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ON THE TRADITIONAL TERRITORY OF THE LHEIDLI T’ENNEH
Since 1916
THURSDAY, June 15, 2023
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PRINCEGEORGECITIZEN
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NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DAY CELEBRATIONS
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Scary bike crash for local man
Nurses in crisis at UHNBC
TED CLARKE
TED CLARKE
Taylor LaMarre thought he could handle an unfamiliar feature on one of the mountain bike trails at Pidherny Recreation Site but his daring act came with disastrous consequences when his wheel popped off the wooden structure and he was launched forward head-first. His head hit a tree, the impact cracking his helmet and he landed on a pile of logs. The 34-year-old Prince George man was left with a broken back. “We’d been up that trail (Papa Woods) before and it was a lot of fun riding it before and decided to hit one of the features we hadn’t ridden tried previously and we scoped it out lots and checked it out but luck was not on my side going over it,” said LaMarre.
Nursing staff shortages and overcapacity patient workloads at University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George are chasing nurses away from their jobs, according to the B.C. Nurses Union. It’s so bad in the intensive care unit at UHNBC that intubated patients are moved to the emergency room because there are not enough ICU nurses. In the past two years, at least 15 UHNBC emergency room nurses have quit or have decided to take less stressful positions. “These are seasoned, experienced nurses that have been in emergency a long time, they love the high rush and the adrenaline but they just can’t do it anymore, so they’re going to community jobs, nursing elsewhere,” said Danette Thomsen, northeast regional head of the BC Nurses Union.
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Taylor LaMarre is loaded onto a clamshell stretcher by first responders who carried him out of the woods after See I FLEW OVER THE HANDLEBARS on page 3 a bike accident at Pidherny Recreation Site.
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