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Security fright for breast cancer survivor
Local woman upset that U.S. airport security patted her down despite a double mastectomy Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff
A Cranbrook breast cancer survivor is crying foul after an experience at Spokane airport that has upset her deeply. Still undergoing chemotherapy, Lynn Haskin is recovering from her second battle with breast cancer, and she had a second mastectomy in November 2011. She is set to have breast reconstruction surgery next month Earlier in January, Lynn and her husband were travelling to Phoenix for a conference from Spokane, Washington. Lynn was braced to go through airport security, she says. “They have full body scanners. I had heard about these scanners and how if you have a ‘void’ you may have to be patted down. So I wore a shirt with no bra so they could see that I didn’t have anything there,” Lynn says. However, after Lynn went through the scanner, a female Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer approached and said Lynn would have to submit to a patdown. “I didn’t want to be patted down, that’s why I specifically didn’t wear a bra,” Lynn says. “I explained to her that I have had a mastectomy and there is nothing there.
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Former Banff Park Warden Doug Martin talks to Selkirk Outdoor Education students about his years in the Park.
The culture of the great outdoors Learning from those who have walked the walk C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
In a world in which we are tied to computers and are indoors for the majority of our time, reminding young people that there is a vast history in the great outdoors is valuable. Recently, a partnership between Sum-
mit Community Services Society and the Selkirk High School Outdoor Education class facilitated a “Mentoring Youth in the Outdoors” program, which allowed students to spend some time outdoors sharing stories with people who have lived their life in the mountains and valleys of the East Kootenay. “The goal of this Intergenerational mentoring program was to promote the transmission of “outdoor” cultural traditions and values from older to younger generations,” said Lori Joe of Summit Community
Services Society. “And what better way to learn traditions than from those folks with the lifelong experiences?” The traditions and history Joe speaks of come from the trappers, hunters, fishermen, guides, farmers and Park Wardens of the East Kootenay, who over the years have played a significant role in conservation and the shaping of this area. The mentoring program allowed youth to spend time with some of these people, to learn firsthand from them.
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