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December 18, 2013
One son’s time to give back
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Honoured Lake Country firemen Steve Windsor and Jim Thompson receive long service and exemplary service medals. ...............................
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Capital News paper delivery man Steve Kania was hit by a Lake Country driver trying to evade police early this month. Kania was left critically injured, requiring surgery and care at Vancouver General and needs to have family there to assist with his recovery. A trust fund has been established to help the family; donations accepted at the Capital News. ...............................
When hypnotic researcher Nathan Ouwehand was seven years old, he remembers standing in line in Vancouver and getting help from others. He didn’t realize the exact situation, but Ouwehand was there with his younger brother and his recently divorced mother. It wasn’t an easy time for the family and they were getting help from the local food bank. It left a big impression on the man that this week is in Lake Country visiting his mom and his step-Dad Hugh who sadly, was diagnosed less than a year ago with an inoperable brain tumour. He will host a charity toy drive this weekend at the Creekside Theatre. “I didn’t quite grasp what was going on,” said
Nathan this week. “I remember there was a massive line and we had to do some volunteer work and that’s what we did. It wasn’t until years later that I really realized what we were doing there.” That was before Nathan’s mom met Hugh, the man the Toronto-area native considers his father and the man that raised him. As Nathan continued to grow up in Ontario, he also found a knack for hypnosis, starting when he was just messing around with friends when he was 13. “It’s always been with me in some way or another, as I was growing up,” he said. As an adult, Ouwehand began a career in the film industry, working as a special effects make-up artist and
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HYPNOTIC researcher Nathan Ouwehand, his father Hugh Ouwehand, and mother Bonnie. Nathan is hosting a show/toy drive Friday at the Creekside Theatre for his father Hugh, who has an inoperable brain tumour.
an art director. But when Toronto’s film industry went in the tank nearly a decade ago, Ouwehand went back to what he knew best and began to train in the area’s of the mind and hypnosis.
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people deal with psychological issues.” After retiring, Nathan’s parents settled in Lake County and have been there for about SEE HYPNOTIC A3
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suffer from from post traumatic stress disorder. “What I do is I separate the conscious mind from the sub-conscious mind,” he said. “I’m a life coach but I’m not a normal life coach. I help
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He calls himself a hypnotic researcher and rarely performs stage shows. Instead he works with individuals on a variety of health issues with his main work coming with soldiers who
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LAKE COUNTRY RCMP Const. Jesse O’Donaghey, along with a young friend, at
the RCMP’s Cram the Cruiser. O’Donaghey looks forward to seeing the food bank fundraiser grow in the future.
The RCMP member responsible for bringing the Mounties’ Cram the Cruiser fundraiser to Lake Country says the event has exceeding expectations and will continue to grow in the coming years. Const. Jesse O’Donaghey, says the Lake Country Fire Department will likely be more involved in the event as it moves for-
ward after having a successful second year of raising food and cash for the Lake Country Food Bank. Members of the RCMP were joined by volunteer firemen from Lake Country earlier this month, gathering food bank donations in the second annual Cram the Cruiser fundraiser. It was a new wrinkle to the event, which O’Donaghey started after being transferred to
the Lake Country detachment. The 29-yearold Penticton native says it makes sense for police and fire crews to work together when it comes to fundraising, much like they do in emergency situations. “We have a good partnership with the fire department,” said O’Donaghey. “We go to a lot of the same calls. We talk a lot and brain-
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