Delta Leader February 2011

the delta leader february 2011 ❙ b1THE DELTA LEADER FEBRUARY 2011 ❙ B1

WHY RELAY? P3 ••••••••••• JAZZED UP P4 ••••••••••••• GREEN FOR BEING GREEN P7

Boaz Joseph, ReporterSurrey North Delta Leader

He cooks for his wife Kim, hikes and bikes with her on the Boundary Bay dyke and is starting to get his running legs back. This summer, he'll be off to college in Vancouver.

Talk about a new lease on life.Last spring, George Keulen was near-

ing the end of his.At age 27, he was spending more days in

the hospital than at home, his mucus-fi lled lungs unable to fi ght off bacterial infec-tions that were the result of cystic fi brosis.

A nebulizer (face mask) fed clouds of antibiotics into his lungs, and he was on

24-hour supplementary oxygen to keep his body functioning.

He couldn't walk more than a few steps – part of deterioration that started in his early 20s. (In his teens, despite cystic fi brosis, Keulen had played hockey and ran track-and-fi eld.)

The big slide began in the fall of 2006, when his body couldn't fi ght a bacterial infection on its own.

He met the BC Transplant team the fol-lowing year to discuss the possibility of a double-lung transplant.

"They agreed that it was time to start looking into it," he recalls. "My health had deteriorated to a point where the trans-plant became the most viable option."

The work-ups began in 2008 – tests of every kind. By the end of that year, he was put on the organ waiting list.

There were a number considerations before getting on the list, he explains.

"You don't want to be transplanted too soon, but there's no knowing how long you will wait for your organ, so you want to make sure you're still healthy enough when you're wait-listed that you're able to survive the amount of time that you have to wait for the transplant."

Deltassist Family and Community Services pres-ents 'Positive Parenting Workshops'.

The free series takes place every Tuesday eve-ning, 6 to 7:15 p.m., at the non-profit organization's office in North Delta (9097 120 St.) until April 12.

Child minding is available if participants register a week in advance. Call 604-594-3455 for more details.

Whether you have visited the Emergency Room or had a loved one live at Mountain View Manor, Delta Hospital Foundation wants to hear your story.

Until Feb. 28, the foundation is collecting stories from people in the community about why they love Delta Hospital.

Everyone who submits a story—or poem, art, or videos—will be entered into a raffle to win $50 Tswwassen Shopping Dollars from the Tsawwassen Business Association.

Email [email protected] or mail Delta Hospital Foundation, 5800 Mountain View Blvd., Delta, B.C, V4K 3V6.

Do you have unrealized treasure in your garage?The Delta Museum and Archives Society is once

again hosting its Antique Identification and Apprais-al Clinic with well-known appraiser Al Bowen.

Bowen will identify and date objects, as well as provide a detailed history and verbal appraisal based on his 30-plus years of experience.

Rustle through your basement and dust off your collectibles for the bi-annual event, taking place March 5 at 4858 Delta Street.

Two sessions are available: 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Cost is $12 per person for the appraisal of two objects, with $5 per additional object up to two more. Space is limited. Pre-register by calling 604-946-9322 or stop by the museum. For more details visit www.deltamuseum.ca.

PICTURED George Keulen received a new lease on life. Evan Seal photo

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A Delta man gets new lungs from an anonymous donor

Register for free gardening workshops at McKitrick Garden running from April to September 2011.

For more information, visit our website at www.corp.delta.bc.ca/events

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Message from Mayor Jackson and Delta Council

How does your garden grow? Mayor Jackson wants to know!Great prizes to be won!

Mayor Jackson’s 3rd annual garden contest for all green-

fingered children living in Delta. If your kids are between

the ages of 5 and 16, encourage them to participate

and learn more about planting and cultivating food and

flowers. Plant a flower or vegetable garden

and send us a photo of your blooms or crops anytime

from August 1 to September 12, 2011.

Submit an entry form and photo by email to

[email protected] or by regular mail

to the attention of the Mayor’s Office at the address

listed at the bottom of the page, or drop it off at any

municipal recreation centre. To print an entry form and

find out more information about this contest for kids

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We want to hear from youPlease forward any questions or comments to Mayor Lois E. Jackson by email at [email protected], telephone (604) 946-3210 or mail to: The Corporation of Delta, 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Delta, BC V4K 3E2 www.corp.delta.bc.ca

Delta Gymnastics Facility Construction of the new, larger, purpose-built gymnasium next to

the Ladner Leisure Centre will be completed at the end of March with

gymnastics programs kicking off in late April. Stay tuned…a grand

opening celebration will be held on May 28, 2011. Further details

will be posted on our website.

South Delta Recreation Centre Gymnasium Conversion

Works to convert the former Delta Gymnastics area of the South Delta

Recreation Centre into a gymnasium for public use will be underway

this spring. The facility is expected to open fall 2011.

Upcoming Eventswww.corp.delta.bc.ca/events

Public Hearing

March 1, 2011 7:00 pm South Delta Recreation Centre

The Municipal Council of The Corporation of Delta will hold a Public

Hearing on the items identified below:

Item No. 1: Tsawwassen Area Plan Amendments

Item No. 2: Proposed Agricultural Land Reserve Inclusion Application

For more information, visit www.corp.delta.bc.ca/tap or call the Office

of the Chief Administrative Officer at (604) 946-3212.

Spring Break Camps for Children & Youth

March 21 – April 1, 2011

Looking for fun, safe, active and educational activities for your kids

during spring break? Contact your local recreation centre to find out

about tennis, art and other camps being organized or visit

www.deltarec.ca

Watershed Creek Fish Release

April 17, 2011 - 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Delta kicks-off Earth Week with its 9th annual fish release on April

17th. Bring your family and join us in the release of between 18,000

and 25,000 chum fry

into Watershed Creek.

Crafts, activities and

interactive presentations

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families to participate. We

hope to see you there!

Front row: Cllr. Heather King, Mayor Lois E. Jackson, Cllr. Anne Peterson Back row: Cllrs Scott Hamilton, Ian Paton, Robert Campbell and Bruce McDonald

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PICTURED Erica Byrne and her family at the 2008 Relay for Life in Tsawwassen. Left to right: Dad Eric, aunt Mireia Costa, Erica Byrne, grandmother Montserrat Costa, mom Margarita, who passed away in 2009 from cancer, sister Cristina, and aunt Montserrat Ramirez. The yellow shirts worn by Margarita and Mireia represent cancer survivors. Contributed photo

Why relay?Deltans celebrate, remember and fi ght back against cancer at the annual Relay for Life in May

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behind the scenesEditorialPhilip Raphael South Delta Leader, Editor 604-948-3640 ext. 122 [email protected]

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Kristine Salzmann, ReporterSouth Delta Leader

Why do you relay?It's a question often asked

of people who participate in the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life, an annual event held in communities through-out B.C.

For most, it's an opportu-nity to celebrate, remember, and fi ght back—celebrate can-cer survivors, remember loved ones lost to cancer, and fi ght back for a future without can-cer.

Tsawwassen's Erica Byrne has entered a team into the re-lay since 2006. Byrne, friends and family initially started the team because a friend of hers

was diagnosed with leukemia. They named the team after

her—Team Emily—and sadly, Emily Francis passed away lat-er that year.

This year, Emily would have been 24 years old. Byrne, 23, says in remembering and hon-ouring her friend, it's also a reminder that cancer touches people of all ages.

"I graduated from South Delta Secondary in 2005. Emily wasn't able to come to school that year because of leukemia—it was shocking that someone that age could be so sick," she recalls.

Team Emily continues to take part in the Relay for Life, but now they go to the 12-hour, overnight fundraising event

in memory of two women. In 2009 Byrne lost her mom, Mar-garita Byrne, to cancer.

"I relay because I will never forget these two amazing wom-en who have touched my life in so many ways," Byrne says.

She continues to take part in this particular cancer research fundraiser because of the unique overnight aspect.

The empowering 12-hour event serves as a reminder that cancer never sleeps, she says.

During the night, this year in North Delta, teammates take turns walking or running laps around the track. A Survivor's Victory Lap is a ceremonial lap dedicated to cancer survivors

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During National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, plan to participate in the “Walk, Run and Roll” Sunday, April 10.

Let’s bring the community together and help raise funds for Delta scholarships in Laura Szendrei’s name!

Registration is at Scottsdale Centre Mall on February 18 and 27. Pre-Registration is required.

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The Young People's Concert Series presents a full jazz program at its next concert tomor-row evening (Feb. 26) in Tsawwassen.

The series aims to showcase young per-formers in Delta and neighbouring commu-nities, and this month is no different.

The concert features South Delta Second-ary Grade 12 student Karalee Congo, who won 'Best Senior Jazz Vocalist' in the En-vision Jazz Festival, the "warm and sul-try voice" of Camille Garvey, and returning favourite Caitlin Toom whose sweet and or-ganic vocals will be ac-companied by guitar.

Also on the program is the Delta Commu-nity Music School's Junior Jazz Ensemble, which will perform several jazz tunes fea-turing their improvisa-tional skills.

From the Vancou-

ver Tap Dance Soci-ety's young perform-ing ensemble Tap Co. is member Alexan-dra Clancy, who has danced across the Lower Mainland and in tap festivals in Chi-

cago, L.A., and D.C.Tickets for the con-

cert at Tsawwassen Arts Centre (1172 56 St.) are $8 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more details, call 604-596-1025.

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PICTURED Camille Garvey is just one of the performers at the upcoming Young People's Concert tomorrow (Feb. 26). Contributed photo

Jazzed upLocal young vocalists, tap dancer, jazz en-semble on concert program who celebrate their

strength, courage and victories over cancer while friends and fam-ily cheer them on.

Another aspect of the event, the Lumi-nary Ceremony, is a chance for participants to honour loved ones by lighting candles at twilight set in translu-cent bags around the track decorated with personal messages.

"The whole event is truly a life-changing experience," Byrne says.

Team Emily aims to raise $3,000 toward cancer research this year. Supporters can donate to the team di-rectly or to the Cana-dian Cancer Society in general online at www.relaybc.ca (choose "Delta" under "Select your community"), or by donating the refunds from bottle returns to the team's account at the Tsawwassen Bottle Depot (5636 12 Ave.).

Or, register a team of your own.

Delta's Relay for Life takes place May 13, 7

p.m. to May 14, 7 a.m. at North Delta Second-ary School.

“We are encourag-ing past participants, new participants, can-cer survivors and any-one else in the com-munity to get involved with the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay For Life,” said Diana Beglaw, international Relay For Life Hero of Hope and pancreatic cancer survivor, in a media release. “You can sign up as an indi-vidual, a team captain or as a team member; everyone is welcome.”

Organizers stress the event is a non-compet-itive, fun experience for teams of up to 15 people.

Each year more than 400 communities nationwide come to-gether to fi ght back at Relay, supporting the largest cancer fund-raiser in Canada. In British Columbia and the Yukon more than 50 communities par-ticipate.

Since 1998, Relay For Life has raised more than $51 million in the fi ght against cancer.

Last year in B.C. and the Yukon, the event raised more than $5 million for the Cana-dian Cancer Society.

For event details or more information on participating, spon-soring or volunteer-

ing, call Fraser Val-ley West community fundraising coordina-tor Josh Leyenhorst at 604-837-6837 or email [email protected]@southdelta-leader.com

PICTURED At the 2009 Relay for Life in Ladner. This year's event takes place in North Delta. Kristine Salzmann file photo

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Keulen knew the risks."It is still a last-resort treat-

ment. It is a huge deal. It's not something just jump into and take lightly."

In February 2009, his right lung collapsed twice, and Keulen spent three weeks in the hospi-tal hooked up to chest tubes.

After that time, he had no reservations about being on the waiting list.

"My lungs were pretty much fi nished. Things were getting very serious."

The waiting wasn't easy. Moods wavered with stories of successes, and then dry spells, in the close-knit transplant community.

By mid-2010, his doctor gave Keulen four to six months to live, and he was already 18 months on the transplant waiting list. Any further delay would mean he'd be too weak to handle a double-lung transplant.

•••The dream-like day, Keulen

says, was a "beautiful sunny June morning."

At 5 a.m. two nurses burst into his St. Paul's Hospital room and said that BC Transplant had called – a set of lungs were available.

At 7 a.m., he was transported to Vancouver General Hospital.

For whatever reasons, surgery was pushed back several times during the day – each time sup-pressing raised hopes. He had heard before that 30 per cent of transplant calls were false alarms.

"It was all so surreal," he recalls, describing the day's events as thrilling, exciting and emotional.

At 9 p.m., he was ushered into pre-op to say goodbye to Kim and was then wheeled, movie-like, through the halls into a hustle-and-bustle room to see the table that he would oc-cupy for the next eight hours.

At a point like this, he ex-plains, "you have to let go of all your fears and misgivings and trust that it's the right thing to do and it's gonna work out."

••• It did.Keulen says there are no words

to describe how he felt just two weeks after the transplant.

He was off the ventilator six hours after the transplant, out of the ICU in 30 hours, and took his fi rst steps down the hallway 30 hours later – "which I could bare-ly even do before the transplant."

The recovery was diffi cult – he was tubed and lined like an oc-topus for the fi rst several days – but he felt confi dent about every step. The pre-transplant sense of despair when tasked was gone.

"Just the hope that trans-plants give ... the life that you can have afterwards is night and day. Anything that a regular

person can do now, I can do."Keulen, while living as nor-

mal life as possible, still faces a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs to keep his body from re-jecting the lungs, and must stay away from people who are sick, since his own immune system is weakened.

He was thrilled when a two-week cold he got last December stayed in his head, something he never experienced before, as colds had always targeted his lungs.

The immunosuppression also means that he can't go back to his old job on the family dairy

farm a few blocks away."Being amongst the animals

isn't a good thing," he says.Then there's the W-shaped

scar across his chest – he de-picts the surgical incision as opening the hood of a car – but he expects it to fade over time.

Keulen describes the lungs and the freedom they give him as a "gift" from their anony-mous donor.

"I wish there was a better way to describe the gratitude," he says. "It just leaves me so speechless."[email protected]

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Lungs a 'gift'

Out of more than 784,089 British Columbians, just 17 per cent of the population has registered with BC Transplant's Organ Donor Registry. On average, with 25,000 deaths occurring in B.C. each year, less than one per cent of those will happen in a way that enables organ donation.

By health region, the number of registered donors are as follows:• Fraser (which includes Surrey and Delta) - 222,162• Interior - 149,042• Northern - 47,448• Vancouver Coastal - 174,515• Vancouver Island - 169,200• Unknown - 21,722The Organ Donor Registry is no longer tied to drivers' licences,

says Lubna Ekramoddoullah, senior public affairs officer at the Provincial Health Services Authority. That sticker system was eliminated 10 years ago.

Ekramoddoullah says the public – more than 85 per cent of whom have no objection to donating their organs – still doesn't know how easy it is to register online.

"Maybe, like house insurance, it's one of those things that people just haven't gotten around to," she says. "Take the time to do it. It could save someone's life when the time comes."

For those with cultural or religious objections, the "Yes, I will" deci-sion can include restrictions to specific organs or the use of them.

No organs are "donated to science" through this process. BC Transplant, which works to send its message through South

Asian radio stations, also offers Punjabi language registration cards that can be received by calling 604-877-2240.

Organ transplantation can be the difference between life and death for some patients. For others it represents a total transforma-tion in their quality of life. For example, for a kidney transplant recipi-ent, it means freedom from kidney dialysis treatment – a treatment that is required three days a week for four-hour sessions.

Organ transplantation also has a long-term economic benefit in reducing patient care costs. The typical kidney dialysis treatment cost approximately $50,000 per year, while a kidney transplant costs about $20,000, plus about $6,000 a year for the immuno-suppressants (anti-rejection medication).

Three transplant centres (St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver Gen-eral Hospital and BC Children's Hospital) and six regional clinics (Victoria, Kamloops, Kelowna, Prince George, Penticton and Trail) have been established to treat patients.

Today in British Columbia, there are more than 370 people on the waiting list to receive a solid organ transplant.

BC Transplant is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and set a record in 2010 with 295 transplants.

To become a registered organ donor, individuals can now register online at www.transplant.bc.ca.

Becoming an organ donor

PICTURED Keulen describes his new lungs as a gift from their anonymous donor. Evan Seal photo

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Boaz Joseph, ReporterSurrey North Delta Leader

If bees fi nd food, so will you.That's the message of Feed

the Bees, an educational initia-tive and partnership between Delta's Earthwise Society and the Delta Chamber of Com-merce.

The two bodies are encourag-ing individuals, businesses and organizations to get involved in helping to sustain threatened bee populations, which are critical for plant pollination and subsequently, food production.

The project, which will roll out this spring, will educate the community about the im-portance of bee populations for local agriculture and ecosys-tems, and encourage people to take action to provide food and habitat for bees and other pol-linators.

Pollinating insects, essential tools in the growth of crops

such as nuts, apples, berries and other fruits and vegetables, have been in decline over the last several years due to issues such as pesticides, diseases and loss of habitat.

"One spoonful out of three put in your mouth is based on bees," says Feed the Bees co-chair Ian Tait, a volunteer at the Delta Chamber of Commerce. "The idea of not having those little buzzers around is stagger-ing."

Earthwise Society executive director and project co-chair Patricia Fleming says the Earth-wise Garden in Tsawwassen will host a series of workshops and special events, bringing in experts to teach visitors about pollination and what bee-friend-ly plants are best for residential yards.

Information will soon be post-ed on the website at feedthe-bees.org or earthwisesociety.bc.ca, and the campaign will

also involve social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and [email protected]

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PICTURED What plants are bee-friendly? Boaz Joseph photo

Green for being greenBurns Bog society the recipient of two grantsKristine Salzmann, ReporterSouth Delta Leader

The Burns Bog Con-servation Society has been the recipient of a lot of love so far this year.

The non-profi t organi-zation, whose mandate is conservation of Del-ta's peatland through education, recently re-ceived two grants rec-ognizing its work.

President Eliza Ol-son received $10,000 for the society as a top 10 fi nalist in the CBC's Champions of Change contest.

Olson said being named a "champion of change" was a very ex-citing experience. The

fi nalists were fl own to Toronto in January where they met each other and learned of their passions.

While she did not win—that honour went to New Brunswick's Bob Hayes for his work with street youth—her nomination garnered nation-wide attention for the environmental group plus the funding, which she said will go towards the society's legal challenge against the federal government.

In late November, the group launched a law-suit against the federal government, claiming it has violated a conserva-tion covenant to protect Burns Bog by allowing

the South Fraser Perim-eter Road to go forward, a highway currently under construction that will skirt the bog while connecting Deltaport Way to Highway 1 and the Golden Ears Bridge.

The conservation so-ciety was awarded an-other $5,000 grant in January from the TD Friends of the Environ-ment Foundation as the winner of its "volunteer engagement" category.

The foundation rec-ognized the society for being proactive in pro-viding volunteer op-portunities at its offi ce for people with special needs.

"The society creates an environment of comfort,

confi dence and learn-ing," the foundation said in a media release.

Olson said their volun-teers with special needs "are absolutely wonder-ful. They have become a very important part of our operation and we couldn't work without them. Every letter you receive from the society is handled by at least one volunteer and prob-ably more."

Olson added they are also proud of the volun-teer opportunities they provide for students, whether it be teens who need to meet volunteer requirements for high school to post-secondary students in related fi elds looking for internships.

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