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FRIDAY February 5, 2016 • www.langleytimes.com
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NEWS Calling it a Career
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BUSINESS Math Club Opens
SPORTS Spartans Break Through
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Narcan ‘so far not in our scope of practice,’ – Township Anti-overdose kits to be carried on Surrey and Vancouver fire trucks MONIQUE TA MMING A Time s Re po rte r
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After 17 years, Pat Dawson will retire as the Langley City library manager in March. She plans to work as a literacy volunteer.
Moving on to the next chapter Pat Dawson, manager for City of Langley FVRL branch, is closing the book on her career D AN FERGU SO N Ti m e s Re po r t e r
Pat Dawson will never forget her encounter with a young single mom who couldn’t read. It happened during a visit to a transition house for a library story-time program. As part of the program, parents and
children would pick a book to read together. When the young mother asked Dawson to read with her and her son, she soon realized why. The three of them sat down and went through the book. Later on, Dawson gave the mom a copy of the book they’d read together
to keep. The grateful woman hugged it to her chest. “She told me she had never learned to read, but she was going to make sure that her son would learn to read, and he would learn to love to read,” Dawson said.
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Langley Township fire department will not carry Narcan kits on their fire trucks to deal with drug overdoses at this time, said assistant fire chief Bruce Ferguson. Administered early enough, Narcan or naloxone can reverse an opioid drug overdose and potentially save lives. Last week, firefighters in Surrey and Vancouver became the first to carry the kits. Both those municipalities had the highest number of overdose deaths in B.C. last year. “So far, they are the only ones that have been OK’d to try this pilot project,” said Ferguson. “Administrating Narcan is so far not in our scope of practice.” Ambulance paramedics have long been equipped with the drug, but the program is being expanded to include firefighters after an increase in overdoses to opioid drugs, such as heroin, oxycodone and fentanyl. Fire departments across the province may be able to join the program by signing an agreement with B.C. Emergency Health Services to provide physician oversight, after regulations were changed this month to allow fire rescue first responders to administer nalaxone. Continued Page 5
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