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SUN STAFF

Grass fires out of control
resulted in the Castlegar Fire
Department responding to five
calls in March

Castlegar fire chief Gerry Rem
pel said he also received two
complaints from residents about
smoke from neighboring burns.

“Smoke affects neighbors
Watch where the smoke goes
There are people with medical
problems and nobody wants theur
house full of smoke.”

Rempel also recommends that
before burning grass residents
should consider the wind speed
and direction and should, have

Think before burning

warden hoses and hand tools
available should the worst occur,
Rempel said this is particularly
important now as conditions are
extremely dry

“People should have sufficient
equipment to keep the fire con
tained at all times.”

Rempel suspects that most of
the fires have been set by youths
and reminds parents that they
coyld be held financially respon
sible for damage costs

‘If it should happen to
encroach into the forest then
you'd be having to call out heavy
equipment and such, I wouldn't
like to look at a bill like that, let
alone civil suits that could be filed
for personal property damage.”

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Wednesday, April 12, 1995

Wednesday, April 12, 1995

The Castlegar Sun

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Corneal transplants now in Kootenays

SUN STAFF

Residents of the Kootenays will no longer
have to travel fo the coast for corneal transplants.

Trail Hospital and the Trail Lions Club
have worked together to enable patients to
now receive corneal transplants in Trail.

Dr. Michael Quinlan performed two
corneal transplants at the hospital on two
women, one in her 60s and the other in her
70s, on March 31 and April 1.

Rick Riley, chief executive officer for
Trail Hospital, applauded the Eye Bank of
B.C. for choosing to supply thé hospital with
comeal tissue

“We are very pleased that the Eye Bank has
recognized the capabilities of the Trail
Regional Hospital's physicians and nursing
staff to provide corneal transplant services to
the West Kootenay region.”

Riley also credits Barn McMahon of the
Trail Lions club and its members for support
ing the initiative and donating funds to the hos

pital to purchase equipment for the surgeries.

Without the support of the Lions Club, ini-
tiation of corneal surgery at TRH would have
been very difficult.”

Corneal transplant is a surgical procedure
in which donor tissue is transplanted into the
eye of a patient who has corneal scarring. In
most cases, corneal transplant restore vision.

The B.C. Eye Bank administers the corneal
transplant program for the province with those
requiring transplant being put on a waiting list
which is currently two years long,

Getting to the root of it! Certified dental assistant Linda Walker shows Castlegar Primary School students the
effects of cola on teeth by displaying a tooth that had been. soaked in pop. After one day the tooth showed dis-
coloration. Members of the Central Kootenay Health Unit toured the area last week educating students about
good dental health in celebration of Dental Health Month.

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in already tight quarters they'll continue to recycle.

AT WHAT AGE
SHOULD MY CHILD
SEE A DENTIST?

the child's first 20 teeth have

two and three years-of age. In
C., children under the age of
three are offered free first visits

Most dentists agree that the
first visit should take place one

erupted, when they are between~

by participating dentists
Children receive an office
orientation and a visual check
of their teeth, while parents
learn how to best take care of
their child's teeth. Usually the
morning is the best time for a
first because

visit young

children tend to be most
cooperative when rested.

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positive experience. Don't build
it up into a big deal, but don't
spring it on him or her either.
Let your child know that going
to the dentist is a normal and
interesting event. Ideally, you
will have taken your child along
with you on one of your regular
checkups so that they can
observe first hand the
procedures that take place. You
may also consider asking your
dentist or librarian for a book

AND TARTAR HARM
MY TEETH?

If you watch television or
read magazines then you have
probably heard of plaque and
tartar. It may be, though, that

April is Dental
Health Month

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their first checkup.
To learn more about caring for

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for your copy of the First Teeth
booklet c/o of the College ot
Dental Surgeons of B.C.. Suite
500 - 1764 West &th Avenu

you are unsure of just what they
are and what the differences is
beiween them. Plaque is a
bacterial film that forms in your
mouth and collects on your

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teeth. It can be easily removed

HOW DOES PLAQUE

You can keep
your teeth and mouth
healthy for a lifetime.

Make an appointment
with your dentist.

Proper care from an early age, including
brushing, flossing and regular dental visits

‘sare the keys to prevention.
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at home by brushing and
flossing between your teeth and
under your gumline. This needs
to be done thoroughly at least
once every day

Plaque which is allowed to
remain on your teeth for more
than 24 hours begins to harden.
This hardened yellow substance
is called tartar, or calculus
Once tartar is formed on your
teeth, only a dentist or dental
hygienist can remove it. In this
case, prevention pays. If you
are careful and remove the
plaque every day through
brushing and flossing, your
regular cleanings, at the dental
office will become quicker and
easier. More importantly, you
should be able to prevent more
like gum
disease, trom developing

April Dental Health
Month in Canada. For the
month of April articles will
be submitted by the Dental
Hygienist from the Central
Kootenay Health Unit. Mara
Sand and Joan Reiswig share
the responsibilities of the
Dental Program. They share
dental health and prevention
information with
communities in our area
Watch for interesting articles
with a Dental focus such as
nursing bottle caries,
teething, mouth care, gum
disease, denture care and
smokeless tobacco. Any
questions or comments,
please contact Mara or Joan
at 354-6300

serious problems

Our Community Cares about

DENTAL HEALTH

BREAST MILK —
CAN IT CAUSE
CAVITIES?

You may have seen
pamphlets on nursing caries or
bottle caries or ugly posters of
toddlers with rotten teeth and
wondered if breast milk can
cause Cavities.

Cavities are caused by
bacteria turning foods into acids
in the mouth. The acid actually
etches holes in the teeth.
Specific bacteria create the
acids from natural sugars and
starches in foods. It is the
amount of bacteria that is the
concern and how often the
bacteria are fed. The more
frequently bacteria are fed the
faster their populations grow,
and the more acid they produce

The amount of bacteria can
be controlled by: brushing
which disturbs their breeding
grounds - or by reducing their
supply of food. Since a’ baby
needs a frequently supply of
naturally sweet breast milk, the
easiest way to avoid decay is to
clean your baby’s teeth.

So remember even your
sweet litle babies need you to
clean their teeth and mouth.

For more information
contact the dental team at the
Central Kootenay Health
Unit 354-6422 or 345-6728.

Be sure to brush after every
meal. It will help keep your
teeth healthy for.a lifetime.

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KAREN KERKHOFF
Sun Staff

They’re off
and recycling!

Week two of The Great
Paper Chase has found sup-
porting businesses recycling
like crazy.

This week The Castlegar
Sun caught employees of Bud-
get Car and Ttuck Rentals at
the Castlegar
airport off-
guard with a
surprise visit.

The three
employees
on duty,

Helen

Nielsen, Kim

Richards,

and Vaughn

Urvald, were

enthusiastic

when speaking about the ease
of recycling office paper by
simply tossing it into a drum
provided by Trail EcoCentre.

Nielsen, Budget's manager,
said that until they started recy-
cling employees never realized
how much paper they actually
threw out.

“It's phenomenal the
amount of paper that was

, was hard to remember to toss

thrown away. And this is

great—we’ll save a tree.”
Employees say that when

they first received the drum it

their paper into it

“The first day we kept digging
the paper out of the garbage.”

But that quickly changed,
and now employees say they

are on-line
and appear to
be enthusiastic
about helping
the environ-
ment.
Now the
.Castlegar
‘office can
keep up with
the Kelowna
offices, which
Nielsen said
continually encouraged them to
recycle.

Of the 31 businesses using
the services of Trail EcoCentre,
18 are recent sign-ons through
The Great Paper Chase.

Since The Great Paper Chase
began, EcoCentre employees
now spend two days in Castle-
gar collecting paper as com-
pared to one day,

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Selkirk developing
value-added programs

SUN STAFF

j, Currently there are some 2,000
jobs in the province which can't
be filled due to lack of skills. But

‘the provincial government and

‘forest industry partners aim to
change that.

The provincial government,
Forest Renewal B.C., the forest
industry, and the University of
British Columbia have banded
together and invested $16 mil-
lion for training in value-added
wood processing

“This announcement is a major
step in training highly skilled,
Highly paid workers for B.C.'s
value-added sector,” said Premier
Mike Harcourt

Selkirk College in Nelson and
the University College of the
Cariboo in Kamloops are cur
rently developing proposals for
diploma programs in Wood
Products Processing Technology
and Furniture Manufacturing
Technology which will directly
link with the University of
British Columbia.

Harcourt said the UBC Centre
of Excellence in Advanced
Wood Products Processing will
be offering a continuing educa-

tion program targeting workers
and communities throughout the
province

Elements of wood science,
engineering, business administra-
tion, and direct industry experi-
ence will be incorporated into the
co-operative program along with
a new professional master's pro-
gram for advanced education in
wood products engineering and
new continuing education and
certificate programs designed to
meet the needs of the value
added industry

Continuing education pro-
grams will also be delivered in
collaboration with colleges, uni
versities and secondary schools in
the province

The centre will include a new
building and permanent equip
ment which will be financed by a
$7.4 million investment from the
B.C. Ministry of Skills, Training
and Labor.

Forest Renewal B.C.'s contri
bition to the program is $8.5
million. As well, the forest
industry has committed a
$200,000 annual contribution
for operations and the wood
products industry while the rest
of Canada will be contributing
$150,000 towards scholarships

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