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Paramedicine skips Houston By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
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Six Topley 4-H members won first place in the recent Yellowhead Regional Competitions, which runs from Vanderhoof to Terrace. L-R: Jody Siemens won first for her senior speech. Sammy Spooners and Rebekah Groot won with their senior demonstration. Joe Stephens won for junior speech, and Nicole Groot and Sophie Stephens won for junior demonstrations.
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Emergency Health Services chose Chetwynd, Fort St. James and Hazelton to launch phase one of the paramedicine program. Community paramedicine is a new program meant to increase access to basic health services through Ambulance paramedics. It would be for non-urgent, primary care in patients’ homes or in the community and be done in partnership with local health care providers, said Preet Grewal, Communications Officer for B.C. Emergency Health Services. In 2014, the province committed to create at least 80 new full-time positions in paramedicine, which will be implemented across B.C. April 2015 to March 2019. Bringing para-
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“Northern Health is working to get it in our community,” - Jonathan Van Barneveld
medicine to Houston was one of five Northern Health recommendations released February 6 in the Houston Health Review. H o u s t o n Councillor Jonathan Van Barneveld is optimistic that it is coming. “I know that Northern Health is working to get it in our community, so I would imagine that Houston will be receiving it very shortly,” he said. See HEALTH on Page 6
Crown will not press charges in death of grizzly hunter By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
Crown counsel will not press charges for the death of the grizzly hunter who died near Houston last year. Houston police were called on May 26, 2014 to a shooting incident in the Tahtsa Reach Forest Service
area 112 kilometres south of Houston. Police found 59-yearold Jeffrey Cooper, from Washington state, deceased at the scene. Cooper had been grizzly bear hunting at the time. Houston RCMP completed an investigation, assisted
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