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So, you think the city has problems KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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Dysfunctional, distant, inexperienced, and slow. Those are the words regional directors used to describe the Strathcona Regional District during an audit of the organization. Directors were interviewed by Susan Gee from Acumen Communications as part of a communications review conducted last October. Campbell River Mayor Walter Jakeway, former mayor Charlie Cornfield, regional directors Jim Abrams, Brenda Leigh, Jude Schooner, Ted Lewis, Noba Anderson, Gerald Whalley, Craig Continued on A5
The Coast Guard vessel Cape Palmerston pulls up to the cruise ship Volendam for a medical evacuation on Tuesday night.
Elderly man medevaced from cruise ship PAUL RUDAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
A B.C. man was successfully medevaced from a cruise ship off Campbell River Tuesday night. The 83-year-old man was suffering from an unknown medical problem when the ship’s doctor advised he be treated at hospital.
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The man was aboard the southbound Volendam when Coast Guard was called around 7:30 p.m. to assist with the transfer. Two ambulance paramedics joined the Coast Guard aboard the Cape Palmerston which sped out to meet the Holland America Line ship just off Cape Mudge. The elderly man was lowered
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to the water line in a life boat, transferred to the Cape Palmerston which then returned to the Discovery Harbour dock. He was then taken by ambulance to Campbell River Hospital. As of Thursday, his condition was unknown. “They felt it was prudent to get him off the boat,” said Phillip
Hawkins, officer-in-chief of the Cape Palmerston. Hawkins added this type of medical evacuation is not uncommon and this transfer went very well because there was still daylight and the sea was calm. “Usually these things happen under the cover of darkness,” said Hawkins.
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