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| Canadian News for the Friends of St. John Ambulance
Holiday Season 2008 / Volume 1 Issue 4 |
 Osoyoos launches SJA CPR program to be Safest Community in Canada!
St. John Ambulance, Destination Osoyoos (its Tourism and Economic Development agency), the Town of Osoyoos (Canada's desert community) and other community tourism, businesses, high schools and civic groups kicked off the first-of-its-kind community first aid and CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) training initiative as part of national CPR month (November). The goal is to have the most citizens trained in CPR per capita within the next three years! Read More» |
| Karen Scott Saves Drowning Boy
In the summer of 2007, two teenaged boys were swimming across Williamson Lake when suddenly one of the youth began to struggle and was going under the water. The other youth tried unsuccessfully to help the drowning youth, as he was also being pulled underwater. Read More» |
| SJA Abbotsford Team Wins "2008 Business of the Year" Awards
These awards are dedicated to the entire Abbotsford Branch Team who are committed to improving the safety and health of our community, namely our dedicated volunteers, instructors, and staff. Here's why!
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Alberta Council Celebrates 125th Anniversary with New Museum
St. John Ambulance Alberta Council celebrated 125 years in Canada by opening the St. John Ambulance Provincial Museum in Edmonton on September 6, 2008. The museum, located on the main floor, is open to the public and students during regular business hours. Here, people can get a glimpse of how first aid, community services and The Order of St. John have grown over the decades. For example, the First Aid displays contain the first aid kit of Christopher "Doc" Atkin, the co-founder of the Edmonton Brigade from the early 1920s. The display also contains curiosities such as an eye cup, utensils, medicine, old photos, first aid manuals, and a rescue breathing trainer consisting of a rubber face and a set of lung bags. Read More» |
 Operation Rudolph Rednose - SJA helps people get home safely
This holiday season, the Ontario Safety League (OSL) and Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) team up with St. John Ambulance to once again offer partygoers and their cars a safe ride home in North Bay. Read More» |
| SJA joins major Canadian Forces and Emergency Management Ontario-lead mock disaster
 St. John Ambulance participated in multi-jurisdictional disaster response exercise - Trillium Response 2008 - to test the province's ability to respond to a full-scale disaster, in November 2008. More than 1500 participants representing 40 government and non-government groups worked together to test response capacity for a major ice storm, the likes of which devastated parts of eastern Canada in 1998. This involved the coordination of military forces [land, sea and air], police and fire departments, governments, as well as The Salvation Army, Canadian Red Cross and St. John Ambulance. Read More» |
St. John Ambulance supports major Urban Transit Security Exercise
 SJA volunteers and staff took part in a joint transit emergency preparedness exercise, known as TRANSGUARD I, in Coquitlam on November 23, 2008. The Government of Canada coordinated the exercise, which involved participants from the Province of British Columbia; the municipalities of Coquitlam and Vancouver; TransLink transit operator; and partners including St. John Ambulance. Read More» | |
