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DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY
Campaign hits fundraising target sooner than expected BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
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Grade 12 student, Katy Fowler, was willing to forgo a lunchtime sandwich in favour of working on a sketch in the lobby of J.L. Crowe Secondary.
Women in the region will soon have a clearer picture to aid in early detection and diagnosis of breast diseases. The Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) Health Foundation has reached its goal of raising funds to replace its 11-year-old film mammography machine with a digital mammography with stereotactic capabilities. Since May 2011, the health foundation has received widespread support for its campaign, and had hoped to reach its $950,000 goal by May of this year. However, the campaign reached the finish line two months earlier. “As often happens with technology, the price has gone down” said Lisa Pasin, director of development at the KBRH hospital foundation. “The new technology will now cost $790,000 which is why we can wrap up the campaign early.” Last week, the foundation received a $20,000 contribution from the Royal Bank of Canada foundation and $5,000 from the Kootenay Robusters, which pushed the campaign to its goal sooner than projected
explained Pasin. A mammography exam is used to aid in the early detection and diagnosis of breast diseases in women, a process that is expedited with digital equipment. Securing the state-of-the-art machine will benefit patients in local communities because this advancement in diagnostic imagining means fewer invasive procedures to confirm diagnosis of breast cancer and less travel outside the area for patients and their families to confirm a diagnosis of breast cancer, said Pasin. She explained that positive outcomes can also be expected post procedure, and include: a faster recovery, with less post surgical complications; better cosmetic results with no stitches and less scarring. As the biopsy will be done in the mammography room, and not the operating room (OR), reduced wait lists for breast biopsies and other surgical procedures is another bonus of the new digital imaging techniques. “OR wait lists at KBRH should be reduced as surgical time will no longer be spent on diagnostic breast biopsies,” she added. See FOUNDATION, Page 3
B.C. SENIOR CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Husband and wife lead respective teams to nationals BY GUY BERTRAND Times Staff
It was hard for one not to watch the other but in the end both Craig and Karin Lepine kept their eyes focused on the task at hand. Saturday afternoon at the Trail Curling Club, Mr. and Mrs. Lepine from Langley took home his and hers gold medals from the B.C. senior curling
championship. Karin Lepine kept the Brenda Ridgway rink from Nanaimo in check to score a 9-5 win in the senior women’s final. Meanwhile, on the adjacent sheet, Craig Lepine broke up a tight defensive battle with three in the ninth en route to a 5-2 win over the Tom Shypitka rink from Cranbrook, which included Trail’s Don Freschi and
Fruitvale’s Bill King. Now the championship couple will represent B.C. at the Canadian Senior Curling Championships in Summerside P.E.I. from March 16 to 24. Once the medals were handed out, the winning couple admitted it was tough not glancing over at their partner’s match. “I looked over in the ninth and he got three so I must have
been lucky,” said Karin Lepine. “But I was really focused on my game because I knew the Ridgway rink would be tough.” Craig Lepine said he often catches glimpse of the action on other sheets but admitted he took a little extra glance at his wife’s match. There really wasn’t much to watch on either side as both See LEPINES, Page 13
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Langley’s Karin and Craig Lepine led their teams to B.C. titles Saturday at the Trail Curling Club.
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