Kimberley Daily Bulletin, April 04, 2016

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MONDAY APRIL 4, 2016

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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 84, Issue 64 | www.dailybulletin.ca REMEMBRANCE

A new Cenotaph

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City of Kimberley commits funds to a new Cenotaph at 170 Wallinger Ave.; Military Ames to apply for grant from Veterans Affairs C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor

After a great deal of pondering about what to do with the vacant lot at 170 Wallinger, City Council has voted that it be used for a Veterans’ Memorial Park. Working with the veterans’ support group, Military Ames, a draft project has been created. You can view it on the City website at kimberley.ca. The City has committed $25,000 in matching funds for a grant Military Ames hopes to receive. “We will be applying to Veterans’ Affairs for a restoration grant,” said Cindy Postnikoff, Military Ames facilitator. This means some of the current cenotaph will be used in the new one. Postnikoff says this will likely include

the plaques from the old cenotaph, and the flag stone. “The veterans want to remove the flag stone and entomb it in the base of the new monument,” Postnikoff said. “They feel that is a way to respectfully honour the memory of those that Cenotaph honoured.” The cost estimate for the project is $70,000 with $25,000 coming from the City, $25,000 through the Veterans Affairs grant (if successful) and further monies raised through fundraising. Postnikoff is almost ready to send the grant application off. “There is no official owner of the current Cenotaph,” she said. “It was built by the original Legion Branch 67 members and volunteers and sits on City property. See CENOTAPH, page 5

A doctor without borders TRE VOR CR AWLEY

In a refugee camp of 120,000 in the South Sudan, a local doctor has been working for the last six months as a volunteer with Doctors without Borders. Stefanie Falz, who has been working at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital for the last eight years, recently returned from South Sudan after working and volunteering at a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital. South Sudan is the newest country in the world, gaining it’s independence from Sudan in 2011, however, it has been mired in conflict stemming from a civil war that erupted two years later between government and rebel military forces. Falz went through the application process, including a week of training on security issues, managing stress in the field and managing personnel before she was accepted and sent to Bentiu in South Sudan.

“I’ve wanted to work with MSF for a long time, probably since I applied to go to medical school, which is a few years ago now,” said Falz. “It’s always been on my to-do list, but the timing has always been a bit challenging because I knew for their first mission, they expect you to commit to 6-12 months, and to take that kind of time out of your life is challenging. “But last year felt like the right time to go.” She’s been to Africa before as a med student years ago, spending 10 weeks in Tanzania, so the culture shock and the expectations of the conditions she’d be working in weren’t too unfamiliar. However, as an emergency medicine specialist, she handled all kinds of medical situations, with the majority of her patients being children. In fact, the camp, with a population of 120,000 within 2.2 square kilometres, included 40,000 children that were under the age of five years See DOCTOR, page 4

NICOLE PERRIN PHOTO

Molly Miller skates to a 5 K victory at the Haywood Nationals in Whitehorse last week. See story page 3.


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