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Author Tom Peek will lecture at the Courtenay Museum about a murder mystery he set in Hawaii. page B1
Courtenay’s Brad Gunter led Thompson Rivers University in Canada West men’s volleyball in Kamloops. page B11
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Health funds about to fall?
from the floor. Silnicki points out the Record Staff 10-year Canada Health More than 100 people Accord is due to expire at turned out for a Courte- the end of March, and the nay town hall meeting last federal government has Thursday about the future not taken steps to renew of federal health-care fund- it. Instead, provinces and ing and the need for a 2014 territories were informed in 2011 of changes to the health accord. Co-hosted by the Hos- Canada Health Transfer pital Employees’ Union, that are expected to mean $36 billion the Canaless in feddian Union Right here in this eral money of Public coming to Employees region, in the North them over and the Island, it will be $137 the next 10 Council of Canadians, million that will be lost, years. Accordthe meet- that the provincial goving to Siling was ernment and the local nicki, the part of a numbers t w o - w e e k government’s going to c r u n c h a w a r e - have to somehow find down to $5 ness cam- in ‘efficiencies.’ billion less paign on Adrienne Silnicki for B.C. the North and $137 Island. “We’re doing workshops million less for Vancouver with people who are inter- Island North, over the next ested in the issue already,” decade. “Right here in this says Council of Canadians health care campaigner region, in the North Island, Adrienne Silnicki. “Then it will be $137 million that we’re doing town halls to will be lost, that the probring the public in, and vincial government and the then we’re going door to local government’s going to door and having conver- have to somehow find in sations with people about ‘efficiencies,’ which is going to mean it’s going to absowhat’s happening.” Speakers at Thursday’s lutely affect patient care,” town hall meeting included she says. Meanwhile, she points to Silnicki, HEU provincial executive member Barb the importance of having a Biley and HEU president health accord in terms of Victor Elkins. After presen- national health-care stantations from the panel, Sil- dards and ensuring those nicki says there were plenty standards are met. of questions and comments ... see ACCORD ■ A2 Renee Andor
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EYE FOR PIE VJ (right) and pal Lukasz check out the contenders in the pie contest Saturday afternoon as part of the Foggy Mountain Fall Fair in Cumberland. PHOTO BY ERIN HALUSCHAK
Molly back home to recuperate Hit-and-run victim came home Tuesday from Victoria hospital Erin Haluschak Record Staff
Following weeks of surgery and recovery, Molly Burton left a Victoria-area hospital and arrived back
home Tuesday to begin months of healing at her home in the Comox Valley. The 24-year-old suffered critical injuries last month to her lower right leg and right arm when she was struck by a vehicle on Comox Road as she walked home. She laid in nearby brush for several hours before being found. Burton’s mother Leslie Wells said Molly will be
able to continue healing at home for a couple of months before starting the next round of surgeries. She added Molly will need some equipment to manage at home, with equipment that was installed throughout the past weekend. Following a series of bone, skin and muscle grafts to her right leg and arm, Burton admits she “can’t really wrap my head”
around what lies ahead. “It hurts a lot. The weight of the cast is incredibly heavy, and everything really depends on if the muscles graft and everything takes … I have to relearn how to bend my arm. I’m only allowed to bend my arm a couple of centimetres in each direction. “I haven’t seen my leg ... see FAMILY ■ A2
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