Skills Tour at PIHC Highlights Rural Healthcare
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ShellbrookShellbrook ChronicleChronicle The voice of the Parkland for over 107 years VOL. 107 NO. 39 PMR #40007604 Shellbrook, Saskatchewan Thursday, September 26, 2019 www.shellbrookchronicle.com Skills Tour at PIHC highlights rural healthcare In the afternoon, students taking part in the Rural Skills Tour stopped by the car show and book launch being hosted by Parkland Integrated Health Centre’s long-term care residents. Community engagement was a key piece of showing students what rural healthcare has to offer. Students hoping for careers in health- cruit ones – out to rural areas to take during a traumatic code, assist with local recreation and housing, and also care got a taste of all that rural health- the stigma and scariness out of rural crutch walking, practice spirometry (a learned about the benefits of living in a care has to offer on Sept. 21, when staff healthcare, and show what all the ben- test that measures how well a patient’s small town. and volunteers at Parkland Integrated efits are and what life in rural Saskatch- lungs are working), and sharpen their Up next, they went on tour of town, Healthcare Centre (PIHC) opened up ewan actually looks like, living and suturing skills on a banana. and were tasked with filling in a Bingo the facility for a Rural Skills Tour. working,” explained Lynne Farthing, a “Once we had the volunteers in place, card of information about the commu- Hosted in conjunction with Sask- registered nurse at PIHC. and a schedule set up, then it was mat- nity of Shellbrook by stopping in at lo- Docs, the busy day saw 39 post-second- Starting bright and early in the morn- ter of making sure we had all the sup- cal businesses, or chatting with people ary students, and, for the first time ever, ing, the visiting students were eased plies organized for everybody, and on the street. one high school student, make the trip into the rural experience with a tour of making sure we kept the students busy As the afternoon wore on, the stu- out to PIHC for a day filled with learn- the health centre. After that, Farthing throughout the day so they had the most dents headed back to PIHC for more ing, practical experience, and commu- says, they broke off into small groups, bang for their buck,” Farthing said. community engagement opportunities nity engagement. and cycled through a series of skills sta- To provide the visiting students with with the long-term care residents, who “One of the goals of the Rural Skills tions to provide them with some hands- a more complete picture of rural life, were hosting a car show and launching Tour is to get students from a lot of on experience. the guests were treated to a lunch at a book as part of Special Care Home different medical and healthcare dis- At the four stations, students had an the Hidden Hills of Shellbrook Golf Week. ciplines – especially the hard to re- opportunity to hone their CPR skills Course, where they learned more about Continued on page 3 Search, stream, and browse with unlimited* rural fusion Internet. 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HELLBROOK ALES & 231 Service Road East SERVICE 306-747-2550 2 Shellbrook Chronicle www.shellbrookchronicle.com September 26, 2019 Phase two of rink renovations nears completion As kids lace up their through the new exte- have been managed a skates in anticipation rior and vestibule doors. little better.” of the arrival of hockey For starters, those doors Moving to the bath- season, one might take now have windows and rooms, a number of im- a peek inside the Shell- improved weather strip- provements were made brook Recreation Com- ping, for improved safe- with accessibility in plex and wonder how the ty and efficiency. mind, including taller facility will ever be ready In the lobby, new view- toilets, bars by the hand- in time. ing windows have been icap toilets and the uri- But Amund Otter- installed, and the im- nals in the men’s room, son, who has spent the provement is obvious. and higher sinks that al- summer overseeing the Pillars were removed low for a wheelchair to fit second phase of the to make room for more underneath. three-phase, $2 million glass, and the entire bay In the men’s room spe- overhaul of the rink for of windows was lowered cifically, the urinals were the Shellbrook Recre- by a brick, to provide a moved further apart to ation Project Steering better view of the action improve privacy, and the Committee, remains on the ice. stalls in both the men’s confident that every- “The sightline has im- and ladies’ rooms were thing will be complete New viewing windows in the lobby of the Shellbrook Recreation Complex will proved for people who repainted (a donation by by the tentative opening offer much better sightlines for those who don’t want to brave the cold. don’t want to be out Shellbrook Chevrolet). day of Oct. 16. braving the weather,” For privacy on the “If we play things back- about the work that’s vided them has been re- machine enters through Otterson said. women’s side, mean- wards from Oct. 16, we been done over the moved. (this is being handled by Elsewhere, the lobby while, the bathroom predict about five days spring and summer, and Other small items in- Parkside Welding), and a ceiling has received a door was replaced by a to manufacture the ice, the list of projects, both clude the removal of little painting. fresh coat of paint, and new L-shaped wall. This, which may or may not big and small, is exten- insulation, which con- On the subject of paint the walls will soon re- Otterson says, was also be the case because it’s sive. tained asbestos, from jobs, the new ice resur- ceive the same treat- for safety purposes. all new,” he said, noting There are, of course, the attic area above the facer will soon shed its ment, brighter, more ef- Elsewhere, both bath- that there will also be a the big ticket items for rink lobby, and the in- silver exterior for Co- ficient LED lights will be rooms received new LED 10-day cool down period phase two, namely the stallation of netting to op red, as the business installed, and asbestos- lighting, as well as brand before this, to ensure new floor surface, the prevent pucks from get- stepped up to buy the free insulation will be new tile that should that the new concrete low emissivity ceiling, ting lost in that area. naming rights for the installed in the attic. make life easier for em- slab doesn’t crack. and repairs to the old “I have probably 200 machine. In what was a surprise ployees. “Assuming there’s no penalty boxes and play- pucks in a box that came Most importantly, piece of extra work, re- “Staff will have a problem with the plant ers benches, which had out of that in the attic, though, the boards and moving the radiator cov- chance to clean it ef- or the new components, begun to sag inward and there are probably glass still need to be in- ers revealed a 15-foot fectively. Instead of just it should be fine.” overtime – with fresh lots that went out with stalled. After a slight stretch where no heat wall board and paint, it’s Guiding the Chronicle coats of paint, the play- the insulation that they delay in their arrival, was being provided be- impervious,” Otterson on a thorough walk- ers benches, in particu- got sick of straining out,” the boards were expect- cause the original de- said. through of the rink last lar, look quite different Otterson noted, adding ed to be in Shellbrook sign didn’t include an With phase two near- Thursday morning, Ot- now that the section of that no one will have to on Monday, with work element for the area – ing completion, Otter- terson spoke at length covered stands that di- climb up there anymore. hopefully commencing this explains why poor son says consideration Though much has al- on Tuesday. heating had long been a is already being given to TO CELEBRATE SENIORS WEEK, ready been done. There “It’s all there. It just complaint of many who phase three of the rink Shellbrook still remains much to do has to happen in the visited the arena. project, which will entail Senior Centre in the rink area, includ- right sequence,” Otter- That will be remedied the installation of solar is having a ing the installation of son said. with a new heating ele- panels. On that front, the furnishings for the Moving outside, the ment, the radiator cov- he says details are being penalty boxes and play- Shellbrook Recreation ers will be refinished, worked out, and tender Fall Tea ers benches, a quick fix Complex looks like a and, following another documents are being Dessert & Coffee/Tea for the overhead door whole new rink from surprise discovery, more prepared. Friday, October 4 that the ice resurfacing the moment you step fixes will be made to im- Currently, though, the prove efficiency. plan is to located the 2 to 4 PM “The zone valves were panels on the northeast Everyone welcome! 19094AB0 stuck open, so no mat- corner of the lot where ter what you did with the the former Parkland thermostat, it just kept Terrace long-term care providing heat,” Otter- facility once stood.