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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
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n her first birthday, Kaiya Westlind McEwen was so sick she couldn’t eat her birthday cake. Upon turning four earlier this month, the vigorous Campbell River preschooler was able to have her cake and eat it, too. Kaiya, diagnosed as an infant with a genetic condition that threatened to destroy her liver before age 2, was put on the road to recovery by the living donation of liver tissue from her great-aunt, and by donations from a multitude of charities and fundraisers, including the Variety Show of Hearts Telethon The telethon returns this weekend for its 49th year on Global BC. “One of the first was Variety, because they’re connected to B.C. Children’s Hospital,” said Rita McEwen, Kaiya’s mother. “I was so concerned with being Kaiya’s primary caregiver that a social worker was set up to handle filling out all the forms. I was really bad about it, but (Variety) was really wonderful. They never made it a problem.” The family — including Kaiya’s father, Josh Westlind, and older brother, Evan — had enough problems on their hands when the baby girl began exhibiting health issues at just two months of age. Traveling from their home on Salt Spring Island in 2011 to visit a variety of specialists, they finally
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Kaiya Westlind McEwen, 4, right, shares a laugh with her mom, Rita McEwen. Since undergoing a liver transplant at one-and-a-half years of age, Kaiya is resuming the normal life of a healthy pre-schooler.
learned Kaiya was stricken with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency disease, a genetic condition which can lead to lung problems in adults
and liver damage in victims of any age. This led to a family odyssey over the next year and a half from
Salt Spring Island, to an apartment near BC Children’s Hospital — where Kaiya was admitted for
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As a former student at St. Michael’s Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, George Quocksister did everything in his power to make sure none of his 10 children were forced to go. But three of his daughters will gladly make that trip next week. Carol Bear, Maria White and Louella Serhan of Campbell River will join other residential school survivors from across coastal B.C. for a healing/cleansing ceremony that will mark the decommissioning of the former school building, which looms over Alert Bay as a stark reminder of a dark period in Canada’s colonial history. Over the course of the next six weeks, the monolithic, four-storey brick structure built in 1928-29 will be demolished and wiped from the Cormorant Island landscape. “To me, it will mean a closure to my own childhood,” said Bear. “I’ve heard so many bad things from there, it’s got my head full.” White and Serhan will travel on a guest bus with survivors and other elders, which departs Comox at 5 a.m. and the health centre in Campbell River at 6 a.m. for the trip to the ferry dock in Port McNeill. From there, the group will be ferried to
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