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The donation of a van, courtesy of Signal Collision and Minute Muffler, will help the Cranbrook Boys and Girls Club ferry kids all over town. The donation follows last year’s in which the businesses donated the van on the right. The van on the left is the new addition. Back row, left to right: Timothy Matwey, youth impact worker at the Cranbrook Boys and Girls Club; Debbie Morris, program director at Boys and Girls Club; Laurie McNeill, executive director of the Boys and Girls Club; Clint Habart, owner of Minute Muffler; Darcy Giberson, owner of Signal Collision. Front row: Ethan, Peyton and Teague.
New IH CEO tours through Cranbrook TRE VOR CR AWLEY
With only six weeks on the job, the new CEO of Interior Health stopped by the East Kootenay Regional Hospital as part of a listening tour throughout the jurisdiction. Chris Mazurkewich, who has taken over the top job from outgoing CEO Dr. Richard Halpenny, says he is using the tour to get a clearer picture of the challenges in communities across the IHA boundary.
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In Cranbrook on Wednesday, Mazurkewich met with board members of the Kootenay East Regional Hospital District. “One of the things I’ve seen is community leaders working with Interior Health in a different way than in the past, there’s much more collaboration,” Mazurkewich said. “What should the local services be? How do we work together? Where should we be moving to? “So that’s a really positive change.”
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Mazurkewich is returning to the Interior Health where started as the Chief Operating Officer, Strategic and Corporate Services from 20022009. For the last four years, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Alberta Health Authority. The move back to B.C. has been encouraging, especially in seeing how the province is approaching health care, Mazurkewich said.
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Mid-flight mechanical issue forces plane back to airport ARNE PETRYSHEN
Emergency crews were on hand as an Air Canada Jazz flight returned to Canadian Rockies International Airport late Tuesday night due to a potential mechanical issue. Debra Williams, manager of corporate communications at Jazz Aviation LP, confirmed that shortly after departure from Cranbrook Tuesday night, the flight turned around.
“The crew had experienced an irregularity with one of the engines and elected to shut the engine down,” Williams said. “The flight landed safely and without incident back in Cranbrook.” Flight 8220 was enroute to Vancouver when the crew noticed the issue, requested a priority landing and returned to Cranbrook.
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