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tight-knit search team really wanting to do the very best they can do and assist the family. (There’s) a sense of defeat that one, the search was suspended while we looked for further information, and two, that he wasn’t located (during the official search).” Berry noted the team will go through Erin Haluschak further reviews and meet with other agencies such as the RCMP to examine Record Staff decision points. He added they will also With more than 16 million square conduct a provincial-level review. metres of Cumberland searched, 97 “We will have an outside facilitator searchers and 137 community volun- come and take a look at the chronology teers, the president of the Comox Val- of the search, the decisions that were ley Ground Search and Rescue said made to try and look at best practices; he and his team will what worked really be reviewing and well, and what lesassessing their work The team will reflect, sons can be learned in the search for and applied in a and we will ensure in Jamie Sproule. future search,” he The 65-year-old future we apply everything said. Cumberland resi“We’re hoping this that we learned from dent was discovered, will become normal unconscious, at a this one to do better next practice. It’s certainly cairn, approximately time. a best practice that 500 metres above search teams should Paul Berry, CVGSAR president be involved in, and Comox Lake Road last Tuesday, within this team is very a half kilometre of his home. open to being reflective and looking at Sproule, who suffers from Parkin- what works and what doesn’t.” son’s and dementia, went for a walk During the formal search, the May 22 and did not return. team came within 50 metres of where “A search certainly doesn’t end when Sproule was located, Berry explained, the subject is located and we’re certain- and added the search was based on ly thrilled that it was a happy ending data from thousands of searches. for Jamie and the family, but we have For Sproule, trying to categorize long-term processes yet to undergo,” him, Berry noted their understanding explained Paul Berry. “All of the search was that his dementia was very mild areas were determined based upon the and early onset. He added Parkinson’s subject’s behaviour, what we learned too can be categorized in the dementia through our interview with family, category for searching. people who know him and what they “It defines the type of searching that might predict his behaviour to be.” we should do, coupled with the behavBerry noted last week a quick for- iour and what we’re told about him. mal review by the search managers “So all of that was done and those was done, along with a critical incident areas where he was ultimately found stress debrief for the team. was determined to be fairly low prob“There’s a lot of emotion involved ability,” he said. ... see SEARCH ■ 2 in small communities like this and a
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PHOTO BY RENEE ANDOR
Striking Comox Valley teachers walk a picket line Thursday at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary School. Rotating strikes continue this week around the province with Comox Valley teachers walking out of class Tuesday.
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