Castlegar Ne May 26, 1985 Celery linked to cancer VICTORIA (CP) — celery is good for you, but Fresh don’t touch any that is bruised or spoiled — it may cause skin cancer, says a University of Victoria -re- search team, Supermarkets often re- duce the price of spoiling celery and advertise it for use in soups, or mix it with other vegetables and sell it at a lower cost. High concentrations of sun- sensitive natural chemicals that have been tied to skin cancer were discovered in celery showing signs of rot, say the team's findings, pub- lished last month in the British Medical Journal. Michael Ashford-Smith, a cell biologist who heads the project, still has pi your acivertising dollars do better in THE BUSINESS DIRECTORY Accounting | Blinds Brian L. Brown OGLOW’S PAINTS & WALLCOVERINGS 365-6214 tion sears from testing a spoiling piece of celery on his forearm. After gently rubbing it on his forearm for one minute and exposing the area to sunlight for five minutes,t he skin blistered and remained irritated for three weeks. The patch was noticeably pigmented and itchy for three months. . The team found high levels of chemical compounds called psoralens in damaged celery. Psoralens, which are light- sensitive, belong to a group called forocoumarins which can alter DNA and cause other cell changes producing lethal or mutagenic effects. “The photocarcinogenic (cancer-causing) properties of furocoumarins after either topical application or inges- tion are well documented,” the report said. It is not known whether prolonged contact with dam- aged celery and sunlight will cause cancer, it said, but given high concentrations of psoralen, “the possibility must be considered.” Ashford-Smith, now at Cambridge University in England on a sabattical leave, worked on the project Desler CERTIFIED oe GENERAL — ACCOUNTANT SUPERIOR Window Covenng Products 270 Columbia Ave. ph 365-2151 ; Chimneys SOLIGO, = RUMFORD KOIDE UMFOR & JOHN DA sepce Sorang CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 615 Columbia Ave. (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. 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A smile signals the young woman's desire to work “Sometimes it's difficult, sometimes it's easy; it just depends on what we're doing.” said Richardson, 19 Richardson applied for the seven-month vocational training course offered by the mentally handicapped association after completing an initial assessment A job is as important to a handicapped person as it is to you and I,” said Donna Blad on, a job placement officer for the association. At the end of training, you expect to have some thing and you expect to go out the work force. 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Steve Fonyo completed a dream he has refused to let slip away this afternoon when the curly-haired high school dropout dipped his artificial leg into the Pacific Ocean at the south end of British It marked the end of an almost incomprehensible feat — crossing Canada from sea to sea with a prosthesis Fonyo feature, photos Cl! he was 12. attached to a stump of the left leg he lost to cancer when The unassuming young man, who turns 20 next month, has raised more than $7.5 million for cancer research, education and patient services. I can say is I finally got here.” Thousands of well-wishers lined the route, shouting encouragement, jostling against police to get close enough to take pictures, and reaching into their pockets to fill the boots being carried by local firefighters During his 14-month Journey for Lives, covering 7,924 kilometres, he has formed an emotional bond with millions of Canadians, and has discovered in himself an ability “to do what I say I'm going to do.” He walked 23 kilometres down the Saanich Peninsula north of Victoria Tuesday, joined by his parents and the girlfriend he met while crossing Alberta. “I knew it (the finish) was going to come, but I knew it was going to take a long time,” the Vernon youth said as perspiration ran down his tanned cheeks. “I didn’t realize it was going to take this long, but all Mounties clearing the way. ‘SHOWING YOUNG’ done,” awaited Fonyo’'s arrival. collecting donations to the Canadian Cancer Society. There was a diverse mix of people along the road, but as always it was children who stood out — though some of the little ones couldn't see Fonyo though the crush of traffic, media photographers, and track-suited “He's really showing the young people what can be said grey-haired Marjorie Todd as she eagerly “And we depend a lot on young people to help us today. There is a lesson for young people in just what can be done — courage, determination and stay with it.” , During the day, Fonyo — whose education was disrupted by his cancer — became an honorary graduate of Parkland high school as 2,000 students applauded. STEVE FONYO . dips toe in Pacific Fonyo completes dream run Picket lines up outside WKPL By CasNews Staff Workers at West Kootenay Power and Light, representing two unions, picketed the utility for the third straight day today with no sign of an end to the strike. The 190-member International Bro- therhood of Electrical Workers and the Office and Technical Employees Union with 84 members set up pickets at West Kootenay offices Monday after the latest round of labor negotiations broke off Saturday night. IBEW business agent Al Oliver said today in an interview from Kelowna that the union pulled its crews out of the control rooms at 10:30 p,m. Saturday and pickets went up Monday g morning. In a prepared statement the IBEW said pickets were set up after six . including mediator Richard Longpre, who was also the mediator in the recent Cominco negotiations. The union said the company reduced its money offer from a zero per cent wage offer in the first year of the contract and four per cent in the second and third years to zero in the first year, a 2.75 per cent signing bonus in the second year and a 2.75 per cent wage increase in the third year. The IBEW said the unions don't believe the wage offer is reasonable. id that since 1981 WKPL has its rate to the public by 91 yet wages have only cent, per increased 32 per cent “West Kootenay Power and Light is asking for concessions, despite the fact that all major employers in the region have settled without concessions,” the union said. The IBEW also said that WKPL's profits have gone up 65 per cent in the last two years. Meanwhile Mark Rippberger, bus iness representative for the OTEU said today from his Vancouver office that the union met for “two or three days” before they asked Longpre to book out He said the biggest problem are hours of work. He said WKPL is trying to “make everybody a shift worker.” Rippberger said money is also an issue though the two sides are not that far apart on that issue. A WKPL spokesman could not be reached for comment CASNEWS TO HELP STUDENTS By CasNews Staff Are you a student looking for a summer job, but haven't had any luck? The Castlegar News is here to help. Students 13 to 21 years old seeking full-time and part-time summer employment may place a free ad in the Student Placement section of the CasNews’ Action Ads. Students may offer their services for full-time or part-time jobs, such as babysitting, lawn mowing, hedge cutting or house painting. Simply phone the Action Ad number 365-2212. Students should be planning to resume their studies in the fall to be eligible HOLY CEL he com- munity celebrate Our niles of Fatima holy day with a candlelight procession Saturday evening. Procession followed mass at St. Rita’s Catholic Church and celebrates the story of the three shepherd children of Fatima, Portugal who reported visions of the Virgin Mary by an oak free in 1917 CosMewsPhoto by Dovg Hervey BY FEDERAL BUDGET Application unaffected By CasNews Staff application for $60 million in federal assistance with its lead modernization program will not be affected by the $100 million reduction in the federal budget for subsidies to business, Kootenay West MP Bob Brisco said Tuesday “Sinclair Stevens (Industry Minister) has indicated to me that the government wants the project together,” Brisco said. Brisco added he considers the funding “essential.” He also told a brief press conference at his Castlegar constituency office that he doesn't expect the federal funding to be a $60 million grant. “From the beginning I never did anticipate there would be a $60 million grant,” he said. Brisco has said the funding could come in the form of loan guarantees, low interest loans and grants over several years. And he added that he doesn't think the funding will Cominco’s to come tax concessions such as those for registered retirement savings plans and pension plans, the government may have to consider allowing the concessions only for those who do invest Asked what he likes best and least about the budget Brisco said he dislikes the tax increases, but added, “I can live with that.” He said the government has to walk a fine line between reducing the deficit without stifling the economy. “It's a balancing act.” He said he likes the provisions for portable pensions in the budget. The budget proposes to change private pension plans for one million workers at companies under federal jurisdiction so that they will retain their pensions if they leave the companies. Brisco said he hopes the same kind of plan can be negotiated with the provinces. Meanwhile, at the press conference, Brisco was asked come from the Industrial and Regional D: pI Program “It will be a separate plan,” Brisco said. He said negotiations have progressed “substantially” since company, union and municipal officials travelled to Ottawa in April for a meeting with the Mulroney government. Brisco said the Cominco application-would lend an “aura of financial security” to the area and provide a sign of “financial confidence” for local businesses. Asked during an interview just how many jobs will be created locally by the federal budget, Brisco replied, “That remains to be seen.” He said the government has provided small business with “generous” tax opportuni they requested. It is now up to small business “to carry the ball,” he said. Asked what specific business opportunities there are in Castlegar, Brisco responded: “There are business oppor tunities in every community.” He said he knows of several new business ideas. Brisco added that if investors do not take advantage of what the budget will provide for those without jobs and who are on unemployment insurance or have exhausted their unemployment benefits Brisco pointed to existing programs such as the recently signed $525 million agreement between Ottawa and B.( Brisco said the forestry sub-agreement of that pact should help areas like Kootenay West Kootenay West qualifies for special attention the agreement, he said. The agreement calls for $11 million to be spent on forestry in the first year, $22 million and second and $39 million th ethird year. He added that he is hopeful that proposed changes to severance pay for those thrown out of work in isolated areas will benefit towns like Nakusp and Nelson. Under current legislation, severance pay must be depleted before an unemployed worker can begin receiving UIC benefits. Brisco also said stable interest rates were important to small business in Kootenay West and that was addressed in the budget. under City backs training at DTUC By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar council Tuesday threw its support behind a plan to establish an Olympic Training Centre at the former David Thompson University Centre campus in Nelson. “Anything that can be encouraged in this area helps the whole area,” said Ald. Marilyn Mathieson. “This idea has some merit.” The City of Nelson and the Kootenai Education and Recreation Society have proposed the training facility. The city and recreation society are preparing a brief. to the provincial government pointing out that the DTUC facility has the “necessary elements of isolation, altitude, space and room for expan- sion.” The brief also tells the provincial government that there is a need in the Nelson area “for employment, and the service industries will welcome this application for the abandoned univer- sity site.” The brief suggests financing for the site could be made through major corporations, governments, sports fed erations and the Canadian Olympic Committee. “All major Olympic sports — both summer and winter — are possible in the Nelson area,” the brief states. “The great advantage of clean air, water, 96 miles of lake, ski facilities already existing, soccer fields, hockey and curling arenas, gymnasia, tennis courts, ete., as well as an existing site are positive indications that a Canadian Olympic Training Centre —inside EXERCISED YET? Today is the BIG day — The Great Canadian Participaction Challenge where Castlegar competes with the rest of the nation. This com munity started off better than last year, says recreation direc tor Pat Metge. The CasNews was there to catch today’s early action A2 NEW TRAIL: hiking trail into Deer Creek Falls SOME SURPRISE: WINNIPEG wrong with the film troversial film were ordered from tape should be located in the City of Nelson.” The brief also notes that the province has offered to lease the DTUC campus and its facilities to the city for $1 a year. The province has agreed to pay service costs if the city pays for maintenance, security and utilities. The brief was endorsed Saturday by the Central Kootenay Regional District board. Ip other council news, the city will again lok at a fee for garbage collection. The city plans to first find out how many homes have garbage collection and how many pickups are made. The garbage fee issue was raised last fall when council proposed to raise $72,000 to help offset the overall garbage collection cost. The traffic light at 17th Street and Columbia Avenue will be put on flashing amber all day Sunday and 6 p-m . - 8:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday council decided Tuesday The light change will be on a trial basis. “Not only have we cut down the mountain, now we're flashing lights,” Mayor Audrey Moore commented. The “mountain” is the bump at the CP Rail crossing at Columbia Avenue and 17th Street. The bump — com monly known as Moore's Mountain — was recently paved. A proposal to have a bicycle lane the length of Columbia Avenue has been turned down. The bicycle lane is cur. rently located on the southbound side continued on poge AZ BIG SELL: Federal Supply and Services Minister Harvie Andre was in Castlegar Tuesday to sell the new Tory budget A2 A crew on o Canada Works program has opened up a a4 Police in Winnipeg and Ontario ore trying to discover how X-rated sex scenes found their way into on an- ti-abortion film distributed by anti-abortion attivist Joe Borowski Borowski, spokesman for Alliance Against Abortion, said the sex scenes were discovered by one of his helpers after most of the tapes had been sent to local hospitals bishops, Premier Howard Pawley and others ‘One of the ladies in the office sat down to watch the tape soid Borowski, a spokesman for Alliance Against Abortion horrified because after about 10 minutes there were these scenes of nudity, semi-nudity, simulated sex and all kinds of things She came running to me and soid three Roman Catholic Arch- She wos 1 think there's something Borowski said 36 VHS and Beta-format videotapes of the con @ Toronto distributor earlier this month. Only the 15 Beta-format tapes were affected Borowski said it appeared that six minutes of smut hod been edited into each of the topes at precisely the same point in each