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Man dies in crane accident BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF
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A man was killed while taking apart a crane at the Nova Chemicals’ Joffre site just one day before the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job. It was the first workplace fatality on the site since the early 1980s when a worker was killed during the construction of the Ethylene 2 facility.
Rick Van Hemmen, Joffre site team leader, said it was a tough day with certainly a lot of emotions at the site. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s an employee or a contractor or anybody on the site, we have to do our best to keep everybody safe,” said Van Hemmen. Alberta Labour spokesperson Lauren Welsh said
workers were taking apart a crane when a piece of a crane hit one worker around 9 a.m. Nova emergency personnel rescued the worker from the crane. The man died on his way to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. “OHS officers are on site right now and they will be investigating,” said Welsh. “A stop work order is in place for crane deconstruction.” Please see DEATH on Page A6
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‘Dumpster dining’ spotlights food waste BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Waste not, want not. The City of Red Deer will serve up 500 plates of food using ingredients that would have otherwise gone to the trash at a Feeding the 500 event on Sept. 22 at City Hall Park. It is Red Deer’s version of the international Feeding the 5000 campaign, which is a global celebratory feast that shines the light on edible food that is thrown away. Lauren Maris, the city’s Environmental Program specialist, said the idea is to create awareness and promote action on food that is tossed away every year. “Think imperfect fruits and vegetables or stuff that is close to an expiry date but still safe to eat,” said Maris. “This is about education about the potential solutions to food waste for individual consumers and the industrial section. There are so many meals going to waste when people are going hungry.” The first 500 people will be served. About 170,000 tonnes of good, edible food, equivalent to 300 million meals, wind up in Canadian landfills every year, according to the National Zero Waste Council. No statistics were available for Red Deer.
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A City of Red Deer firefighter opens the valve on a hydrant charging a line to a nearby engine at the corner of 32nd Street and 40th Avenue. A utility contractor hit a natural gas line causing a leak in an alley behind Anders Close around on Wednesday around 1 p.m. Eight homes were evacuated near 40th Avenue and 32nd Street. Residents were asked to stay away from the area. Traffic was rerouted at the intersection for several hours while crews repaired the line. The roads were reopened around 4 p.m.
Urgent remedy sought for pediatrician shortage BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The departure of two local pediatricians has seen Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre calling in pediatricians more often from Calgary and Edmonton to cover on-call duties at the hospital. Currently nine local pediatricians provide on-call duty at the hospital. Not all of them work full-time. In March, the shortage left one Red Deer family travelling to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Cal-
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gary after a seven-hour wait at the Red Deer emergency department without getting to see a doctor. Dr. Evan Lundall, medical director of Alberta Health Services Central Zone, said efforts are underway to recruit three new pediatricians who will hopefully arrive in the next few weeks and months. He said the hospital periodically uses pediatric locums to fill in on-call gaps for different reasons. “We’ve always used locums to help cover the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, very, very busy service that we provide. We’ve had some unexpected departures and as a result we’ve had to have contingencies
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to be able to still provide the 24 hours a day, seven days a week coverage for general pediatrics and neonatology,” said Lundall on Wednesday. “Thankfully we’ve had some very positive support from pediatricians in Calgary and Edmonton to help us. We’re not unique in that. All of the regional hospitals have difficulty. I think we’re in the best position of all the regional facilities to provide continuous care provision.”
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