Health Matters Spring/Summer 2017

THE OTTAWA VALLEY’S HEALTH MAGAZINE HealthMattersFREE! SPRING/SUMMER 2017 A Hero Among Us: Monique Yashinskie’s mental health mission Finding Faith: Rev. Susan Clifford Canadian makes the case Health Facts for faith Feature Section: Mental Health and Spirituality Health Advice From Local Experts The Healthy Crossword Find a job that gives you the life you want. ovjobs.ca OVJobs is your go-to site for job opportunities in the region. Employers who post with us are looking for the best candidates - could it be you?

[email protected] Phone: 613-732-7774 FROM THE PUBLISHER SPRING/SUMMER 2017 Tell Us What You Think! Incredible stories since our last issue, so keep the feedback, complimentary or critical, flowing our way Quite a bit of comments have come our way & Area Airport had profiled the Hope Air since the Winter 2017 issue published! service. (Hope Air offers medical transportation by air for people with First, a long-term care home used the transportation challenges.) This woman needs Canadian Health Facts to be part of a Canada a liver transplant, and has used the Hope Air 150 event for their residents. (This issue and service to Toronto a few times. She has been the Fall 2017 issue will also include Canadian told that if they call her for a transplant, she Jennifer Layman, Publisher health facts if you wanted to do the same!) has to be in the hospital in four hours. That wouldn't even be do-able without Hope Air, In addition, we featured Anne and Nancy who and the local airport. Without Health Matters, SPRING/SUMMER 2017 trekked the 800-kilometre Camino, and they this woman would never have heard of Hope 2113 Petawawa Boulevard, have been on a sort of local speaking circuit Air, but without the Airport, there would be Pembroke, Ontario K8A 7G8 since that issue came out! Apparently there are no Hope Air available here. Phone: 613-732-7774 many other local residents who are interested [email protected] in also doing the Camino, and they have These great experiences help us in producing www.ovhealth.ca reached out to these women to share their this magazine in many ways. It helps us take journey with them. They have generously some risks with the content we provide and facebook.com/ovhealth obliged and are meeting every request! the reactions to content help us plan for future twitter.com/ovhealth issues. So reader feedback is something that Contacts: The local retired teachers group featured us in impacts on our publication quite a bit - it's Jennifer Layman, Publisher their industry newsletter and told everyone we good for us to know what you're thinking. We Kallie Doering, Coordinator were a great resource - thanks RTO, and also welcome critical feedback as well because another contributor mentioned us in their it all goes into helping us make a better No part of this publication may be reproduced without our consent. Annual General Meeting as part of their product. So, keep the stories coming! While every effort has been made to marketing achievements for the year. ensure accuracy, we cannot be held responsible for any error or omissions that may occur. Designed And then another story was brought to my and produced by Forward Thinking attention. A woman picked up an issue of Jennifer Layman, Publisher Marketing Agency. Health Matters last year where the Pembroke

HEALTH INTERVIEWS 23 - Shaping Up For Summer 13 - A Hero Among Us: How Monique 28 - Stress And Your Heart Monique Yashinskie made mental health help 29 - Introduce Someone To Golf Yashinskie accessible for everyone 30 - A Better Night’s Sleep 25 - Finding Faith: Susan Clifford makes 31 - How Grief Can Hide In Our Lives the case for why we all need faith in our 32 - Facebook Safety lives GENERAL INFORMATION HEALTH EXPERTS 2 - Health Information and Hotlines 7 - Horse Power 6 - Vegetable Availability Guide 8 - Next Generation of Family Dentistry 16 - 24-Hour Movement Guidelines Rev. 9 - Using Art For Healing 34 - Health Services Listings Susan 10 - Ask Your Boss For An EAP Clifford 11 - Community Living And Community FUN & GAMES 17 - Subsidized Vet Help 4 - Canadian Health Facts 20 - Care For The Caregiver 33 - Crossword 21 - Eliminate Type 2 Diabetes 36 - Crossword Answers & Social Media 22 - Socially Responsible Investing CONTENTS INTERVIEWS CONTENTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 1 Health Hotlines and Information

GOVERNMENT SERVICES Veterans Affairs Canada Assistance Mental Health Crisis Line www.veterans.gc.ca Www.crisisline.ca Telehealth Ontario 1-800-268-7708 1-866-996-0991 1-866-797-0000 For military, veterans, spouses and children For individuals aged 16 years or older who Free, confidential telephone service to get and some public servants (depending on are experiencing a mental health crisis and health advice or general health information Ministry.) 24 hours. who live in Renfrew County and other from a Registered Nurse. 24 hours. regions. 24 hours. HELPLINES & HOTLINES Health Canada AIDS/HIV Hotlines www.healthcanada.gc.ca Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre www.cdnaids.ca 1-866-225-0709 www.robbiedeancentre.com 1-800-668-2437 Phone: 613-629-4243 Information, counselling and safer sex Seniors Info Line Calls answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a information. Monday to Friday from 1-888-910-1999 week. For kids, teens, adults and seniors. 10:00am to 10:30pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Regional Assault Care Program Term Care www.renfrewhosp.com ADDITIONAL INFO www.health.gov.on.ca 1-800-363-7222 1-800-268-1154 Renfrew County service to report assault Ontario Poison Centre and abuse. 24 hours. www.ontariopoisoncentre.ca OHIP Information Line 1-800-268-9017 www.health.gov.on.ca Ontario Drug & Alcohol Helpline Information about poisoning exposures, 1-800-664-8988 www.drugandalcoholhelpline.ca ingestion and inhalation, etc. 24 hours. 1-800-565-8603 Ontario Drug Benefit Program Quebec Poison Centre www.health.gov.on.ca Ontario Problem Gambling Helpline www.santemontreal.qc.ca 1-866-811-9893 www.problemgamblinghelpline.ca 1-800-463-5060 1-888-230-3505 Information about poisoning exposures, Ontario Provincial Police For people who want help with gambling ingestion and inhalation, etc. 24 hours. www.opp.ca issues, including family members. 24 hours. 1-888-310-1122 Recalls and Advisories Drug related or non-emergency calls. Kids Help Phone www.consumerinformation.ca Information or reports to be made to police. www.kidshelpphone.ca Canadian recalls and safety alerts database. 24 hours. For emergencies call 911. 1-800-668-6868 For youth up to age 21. 24 hours.

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DAVIDSON HEARING AID CENTRES HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 3 John Hopps Maude Abbott was a Canadian physician and a a invented the world expert on congenital heart disease. In 1936, Canadi n cardiac she wrote the Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease. pacemaker. In 1994, she was posthumously inducted into the Health Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Facts Yves Potvin of Quebec invented the world’s first veggie hot dog. In honour of Canada’s 150th, these facts James Fraser Mustard of Toronto published the first clinical celebrate Canadian health achievements trial showing that Aspirin could prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Dr. Robert Burrell of Calgary invented Dr. Henry Luo of Acticoat, a nanocrystalline silver coated Kitchener invented Geoffrey Auchinleck dressings used in clinical practice to prevent AntiShock technology created BloodTrack: an life threatening infections and promote wound to combat discomfort healing. Acticoat is the world's first commercial associated with loud advanced blood transfusion therapeutic application of nanotechnology. noises that impact those management system. Burrell is also the lead inventor on 290 patents. with hearing aids.

Photo: Robin Winsor Photo: www.univcan.ca Dusanka Filipovic Photo: www.preeclampsia.org Robin Winsor patented the Blue Dr. Phil Gold of developed the Dr. Vito Forte of Toronto invented the Box technology, Montreal designed world’s first OtoSim: a simulated silicone ear which eliminates the first and most widely used blood digital x-ray teaching tool to help medical students emissions of CFCs from refrigeration test for the learn to more accurately diagnose ear imaging and air conditioning diagnosis of certain technology. conditions before working with patients. equipment. types of cancer. Dr. Jean Dussault of Quebec formulated a method of testing infants for congenital hypothyroidism, thus saving children from irreversible mental disabilities.

Brent King of Calgary Walter Harris The egg carton invented the SPIDER Carlow, a Canadian Limb Positioner, allowing veteran, invented was invented by a surgeon to position a the first wheelchair Joseph Coyle patient's limb for better accessible bus as of Smithers, BC.

operating positions. a quadriplegic. Photo: www.canadiandesignresource.ca

Dr. Adolfo de Bold of Ottawa identified a Dr. Frank Gunston of Manitoba pioneered heart hormone, ANF, which improved the Total Knee Arthroplasty: total knee replacement. treatment of high blood pressure. It’s one of the world’s most used operations.

CANADIAN HEALTH FACTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 4 In 1944, Oswald Tom Van de Weide of Edmonton Avery of Nova Scotia developed the Comfort Plus Anti- proved that isolated Fatigue Mat which minimizes the DNA is the material fatigue experience by workers who of which genes and stand in stationary positions for chromosomes are made prolonged periods of time.

Ronald Worton Ernest McCulloch In 1913, John G. Fitzgerald became an associate professor identified the gene and James Till proved at the University of Toronto where he prepared Canada’s first locally-made rabies vaccine. In 1914, he produced mutation connected to the existence of diphtheria vaccines, and distributed them free of charge. Duchenne muscular stem cells in 1957. dystrophy.

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Photo: www.cdn.best Dr. Feindel advisor.com Photo: McGill Torchia + Tyc Armand Frappier was instrumental in Photo: Getty Images the fight against tuberculosis in Canada, Clarke Fraser was Canada’s William Feindel of and was one of the first researchers to first medical geneticist, one of Nova Scotia acquired confirm the safety and usefulness of the creators of the discipline the first CAT and the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine. in North America. MRI/S units in Canada, and then developed Lance Matthews, an Ontario farmer, invented a hands-free crutch for the world’s first PET people who have non-weight bearing, lower leg injuries or disabilities. system to detect brain tumours and stroke. Charles Brenton Huggins Dr. Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc invented the He then developed NeuroBlate System which uses a laser-probe discovered that hormones inserted into the brain to heat and kill tumour cells. the first surgical cure could be used to control The procedure is conducted in an MRI machine, for patients with the spread of some cancers. and avoids damaging healthy brain tissue. epilepsy.

Calvin Stiller helped pioneer Dr. Harold Jennings spent nearly 25 years the use of ciclosporin to help researching and developing the world's first stop rejection of transplanted synthetic vaccine that protects infants against tissue. His research also Group C meningitis - the most common form showed that Type 1 Diabetes of the disease to strike youngsters. Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw was an immune disorder. Peter Macklem of Kingston pioneered Elizabeth Bagshaw of Ontario was one of Canada’s the study of small airway physiology first female doctors and was the medical director of in the lungs and demonstrated the the first birth control clinic in Canada. early lung damage caused by smoking.

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Artichoke Aug Sep Oct Asian Vegetables Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Asparagus May Jun Beans Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Beets Jan Feb Mar Apr Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Bok choy Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Broccoli Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Brussels Sprouts Sep Oct Nov Cabbage Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Carrots Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Cauliflower Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Celery Jul Aug Sep Oct Corn Jul Aug Sep Oct Cucumber (field) Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Cucumber (greenhouse) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Eggplant Aug Sep Oct Garlic Jan Feb Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Leeks Jan Feb Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Lettuce (assorted) Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Lettuce (greenhouse) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Mushrooms Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Onions (cooking) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Onions (green) Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Onions (red) Jan Feb Mar Sep Oct Nov Dec Parsnips Jan Feb Mar Apr Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Peas (green) Jun Jul Peas (snow) Jun Jul Aug Sep Peppers (field) Jul Aug Sep Oct Peppers (greenhouse) Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Potatoes Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Pumpkin Sep Oct Radicchio Jun Jul Aug Radishes May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Rapini Jul Aug Sep Oct Rutabaga Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Spinach May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Sprouts Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Squash Jan Feb Mar Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Summer squash Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Sweet potatoes Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Tomatoes (field) Jul Aug Sep Oct Tomatoes (greenhouse) Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Zucchini Jul Aug Sep Oct

ONTARIO VEGETABLE SEASON HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 6 Sometimes what people need feedback, a contrast to humans to heal is some horsepower. who live mostly in the past or If you are not familiar with present. Hope Reins, we offer equine We are also pleased to be assisted therapy - we use horses launching some new programs to help people improve their this year including a Horse physical, mental and emotional Minded Series. This is for people well-being. While we may be who are looking to explore mostly known for our work in horsemanship with a focus on helping Canadian Forces well-being. Mindfulness and veterans and first responders, our grounding techniques are treatment models work for all incorporated into the session. children and adults. People have Horse Power Some of our horse therapy come to us with anxiety, programs are between eight and depression, addictions, self- By: Alison Vandergragt 16 weeks long, while others are regulation issues, post-traumatic Program Director ongoing. Some individuals have stress, and other mental health been choosing to ride with us for concerns. We have met with program is building a traditional therapy session, four years! people living with Aspergers relationship of mutual trust and except the office is the horse If you or someone you know syndrome, bi-polar disorder and understanding between the arena! While the individual has a could benefit by being at Hope schizophrenia. We welcome individual and the horse. This therapy session, it is shared with Reins, please connect with us. them all and we help them all. experience results in a lot of a horse and the bridge is We are a great team - both So how exactly does hanging learning about oneself, and leads building a relationship where human and horse - and we would out with a 1,000 pound animal to the discovery of solutions that complete strangers develop a enjoy the opportunity to help. contribute to positive mental they can implement in their relationship. Issues arise and ----- health? lives. For youngsters, our Pony they are worked through. Horses ASK THE EXPERT: People access our program in Pals program helps children who are the perfect companion in this Alison Vandergragt different ways. We have a hands- experience anxiety, are on the program because they do not Program Director on experience program where Autism spectrum, or live with offer unconditional trust until a Hope Reins people are readily engaged with global delays. balanced relationship is built. In Phone: 613-585-1208 horses on the ground and in the The other way to access our addition, horses live in the [email protected] program is through a more moment and give immediate saddle. The focus of this www.hopereinstherapy.ca

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 8 Using art for healing is what So, who best can benefit from we do in art therapy. Art therapy art therapy? is the therapeutic use of our Using Art therapy is helpful for innate creativity and our people of all ages: children, personal understanding of the teenagers, young people, adults world. It combines the creative Art For and seniors. It is important to process of visual art and remember that art therapy is psychotherapy as a means of “user-friendly,” so no artistic improving mental health, well- Healing talent or previous experience is being and relationships. needed. (If you are artistic, all Sometimes thoughts, feelings the better!) Art therapy is not the and memories are better same as taking art lessons, but expressed in images or pictures the therapist will show you how than in words because the words By: Marillyn Saffery to use the art material and offer seem inadequate. Or sometimes Art Therapist other help when it is needed. we cannot find the right words There is a surprise element to because what we are trying to making art as well as the value say is very complicated. And of finding a new way of sometimes, we are not even sure The visual dimension of art resolve are: issues of loss and communicating that is very of what we want to say, but we therapy enables a subtler, grief, life transitions, emotional satisfying and helpful, regardless really need to express ourselves sometimes more detailed and and behavioral difficulties. It can of your age or background. We because we have a problem that definitely very personal increase awareness of yourself, all have a creative brain and needs to be sorted out. Visual art statement to be made. Feelings, reduce stress, heighten creativity spirit! offers a different way of emotions, sensations and fleeting and promote personal growth. ----- communicating. It can be or dissociated memories can be Depression, anxiety, traumatic ASK THE EXPERT: considered an alternative form of shown through form, design, experiences and dementia all Marillyn Saffery language that uses symbols and movement and colour instead of respond to art. The art therapist BFA, DipAT, RP metaphors which have their only words and gestures. Art is trained in both art and Phone: 613-735-1858 origins in the unconscious. itself has a way of speaking to us psychology and might work [email protected] Because art uses symbols, it can if allowed to do so. privately as well as in be an effective way of reaching Some of the things that art conjunction with other health what is lost or hidden. therapy can explore and help care professionals and teachers.

HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 9 At Valley Employee and jobs 100 per cent effort. They Family Assistance Program give what they can, but their (Valley EFAP), our niche is that attention is with someone in a we are a counseling service for critical situation. This is where workplaces. But while Ask Your an EAP service helps - it workplaces are our niche, they connects an employee, and in are not the cause of what brings this case, her son, to assistance. most people through our doors. Boss For To even know help is available is Workplaces are just where issues a major relief for someone are arising to the point that the An EAP facing this situation. The sooner employee can no longer avoid a person connects with help, the them, and they want some help. By: Lisa Bowman, sooner a resolution can be What does bring someone Executive Director achieved and the sooner your through our door is depression. employee can return to being Depression can contribute to a productive for you, her boss. roller coaster of emotions that Any business, organization or impact friends, colleagues and municipality can join Valley family members. In many cases, him counseling through our daughter or best friend. In all EFAP. That might be a it is a member of the person's organization, and after meeting cases, it is a struggle that has relationship worth building support network who reaches out with our counselors six times, he help available. Valley EFAP is upon. to us and that can be a critical was on a much more positive one of the options you have. ----- first step to help someone who road. We helped him develop Sometimes it can be difficult ASK THE EXPERT: struggles with depression. skills for managing his for employers to understand why Lisa Bowman Not long ago, a mother depression, and he became they should provide an EAP MSW, RSW, TITC-CT connected with us to get support proactive in seeking to re- service for their employees. Executive Director & Counsellor for her son. She had never used a connect with the people whom After all, struggles are private Valley Employee & Family counseling service before, but he had isolated. and individual. But when Assistance Program she was literally terrified of This family's struggle is not someone is living with a person Phone: 613-735-2116 losing her son to suicide, so she uncommon in Renfrew County. who has depression, they are [email protected] called us. That contact was a In this family's case, it was their constantly concerned about that turning point in this young man's son. In other families, depression person's well being, and that www.valleyefap.com life. His mom was able to get is affecting a mother, father, means they cannot give their

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 10 Sometimes people feel of services such as: dental, unconnected to Community healthcare, grocery, retail, Living because they don't know personal care, dining out, college someone with an intellectual Community tuition and more. disability who might use our All of this income stays in our organization. But there are other local region. So if you thought ways that we impact the Living and you weren't connected to us community, and some of these before, we think you might be ways might be connected to you. Community connected to us now! Our most significant impact is Our point in mentioning this is employment. We employ 120 By: Chris Grayson to let you know that when we people from Laurentian Hills to Executive Director ask you to book our Speakers Whitewater Region. The Bureau, attend our fundraising majority of our employees are events or order a Box of college and university graduates Possibilities lunch, the support with specialized education to years, our agency owned continue to purchase services you give us is returned to the help us run this organization. In properties that provided housing such as furniture and home decor community many times over. We addition, our employees options for clients of to assist our clients with their feel that's an important aspect of volunteer throughout the region. Community Living. In this new independent living our relationship - to give as we At last count, everyone working capacity, we purchased many arrangements. receive - and it's one we wish to here volunteered their time with services from the local Other supplies we purchase continue and grow in the future. at least one other community community for such things as: locally include: legal services, ----- group, cause or organization. property maintenance, housing insurance, accounting and audit ASK THE EXPERT: There is a strong possibility repairs and upgrading and lawn services, office supplies, Chris Grayson that you are connected to maintenance/snow removal. furniture and equipment, signage Executive Director Community Living through our While we still own a few of and advertising, computer Community Living employees, either in a work or these, we are transitioning into services, catering and facility Upper Ottawa Valley volunteer environment. leasing space from other local rentals, to name a few. 894 Pembroke Street West, In addition to people, property businesses. This will Of course, our clients are Pembroke, Ontario Community Living also impacts help us connect to the purchasers of services in the Phone: 613-735-0659 the community through property community in a new way - by community as well. We support ownership and leasing. For many having good tenants. We will 150 clients who access a variety www.cluov.ca

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DOWNTOWN PEMBROKE HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 12 A Hero Among Us How Monique Yashinskie made mental health accessible for everyone

By: Jennifer Layman come to the Robbie Dean Centre for any Robbie was a kid who got along with number of reasons: stress, anxiety, grief, or everyone. He once took $40 out of his bank One of the most famous quotes of all time relationships, to name a few. In March 2017, account to pay a fellow classmate's is from Mahatma Gandhi: "Be the change the Robbie Dean Centre took 210 phone calls basketball fee because that child's parents you wish to see in the world." Most of us from people looking for help. They saw 166 couldn't afford it. Robbie defended that would have a hard time imagining what people in their clinics and they helped 45 decision to his mom saying, "The team needs doing that would actually look like, as others with grief support. They have clients him to play." Robbie had awesome grades, a inspired by Gandhi's words as we might be. ranging in age from 8 to 76. good job in which he was a definite leader, And to be someone who leads change, And one more thing: the services are free. and he was in the reserves. For 16 years, he whether you choose it or it chooses you, Free counselling. No wait list. was this great kid. For nine months, he was well, you better have some kind of thick skin "Nobody pays for our service," says someone else. to handle that. Monique, "and we never turn someone Monique still doesn't know what caused Monique Yashinskie became the 'change' away." her son to take his life, but she plays the she wanted to see in the world. It wasn't what That is the change Monique wanted to see "what if" game from time to time, wondering she set out to do in her life. It wasn't a role in the world because it might have helped her if she could have taken different actions to she had trained for or prepared for in any son, and the other eight local teenagers that get a different result. She'll never have an way. But someone had to do it, and she died by suicide in 2011. answer, and she accepts that in a way that became that someone. This is her story. The Robbie Dean Centre is named for only she can as Robbie's mom. But she also Officially, Monique is the Administrator at Monique's son: Robert Ruben Armand has a perspective that resonates with a lot of the Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre, "Robbie" Dean. Robbie took his life on people who find help at the Robbie Dean but that title is barely appropriate for her August 19, 2011. As Monique tells the story, Centre: she's been through it. Nobody tells actual role there. As the name suggests, it's a they were a normal, happy family at Monique that she doesn't understand. They place that offers counselling to anyone who Thanksgiving, and they were standing at know she does. And that's what gives the needs it. Their niche is that they operate like Robbie's gravesite nine months later. A lot Robbie Dean Centre instant credibility - its a medical walk-in clinic - but instead of can happen in nine months, but in Monique's leader is someone who gets it. physical help, they offer mental help. People case, a lot can also not happen. When Monique and her family were

HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 13 looking for help for Robbie, they did grandmother, her ex-husband's mother, who ision," she says, "and it was only a month everything they should have done. They went lived beside Robbie's dad. They spoke once a after Robbie died, so I was still pretty raw." to their family doctor who prescribed week. She also sent parcels once a week. She The Daily Observer wrote an article on medication for Robbie to help with his remembers the grandmother saying how Monique's experience of losing her son, and depression. It didn't work. They sought out happy Robbie was - he was eating well and a local counsellor read it. He asked Monique youth counselling, but Robbie was 16 years sleeping well and even had a part-time job if she would tell her story to an organization old - not a youth as per the parameters of that there. Monique was relieved. called West Champlain, in hopes they would program. So Monique and her husband, "I was truly happy that he was doing so see a focus on mental health as being Steve, signed up for a parenting course. It well," she says. something they could include in their On August 19, 2011, at three o'clock in the practice. She agreed. morning, Monique received a call from a "I wanted to give my problem to someone Nova Scotia constable. "Are you Robbie else and have them fix it," she says, about the area needing more mental health services that were readily accessible. But, Jeffrey Weatherhill, the No one pays Director of the West Champlain for our service and we never turn anyone I had to away. In March 2017, the Robbie Dean Centre accept what took 210 phone calls happened from people looking for help, saw 166 people in and it had to their clinics and helped 45 took six months to get off the others with grief support. have a purpose. ground, and when it did, the course was filled with young parents struggling with new babies, and who Dean's mother?" he asked. "Yes," she said. were mandated to be there through social "Ma'am," said the constable, "I have some programs. They did the course anyway. very sad news for you." They also got Robbie into CHEO after his Robbie had committed suicide. group, felt that Monique should be the one to first and second suicide attempts. The Robbie had accessed a gun from his fix it. It took a lot of convincing, but she counsellors there worked with him alone, grandmother's house, claiming it was to agreed, starting as a volunteer. After several and when they brought Monique in to hear shoot squirrels that were causing a nuisance months she told Weatherhill she just couldn't their thoughts, she was awe struck. They had on the property. continue. She had a full time job, a family made statements based on what Robbie Monique knows now that the dramatically and she just didn't have any more time to wanted them to know, not the truth. As improved behaviour is a 'red flag.' give. Weather-hill had a solution, "What if I Monique corrected the counsellors on the "If someone seems to be almost cured pay you?" facts, Robbie, sitting beside her, grew more overnight, you need to be questioning that To this day, Monique still can’t believe she and more angry. She wasn't going to let him because it is not normal," she says. "Robbie left a full-time job, with benefits and a get away with not being truthful. tried four times to commit suicide here and pension, to become the Administrator of the "The drive home that day was pretty he wasn't successful because his support Robbie Dean Centre. She remembers having awful," she says. system was too strong - family, friends, the conversation with her husband. Monique wrote a letter to CHEO with a peers. In Nova Scotia, he was in control." "I said that I could leave my job and this suggestion that their counselling include the Within seven hours of that phone call, could all flop," she says. "And he said two parent so that 'truths' can be confirmed. Monique, Steve, and Robbie's brother Justin, things. First, if you don't do it you'll always CHEO invited her to be part of a conference were at the grandmother's house in Halifax. wonder if you should have done it. Second, if call to discuss that further, and she obliged. They made arrangements for Robbie to be you get the carpet pulled out from There would be two more suicide attempts cremated, and they brought his ashes home. underneath you, we'll get through it." before Robbie decided he was going to spend They had a service for him at Holy Name So, she took a leap of faith. the summer in Nova Scotia with his dad. Church in Pembroke. “When Robbie died, I knew I could either Monique thought that might not be a bad "I think I hugged every single kid that went be mad at God or I could fall on my knees," idea - maybe a change of scenery would do through that line," says Monique. she said. "Faith was never something I him some good. She had prepped Robbie's A month later, Monique asked a counsellor actually lived. I was raised Catholic and I father on their son's depression and she from CHEO to come and speak in Pembroke knew what to say and when to stand and explained the medication he was to take. On about teen suicide as it was so rampant that when to sit. That was all. But I felt like there June 20, 2011, Robbie left for Nova Scotia. It year. He came, and Monique was was nothing else I could do and I couldn't was the last day Monique would ever see her interviewed on CTV News about the event handle it. I had to accept what happened and son alive. and the issues in the region. it had to have a purpose." Monique kept in touch with Robbie's "It was the first time I was ever on telev- In her new role, the first person she

HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 14 reached out to was Tom Sidney, someone criteria. The Robbie Dean Centre doesn't experience, "mistakes" as she calls them. CHEO had thought would be a good person duplicate any service; instead, they offer a When she is asked to share her story, she in Robbie's safety plan at school. Tom had service where none existed - the service of shares her "mistakes." not been hired by the school as a counsellor, immediate, no cost, mental health support. First, she admits that she bought into the so he was not permitted to have that role, They are built on short-term care which stigma of mental health. She thought people even though Robbie really connected with handles most issues, and for individuals with mental health problems came from poor him. Tom shared Monique's core belief that needing more support, they help someone backgrounds or abusive and addictive there were too many barriers for people who access those services. If it takes six months families and that they weren't from "normal" needed help so they started brainstorming on what the Centre could look like. They knew what they didn't want. They Monique and her husband, Steve, were not going to be another 1-800 number at home with Daisy and Mustang. and they were not going to be a "come sit in Emerg for 14 hours" model either, she said. They wanted to be like a walk-in clinic - short waits, immediate service and no cost. They pitched their idea to the Rotary Clubs of Renfrew County and the Rotary Clubs gave them $14,000 to get going. "The Rotary Clubs basically believed in a vision," says Monique. "They were the seed funding that got us to where we are today." The Robbie Dean Centre officially opened on June 5, 2013 with locations in Pembroke and Renfrew.

The biggest strength of the to get those services, the person stays with families like hers. the Centre until that bridge is available. It Second, she thought depression was Robbie Dean Centre doesn't matter their history. It doesn't matter something that could be treated like the flu. their age. It doesn't matter their needs. Take some meds and get some rest and you'll is the community. "You're not going to get turned away here," get over it. She minimized it. says Monique. "That's what happened to us Third, she felt as though she did not What makes us and I'll never do that to someone." educate herself enough about depression. Not surprisingly, it's making a difference. Had she done that, she would not have who we are, Since 2013, 152 suicidal people have come minimized its impact. through their doors. Their counsellors And finally, she believes she was not a are the people referred nine immediately to the hospital. strong enough advocate for Robbie. If she supporting us. They helped the rest. wasn't allowed to be in the counselling Despite those numbers, the majority of sessions with him, she feels she should have people coming to the Robbie Dean Centre made her own appointment with the are not suicidal. Monique says that most counsellor so she could talk about the people have stress or anxiety and are feeling situation and he could just listen. overwhelmed in their life; they are seeking “I didn't understand the seriousness of what Today, they have four locations, one full- help before it becomes a mental health issue. we were into," she says, "and I had denial time and two part-time counsellors and one In their short existence, they not only handle because I thought normal families don't go volunteer. After four years, they remain immediate mental health concerns, but have through this. But it's a story that too many entirely funded by donations from the also inspired people to seek them out to people are living. It is a real story. Robbie community. They earn $0 from government. prevent mental health issues from growing. was a real kid.” "The biggest strength of the Robbie Dean "At the end of every month I tabulate our What is also real, is that if Monique Centre is the community," says Monique. "I numbers, and when I see those numbers, it Yashinskie was any less courageous than she do one fundraiser a year. Approximately 30 make my heart beat a little faster," she says. is, the Robbie Dean Centre would not exist. more are done by other people. What makes "It still shocks me. I mean, it was so She has shared her most profound loss with us who we are, are the people supporting us." unnecessary to have to struggle for help for a the community, in hopes that we will never Some people think the Robbie Dean Centre whole year. There is no need for that. That's have to endure it themselves. This woman is shouldn’t have opened and that it competes just crazy. These numbers really validate that a gift to the world. with other mental health resources in the for me." area. But that's a tough argument to make to Through time, and in sitting around the a mother who sought out resources to save table with the counselling staff, Monique has her child and was met with wait lists and learned a few things about her own

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PARTICIPACTION HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 16 The Farley Foundation is a dental care isn't eligible for registered charity that assists funding. Other dental procedures Ontarians by subsidizing the cost Subsidized Vet Help like extractions are considered of veterinary care for their pets. on a case-by-case basis. The Foundation was established Ontario Veterinary Individuals whose pets require by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association veterinary care are asked to Medical Association in 2001. speak with their veterinarian The Farley Foundation about the possibility of applying subsidizes the cost of necessary for Farley Foundation funding. It or emergency veterinary care for is the veterinarian who makes the pets. In order to qualify for the application for funding, not funding, pet owners must be the pet owner. The Farley otherwise unable to pay for Foundation cannot recommend a needed veterinary care for their veterinarian, nor discuss funding pet, be a current client of an applications with pet owners. eligible Ontario veterinary To find a veterinarian, visit hospital and fall into one of the www.ovma.org and choose the following five categories: 5. Individuals receiving Veterinary Medical Association "Pet Owners" link and then 1. Seniors who are receiving financial assistance through the (OVMA). Funding is available "Find A Veterinarian." the Federal Guaranteed Income Ontario Works program. to subsidize the treatment of any ----- Supplement (GIS). In addition to individual help, animal whose primary purpose is ASK THE EXPERT: 2. Disabled individuals who the Farley Foundation also companionship, regardless of the Ontario Veterinary Medical are receiving the Ontario provides funding to subsidize the species of animal. Association Disability Support Payment. cost of veterinary care for pets The Farley Foundation will 1-800-670-1702 ext/10 3. Disabled individuals who owned by the following types of pay for non-elective procedures www.ovma.org are receiving the Canada facilities in Ontario: supportive or treatments. Routine physical ----- Pension Plan disability payment. housing, retirement homes and examinations, vaccinations, etc. The Farley Foundation 4. Women at risk of abuse who long-term care homes. will not be funded. Spays and 1-888-262-9811 ext.1 are entering a registered In order to be able to access neuters will not be funded, women's shelter in Ontario, and Farley Foundation funding for unless the procedure is essential www.farleyfoundation.org who are participating in their clients, veterinarians must to the continued health of the OVMA's SafePet Program. be members of the Ontario animal. General prophylactic

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HEALTH EXPERTS HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 17 the only organization in Ontario that trains and certifies Critical Care Paramedics. It also trains and Why This Mile certifies Flight Paramedics. The only Critical Care Paramedics in Ontario work for Ornge or the Toronto Paramedic Service. Of Runway In addition to being the direct location for air ambulance, the Airport also acts as the back-up for landings planned at local helipads. If weather conditions or patient Matters Pembroke & Area conditions make landing at the helipad unsafe, Ornge is redirected AIRPORTT to the Airport. For this reason, the 49 Years in Aviation. Airport is a critical part of the To You emergency plans of the local hospitals. The hospitals require the Airport to be their healthcare partner If you think the Pembroke & Area Airport for local people needing emergency doesn’t have much of an impact in your transport to specialized hospitals. The Airport is also a partner with life, we’d like to try and change your Quebec healthcare. In March of this year, a joint operation between the thinking about that. Quebec police and Ornge resulted in the rescue of a tourist, coordinated A Partner in Healthcare from the Pembroke & Area Airport. When you think about healthcare in Finally, Ornge often uses the our region, the Airport might not be Airport for refuelling, even if they the first thing that comes to mind. It don’t require it for patient transfer. does, however, hold a few roles in the As they are prepared to be called local healthcare system. anywhere in Ontario at any moment, The Airport is used frequently by that means being fuelled. Ornge; Ontario’s air ambulance If you’re wondering how often this operation. Ornge has both fixed wing service is needed, Ornge is at the (airplane) and rotary wing (helicopter) Pembroke & Area Airport 1-2 times a air ambulances that use the Airport. week. That’s 50-100 local people, Ornge paramedics are Critical Care and their families, benefiting from Paramedics (CCP). In fact, Ornge is this service every year.

Most people who are familiar with the Pembroke & Area Airport know it from when Pem-Air, a scheduled service to Toronto, operated from here. That service ceased operations in 2001, but that didn’t mean the Airport ceased operations. Today, the Airport continues to service 400 aircraft movements every month, nearly 5,000 a year, and most of it without anyone knowing. So let’s take a look at what happens here.

PEMBROKE & AREA AIRPORT HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 18 7,000 employees, and families, are taxpayers in all our communities. We are all proud to be the host region for Canada’s largest military base. A Partner in Education Every Sunday afternoon, a group of local students come to the Pembroke & Area Airport to take a charter airplane to W. Ross MacDonald School, a school for the visually impaired, blind and deafblind. The students reside at the school for the week and return to the area on Friday afternoon. This charter occurs every week in the school year. The charter is paid for by the Ministry of A Partner in A Partner in Tourism Education. Safer Communities and the Environment A Partner for You The Ontario Provincial Police Another service that the Ontario Local residents do not pay (OPP) use both helicopters and fixed Ministry of Natural Resources anything more for the services that wing aircraft in their operations. provides via the Airport is the wildlife the Airport supports in our region. Their use includes: search and tracking (moose and deer) and However, if the Airport was not rescue (SAR); support of specialized fisheries management. This service available for these services, that units; support during public helps the province determine fish would certainly come at a cost to our demonstrations; transportation of limits and hunting tags. Approximately local residents. For example, the cost personnel; advanced operational 8,000 antlerless deer and moose tags of not being able to support Ornge at photography; search and are allocated annually. In addition to the Airport would be an additional $1 containment of escapees; regional being a very popular activity among million in land ambulance costs. In traffic or crime initiatives; drug local residents, hunting and fishing are Ontario, land ambulance costs are eradication and evidence searches. key tourism draws to our region. split equally between the province In the list of missions where the OPP A Partner in Defence and the municipalities. One utilized the Pembroke & Area The Airport’s largest user is Garrison additional ambulance would add Airport, was the 2015 fugitive search Petawawa. Their special operations $500,000 to the tax bill of Pembroke for the man who took the lives of and tactical squadrons train at the and Renfrew County. That is an three local women in Wilno. Airport, and that training is critical to impact to every ratepayer. A Partner in Canada’s military role with the nation, Protected Communities and around the world. Garrison Pembroke & Area Airport The Ontario Ministry of Natural Petawawa also returns $540 million Phone: 613-687-5300 Resources and Forestry spent a lot each year to our local region, and their [email protected] of time at the Pembroke & Area Airport in 2016. The dry conditions necessitated daily tours to spot fires. Three helicopters were based at the Airport to respond to emergency situations. One of those was in Algonquin Park. Renfrew County has forests that are produce recreational, tourism and economic value to our respective communities. More than 100 forest product companies depend on the forests, half of which are on private land. Aerial surveillance of forests partner with local fire departments in all of our communities.

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By: Jennifer Layman Susan remembers spending 11 months of the Joanne, tutored her just so she could pass. It year skiing. Her life, she recalls, was only was an all-consuming commitment, and one You might say Susan Clifford has taken the about skiing. They lived at Camp Fortune that brought with it the prestige of being a "road less traveled" in her life. For the past which she found isolating and Susan missed world-class athlete and one of Canada's best nine years, she has been Reverend Susan five months of high school every year in on the ski circuit. Yet despite the medals and Clifford at St. John's Parish in Eganville, and order to meet her competitive schedule victories and podiums and notoriety, at Ascension in Killaloe. She is relatively which took her all over the world. Her sister, something was missing. new to the profession, having been ordained "Mentally, there was this great emptiness as a priest in 2005, but it's clear she has inside," she recalls. "I was just burned out. found her calling. Interestingly, her road to All of that effort; I just couldn't do it being a reverend started not on a road, but on anymore." a hill, a ski hill, in fact. On that ski hill, Susan decided to quit skiing. Susan Clifford was a member Canadian While she felt liberated by being able to National Ski Team. leave the sport that had consumed her every The Clifford family name is well known in day, she didn't really know what to do with skiing circles. Susan's father, John, was a her life now. She had a whole lot of free time racer, ski area developer, instructor and ski on her hands, and she spent some of it with resort owner. He brought snow-making the wrong crowd, doing the wrong things. At technology and the first all-steel T-bar lift to age 20, she had a breakdown. Canada. He developed hills such as Camp "Once I quit skiing I thought, "Oh my God, Fortune, Mont Ste Marie, Mont Cascades, I'm a mess!" she says. "I was no longer Carlington Park, Calabogie Peaks and Mount Susan, the skier, so who was I? I didn't know Pakenham. He has an impressive resume. what people thought of me because for so There is a biography written about him - many years I just had tunnel vision for White Gold: The John Clifford Story. Living skiing." your whole life at a ski hill, it was only Her learned discipline in sport let her know natural that Susan and her sisters, Betsy and that she had to do something so she decided Joanne, would get into the business of to go to university as a mature student. She competitive skiing, and they didn't enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program at disappoint. All three sisters were multi-year Queen's University. She dove into her studies members of the Canadian national ski team, and pulled herself together. She graduated and climbed to be ranked among the best in and headed back "home." the world. Betsy was a World Champion. Back in the Ottawa Valley, Susan started In the Clifford household of world class working at Wilderness Tours. Her sister, skiers, the bar was always set pretty high. Joanne, had married the owner there and the

HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 25 business was growing. It was a role that "I knew it was Jesus. I was so hungry for this England to join a convent, which she did, played to her strengths: drive, dedication and and I just received this with open arms. In staying for two years, learning lessons along performance so Susan poured herself into her this darkness there was this clear, blazing the way. She tells as story about being job there. She refers to it as being her light." assigned house duties in the convent and one "machine way of thinking" where it was 110 The next Sunday, she went to church of her jobs was to stack bread in the freezer. per cent all day, every day, no exceptions. before going to work at Wilderness Tours. Not thinking much of the job, she did it, but That lasted a while, but a senior Sister chastised her for eventually, it wasn't enough. not doing it right, and she There still needed to be started to cry! something more in her life, but what? The constant feeling of "not enough" and her inability to fill that void took a toll on Susan. She felt lost and unhappy and every day seemed to feed into those feelings. Finally, she didn't know if she could continue to go to bed and wake up every day to face the same

"This is pathetic! I can't even put bread in the freezer. I'm useless," she remembers thinking. "But that was part of the process of learning humility. I just had to not take myself so seriously, to go with the flow more and to trust." After two years, Susan unhappiness. It broke her. decided to move out of the "At the time I was suicidal," convent and into the she says. "I just hit the bottom. I community. She supported turned to God and said, 'Give herself being a caretaker on a me one good reason to live,' and housing estate. She learned how the word that came back to me to live with neighbours in close was love." proximity, something so Susan was not unaware of different from her upbringing at God. She had been baptized as a Camp Fortune. That was her child, but she never attended life, for a decade, before she church because Sunday was started to feel restless. She always a day to ski. Whatever started to get a familiar feeling - made her reach out to God that that there was something more does, she says it was an she was meant to do in her life. experience of the love of God That feeling guided her to the filling her, and that it was the ordained ministry; although to most natural experience in the be honest, she wasn't so world. She didn't tell anyone about her experiences. confident God was right with His direction "That was my first encounter with the She became driven again, and this time it this time. living God," she says. "That's what turned was to learn as much as she could about the "I thought, 'This is crazy. I can't be a priest,' my life around. I was going down and down Bible and God. The more she learned, the she says. 'You feel so unworthy. I can't write and down and that experience showed me the more she felt this was her reason for being. a sermon every Sunday.' way up." She was drawing from her skiing skills - For four years, she went back and forth on Susan didn't immediately seek out a perseverance, hard work, discipline and whether she should or shouldn't be a priest. It church. She just sat with that new feeling for focus - and putting it to a use that she felt was this battle between feeling called to a while, not really sure what to do with it. was her destiny. pursue it, and feeling unable to do it at the She felt she was on to something, she wasn't “Now I look back and it all makes sense," level she would expect of herself. It all came feeling so alone, but what was she supposed she says. "One thing I have learned is that full circle at the "Selection conference," a to do with it? Susan decided to just go about there is a reason for everything and a purpose three-day event where Susan was her life, as usual. for everything. I firmly believe that." interviewed and evaluated to see if peers in "A few years after that encounter, I heard In 1990, Susan moved to England where the ministry felt she was ready to be a priest. 'Come find me in my church," Susan recalls. she would live for 18 years. She went to HEALTH INTERVIEW HEALTH MATTERS MAGAZINE PAGE 26 "There has to be that spiritual call to make don't even say the Lord's Prayer anymore. If go to church then, but today, she is on the it work," she says. "It has to be in your heart. kids aren't taught about God, they won't have other side of that belief. She has walked the It's why people do a job they love." that as a resource." walk, so to speak, and she knows without And through her evaluation came a These choices we make as individuals and any possibility of doubt, that faith is tremendous learning. as a society are ones we are responsible for, necessary in our lives. "All along, this journey was all about she says. Our choices determine where we "We don't know our need for God," she letting go and trusting God," she says. "It's put our efforts, and there seems to be little says, "until there is nowhere else." not like skiing - it's not an individual effort for spirituality at times. Knowing God is necessary and trusting strength. And it went against everything I "We'll drive an hour and a half to a hockey Him does not automatically prevent hard had learned. But, when you go through this game, but we won't drive to church because times. They still happen. For two years, as a training, this formation, you re-learn to do church is boring," she says. "We have to priest, Reverend Clifford struggled with things that leave room for God to walk with build up our spiritual muscle. Not everything depression. She got through it on faith, you." has to be stimulating and entertaining. Those something she defines as "belief without 100

Susan was ordained as a deacon in 2004. values of patience, kindness, goodness, self per cent proof," that she would get better. At She remembers still feeling inadequate at her control - where are you going to hear about the time, she could not imagine getting ordination. She told an older, wise nun that these things unless you come to a church or a better, but she knew it was God who had she felt that she didn't know enough to be at Christian group? We are spiritual beings and helped her before, and she believed He, this point. She remembers the nun's advice: we are not doing enough for that." along with her own faith, would help her "You're probably right, you don't know To say Reverend Clifford feels strongly again. That was enough. enough. But you know enough to get about spirituality would be a significant "I really feel for people who have mental started." understatement. Maybe it's because of how health struggles," she says. "I know how Susan became Reverend Susan Clifford, a long it took her to realize the value of a isolating that can be and I know how hard it priest, in 2005. spiritual life herself that she pleads for others is to get through a day. If I could say "Life with God, well, it's night and day," to not miss out on that part of life. She something to someone who is struggling, I she says. "In terms of strength and mental encourages being part of a church because it would say to lean on God. Start immediately. health, God is the decision-maker. I don't provides a comfortable place to grow the You don't have to go to church, just lean on know how people do it without faith - belief spiritual part of your life. She says a Him. As that grows, it can lead you to in a higher power, something beyond relationship with God is like a relationship wanting to be in that community. I have ourselves, faith in general." with anyone in your life - you have to spend learned that God does provide. Each year I Living without faith is something Reverend time together in order for that love to grow. experience how much He has helped me and Clifford sees a lot of in our society today. When that love does grow, that is what gets each year I lean on Him more. I trust. I tell She notices that we live in a time where we you out of bed on a Sunday morning - to feel him, 'I need you even more God,' and he don't acknowledge the spiritual part of our that love and to share that love with others. comes through." lives. While we are physical and mental Reverend Clifford knows that for some, When Reverend Clifford talks about faith, beings, she says, we are also spiritual beings. spending time in church and learning about it's as if she is compelling you to listen to She find that people have completely lost God and "strengthening the spiritual muscle" what she has to say. Whatever we might focus and think that they don't need God. might not seem like it has much to offer. think that could accomplish on our own, it is "There are more things to do today on Susan Clifford was once one of those people nothing compared to what you accomplish Sunday morning," she says, "and it takes who also spent Sunday mornings aware from with faith. When a world-ranked athlete tells some effort to get out of bed and go to church, being a world-ranked skier. That you that, there is not much of an argument church. Plus there's political correctness - we might have seemed like reason enough not to against it, is there?

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