnson, CEO of Baptist Housing said this is a distinct move away from dormlike facilities built 30 years ago that had residents sharing rooms, or using common washrooms. “This is the state of the art, the latest in how we meet the needs of seniors in a home-like environment,” Johnson said. “It’s a setting that moves away from an institutional approach to care. It’s a home-like environment that creates a better delivery of care.” Under the three-way agreement, Baptist Housing will operate and own the public care facility, and has arranged $38 million in financing, the bulk of the capital construction costs.
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Canadian astronaut Julie Payette floats in the space shuttle Endeavour during a mission to the International Space Station in July 2009. Payette is speaking about her experiences in space at the University of Victoria Monday night.
Lessons from Earth orbit Astronaut Julie Payette reflects on her work in space at UVic Monday Natalie North News staff
Julie Payette doesn’t expect future generations to remember individual astronauts who assembled the International Space Station. But the 48-year-old Canadian astronaut, who logged 611 hours in space contributing to the mission, believes the engineering feat will go down in the history books. “It’s extremely humbling at times and
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it’s an extraordinary opportunity to contribute very slightly to a fantastic endeavour,” said Payette, the Canadian Space Agency’s former chief astronaut. “(It’s) one of the most important things that human beings have done ... to construct in one of the harshest environments possible, outer space, for the sole purpose of advancing knowledge in a completely peaceful manner.” Payette, an electrical engineer and native of Montreal, was the first Canadian to board the International Space Station in 1999 during NASA’s second flight to the station on the spacecraft Discovery. After seven years as the CSA’s top astronaut and a decade after her first flight, Payette boarded the space shuttle Endea-
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