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END-OF-LIFE CARE
New beds here by fall Island Health CEO makes pledge after board meeting in Parksville JOHN HARDING editor@pqbnews.com
The president and CEO of Island Health says he expects Parksville Qualicum Beach will get up to six new palliative care beds by late fall. Dr. Brendan Carr made the announcement after Island Health’s board of directors met in front of about 100 people at the Parksville Community Centre on Thursday. Carr was not available for comment immediately after the meeting, but responded to a request for information from The NEWS via e-mail later that day. “As part of the development of Island Health’s overall end of life plan, we have developed a bed plan for beds in community and hospital settings,” wrote Carr. “The bed plan is based on ‘hospice clusters’ of four-six beds in various communities, including Oceanside. These beds will be located in established residential care settings and funded using existing resources.” The Island Health board of directors got the business portion of its meeting on Thursday — including a presentation by Oceanside Hospice Society’s Lynn Wood — done in about 45 minutes. See NURSES, page A4
Schools close Thursday AUREN RUVINSKY
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B.C. will experience a second week of rotating teacher’s strikes, with School District 69 schools closed Thursday, June 5. As teachers continue the partial strike and the province continues a partial lockout in response, they continue to bargain, but some students are starting to worry about the impact. “I feel teachers are fighting for wages more than our rights,” said Grade 10 Kwalikum Secondary student Robert Filmer. He said he felt 70 per cent of students are up on the issues and are roughly 50/50 split supporting one side or the other. Though speaking for himself, he said he feels he represents a good sample of his friends and the opinion he hears in the halls. See TEACHERS ‘GREEDY AND SELFISH’, page A9
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GRAD PARADE: The graduating class of Kwalikum Secondary School dressed to the nines and took to the red carpet after parading around downtown Qualicum Beach on Saturday night. For more than 70 photos from the event, visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/PQBNews.
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