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1987 Fire Season.

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AUDIT SERVICES

Invitation
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through a public tendering process.

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Daredevil prepared to die

By MARK BASTIEN

TORONTO — Dave Munday can't swim and he’s afraid
of the water, But that didn’t stop the 50-year-old mechanic
from snuggling into a plastic barrel and hurling epenett ever
Niagara Falls two years ago.

You see, he likes to live dan;

“Anyone can do it,” Munday says. “You i just have to get
in your mind that you're prepared to die.

‘That's what the earnest thrill-seaker did to prepare for
his plunge over the Horseshow Falls section of Niagara Falls
on Oct. 5, 1985. The feat cost him a few bruises and an
estimated $25,000 — including a $1,000 fine for performing

an illegal stunt.
READY TO DIE.

“I'm not afraid of dying. I'm prepared to die anywhere
at any time,” Munday said in an interview from his home in
Caistor Centre. Ont., a tiny community on the Niagara
Peninsula. “If you're not prepared to die, don’t do it.”

That's his advise to all daredevils: sky-divers, speed
skiers, even roller-coaster enthusiasts — people for whom
living without risk is just too humdrum.

Munday prearranged his funeral .before his go at
Niagara, his second attempt at the death-defying plummet.
His first was cut short by police who felt they were acting in
Munday’s best interests by plucking him from the water.

When he finally hurtled over the falls in his barrel,
becoming only the seventh — and most recent — known
person to survive the stunt, Munday savored every second.
In fact, he videotaped the plunge through a Plexigias
window of his barrel and saw thousands of tonnes of water
thunder over him.

“At the bottom it’s just like taking a car and rolling
down the road at hundreds of miles an hour,” he says.

Others might question the sanity of anyone seeking that
kind of thrill, but it’s a feeling Munday likes to relive.

Many people dream of experiencing the rush: of
excitement that comes with triumphing over frightening and
dangerous circumstances.

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For some, the experience never goes beyond a
two-minute roller-coaster ride in a safety-tested amusement
park, But for others, the stakes — and, they say, the thrills
— are much higher,

Psychologists have for years studied what makes some
people seek thrills.

Marvin Zuckerman of the University of Delaware has
even come up with a sensation-seeking scale that determines
how far people will go to get their kicks.

If you like to dive into icy pools, yearn to be hypnotized
and would rather have lived in swashbuckling eras long past,
then you're pi ly a thrill-seek: says.

DO IT AGAIN?

If you feel good after a thrilling experience, you'll likely
seek further risky adventures, says Lester Krames, a
University .of Toronto psychologist. However, if you're
shaken when the, ride is over — even if you liked the
sensation during it — you're not a candidate for further
thrills.

“The reaction you have after the ride intensifies over
time,” Krames says, while the sensation during the ride
disappears quickly.

That may be why Joe Stanley of Waterloo, Ont., keeps
finding new ways to get his thrills.

Stanley, a 25-year-old carpenter and sky-diver, likes to
parachute off things — the higher the better. He says he has
jumped off bridges, cliffs, towers and skyscrapers.

UP CN TOWER ~

Last September, Stanley climbed the exterior of
Toronto's CN Tower — the world’s tallest free-standing
structure — in hopes of having a really good parachute leap,
but was nabbed by police moments before his planned
plunge.

Although he says throwing himself off office buildings is
a “real good rush,” he admits it's a little scary.

“Bat everybody does things that are frightening,” he
says. “They see Scary movies or drive fast or steal or cheat
on their wives. It’s the thrill of not getting caught.”

Leif Nelson of Vancouver doesn't have to worry about
getting caught — his thrills are legal.

Nelson, 29, is a former competitive speed skier and
executive director of the International Federation of Speed
Skiing.

HAVE NO FEAR

Skiers fly down a steep, kilometre-long course and are
timed going through a 100-metre-long “speed trap.” Nelson
has whizzed through at more than 200 kilometres an hour.

“it's just like stepping off a moving train or like a jet
taking off,” says Nelson.” You have to be totally fearless.”

But even seemingly safer ways to get thrills, such as
white-water rafting and roller-coaster riding, can carry a
risk. Five people died on Canada Day in a rafting accident in
British Columbia and three people were killed at West
Edmonton Mall last year when a roller-coaster derailed.

SEEK FASTEST

The possibility of an accident doesn't faze coaster
enthusiasts Celia and Michael Horwood of Bramalea, Ont.
They've travelled across North America seeking the fastest,
steepest and most heart-fluttering roller-coasters, taking
tides on more than 200 of the beasts.

“The chance of getting hurt on a roller-coaster is in
between getting hurt playing billiards or riding an elevator,”
claims Michael Horwood, 40, who teaches music at a
community college.

Celia, 35, once vowed never to ride a coaster. Now she’s
game for anything that spins, loops and plummets.

SAVINGS
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UNITED NATIONS (AP)
— Soviet leader Mikhail Gor-
bachev proposed Tuesday
that leaders of the 15 coun-
tries on the UN Security
Council meet to discuss ‘how
money saved from disarma-
ment could be spent on econ-
omic development.

He made the suggestion in
a message read by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister
Viadimir Petrovsky to the
140-eountry International
Conference on the Relation-
ship between Disarmament
and Development.

“It would be useful to dis-
cuss in principle the prob-
lems of disarmament and de-
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ing of top leaders of member
states of the UN Security
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Canada is attending the
conference, and External Af-
fairs Minister Joe Clark ad-
dressed it Monday.

Gorbachev referred to the
U.S. action, saying: “Ob-
stacles erected by the op-
ponents of disarmament on
the road towards the con-
ference have confirmed once
again the interdependence of
disarmament and develop-
ment and the urgency of the
task.”

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iet government's

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West Germany are blocking
progress on arms control by
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shing 1-A rockets stationed
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with American warheads.
Moscow insists that the mis-
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Amazing Randi
gets healers

By LAURIE STEPHENS
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TORONTO — At first meeting, it's hard to imagine
James (The Amazing) Randi getting outraged about
anything,

The 59-year-old magician and escape artist, who
resembles a bearded leprechaun, leaps from one thought
to the next as those around him try to digest his wit.

But don’t let Randi’s quick humor fool you. He's got
the tenacity of a bulldog — once he finds his target, he
doesn’t let go. And that’s bad news for his No. 1 target:
faith healers and psychics.

For more than two decades, Randi, who was born in
Toronto and is now based in Florida, has used his
knowledge of magic to investigate people who claim
paranormal powers and take advantage of a naive public.

MONEY UNCLAIMED

He has a standing offer, dating back to 1965, of
$10,000 to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of
psychic powers, the occult or the supernatural. No one
has claimed the money.

Randi says his pet peeve is faith healers who claim to
cure diseases and solicit huge amounts of money on
television shows across North America. He says their
claims are false-and “an outrage.”

“People always ask, ‘Why do you bother to-do this?’ ”
Randi said in an interview during a visit to Toronto. “I'm
blowing the whistle. I'm saying, ‘Hey, this is what this
guy is doing — he's injuring these people.’ ”

Randi has garnered some prominent support for his
crusade.

In 1976, he helped found the Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal,
whose members include such noted American authorities
as Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner and Carl Sagan. The U.S.-
based group publishes its findings in the magazine
Skeptical Inquirer, which has a circulation of 42,000.

RECEIVED AWARD

Randi’s work was recognized last year by the
Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation, which gave him
an award of $272,000 US.

Randi said the endowment, spread over five years,

allows him to pursue his investigations full time and to
reimburse people who have helped him.

He also said he has been taken more seriously since
receiving the award. “My lecture fee has doubled and I've
got twice as many lectures.”

On the other hand, he finds it increasingly difficult to
finish the final chapters of his latest book — The Faith
Healers, to be published this fall — because of the
emotional aspect of the work.

“I get the names of people (at faith-healing sessions)
and two weeks later I call then and somebody else
answers the phone. They've died.

“You talk to the relatives and they say, ‘Yes, mother
died yesterday’ and you say, ‘Gee, I'm awful sorry.’

“Meanwhile, the relatives want to kill the guy (the
faith healer). She gave him everything in the bank,
mortgaged the house and they're left penniless. They
can't even pay for the funeral.

SELECT AUDIENCE .

Randi says faith healers avoid people with an obvious
physical problem or deformity, sometimes weeding them
out at the door before a sermon.

“The instructions are, when somebody comes in with
an organic problem — a broken arm, missing nose,
something like that — they go into the other room and
they never get seen by the rest of the audience,” he says.

Meanwhile, the healer picks a person in the audience
with a disease such as arthritis, “which, when you get an
adrenalin rush, it removes the pain,” Randi says.

“He stands them up and flaps them around, hits them
on the forehead in front of 20,000 people on television.
And they get all excited with the spotlights on them, they
get the adrenalin rush and they don't feel the pain.

“But those are the people out in the lobby afterwards
folded up in a fetal position, sobbing and moaning with
pain.”

Randi’s biggest challenge is trying to convince U.S.
authorities that faith healers are breaking the law. He
says he has approached police with what he claims is
evidence of fraud, but they have not acted on his claims.

“Oral Roberts says hundreds of thousands have been
healed in his ministry,” Randi says. “All I'm asking for is
proof in one case.”

Corn is a perfect com-
panion to a barbecued meal
as well as an inexpensive,
delicious treat.

But time is the enemy
where corn is

“Ideally, you should have a
pot of boiling water right
next to the corn stalk for
perfect corn on the cob,” says
Cheryl Creet, marketing
specialist with Foodland On-

since the natural sugar soon
changes to starch. Anyone
who has tasted old corn
knows that it’s bland, gummy
and sticks to the teeth.

PETERBOROUGH, Ont.
(CP) — More than 200 scien-
tists from around the world
are meeting at Trent Uni-
versity this week to discuss
the world's environmental
problems.

The sixth international
symposium of the Commis-
sion on Atmospheric Chem-
istry and Global Pollution is
held every three years, and
this is the first time Canada
has been host.

Current environmental
issues such as acid rain and
the effect of manmade chem-
ieals in the atmosphere — in-
cluding the destruction of the
ozone layer and the green-
house effect — will be dis-
cussed at the conference, said
organizer Dr. Doug Whelp-
dale of the atmospheric en-
vironment service in Tor-
onto.

The scientists began the
conference Monday by re-
viewing highly technical
scientific papers and data.

Acid rain and the green-
house effect — the buildup of
heat inside the earth's at-
mosphere due to excess car-

bon dioxide and other man-

Fantasy Gardens
keeps on growing

RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) —
A giant, lighted windmill
towers above the Fraser
River delta in the Vancouver
suburb of Richmond, drawing
visitors to the entrance of
Fantasy Garden World.

Perhaps the biggest at-
traction of the theme park is
its. owner, Lillian Vander
Zalm, wife of British Co
lumbia’s premier.

Bill and Lillian Vander
Zalm bought the 8.5-hectare
section of land three years
ago — before he returned to
politics.

Lillian set about develop. LILLIAN VANDER ZALM

ing the property. As well as
designing and building a
shopping area, she added a
23-bell carillon tower im
ported from the Netherlands,
a tea-house, a wedding chapel
and a large conservatory.

Achildren’s farm was built
adjacent to the main gardens
to house small animals, a
Noah's Ark, duck pond, pony
rides, bumper boats and go-
carts. A miniature railway
circles the kids’ section and
passes through a tunnel in
which a year-round Santa's
workshop is displayed.

BIBLE IN BLOOM

At the entrance of the Bib
lical Gardens sits what may
be the world’s largest floral
Bible, a room-sized concrete
structure made to represent
an open book with the words

. shuns celebrity label

I Am The Way spelled out
with flowers.

Over lemonade and cream
puffs at the tea-house, Lillian
— wearing her trademark
headband — says people con
sider her a celebrity

“I don't feel like one,” says
the vivacious garden owner,
“but the people treat me as
one.”

She says visitors often
seek her-out to pose for pic
tures. “It’s quite an honor for
them,” she added, with a
typically wide grin.

TOURS GROUNDS

Happiness is the password
at Fantasy Garden World.
Lillian’s smile seldom fades
as she takes a visitor on a
tour of the grounds in a
gleaming white golf cart.

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For maximum freshness
and flavor retention, plan to
use sweet corn the same day,
she advises.

Scientists discuss
environment issue

made gases — were “sur-
prises” to the scientific com-
munity in past years, said
Whelpdafe.

Now, with more know-
ledge, scientists are striving
to “understand how the at-
mosphere works chemically.”

Scientists, instead af facing *

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prises, hope to “anticipate

husks snugly wrapped
around the cob. The visible
silks should be dark brown,
shiny and dry. The older the
corn, the less silk on the cob.

“Don't pull down the husk
to/check for maturity. Peek-
ing isn't necessary and it
ages the corn,” she says.

Creet suggests holding the
cob tightly at the silk end —
the last part of the ear to
mature. If the corn is ready,
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Firm, round kernels indicate
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