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Flagstaff 4-H Achievement Day
LESLIE CHOLOWSKY PHOTOS
Flagstaff County’s four 4-H Beef Clubs came together to hold their annual Achievement Day on Sunday and Monday, June 2, and 3, at the Killam Memorial Arena, where club members competed against club members for top honours, then club competed against club for the district granch champions. Winning Steers and Females to come next week. See candid photos on Pages 16 & 17.
Hampshire receives Humanitarian Award Leslie Cholowsky Editor
Sydney Hampshire, daughter of Murray and Marta Hampshire of Sedgewick, and author of the Heritage Barns of Flagstaff books, recently received the Canadian Federation of Medical Students and CPAMD Humanitarian Award. Hampshire has just finished her first year of Medical School, after she attained a Master of Science degree. Hampshire grew up in La Glacé but when her parents moved back to Flagstaff County, she says she lost that connection. She spent a number of summers working in Flagstaff, including the years she worked for the County on the Heritage Barns of Flagstaff project, and says she now feels more connected to the region, especially with the Hampshire family history here. “I’m out here so often, too.” After finishing her masters, Hampshire started working with a research group on
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hip and knee replacements, and it was also during that time that she became part of the development team for an app called Click and Push. Click and Push - Atlas, is available for iPhones and Android. It’s a mobile app that allows users to add information on barriers they face in their day through the app. Users map barriers, like potholes, lack of curb cuts, construction hazards, elevator outages, and non-functioning power door buttons. Hampshire had an ischemic stroke at age nine, leaving her paralyzed on her dominant left side, and has worked hard to regain her own mobility. She says in her biography for the humanitarian award, “Slowly and surely things got better,” with a lot of hard work at physiotherapy. Hampshire says now she can do any activity she puts her mind to, “often with some creative modifications. “However, every day since my stroke and every facet of my life has been impacted.” Hampshire does daily physiotherapy
and must wear an Ankle-foot orthosis when walking far distances. Hampshire also received one of three RhPAP Rural Medical School Awards for 2024. She says, “I can support and manage my own property while also volunteering in the community…. This is critical for a rural physician as some rural communities can be isolating. “A person moving to a rural community needs to put the work into integrating and meeting their neighbours.” Hampshire says having a chronic physical disability early on in her life has influenced her decision to become a rural physician and inspire others. “It is very difficult to do all the physiotherapy, meds, and treatment you need to do on your own… I went from not being able to walk, talk or use my hands to being in first-year medical school.” Hampshire says that she feels like she’s very much suited to rural medicine due to her upbringing and connection to rural
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Sydney Hampshire received a 2024 RhPAP Rural Medical School award as well as the Humanitarian award. Alberta. Hampshire says medical school is pushing her in new ways, and she’s enjoying it. “I didn’t have a plan, but you can just follow that love of community, and you can find a good place to be.”
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