Kelowna Capital News, July 02, 2013

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KELOWNA ROCKETS blueliner Madison Bowey joined three teammates in being selected in the NHL entry draft Sunday.

ST. MARY’S Church in East Kelowna will hold a 75th anniversary service and luncheon on Sunday to mark a heritage milestone.

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New ag minister eager to learn issues Judie Steeves

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Despite the austerity talk in Victoria, new agriculture minister Pat Pimm says there wasn’t a reduction in the budget for his new ministry from that presented in February, when the new budget came down last week. That means both the Buy Local program and the School Fruit and Vegetable program are still there, but that there’s no new money for an orchard replant program. However, he maintains that the orchard industry is important and he intends to pursue items the former minister was working on. The last minister, Kelowna-Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick, had committed to do what he could to come up with a longer-term replant program. “We will do our best to work some certainty into it. A long-term strategy is needed,” Pimm said. He admits it’s a very diverse ministry and says he’s spent the first couple of weeks getting up to speed on some of the issues. See Issues A4

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KEEPING TO THE BEAT…Xavier Davis keeps time with the drumming demonstration activity station, one of many fun events for kids, at the annual Canada Day celebration held Monday at Waterfront Park in Kelowna.

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Fipke donates $1 million for new trauma room Alistair Waters ASSISTANT EDITOR

When it comes to a state-ofthe-art, life-saving trauma room, Kelonwa General Hospital now stands apart in Canada. Thanks to a $1 million donation from famed local geologist Charles “Chuck” Fipke, KGH has a new trauma room that hospital officials say is the best

equipped in the country. “When Charles made the donation he has just one request, ‘make it the best,’” said KGH chief of staff Dr. Mike Ertel. The room, with the latest in medical technology, including a portable digital x-ray machine that can deliver full x-rays in mere moments, its own dedicated ultrasound machine, full video capabilities to show at-

tending medical students what is being done as well as help the doctors navigate inside the human body, a machine to treat hypothermic patients and a host of other high-tech equipment, will be used to treat what Dr. Paul Linden, trauma services director at KGH, called “the sickest of the sick.” The trauma department treats, on average, about five

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seriously ill patients every day. The new trauma room at KGH—the third, the largest and the best equipped at the hospital—was shown off to invited guests, including Fipke late last week and what he saw impressed him. “I think it’s great, said a smiling Fipke following the tour. The geologist is known for his discovery of a Ekati dia1

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mond mine in the Northwest Territories in the late 1990s. Fipke said he wanted to help the hospital not only because he recognizes the need for the best level of health care here, but also because KGH is a teaching hospital and he feels medical students will benefit from having

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