Seventeen teams raised $20,056 for the Canadian Cancer Society at the Grand Forks Relay for Life held last Saturday. The annual event was successful in not only raising money to help continue the fight against cancer, but in building awareness about the difficult illness that touches the lives of so many people. “This is pay...

Students Carrie Riddle and Stephanie Koorbatoff on practicum placements with Boundary Family and Individual Services Society partnered with Success by Six, Interior Health Authority and the Baby’s Best Chance Program to spread the word about safety. The Poison Prevention Week message focussed on safety with medications, giving...

Local relay racers are stretching their legs and their efforts to raise as much money as possible before the annual Canadian Cancer Society's Boundary Country 2012 Relay for Life event set for Saturday, June 2. From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. the 17 teams and 128 participants will be cutting laps around the James Donaldson Park in ...

Individual action to protect the air and reduce greenhouse gases is the focus of Clean Air Day, which is on Wednesday, Jun. 6 this year. Clean Air Day started out as a B.C. event in 1992, but has since become a national day. B.C. and Canada face several serious air quality and environmental issues, such as smog, fine particulates,...

Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater was joined today by Interior Health’s Board Chair Norman Embree and Interior Health’s chief executive officer Dr. Robert Halpenny to announce the building of a heliport for the Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks. Heliport construction is possible thanks to generous donations from the Clifton...

Nine members of the Concerned Citizens for Community Health Care (CCCHC) got their moment with the Interior Health Authority (IHA) during a small public meeting in the Boundary Hospital Board Room at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23. A group of more than 40 Boundary residents from as far away as Midway gathered at the front of the...

For a dialysis patient, healthy veins are a life line. But sometimes when Renal staff plan to create a permanent vascular access (called  an AV fistula) to facilitate the necessary blood flow for hemodialysis, they find a patient’s veins have been damaged from previous IVs or lab work. Renal staff have been working with...

If you could ensure women in the Kootenay Boundary access to mammography with less radiation, better results and the capacity for non-surgical biopsies would you even question the potential? It’s a clear win situation for the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation in their quest to purchase digital mammogram equipment....

The successful Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) is gearing up for another year of identifying local bat species, providing educational programs and workshops, and assisting landowners with bat issues. Of the sixteen species of bats in BC, half of them are considered vulnerable or threatened and an additional species, the...

To the Editor; The Concerned Citizens for Community Health Care advise the interested public that  a 30-minute meeting with Norman Embree,  Chair of the Board of Directors and Dr. Robert Halpenny, Chief Administrative Officer of the Interior Health Authority (IHA) has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 23 in the Board Room at...