ans Castlegar News september 10, 1986 GOING AT_SURREY HOSPITAL MY WAY? Selkirk College's INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS need rides to ond trom classes ‘on the Costiegor Campus 8:30 @.m. ond 5.30 p.m., Monday through — Friday from Ootischenia, Fairview ond South Costlegor. Please help. Contoct Lola or Gwen at 365-7292, local 346. SURREY, B.C. (CP) Five patients were poisoned at Surrey Memorial Hospital when they were accidentally fed disinfectant instead of juice. Hospital president Roger Bernatzki said one of the elderly patients, a 100-year casnscaacameus | old man, is on a ventilator, while a 78-year-old man_ is B ea *vinait as being don a “min KOOTENAY CASH CARRY HOMEGOODS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE Tues.-Sat., 9:30-5:30 China Creek Drive a Little to Save a Lot ute-by-minute basis.” The younger victims are in the emergency ward in ser ious but stable condition and a fifth is being monitored every 30 minutes in the ex tended-care unit, he said. Three employees suspended with pay the hospital investi the Monday aight have Bernatzki blamed the mix up at the Vancouver-area hospital on a: dietary aide who apparently mistook an improperly labelled jug of Hibitane for fruit juice. Bernatzki said the disin. fectant is similar in color and texture to fruit juice But no one noticed the mistake until nearly an hour after the disinfectant had been distributed to 24 Patients poisoned patients on the extended- care ward. A patient complained about the taste and the pink liquid was quickly confis- cated. Bernatzki said nurses first thought the liquid was soap and sent the five to the emergency department for a checkup. They were treated and sent back to their ward. But when the condition of the five worsened Tuesday, the 24 patients on the ward were sent for emergency treatment. Bernatzki said hospital staff were hampered in re- sponding to the mistake be- cause many of the patients on the ward are senile. _ He said a preliminary in vestigation has shown “it was a mistake, pure and simple.” Teacher guilty of sex offences VERNON, B.C. (CP) Elementary school teacher William James Cadden, 36, fas found guilty in county court Tuesday of 10 sex Kootenay Informatics at the South Slocan Junction has added a full line of computers) to their present lines of business and home computer systems [Tomnennraeasin |etans STARS Kootenay Informatics At the Playmor Junction in S. Siocon * Open 6 Days o Week offences in young pupils. Some of the victims’ mothers hugged each other and shouted “Fantastic!” after guilty verdicts delivered on seven counts of sexual assault and three of gross indecency Cadden, a bachelor whose mother is a Grade 3 teacher at the same school, was re manded in custody to Sept g five or his were 23 for sentencing. The offences occurred be. tween April 7, 1985 and Jan 9, 1986. Cadden was sus pended by Vernon school board Jan. 10. A five-day trial was told Cadden had students per form sex acts on him while he was seated at his desk. The victims — four 10 year-old boys and one nine- year-old — crawled under his desk while the 25-member Grade 4 class was in session. Some said they were afraid of their teacher and ashamed of what they had done. B.C. man jailed NANAIMO, B.C. (CP) Timothy John Crottey, 20, of Courtenay, B.C., tenced to life in prison Tues day in British Columiba Sy preme Court for the murder of Dike Victor MacMillan, 57 of Fanny Bay, B.C. Crottey pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after was sen pleading not guilty to the original charge of first-de gree murder. His sentence specified no parole for 10 years, .. . Court was told the victim was a homosexual who at tacked Crottey, a visitor in his Vancouver Island home. _tepionber 1.1106 Casthégiar News _ss i. COUNCIL GUESTS . . Mayor Audrey Moore of Castlegar (left) presents members of Job's Daughters with city of Castlegar pins at Tuesday's council meeting. Receiving the pins are (left to right) Victoria Job's gets Mayor Audrey Moore brating its 55th year in Tuesday night proclaimed British Columbia and the Sept. 13 Job's Daughters’ Grand Guardian Council of Day in Castlegar. B.C. has designated Satur The International Order of day, Sept. 13 as the order's Job's Daughters is cele {ficial birthday _ RRR BRR VANCOUVER (CP) © Steve Fonyo Sr., learned this week that his cancer is inoperable, said Tuesday he will probably not undergo chemotherapy to prolong his life “There is still no decisio jeyet, but Lthink we're 5 going to go in for it.” he said in an interview. “I! port © up to God's will He > “If I'm going to die, I'n ronmmnoccnscns going to die in dignity.” Fonyo, 58, said his son, Journey for Life Steve Jr. haken by the news. who cancer runner was Fonyo said his son tele phoned his mother, Anna, Monday following a Vancouver television re broke down and started to ery,” the father ee