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CP gives council update on rail safety ARNE PETRYSHEN
brook Health Care Auxiliary Thrift Store, which is the main fundraiser for the organization. The Auxiliary also runs the gift shop for those visiting or staying at the hospital by offering gifts, clothing, candy, toys and other merchandise to staff, patients and visitors.
Canadian Pacific railways representatives said that railway companies have learned a lot since the Lac-Mégantic disaster almost two years ago. In fact, in council on Monday, Mike LoVecchio, director of Government Affairs for CP, noted the 18 contributing factors could be narrowed down to two. The first was that the train was not secured properly, which allowed it to get out of control. The train was estimated to be going 67-72 mph (108116 km/h) on tracks certified for 10 mph (16 km/h). “Part of the reason it was out of control is that the brake test was a faulty test,” he said. “The way the company involved administered the brake test involved using the locomotive brake in addition to the brakes on the cars. They really weren’t testing anything.” LoVecchio said it’s difficult to accept that was their practice, adding that is not how they do or did things at CP. The hand brake rule that CP used to apply called for “sufficient” brakes to be applied, then the throttle applied to make sure it is sufficient to hold the train.
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TREVOR CRAWLEY PHOTO
Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary president Bonnie Close presents a $450,000 cheque that will be going towards new equipment for the Intensive Care Unit currently under construction. At the left front corner of the cheque is AJ Brekke with Interior Health, while long-time Auxiliary volunteer Judy Shogren at the right. Dr. Lawrence Jewett is also pictured on the far right.
Auxiliary donates $450,000 to ICU TREVOR CRAWLEY
The new Intensive Care Unit at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital received a significant amount of funding on Wednesday as the Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary (CHCA) donated $450,000 that will go towards new equipment. A large chunk of the money will be used for pur-
chasing a communication system for the ICU that centralizes information that doctors and nurses need to access for patient care. In the last five years, the Auxiliary has donated more than $3 million to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital. Some of the equipment has been purchased with the help of partnerships such as
the acquisition of a sentinel node probe to improve breast cancer diagnosis, which was done with the help of Abreast in the Rockies and the East Kootenay Foundation for Health. Other partnerships in include teaming up with EKFH and Tim Hortons for the Smile Cookie campaign. In 2007, the purchase of a
mobile MRI was another large project that the Auxiliary donated $100,000 towards, with the Auxiliary logo appearing on the trailer that houses the equipment. The CHCA is a group of roughly 150 volunteers to assist those in need of health care through service and fund-raising. Many of the volunteers work at the Cran-
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