Ss, Castlegar News May 31, 1989 a FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP (A.C.O. Below Castleaird Plaza Phone 365-6317 PASTOR: BARRY WERNER * 365-2374 ~ SUNDAY SERVICES Sunday Schoo! 9:30 a.m Attend the Church of Your Choice! 14H Yuppie flu slowly CHURCH OF GOD 2404 Columbia Avenue Church School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m Pastor Ira Johnson * 365-6762 Morning Worship — 10:30 a.m. Evening Fellowship 6.30 p.m. Wednesday: Home Meetings 7 rp. Friday Youth Ministries 7 p HOME OF CASTLEGAR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 365-7818 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1471 Columbie Ave... Trail 364-0117 Regular Saturday Services Pastor Clift Drieberg 365-2649 2329-6th Avenve Phone 365-5818 PASTOR STUART LAURIE * 365 5278 LUTHERAN CHURCH -CANADA 713-4th Street ice 365-3664 PASTOR GLEN BACKUS SUNDAY Worship Service 9.0. Sunday School 10:15 a.m Youth Group 6:30-8 p.m Listen to the Lutheran Hour Sunday. @.m. on Radio CKQR 2605 Columbia Ave. REV. J. 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It's not the weather or her job or the state of world af- fairs that makes getting up each morning a chore for Rose It’s a cruel combination of baffling and debilitating illnesses that have joined forces to turn her body into a prison. Rose is a victim of two peculiar 20th-century diseases that are only to be illness and myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME for short, also known as yuppie flu and chronic fatigue syndrome Together, they've made Rose’s life hell. ‘Trapped in a small apartment on the outskirts of this southeastern New Brunswick city, the 37-year-old woman has no close friends, no living family, no job, no car and no money. A once-successfut music and language teacher, Rose now lives on $419 a month from New Brunswick welfare The ME has left her chronically exhausted — even get- ting out of a chair is tiring. And she has constant muscle pain and difficulty concentrating. Her force her to wear a face mask because of allergies to exhaust fumes and smoke. It’s difficult for her to be around people because perfumes make her choke and black out. Trying to find food free of chemical additives is an endless challenge. Over the years, Rose has seriously considered ending it all “‘It’s hard to bring your mental resources together to say, ‘I must goon living,’ because you really get to the point where you feel there is nohope,”” she says softly. Not only is Rose trying to cope with chronic illness and Poverty, she’s also locked in a gruelling battle for credibility: Although ME is betoming better known and now is being seriously researched in countries like Britain, Australia and New Zealand, it’s still eyed with suspicion in Canada. Rose has files filled with correspondence between her- self and various government and medical agencies. She has been refused disability benefits by the Canada Pension Plan because the federal agency doesn’t consider her problem “‘severe and prolonged.”’ She is about to ap- peal that decision arguing that both of her illnesses were not taken into consideration. alt OAKVILLE, Ont women aren't bothered by slugging through 10-hour days in the swelter ing sun, hauling bags of cement and wallowing in hot. sticky derstood Dr, Bryon Hyde of Ottawa has made ME his specialty. Its tired, sad victims — including Rose — are his only patients. “It's an immune disfunction disease’in which the immune system is not working very well,”’ he explains. “We find in these people that the natural killer cells, which are the first line of defence in the immune system, are either absent or not working “But we don’t know if the disease is due tg this or if this is due to the disease,"’ Hyde says researchers also don't know what causes ME but there’s evidence that the disease is caused by the same group of viruses that leads to polio. It got the nickname “yuppie flu”” because it often af- fects energetic, hard-working people. Often if follows an infectious disease, such as a gastric illness picked up while visiting aforeigneountry. Hyde has 300 patients in his Ottawa practice. He suspects there could be as many as 50,000 Canadians with ME That's why he’s not surprised that Rose has a difficult time getting official recognition for ME. Hyde says the medical profession is becoming more familiar with ME. If a doctor picks up ME at the beginning, the patient will almost always get better after staying in bed for about six weeks. DOCTORS HESITATE But doctors are reluctant to impose such a stiff rest regime and patients are loath to accept it. Many end up bedridden for months and then suffer relapses. **We're really.very much a work society and generaily speaking most Canadians are really hard workers and they won’ tet illness slow them down,” says Hyde. Rose suspects she has had ME most of her life It probably began following a serious intestinal infec- tion she suffered as a child when she was visiting South America with her family. The environmentat illness seems to have developed later in life. Neither she nor her doctors knows if there’s any connection between the two, separate diseases. While rest is the best she can do for the ME, Rose would like to visit clinics in the United States that have reported Success in treating environmental allergies. “It’s only the privately wealthy who can afford such treatment and the rest of us are left to rot,"” she says bit- terly Construction site stops stereotypes (CP) — These International Laborers Union, he won a $400,000 job development grant from the federal government to train women. smell asph- The laborets’ road-building local has 15,000 members — and fewer May 31, 1989 By The Canadian Press Some on i ion and in Canada: * “Nobody wants to take risks. Nobody dares say we should do something new, or something the Ameritans haven't done."’ Scientist Anthony Sun, commenting on much of the research being done in Canada, * “It doesn’t matter whether we invent the Wheel in Canada, What we want to learn to do is build wheels that we can sell to the rest of the world." Historian Michael Bliss on the need to apply research. * “1 don't believe that government can pick winners and losers and I distrust the steering effects of g . If people in g ment were wiser than people i the Private sector. they would go into the private sector and make millions.’’ Bliss, on the ork said needed on innovation role of government * ‘It's all very well for’ a committee to sit down and say the future of this country is in robotics. We just don't have the horses to do robotics and we're not training the horses to do robotics.’ Larkin Kerwin of the Canadian Space Agency, outlining the need for better education in science * “Canadian strategy for technology development has tended to be piecemeal, shott-term and not sufficiently related to clear industrial goals.'’ The Science Council of Canada describing Canadian innovation efforts. * ‘‘What from my perspective we most lack is the business side of the bridge. That's the toughest thing to put together. The biggest problem. from where I sit is lack of a bunch of successful entrepreneurs.’ Pauline Walsh of the University of Toronto's Innovations Foundation Heart centre opens OTTAWA (CP) — Solving the mysteries of the human heart is like trying to understand God, says the research director of Canada's new heart treatmgnt and research centre And Dr. Adolfo de Bold says there is a lot of work to be done at the. $17-million centre which opened week at the University of Ottawa Heart. Institute “Virtually no place im the world has the same combined research and clinical capacity,"’ says Dr. Wilbert Keon, chief of heart-chest surgery at the centre as Keon, who performed his first homan™~heart-transplant”in~1984, is Canada’s pioneer of artificial heart I love working outdoors with my hands,” says Diane Kraus, 25, as she saws a board of wood in half to form a cement curb. Unable to make than 30 are women. With an average age of 52 in the local, Ostrander said an infusion of new blood was needed. “We're missing half the populat- Gamblers continued from page C1 Others are worried too. - “Canadians don’t want to take risks, I don’t know why."’ Toronto businessman Will Hawking said in a recent interview. “The Japanese, for example, seem to have found a secret, bringing universities, industry and government together in a working relationship," said John Morton, a scientist working on superconductors — materials that can carry an electrical current with no loss to resistance Larkin Kerwin, head of the Canadian Space Agency and former president of the National Research Council, is another pessimist. R-D SKIMPY He points out that Canada’s spending on research and development has stagnated at about 1.3 per cent of gross national. product — the value of all goods and ‘Canadian strategy for cacneleey srg d ‘obe piecemeal, shor m one not sufficiently related toclear industrial — Science Council auneds report services produced by the economy — while competitors, such as the Japanese and West Gerrans, spend twice that “‘And have taken our markets in the process,"’ he says. There are Canadian innovators, of course. Spar built the complex Canadarm robot arm for the U.S space shuttle and is working on servicing bays for the planned NASA space station. Bell Northern is develop- ing imp icati rks. Canadian aircraft, from the sturdy Otter bush plane to the short-take-off de Havilland commuter planes, are used in many countries. shape in the labs of today. But will those technologies by exploited as they should? If the originators don’t do it, there is a world full of competitors waiting to step in. The Japanese, for instance, sell TVs, VCRs and facsimile machines although much of the basic research was done elsewhere Pauline Walsh runs the Innovation Foundation of the University of Toronto. In her modest office, decorated with plaques and awards, she says it's not the ‘Canadians don't want to take risks. ! don't know wh — Will Hawking, Toronto businessman research that's the problem, it’s finding the entrepren- eurs to take to market — the crucial final step. “I think the toilers in. the labs don’t necessarily have to be in Canada," she said. “‘You can get your technology from other places “What from my perspective we most lack is the business side of the bridge. That's the toughest thing to put together.”” What's needed? NEED PROMOTERS Walsh points to the hell-for-leather dreamers and sellers who built the aviation industry from nothing, or the hackers who built computers in their basements and made them indispensable to today's world “That kind of spirit isn't easy to find.’ Walsh suggests business schools should put more stress on starting rather than pi i button-down graduates looking for security in the embrace of some big, established firm Hawking, who together with partner Dave Cole runs a specialized media company in Toronto promoting new ideas, says too many Canadians end up running to the United States to find visionaries willing to gamble on a new concept. , In May 1986, he brought new life to Noe ila Leclair — Canada’s first artificial heart recipient, who today is healthy and leading a normal life. 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(A Province of British Columbia Ministry of Social Services and Housing Honourable Ciaude Richmond. Minister TOGETHER. A BETTER BRITISH COLUMBIA With a sharp crack, the wood breaks. Kraus's cherubic face peeking fr om under the red hardhat doesn't look like that of a person who can snap two-by-fours in half. But the stocky, muscular construction worker has no problem keeping pace with any man on her crew Despite the social stigma and the Kraus is one of 14 women training to be road-build ers under a federally funded prog- gram Last spring. Paul Ostrander, oper ations manager at Dufferin Construc tion Co.. decided it was time to change the industry's ‘macho im age.” With backing from road-builders long. sweaty hours. a Toronto association and the BAHA’I FAITH All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilizat- ion. 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