, A2_ Castlegar News July 6, 1991 * Infected” ticks bring Lyme disease to B.C. VICTORIA (CP) - Lyme dig- ease, a tick-borne infection that can lead to lifelong illness, can be taken seriously now that infected ticks have been found in British Columbia, a Capital = regional district health depart- the presence of Lyme until an infected ti as found. Victi suffer chronic fatigue and arthritis if the dis- ease goes untreated in the early stages. The disease has the same ment spoh said Thursday. The bacteria that causes Lyme disease have been found in 30 of 1,045 deer ticks exam- ined by the B.C. Centre for Dis- ease Control, said Dr. Tim John- stone, deputy medical health officer. That's an infection rate of almost three: per cent, up from the one per cent health officials initially expected. “The findings are negative in the sense that -we now know Lyme is around, but at least it has been quantified,” Johnstone said. Various support groups for Lyme victims argued with the Centre for Disease Control last year over its refusal to recognize y as many other illness- es, and diagnosis was difficult until B.C, labs found a test that's specific to Lyme. Another tick-borne disease, relapsing fever, also triggered positive results in early tests for Lyme. But genuine cases of Lyme are still rare_in British Columbia. Johnstone said a Lyme spe- cialty clinic set up in Vancouver has found only one patient who actually had the disease among 51 referrals. To date, 140 cases of Lyme have been identified in Canada. The majority, 100, have been in Ontario, with only 11 in British Columbia. wv SERVICES » On “RIDE OF YOUR LIFE" Castlegar Ambulance Service would like to thank the following for their support of the 1991 Ride of Your Life Program: 1991 Graduates of Stanley Humphries Sec. School Budget Rentals «Thrifty Rentals Castlegar & District Aquatic & Recreation Centre Castlegar Co-op Transportation Society SuperValu Panagopoulos Pizza Chevron i Kalesnikoff's Lumber Co. Municipal Emergency Program Gerry Rempel and Leo Sommers HEY, WHICH WAY? » It was out with the old and in with the new as Canadian Neon employees change the sign on the side of the Castlegar Safeway buliding Thursday afternoon. The work is part of a complete remake of the look of the buliding. CasNews photo by Ed Mills POLICE NEWS Castlegar RCMP nailed 115 drivers for what they term “haz- ardous moving violations” over a 16-day period in June. Those driving violations included speeding, failing to stop at stop signs and disobeying traffic signals, police said. RCMP stepped up traffic enforcement between June 10 and 26 in response to numerous complaints from Castlegar motorists. “Non-hazardous” violations, such as vehicle defects, added up to 17-more issued tickets. 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The RCMP said they have plans for similar traffic crack- downs in the “near future”, but wouldn't release the dates. eee A three-vehicle accident on Wedgesday sent five people to the hospital with undetermined injuries, RCMP said. A Toyota pick-up truck driven by James George Menzies of Castlegar was eastbound on Highway 3 approaching a stop sign at the construction on Kin- naird bridge. Menzies rear-end- ed a 1989 Fords pick-up driven by Phyllis Shinelly of Couer de L’Aine, Idaho. The Shinelly vehi- cle in turn collided with a Ford pick-up driven by Arthur Nazaroff of Castlegar, police said. Taken to hospital by ambu- lance were Menzies and his 17 year-old female passenger, and Shinelly and her 43 year-old and 23 year-old male passengers. Charges are pending, police ‘said. eee RCMP have obtained a Cana- da-wide warrant for the arrest of Cameron Lee McKay, 20, for- merly of Nakusp. Police are looking for McKay after he failed to appear in Castlegar provincial court on June 25. McKay faces five charges in connection with a fatal motor-vehicle accident last July on Highway 3A near Glade. Anyone knowing the where- abouts-of McKay is requested to contact the Castlegar detach- ment of the RCMP or their local detachment. Jobs remain at premium OTTAWA (CP) - Canada’s unemployment rate rose last month to 10.5 per cent from 10.3 per cent in May in a reminder the recession has not ended. The rate returned to its -March level after full-time jobs in the economy shrank by 46,000 — a near reversal of May’s figures — while part-time jobs grew by 21,000, Statistics Canada said Friday in its monthly labor survey. The agency said employment declined by 22,000 in Quebec, 8,000 in Newfoundland and 5,000 in Ontario. Employment continued to decline among young people. Since September, the percent- age of people aged 15 to 24 with jobs has dropped to 55.5 per cent from 59.7 per cent. It was a similar story in the United States, where thé Labor Department reported an unem- ployment rate of 7.0 per cent in June from 6.9 per cent the pre- vious month — a near-five-year high. “These serve as a reminder that riot all sectors of the econo- my are improving evenly,” said Philip Cross, chief statistician at Statistics Canada. Earlier this week, the Statis- Celkir ollege Your Access to Opportunity... Celebrating 25 years as YOUR Community College! tics Canada composite indicator — derived from 10 key fc Unless otherwise stated, all Ny adi d figures are ly ing figures — showed a small increase to snap 14 straight months of decline. Last week the gross domestic product showed a jump of 0.9 per cent in April — its biggest monthly increase since March 1988. But Peter Drake, senior economist at the Toronto Dominion Bank, said the unem- ployment rate also trails eco- nomic growth number and Fri- day’s increase should be no sur- prise. “When you look at the employment patterns I don’t think you see a reversion to the kind of thing that was charac- teristic when the recession was at its worst,” said Drake, noting a small increase in construction jobs. Michael McCracken, presi- dent of Informaetrica Ltd. of Ottawa, agreed, saying a three- month moving average still shows an unemployment rate of 10.3 per cent. “I see no big pattern emerg- 2.” Overall, there were 1.45 mil- lion Canadians looking for work in June. in Provincial unemployment rates rose in Newfoundland by 0.4 to 20.3 per cent, Quebec 0.5 to 21.0, Ontario 0.5 to 10.2, Manitoba 0.2 to 8.5 and British Columbia 0.1 to 10.0. Unemployment fell in Prince Edward Island by 1.0 to 17.3 per cent, Nova Scotia 0.2 to 11.9, New Brunswick 1.0 to 11.8 and Alberta 0.2 to 8.3. COURT NEWS In Castlegar provincial court, Kevin Barry Salekin was sentenced to six months in jail for assault. Salekin will also concurrently serve two-six month jail sentences for failing to comply with a probation order. eee Serge Popoff was fined $900 plus a $135 victim sur- charge for impaired driving. Intermediate Computer Users: DO YOU + Use a computer system in your business? « Want to use your system more effectively? * Need a course you can take on your own time at work or at.home in: Data Communications Information System Design Local Area Networks CASE Tools (LAN) Project Management Microsoft Windows Database Programmi Data Storage & Retrieval si SELKIRK COLLEGE invites you to advise us of your computer training needs by contacting Pam at 365-3364 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. Castlegar Campus, P.O. Box 1200 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 3/1 (604) 365-7292 Y ‘July 6, 1991 Castlegar News! A3 Health projects. attract | public by CasNews Staff Public interest and involve- ment in health and erivironmen- tal issues was stronger.than ‘ever in 1990, says the Central Kootenay Union Board of Health in its annual report, Shirley --Hunter-Oglow, Castlegar’s public health nurs- ing administrator, credited two Projects started last year — the Community Health Profile and the TriCity Health Promotion Project — forgetting the com- munity more involved in local health care issues. The Community Health Pro- file, completed earlier this year, is an overview of community health needs, the report says. Through questionnaires, Central Kootenay residents sup- plied the health unit with infor- mation and concerns related ifically to their i ties. The information was-then compiled and now forms a data base for special health projects to draw from, Anne Barkley, the chairman of the health board, said the health unit is already benefit- ting from the profile. “The community profile was really the stepping stone that has led to the grant we received for the Tri-City Health Promo- tion Project,” Barkley said. A grant of $298,600 was approved by the B.C. Health Research Foundation for the project late last year and has since been received. The tri-city project involves Castlegar, Trail and Nelson. Jane Fowler,—last- year’s board chairman, said more time and energy was needed from board members in 1990 to dis- cuss new ideas, like the pro- jects, and changes going on within the health i pressure among other things. DRILLING HOLES IN THE DAM CasNews photo by Ed Mills On the surface, It doesn't seem to be a great idea to drill holes in the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, but (from left) Ed Shatula, Christopher Kapelier and Sheldon Kapeller of Kani Foundation Technologies of Richmond were doing just that Tuesday, for the third time no less, checking the dam's water “We mies cent times last year, instead of the minimum of four,” she said in the report. One of those changes is AIDS, the report says. “School districts may need to ‘der the i ing probl of AIDS-over the next year and may have to struggle with such sensitive issues as condom machines in their schools.” Fowler added: during an interview with the Castlegar News: “Nelson and other school districts have already started to tackle the sengitive issues,” Unemployment rates show local improvement Castlegar’s average rate of unemployment for the three- month period ending with June was down 2.2 per cent compared to the previous three-month average ending in May. Over the same time period, Trail’s rate dropped one per cent, LOTTERIES These are the winning lottery numbers ‘for last week: LOTTO 6/49 July 3 6, 11, 15, 25, 40, 46 Bonus 12 EXTRA July 3 1, 31, 60, 88 THE DAILY July 4 Match 6: 670671, 002727, 228264. Match 5: 57568, 25142, 25322. Match 4: 6189, 6193, 6431. Match 3: 227, 211, 565, Match 2: 81, 96, 63. July 3 Match 6: 397914, 499308, 175684. Match 5: 45433, 47035, 78883. 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Under this new system, 1 ment rate was 14.1 per cent April, May and June compared to a 16.3 per cent average for March, April and May. Trail’s rate was 12.4 per cent and 13.4 per cent respectively. Castlegar is part of a Statis- tics Canada economic region that includes Nelson, the Slocan Valley, ‘Creston and the Columbi "8 average 1 Summer Concerts tn the Park ekuenmaeane ce This Thursday, July 11 MIKE WENNECHUK Ukranian and Russian Folk Songs sung by Mike Wennechuk who accompanies himself on the Ukranian Bandura. ee Free lunchtime concerts every Thursday 12 noon to 1 p.gm..at Kinsmen Park Bring your family, lunch, and lawn chairs Sponsored by the Castlegar Arts Council with the co-operation of the Castlegar News and CKQR Radio along with the City of Castlegar These concerts are made possible through the generous financial Support of B.C. 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