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The grade six school children
are soon to receive their third and
last hepatitis B booster vaccines.
Hepatitis B is one of five viruses
that can infect the liver

These viruses have been con.
veniently called Hepatitis A, B
C, D, and E. Péople who become
infected with Hepatitis A, D, or E
do not usually get chronic liver
disease

These last two viruses are not
very common in Canada. They
are mainly seen in travelers to
third world countries. People can
Swallow the virus by eating
unwashed food and drinking con
taminated water.

The health authorities advise
that travelers to parts of Asia and

The Hepatitis virus...

Africa get Hepatitis A shots
before they leave 1

Hepatitis B and C are a differ
ent story. A person cannot be
infected with Hepatitis B or C
viruses by eating contaminated
{pod. The viruses enter the bedy
through blood products or
through sexual intercourse, The
¥iruses grow in the liver cells
The body responds by killing the
liver cell. This damages the liver.
When enough liver cells are dam.
aged the person becomes jaun
diced and so looks yellow. They
are often'feverish and feel nau
seous.

Following the initial infection
the majority of patients will get
better (95 per cent). Most will not

go on to chronic hepatitis Only a
few (five per cent) get chronic
ongoing infection.

In these people the body does
not destroy all the infected liver
cells, so some viruses remain
Someone with chronic Hepatitis
is not necessarily very ill. They
may have mild damage to the
liver only and so have no symp
toms. Occasionally they may
have ongoing damage leading
eventually to a severely scarred
liver, ca}led cirrhosis. A small
number of patients with chronic
ongoing liver damage can get
liver cancer.

Although all blood is screened
for Hepatitis B and C (and AIDS)
before it is used, People who

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have been diagnosed with Hep-
atitis should not donate blood
The viruses are also transmitted
through sexual intercourse. Any
one having casual sex is advised
to use a condom to protect

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stick injuries. So too are close
household contacts where a fami-
ly member may accidently come
in contact with infected blood.
Therefore, family members
should all be immunized.

Health care workers, and
those in dentistry are at risk for
coming into contact with infect-
ed blood through their job
They should all be immunized.
Babies are at msk if the mother
has chronic Hepatitis. All preg-
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H B. If her test is posi-

against all sexually transmitted
diseases, including Hepatitis and
AIDS.

People with Hepatitis B or C
cannot pass the infection to oth-
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personnel are at risk from needle

tive her baby will be immu-
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virus. The piece is cultured in a
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The vaccine cannot cause Hep-
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By immunizing the grade six
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Golfing in the "Sugar City"

As spring approaches, the days
grow longer, and our thoughts,
inevitably, turn to golf! I am an
extremely poor golfer, but I do
love the game. I have huge obsta-
cles to overcome. However, con-
sidering my initiation to the
game, perhaps there may be valid
reasons why I am such a duffer.

We spent almost two years liv-
ing in the Fiji Islands, in Lauto-
ka, the “Sugar City” on the
western shores of Viti Levu, the
second largest of 332 islands in
the Fiji Group. Lautoka is also a
port city with a protected harbor.
Fiji Sugar Company maintains
their sugar loading dock, the
Japanese were adding a fish load-
ing dock, and we were there to
build a sawmill and a chip load-
ing dock.

The population of Lautoka is
spread out along the harbor, with
the residential areas ranging up
the folded hillsides. The harbor,
Nadi International Airport and
the International Resorts, of Den-

Coming the last week in April.

erau Beach lie to the south, ‘the
numerous resort islands to the
west, the towns of Ba and Raki-
taki to the north, and surrounded
on three sides by Indian and
Fijian villages.

re were a dozen Canadian
engineers assigned to the pine
mill project. The wives had been

employed in Canada but, with
high unemployment in the
islands, spouses were not granted
work permits and, in fact, we
were restricted from volunteer
work as well. Most succumbed to
the pressures to employ Fijian
household help so, with time on
our hands, many of us turned to
The Northern Club for swim-
ming, tennis and racquet ball,
bridge afternoons and, of course,
golf

I bought a set of well-used
clubs froma lady considerably
smaller than I, which should have
Tung a bell but did not. The Lau-
toka Golf Club boasted no golf
professional so “clinics” were
held to “teach” the novices. We
learned Australian and New
Zealand Rules, which are based
on the British, and we newcom-
ers soon learned all the “teach-

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ers” bad habits, and added a few
of our own.

I cannot adequately express
the depths of frustrations and
depression I experienced in
learning just to hit the ball,
except perhaps to someone who
has been there! Just learning to
keep my head down took me
weeks! I struggled on, deter-
mined to learn to play golf.

I realized that the Lautoka
Golf Course had a few features
that were not conducive to this
venture. Standing at No. | Tee,
you had to ignore the incredible
view, the lumpy fairway, the
Steep slopes to both left and right,
the wild treed rough on both
sides, and three gullies, before
the tiny green on the farthest tini-
est steep hill.

It was weeks before I could
even approach the green! I call it
“green” but it was hardly that.
Greens are difficult to keep that
way in the winter because of
southeast tradewinds that blow
from May through October.
While this is the most pleasant
time to visit the South Pacific,
the drier conditions turn soil into
something close to concrete

The course itself consisted of
very hilly, rough terrain. The
fairways, hardly “fair”, resem-
bled a cow pasture and, indeed,
since villagers bordering the
course, tethered cows and goats
on them, there were unpre-
dictable hazards.

On one Club Championship
Day, when matched with a
woman mach more proficient
than I, my sharp, true drive,
straight up the middle, bounced
to the right, hit a rock, dribbled
on down the right slope to the
edge where it came to rest just
inside tall grass. A cow grazing
there promptly walked over and
ate it!

When we had stopped laugh-
ing sufficiently to move, we
walked up to the cow who was
calmly chewing on my ball. Not
fearing animals, I gave it a
sharp rap on the nose. It spat out
my saliva-covered ball, which
rolled downhill into a hole! We
dug out our Rule Books and
looked up appropriate sections
but could find nothing remotely
close to the situation.

The Match Captain ruled I
could take relief by dropping
my ball within two club lengths,
no closer, to the pin! After I had
wiped the ball clean with my
towel, I did so and it positioned
itself quite nicely on a tuft of
grass. I took my six iron and
Placed my ball directly and
neatly into a field of sugarcane!
No one was more surprise than I
when the match actually went to
20 holes. Of course my oppo-
nent won! My sister, an avid
golfer, when she visited,
deci: the course lay
and we went snorkeling instead!

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Savor onions as a prime veg
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Time:.1 hr. 10 min
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2. tbsp. water

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1 tbsp. butter

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pinch of salt and white pepper

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Time: 1 hr.

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8 fairly large onions

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/2 lb. sausage meat

1 1/4 cups soft bread crumbs

1/3 cup light cream

1/4 cup chopped parsley

1/4 tsp. thyme

salt and pepper to taste

1 cup beef broth or consomme

1/2 cup dry white wine or chicken broth.

1. Scoop out the centre of peeled onions, leaving a shell
about 1/4 inch thick.

2. Chop enough of the centres to make 1 1/2 cup.

3. Blanch the onion cases in boiling water for 5 minutes
and tum them upside down to drain.

4. Ina skillet saute the onion in butter until it is lightly
coloured.

5. Add the sausage meat, crumble, and saute until it is no
longer pink.

6. Soak bread crumbs in the cream and squeeze. Add to
the sausage meat.

7. Simmer the stuffing, stirring for 5 minutes. Add the
parsley, sage, thyme, salt and pepper.

8. Season the onion shells lightly with salt and pepper
and fill them with the stuffing

9. Arrange in a buttered shallow dish and dot with butter.
10. Pour beef broth and wine over the stuffed onions.

11. Bake one hour in a moderate over (350 F) basting
occasionally.

12. Transfer the onions to a serving dish and pour halt
the juice over onion; sprinkle with chopped parsley

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Today I am at a loss. Yes, a loss
for words or subjects to write
about. Sometimes that iust hap:
pens, apparently labeled ‘writ
er's block”. So don’t mind me, I'm
just going to “wing it”.

As you've probably noticed,
most Of my columns although
laced with a touch of humor carry

Serious and at times subtle
sages, This brings me to won
der why on earth I am having diffi
culty coming up with a “mind
twister” for this week.

I realize that for some reason or
other I have decided to shut down
my brain, Yes, I know it happens
to the best of us. I know I have
bragged extensively about my self-
awareness in recent years. Howev-
er, there are just a few things I
obviously do not want to be aware
of at this time

It may have something to do
with the workload I've created for
myself both domestically and in
my business. My self expectations
are evidently very high.

My whole family seems to be
suffering the “brain dead” syn-
drome of late. For the two oldest
children, “A” and “R”, it comes
more naturally of course but usual-
ly we are not all that way at the
same time

The new baby probably has
triggered the most of it. For exam-
ple “R's” bedroom is adjoirning
the “monster baby’s room which,
now that I think of it, used to be
“R's” Room. (Nose out of joint).
And when little brother screams
for any length of time at night,
guess who wakes up too? So to
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“A” was generous enough to be
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because he wanted to sleep on the
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to know that our precious little “R”
would now get a full night's unin-

earlier from now on just to be sure
they would even get to bed. That
meant supper had to be prepared
earlier and oh dear) what chaos.
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