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Vol. 7 • Issue 98
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
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Ticket to the future ABOVE: A group of L.V. Rogers class of 2015 graduates donned their blue caps and gowns, with valedictorian Dunavan Morris-Janzen front and centre, ready to receive their Grade 12 high school diplomas last Friday evening at the Nelson and District Community Complex. RIGHT: It seemed like the whole town came out to watch the grad cavalcade down Baker St. on Saturday afternoon. The warm weather was perfect for convertibles, scooters, and tandem bicycles. For more photos see pages 2 and 3 as well as our grad supplement.
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Shambhala leads world in harm reduction
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After a spate of overdoses and deaths at music festivals in North America last year, harm reduction has been in the headlines and festivals looking to address the issue are increasingly looking to Shambhala’s example. ANKORS executive director Cheryl Dowden said they’ve been inundated in recent years with requests for information and guidance. “For instance, we just got an email from Bass Coast the other day, asking if we could send a team down,” said Dowden. And according to her, that’s a good thing for everybody. “In order for us to be really effective it’s important for everyone to be doing this across the country. If
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WILL JOHNSON Nelson Star When ANKORS team leader Chloe Sage first started delivering harm reduction services at Shambhala Music Festival in 2001, there were a lot of misconceptions about what exactly she was trying to accomplish. “It was a real ‘keep your head down’ situation. We had a few hundred people come to our booth and say ‘wow, I’m glad you’re here’, but there wasn’t a whole lot of understanding about why it was necessary,” she said. The AIDS non-profit’s efforts were humble at first — a small educational booth was set up to distribute pamphlets and encourage safe partying. But as the festival ballooned to over 11,000 ticket sales, so too did the festival’s harm reduction strategy, which is now the most ambitious approach in North America, with over 40 trained ANKORS volunteers on the ground, alongside a harm reduction team of over 200. Now encompassing medical, security, outreach and sexual health services, the integrated approach is considered a best practice worldwide and has inspired interest from a number of other festivals. “Now we’re like one spoke in a wheel of services set up to support guests at Shambhala,” said Sage. “We used to work as silos, and we didn’t communicate with medical or security, but now we all work together.”
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