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VOL. 50 NO. 09
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Adventures await Bowen’s newest Family Physician ALEX KURIAL Editor
ALWAYS TIME TO GARDEN Despite the snow on the ground, the Bowen Island Community School Student Garden Club, led by the Community School Coordinator, has been keeping busy over the winter. Check back next week as they share the answer to a popular question of what to do with waxed amaryllis bulbs once they fade... Hint: There is plenty of life left in them yet! / Sarah Haxby photo
There’s a new family physician at the Bowen Island Community Health Centre. Dr. Lindsay Downey recently began the role at the island facility, a position she’s worked in for more than a decade in rural Ontario before her recent move out west. Downey’s medical career originally began in the lab performing research. But she soon came to miss the human interaction component of health care. When Downey began her medical school rotations, she realized a widespread approach was her calling. In fact, on her first day of medical school she was assisting with an operation on a baby and felt this was her calling. With the next rotation in paediatrics and the ones that followed, she felt the same way. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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