KTW presents its annual Where Are They Now? series, in which we catch up with newsmakers of the past.
For 17 years, Deb Steele was the public face of the Kamloops Society for Community Living (KSCL).
And, having played centre for the Canadian national basketball team in the early 1980s, she was a readily identifiable face, as well.
Steele’s time with the agency as its community-awareness co-ordinator was her second stint in the River City; after four years playing on the national team, she attended Cariboo College for another four years, then headed out of town again for other challenges before joining KSCL in 1992.
These days, she’s plying her communications trade again but out of Edmonton, where she and her then fiance and now-husband moved in 2009, working with the Canadian Blood Services.
Basically, Steele said, she’s a member of a national team that deals with the media and public relations and
“I tell people to give blood. It’s in you to give.”
It’s a subject Steele-Kretschmer, as she is known now, is familiar with, having done her master’s thesis on the tainted-blood scandal that hit the country in the early 1980s and saw about 2,000 Canadians infected with HIV and another 30000 with Hepatitis C from tainted blood products.
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