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Friday, February 27, 2015
Peninsula rallies for a family Kindergartener Kai Hennessey doing well in battle with rare lymphoma Angela Cowan News Staff
They say it takes a village to raise a child and there is no greater need for a village’s worth of love than when that child becomes ill. Days after his sixth birthday and just before Christmas, Kai Hennessey’s days went from staging Pokeman battles and enjoying his kindergarten classes at Deep Cove Elementary to a flurry of chemotherapy treatments at the B.C. Children’s Hospital. Diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma called Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma “It’s definitely (ALCL), Kai will undergo six months been a big detour to a year of treatment, from normal.” with his parents Kevin and Setsu uprooted to – Kevin Hennessey the mainland for the duration. “It’s definitely been a big detour from ‘normal,’” said Kevin. “He needs one of us at all times to be with him.” “It’s been challenging, but with all the unbelievable support … we’ve settled into a good routine, and are actually really enjoying all the time together.” That support has come from family and friends, but also from Kevin’s employers, the community, the staff at the hospital, and even complete strangers, he said. Shelly Andrews, a friend of the family whose son had started kindergarten with Kai last fall, said the diagnosis was a shock.
Heroes on duty New vessels named for Nichola Goddard and Martin Charles Steven Heywood News staff
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wo new Hero class Canadian Coast Guard patrol vessels have arrived in North Saanich and will soon be plying the waters of the B.C. coast. The vessels — the CCGS Captain Goddard M.S.M. and CCGS M. Charles M.B. — are stationed at the Institute of Ocean Sciences. They arrived Feb. 19, after sailing 7,095 nautical miles (approximately 13,000 kilometres) from the Irving Shipyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dan Bate, communications officer for the Western Region, Canadian Coast Guard, says the vessels replace two decommissioned Post class ships. Those vessels ended their service with the Coast Guard at the end of the patrol season last year, he said.
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The new ships are part of the federal government’s midshore patrol vessel procurement program that saw nine new vessels built for service on Canada’s coastlines. That project began in 2012, Bate said and the pair stationed in North Saanich were the last two built. With crews of around 10 people each, the vessels’ primary duty will be conservation and protection services in the Pacific Region Marine Patrol program. They will spend weeks at a time along the coast between Prince Rupert in the north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the south. Bate said they also extend their patrols 120 nautical miles into the ocean. The secondary job of the ships will be marine search and rescue. Both vessels are currently undergoing preparation for the patrol season, Bate said. PLEASE SEE: Vessels named for Canadian heroes, page 8