A special Town Hall meeting will be held May 14th at the 100 Mile House Community Hall.
From 7 to 9 that evening air quality monitors will be dispersed to those that have applied for one through the efforts of Carters Project and the BC Lung Foundation.
Amber Vigh, who’s son Carter passed away last Summer on July 11th from an asthma attack exacerbated by wild fire smoke, said at the time the closest Air Quality Monitoring Station to 100 Mile House was Williams Lake and still is.
“So we’ve teamed up the BC Lung Foundation and are bringing Air Quality Monitors into the small communities and towns across BC that don’t have accurate, up to date Air Quality Monitoring Systems starting in 100 Mile House. We will have 100 Monitors coming in so 10 of those are Outdoor Monitors and 90 of them are indoor monitors.”
Vigh said they are currently working on trying to figure out exactly where the best place for the Outdoor Monitors will be.
“In my opinion I believe that they should go at the schools around town, Horse Lake, Forest Grove, Lac La Hache, 100 Mile House. There are quite a few different areas that I think they should go just because I’m familiar with the community and kind of the needs that I believe we have.”
Vigh said talking with the BC Lung Foundation there have been 63 applications sent in.
“So 63 people in 100 Mile are hoping to have an air quality monitor in their home and a lot of them probably, depending on what area of town they are in are hoping for an outdoor one too for their area. The goal is give all 90 of those monitors out to people within our communities. My main thing around Carters Project is, yes I want these monitors out there. I want every town in BC that doesn’t have Air Quality Monitoring to have that.”
She said she also wants to bring the education surrounding the indoor air quality, outdoor air quality, asthma, all of the lung diseases how much they are all affected by the air quality.
“There’s so much more to it than just bringing these devices into town. There’s so much education that goes along with that and I hope that we’re able to convey as much information to everyone as we possible can,” Vigh said.