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Langley couple recounts month spent volunteering in Cremona, Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Langley couple recounts month spent volunteering in Cremona, Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary and Matt Wakutz served as ward nurses at Samaritan’s Purse emergency field hospital

Langley couple recounts month spent volunteering in Cremona, Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nursing students from Lower Mainland universities are volunteering to help health care workers during the pandemic with para-clinical tasks that can include filing paperwork to grocery shopping or childcare. Students from KPU, BCIT, UBC, Douglas College, Langara and Trinity Western University have signed up to help. (Sadaf Fahim/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Langley nursing students and Lower Mainland universities match volunteers with health care workers

KPU, UBC, BCIT and Douglas College nursing students form COVID response team

Nursing students from Lower Mainland universities are volunteering to help health care workers during the pandemic with para-clinical tasks that can include filing paperwork to grocery shopping or childcare. Students from KPU, BCIT, UBC, Douglas College, Langara and Trinity Western University have signed up to help. (Sadaf Fahim/Special to Langley Advance Times)
‘This is our fight’: Nurses bond

‘This is our fight’: Nurses bond

Health-care workers deal with stress and anxiety, but take strength from each other, community

  • Apr 25, 2020
‘This is our fight’: Nurses bond
Uli Beutel played his saxophone in honour of first responders each night for weeks in his Langley City neighbourhood. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: Musician plays to honour Langley’s health workers

A nightly sax solo is in honour of emergency response workers during the pandemic

Uli Beutel played his saxophone in honour of first responders each night for weeks in his Langley City neighbourhood. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
The BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) has made a $10,000 donation to Food Banks BC. (Black Press File)

BC Nurses’ Union donates $10,000 to Food Banks BC during COVID-19 crisis

Support comes as pandemic brings increased need for food banks, cutbacks in charitable donations

The BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) has made a $10,000 donation to Food Banks BC. (Black Press File)
Peter and Marcia Kent with their children, Ryder and Hunter, and dog, Koda. (Submitted photo)

COVID-19: B.C. ER nurse self-isolates in travel trailer, apart from family

Marcia Kent says situation is difficult but worth it to keep twin boys safe

Peter and Marcia Kent with their children, Ryder and Hunter, and dog, Koda. (Submitted photo)
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UFV student nurses offering respite to frontline nurses, care aides

Website helping to match volunteers with those who need help with daily errands

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B.C. nurses are asking for more stringent social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Canadian Press Photo)

B.C. nurses call for mandatory shutdown of all non-essential workplaces

Open letter to provincial, federal governments says current measures are insufficient

B.C. nurses are asking for more stringent social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Canadian Press Photo)
TWU nursing students raise funds for Kenyan hospital

TWU nursing students raise funds for Kenyan hospital

The students are working for the summer at the small rural health centre

TWU nursing students raise funds for Kenyan hospital
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