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. The sprucing up of Castlegar's downtown, combine
‘with the expansion of Celgar, a new bridge that will provide

‘ easier access and better traffic flow, and the possibility‘of a
major urban park (Twin Rivers), will mean a great jump for-
ward for the crossroads of the Kootenays.

It will also provide economic stability in the future, giv-
ing tourists more of a reason to stop and spend some time
{not to mention money).

How many times have you heard people from out of.
= town say they could pass right through Castlegar and’ not”
+ know, really, where or what it was?

Plenty of times, right?

If revitalization is carried out no one will ever be able to

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Let’s not bungle it again.

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1) We all: know: about Pearl Harbour: what was,the
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2) Which American battleship still rests on the bot-
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3) The. Japanese are building an aircraft carrier, its
namesake was in the Pearl Harbour attack. What js it tod.
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5) What day of the week was December 7, 19412

Answers. .
1) Hickam and Clark fields were both hit.
“'2)-USS Arizona; in.a’ sentimental gesture, she

never been removed from commission.”

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tion to the mother fo make her aware
of the implications’ for the baby of
behviors or diseases that she may
have, They also give her counselling
to eficouirage her either,to change her
«behavior or seek help for the disease.
“In the J.C. Penney program,
‘aljed “Healthy Beginnings”,
employees are asked to contact
nurges from the Aetna Life and
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The story of Katie Crosby, the lit-
tle Port-Albemni girl who is presently
in Chicago undergoing treatment for
life-threatening dermatomayositis, is
the kind’ of;story which warms the
cockles' of everybody's heart. Here
is a'case, where the provincial gov-
emment has decided that the odds
don’t fayour a’ patient and has
declined to!invest in expensive treat-
ment outside the“country, a treat-
ment that is not available in BC.

So, the community gathers

; taises the money and sends

around,
2c) the:child-off for weatment. We sin-

cerely hope that everybody's dreams
are-realized and that the return of a
healthy ‘Katie Crosby brings a blush
to the bureaucratic cheek in Victoria.
All the same, I feel a certain
grudging sympathy for those mere
men who are called-upon to make
the:God-like decisions of who lives
ies, Treatment costs
i id money. is limited. So
i0 gets the resources? And what
treatments are you going to fund?
out this one. Suppose

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aX ose women who také ‘advantage

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ut child care. While‘the Penney

this service in the form'of a $100"

‘agement would all prefer healthy
‘\ babies to ill ones, the motivation for
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babies

sfect illustration of how bearing a
Fnancial responsibility in the health
care system, a3 elsewhere, causes
behavior that is socially desirable,
even though it might not be the pri-

mary intent of the economic agent
involved ly, one of the

this is

>not altruism, but rather that J.C. «

‘Penney bears the cost of medical

gram is too néw to’ know if it!” bills that sick:babies incur. The

Will be successful or not, ‘nearly 30

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things that we give up in our social-

ized health care system in‘Canada is

the sort of response which that
inl responsibility brings.

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two diseases are equally fatal. There
are treatments available for both, but
the treatment for one is cheap and
effective in 99% of cases, whereas
the treatment for the other is very
costly and saves one patient in ten,
It’s fair to say that custodians of
tlic public purse would probably be
able to justify treatments that were
both effective and costly, but to
spend a lot of money. on.a treatment
Ypere the chances are.slim - when
-Jdding-so-may cut into the budget
for more certain prospy well,

One of these days, some genius
is going to come up with a sure-fire,
no-fail, 100% cure for one of these
bad ones. The only problem is that
it is going to cost a million bucks.

That means that for a billion dol-
lars, you can save a thousand termi-
nal patients. That's roughly a quarter
of your provincial budget. You
won't want to be in health adminis-
tration. the day. after.that comes
about. If you're lucky, your first,cus;
tomer will-bc a photogenic child

tliey do end up making life-and

who acquired her disease in the most
i More like-

déath decisions on the basis of cost.
Most people can appreciate the
‘dilemma until it’s their child. Then
‘money is no object. Every one of us
would - and should - be the same.
_We are fortunate to live in an age
when medical science has made it
possible to cure things which once
carried off people in lange numbers.
Whooping cough, diphtheria, malar-
ia, cholera, consumption, poliomyeli-
tis} even pneumonia and certainly
influenza were once dreaded killers.
Now, we're almost casual about it.
“I won't be in today, I've got that
fly.that’s going around.”
In 1919, a flu epidemic killed
. two million people in Europe.
So it’s great. What's more, tam-
ing, even icating, these di

ly, it will be some reprobate who
having flouted every moral injunc-
tion and sage advice that he has ever
been given, has reaped the inevitable
consequences and now wants the
taxpayer to bail him out.

Alright, maybe it won't be a mil-
lion dollars. Maybe it will be a hun-
dred thousand. Maybe we will be
able to afford it. We'll soon know.
That's actually what they think it’s
going to cost to provide terminal
care to'an AIDS patient, once he
gets to the totally dependent stage
and it sounds like there’s going to be
plenty needing it.

Here’s the maths. It costs about

never exercised... It’s a lot of money.

Even a relatively quick exit in a
hundred days will be $40,000 in
hospital fees plus treatment and
that, ironically, is about what was
required to give Katie Crosby a
sporting chance at life.

And this, I think brings the whole
discussion to a point. Now pretend
that you're the deputy minister and

. you have $50,000. You only have

two cases. One is a homosexual
dying of AIDS, the other is“a ‘child
dying of something else. There is
a P a
small chance for the child. Who are
you going to spend the money on?
The reality in BC at the moment
is that the homosexuals get it.
We are providing care for them

Wednesday, December 4, 1991 :

Letters to the Editor. «

Dear Editor:) 3",

On the occasion of your first
anniversary, the Castlegar & Dis-
trict. Chamber of Commerce has
some comments for you.

In reference to the cross-bor-
der ing issuc, we

lication th

gh’the ,

Greetings from the Chamber

Ci

our p
mail, citizens have the opportuni-
ty to become more informed, 3... ;

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which to shop and live,

, The Sun has, provided particu- .,,
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President

A-p duction. is the

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“Ci 1 Market-

place", anew vehicle for local

dedi

ibuting the,

chamber newsletter not only to,

the Sun for its initiative of adver-
tising Canadian retailers only.
Various aspects of this policy
might be debated, but the fact
remains that the Sun has the
courage of conviction to support
local businesses in this manner
despite possible loss of revenue.
Free distribution to everyone
in the Castlegar area is another
plus for the Sun, By ivi

to p .
and increase competitiveness, As
this publication is distributed
throughout the Colville — Kettle

“1” for the money
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A xing from Annie’s

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those who exemplify business
P 1 dedication..to:

Canada in

Dear Editor:

Canada as we know it today is
in question. People are being
pulled and pushed emotionally
and intellectually over the future
of our country. Agendas are being
drawn up without much of a con-
sultation and real listening to
people. Institutions and organiza-
tions are being used for political
and personal ends one such orga-
nization is the Armed Forces.

For centuries it has been used
by churches and political parties
alike. The Armed Forces is the
most abominable initiation ever
invested by man, how many mil-
lions of people have been killed
and maimed and property lost
due to war. We recruit young peo-
ple into the cadets and teach them
military skills and a false glorifi-
cation and excitement of war. All
this in order to maintain an insti-
tution whose purpose is to mur-
der people.

There are i indi-

question

out over the Quebec separation
problem in Canada, How can we:
ever live in Peace when we have’:
Armed Forces, and’ people who.

are willing to.use them?.-We the
citizens of Canada have to send a
strong message to our leaders that
we want Peace and that we want
to work out our differences in a
spirit of peace and cooperation,
and if separation is inevitable let

us work out an agreement that is ~

beneficial for all parties.

If the people who now are
negotiating on our behalf do not
find a peaceable settlement
between people in Canada let us
gently remove them and find peo-

ple who want peace and coopera- *

tion to negotiate for us. Perhaps a
citizens movement dedicated to
peace, cooperation and justice
could be started.

T. Moukervd

viduals and organizations con-
templating and planning for the
possibility of civil war breaking

Thanks,
for ajob
weil done

Dear Editor:
I would like to take this
ity to thank you for the

as they die, but we are not prep
to spend money on a child who
might live.

I say this without rancor to the
Officials of the health ministry. You
can’t tum away desperately ill peo-
ple from a hospital, no matter how
they got sick. The officials have no
choice there.

But why do we feel less com-
pelled to spend a similar amount of
Mmoncy on the Katie Crosbies of this

ince?

$400 a day to
in a hospital. If there is.treatment

has been accomplished at no great
burden to the exchequer.

‘The down side is this. We continue
to be afflicted by heart disease, cancer
and most recently AIDS. Granted that
each-is preventable to a degree, by
healthy living. Nonetheless, these are
today’s killers and people are still

ed, that’s extra. So, if a fellow
is going to take six months to expire,
he’s going to require government
funding of 180 days multiplied by
$400, which comes to $72,000, Add
on the drugs and treatment and the
$100,000 figure is a tenable ballpark
estimate. So, pretend you're the
deputy minister in the BC Health
D

going to want their emp treat-
ed, even if they have smoked forty a
day for thirty years.

~So here’s what's going to happen.

Pp and you've got 1,000
full blown AIDS cases to deal with...
Thien add on all the dying smokers
and the people who ate lots and

Pp

Turning back to the matter of
expensive cures, where will it all end?
I can't imagine the people of this
province paying billions of dollars to
save the lives of people whose dis-
eases amount to self-inflicted wounds,
I would hope though that they would
always give a child a chance,

This is the medical question of
the day and we are going to have to
get an answer to it right smartly.
Quite apart from the financial con-
siderations, this is one blush we
should spare our bureaucrats.

ood gu

FEIT E
Vbe the programmers at CFRB
mow something-the rest of us

W else can you ‘explain their
ign to invite Brian‘Mulroney to
the Wally, Crouter Show Fri-
pming? ajapto:

straight rechtieat grounds i
you have to say Mulroney has

yitat if takes to make it
station's arenes

y Bri’
casteis with “New York voices, but
Wingham brains!" An apt comment, if
a bit-unfair to Wingham!)

, Anyway, Mulroney's got a deep
ining voice.

‘And like so many of us Irish
extraction, he loves to talk, and bam it
up. 2 R

So, on Friday moming be read the
weather forecast, kidded with Wally

and Bill and took a few pot shots at ..

what former US vice president Spiro

Aptidw used to call “those nattering “

nablobs of negativism” in the national
(ic, bleedin g beart liberal) media.”

,. teminded me of Pierre Trudeau.
“About 20 years ago when he was at

the bottom of the polls, he began urg-

centrating on local media might just
work,

. As “Good Guy Bri” yuks it up over
breakfast on moming across the
nation, Mr. and Mrs. Canada will dis-
cover he’s not really the devil incar-
nate. He's just a guy with a tough job
who is hounded day and night by

‘those nasty reporters with their cam-
eras and shotgun mikes.
+ His cracks about media “doomsters

(and gloomsters” strikes a responsible:
chord with some Canadians. For them, '

the’ nightly litany-of “bad news” has
become a.réason to tum off Barbara
Frum and tum on their wives instead.

ing Canadians pay no‘heed to those ~
: ice”? : who conjured

ming voices. Every-

sontalr Yitinst fit the
pre thal 20 yeu®ago: Tapplied

but didn’t pass} Bir audi-
years Peel a was an -

!euttéspondent frCHUM,

-to desparr-of news-

“Sorcerer” app:

of ignoring the national press and con-

/-But-you know, new-old tactic «
asked; ‘what: constitutes news? the:

b

+. But we.in-the:media don't invent,

yuks it up over the air

news editor would push back his green
plastic eyeshade, and explain: “If a
dog bites a mailman, that’s not news,
‘because dogs bit people everyday. But
the day your local posties bites a dog
-. Dow that’s news.”

And so it is with Mulroney and his
goverment.

It is not news that free trade us
working well for some companies.

That Corel Systems in Ottawa is
‘beating the competition hands down in
the Computer software market; or that a
‘Canadian company called Intemational
‘VeriFact is the world leader in comput-
er debit-card systems, ~
i» But itis news when people are
thrown out of work align eoeapeiiies
in traditional industrics close down
Becalise ae sant adapt.
;uI’s tough, big guy, but that's'j
Us And if you missed Friday's broad-
“sx. The way Brian's got it worked out,
he'll be on a moming show near you
Often between now and the election in

excellent media coverage your
newspaper has provided for
Selkirk College during Co-oper-
ative Education Appreciation
night. (PROFILE, Wednesday,
November 13, 1991, In Support
of Co-operative Education.)
On behalf of myself, the
department and college, your
work is appreciated

Dexter MacRae

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