a2 Castlégar News Septembér 28, 1988 Arthritis is a painful disease By BONNE MORGAN Staff Writer Lana Halisheff is one of the more than 3.5 million people who has arthritis. The 29-year-old Castlegar accountant remem: bers having the symptoms about 10 years ago, but wasn't actually diagnosed or treated until just a few years ago. That's normal for people who suffer with arthri! according to newly-formed Castlegar Arthritis Society president, Deborah Chm: Chmara says there are 112 different types of arthritis and there are few doctors — none in the West Kootenay — who specialize in the disease. Halisheff has arthritis in her knees, elbows and jaw. But the knobby or disfigured joints that are often associated with the disease are absent. “When I first met Lana, I didn't know she had arthritis,” says Chmara. “Nowadays, when you begin looking at the younger aged people like Lana, that's greatly reduced because of the treatments.” In fact, Halisheff looks and moves as though she were perfectly healthy. A member of the Arthritis Society herself, she’s friendly and bright. Halisheff said she blamed symptoms on other things. “I hurt my knee or strained my elbow or you're just working too hard,” she said. “I had to force my doctor to actually get a referral to send me to a specialist, Chmara said one of the Arthritis Society's goals is to encourage more doctors to train as specialists in arthritis. The Castlegar Arthritis Society, which was formed in June acts as a support service for people suffering from the disease, as well as raising funds for researchand treatment. And Halisheff's arthritis still hasn't been properly diagnosed. “They still don't know what form of arthritis (it is),” she said. Halisheff takes anti-inflamatories and Plaquinol, a malaria drug which cleanses the blood. There are negative side effects caused by the medication. Halisheff suffers from nausea, head aches, dizziness and memory loss. She says her memory loss is not as severe as others; but there is also the risk of color blindness from the drugs, which she will take for the rest of her life. The four pills a day she takes are expensive about $100 per month — and she has been taking them for over a year. “In my case we're pretty lucky because my husband has pretty good medical (insurance),” she said. HOLA RRR Castlegar and District AQUATIC CENTRE “Some expensive.” There are diff kinds of anti-infl 'y drugs, according to Halisheff. The swelling is what causes most of the damage in the joints, Taking medication to keep the pain down is only part of the treatment for arthritis. Halisheff lists diet, exercise and controlling stress as factors, “Stress extremely important,” she said, “because it brings down the capability of the body to fight the disease.” “You're always fighting the disease and that's one of the reasons why I'm so skinny,” she said. Halisheff is supposed to avoid caffeine, sugar, alcohol, dairy products and citrus fruits. people can't afford it, it's very The ascorbic acid “forms little grains in the joints” acting like sandpaper and drying them out. Although it's important to stay healthy to fight the disease, Halisheff says its easy to slip from her routine and not do the right things. “You get so used to it and you get so used to the she said. Halisheff considers herself “lucky” she's not incapacitated with the disease. After having knee surgery she can walk up flights of stairs without too much pain. “I keep myself so busy that I don't think about it,” she said, “until you get up in the morning and you can't move.” LANA HALISHEFF . . with dog Koby Ruling won't affect WKP INFORMATION Everyone in Castlegar and Areas | and J will benefit by the proposed Aquatic Centre. This is the aim of the Castlegar Project Society. A year-round multi-use facility at the lowest possible price is the Society's goal. How does the Society see it affecting you as an individual taxpayer in the area? By the 1990 opening they hope the following will be a reality. Seniors will enjoy the whirlpool and the extensive shallow water. Families will use the facility as a group. The weight room, dance/exercise room, sauna or steam room will be used before a relaxing float in the pool or a more vigorous swim of laps. The separate wading pool will be used by families with tots. With wheelchair accessibility to the pool even confined residents will be able to relax in the warm water year round. The ample parking around the recreation complex will enable residents of Areas | and J to incorporate a therapeutic whielpool or a swim with their weekly outings to shop in Castlegar. If swimming is not their thing, grandpoarents will be able to relax in the viewing area and watch their grandchildren enjoy a safe and inexpensive form of recreation. With a year-round facility the Red Cross Water Safety program will be available to more people. This program is designed for gll ages to learn to swim and to be safe in and around water. There will be ample pool time so oldsters as well as youngsters can be included in the program. But how can we afford.this in the Castlegar area? The Society is working diligently to raise money to keep the cost to the householder as low as possible. They will continue this fund raising after the successful referendum. To date the Society has received pledges of $40,000 from the Castlegar Aquanauts, and $5,000 from both the Lions and the Rotary Clubs. The Castlegar Legion has pledged $5,000. The Kiwanis Club has pledged $1,000. Kerry Uchida raised $581 through a dance September 9. The Society is actively pursuing a provin- cial grant. Letters of support to accompany this application have been received from the Castlegar and District Development Board, Selkirk College, Mayor Audrey Moore, the Aquanauts, the Disabled Needs Committee, the Kootenay Region of the British Columbia Summer Swim Association, the Castlegar Legion, School District No. 9 and Chris D’Arcy. More endorsements are arriving daily. The Society is maki presentations to local industry to emphasize the soundness of the proposal and the value to the companies as well as to the community. The tax cost of 72 cents per $1,000 of accessed value to the householder is the maximum cost of this year-round facility. The members of the Project Society are taxpayers in the community and they are working hard to lower this assessment. The Society reiterates that a ‘yes’ vote on Oct. 15th will be a benefit to all residents of Areas | and J‘as well as those of Castlegar. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE AQUATIC CENTRE PROPOSAL AND HOW IT CAN BENEFIT YOU WATCH THE PROJECT SOCIETY VIDEO ON SHAW CABLE 10 Wednesday, Sept. 28 — 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 — 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2 — 5:30 p.m. ON OCTOBER 15 VOTE YES FOR THE AQUATIC CENTRE By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer A federal order requiring storage of PCB-contaminated material in heavy 16-gauge steel drums will not pose a problem for West Kootenay Power Ltd., says a company official. The storage regulations, an nounced last week by Environment Minister Tom McMillan, have given companies storing the toxic material 90 days to comply with the order. B.C. Hydro officials are upset be. cause the Crown corporation has been storing its PCBs, or polychlor- inated biphenyls’ in 18-gauge drums which aren't as sturdy as 16-gauge drums. But John Charlton says WKP does not have a problem with the order because it has been storing PCBs in Air Canada blasted for shipping PCBs OTTAWA (CP) — Air Canada showed total lack of judgment in shipping PCB toxic waste on its passenger flights to England, Trans port Minister Benoit Bouchard said Tuesday. “I was mad yesterday, I'm mad to day,” Bouchard told reporters as he went into a meeting of senior cabinet ministers. “In Canadians’ minds, is it.possible to believe we could put people with PCBs in an aircraft?” he asked. Air Canada met afl legal require ments in the shipments of PCB. cooled transformers to London's Heathrow Airport but, as a Crown corporation, it knows “there is some. thing beyond application of the law. It is judgment.” Bouchard said he will write to the airline.about the shipments and “I am not sure they will like the contents of the letter.” Le British MPs have demanded a government inquiry into the ship. ments — one in November and two in June — and want Air Canada banned from landing at Heathrow. The shipments were destined for a waste disposal company in Wales. Five of the transformers were from Air Canada facilities at Toronto's Pearson International Airport and 29 from Dorval airport in Montreal. An Air Canada spokesman said Monday the Dorval transformers were sent to Britain by sea but the five from Pearson were shipped on passenger flights He said Air Canada asked for per mission to send the transformers at FERRY continued from front page returned the purchase price of $1 sent by the group in July “Obviously the premier has the legal capacity to offer the ferry for sale,” said Dalton. Dalton has written the ministry reminding it of his client's legal position. “I do appreciate that you have returned my client's dollar bill, the sum which represented the purchase price,” says the letter addressed to Highways Minister Neil Vant. “I think you will find that the simple return by the seller of the purchase price, does not allow the seller to avoid his or her contractual obligation to the purchaser,” the letter states. Hogg says that to his knowledge the ferry was not offered to the group. “I know that the dollar was returned,” he said. “They said it was not offered for sale to them and that's why the dollar was returned.” Dalton also says that Vant wrote to the group saying highways would ‘consider selling the ferry to it if the Regional District of Central Koot enay and the City of Castlegar did not want to purchase the ferry. Pearson by ship to Montreal and then on to Britain by sea in the same shipment as those from Dorval. The Ontario environment ministry would 16-gauge drums at its seven storage sites for years. “We've been buying 16-gauge drums for many, many years,” said Charlton, WKP’s superintendent of construction and maintenance. “It's not given us any problem at the moment.” The highly-toxie material is found. in the coolant used in electrical transformers and light ballasts. The material has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals. But Charlton said the six drums of PCB-contaminated material current ly being stored in Castlegar are not dangerous. He said five drums are filled with gravel contaminated with PCBs and that PCBs represent “less than one part per million” in those drums. The sixth drum contains a hard tar-like substance pulled from replaced and he said these ballasts “have no indication of PCBs.” The company has seven licenced PCB storage sites throughout its operations area: three in the Okan agan and four in the Kootenays. Charlton said the materials being stored “are absolute peanuts.” The drums hold 204.8 litres (45 imperial gallons) of material. Charl ton is certain the federal order to use 16-gauge drums will not affect WKP's storage program, but added he hasn't received anything in writing from the Environment Min: istry. He said he'd heard a rumor of the government requiring far stronger 11-gauge drums. “If we had to go to 11-gauge drums, it would be very costly,” he said. “But we haven't had anything in writing so we're just waiting to hear Es Cas News KOOTENAY INFORMATICS is celebrating its third anniversary. The computer store is now offering products and sefvices from two locations and will soon have a third site, The South Slocan site, which is the main distribution, ordering and service centre, employs five people. Owner Karl Swanson recently opened the Castlegar location on Columbia Avenue. It has three employees. And there is the soon-to-be-opened East Trail location, Six of the company's employees are under the age of 25 and all have graduated from local high schools and attended Selkirk College. WHILE Kootenay Infotmatics celebrates its third year in business by expanding to three locations Castlegar Computers will be leaving the area. Owner Tim Messenger plans-to relocate the Old Canada Post mail box has served the ities of Argenta and Johnson's Landing store in C . Mi will still have two computer locations: one in Kelowna and now another in Cranbrook. THE REGIONAL District of Central Kootenay wants B.C. Tel to clean up its act. The regional district has written to the telephone company asking that it clean up abandoned telephone poles, lines and hardware within the regional district. ROBSON ISN'T the only community interested in an agency liquor store. Procter on Kootenay Lake also being considered. THREE WEST Kootenay communities have received funding ‘from the federal New Horizons Program. In Trail, the Trail Senior Citizens’ Association Branch No. 47 received $26,107. The New Denver-Silverton Branch No. 101 of the Royal Canadian Legion received $2,163, while the Arrow Lakes Historical Society Book Committee in Nakusp received $5,000. The grants are available’to seniors and were just a portion of the more than $1.4 million allocated under the New Horizons Program. HOW WOULD you handle a major lottery win? The British Columbia Lottery Corporation has published a guide for lottery winners called Suddenly . . . It's You! Written by financial columnist and personal financial adviser Mike Grenby, the handbook contains information about money options. Although the book was commissioned by the Corporation as a guide for those winning major lottery prizes, it could be useful to anyone receiving a large sum of money for years and is located near the the Argenta post office. suddenly, such as an inheritance or injury award. Also included in the book are sections on meeting the media, interviews with previous win- ners, taxes, financial advisers and money manage- ment. , the h is not i ded to provide advice or guidelines on investments. As British Columbia Lottery Corporation President Guy Simonis says in his introduction’ to the book, “Remember that it is your money and you should do what you want to do with it. Listen to the sug- gestions and ideas of family, friends and professiona! advisers, but always remember that the ultimate decision is yours.” The handbook jis being provided free of charge to all major lottery winners in British Columbia. Members of the general public have to purchase the book. The handbook is also free of charge to libraries, financial institutions and associations upon request. THE KOOTENAY West-Revelstoke federal Liberal party will have an election office in Castlegar. Party spokesman Tom Esakin said the office will open in the former Castlegar Computers location (once it moves), but only if Prime Minister Brian Mulroney calls an election for this fall. The local Liberals have already opened offices in Nelson and Trail, and plan to open an office in Revelstoke. UtiliCorp earnings up UtiliCorp United Inc. says it ex- million in the same period last year. family VALUE day UtiliCorp’s PSE and West Koot- YOUNG FROZEN UTHLITY. 3 To 9 KG... T-BONE CANADA GRADE A BEEF .. BONELESS TURKEY STEAK wi ts CANADA GRADE A BEEF s,....:.. kg. 90, se abd PORK LODNes::....... 50.5279 SPARERIBS 2" 3.517 BEEF LIVER... QG°|SLICED BACON $959 ID ow eesccsevere SHOP EASY. 500 GRAM PKG. ... 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On behalf of his client, Dalton sued the government of Canada, the City of Cranbrook, the pilots and Pacific Western Airlines. “What made this case particularly interesting is that we were approached by a man named Gerald Stern who is one of the leading plaintiffs for airline crash authorities in the world,” he said. Stern tried to establish cases in California on the basis that the plane’s reverse thrusters had malfunctioned. “When four court cases were lost, leaving only the Supreme Court for the United States . . . we felt we would try to settle,” said Dalton. “We were able to generate an award that I feel gave the client a lifetime of financial security.” Shortly after that Dalton left Victoria and moved back to Castlegar, where he was raised. “I found that I was looking so much forward to holidays in Castlegar that it began to seem to me that it made more sense to live in Castlegar.” Dalton’s family moved to Castlegar when he was four-years-old. He worked weekends and summers at the old Waldie Sawmill, graduating from Stanley Humphries secondary school in 1962. In 1960 he worked at the Celgar pulp mill in the summer and on weekends. He worked there for one full year before going on to the University of Victoria to get his Bachelor of Arts degree. Not having any money to pay for law school, he worked in the yard crew for another two years and managed to completely pay for his university education. “I feel very fortunate in that t that time there was always good work and if you were willing to do it, certainly you could earn enough each summer.” Dalton’s first love was labor law, but he chose to take a more general law at the University of British Columbia because he would have had to practice labor law in Vancouver. “I came to realize that Vancouver was simply too large of a city for me to comfortably live in.” “Dalton maintains that he finds working out of his home much more relaxing than an office and he can keep costs down. He doesn’t charge full fees on “his special cases” when his clients often can't afford to pay them. For instance, he will bill the provincial government for his court costs and fees, if the Robson Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee wins its case against the Ministry of Highways in November. If they lose he already has fundraising strategies in the works. Dalton is prepared to wait as long as a year to receive payment for representing Citizens Against Spike. In addition, to the 50 hours of legal services he billed the group for, he has donated 15 hours of time, keeping the cost of the total bill to just over $33 per person. Dalton is donating more time to help the group prepare for further action against the use of the herbicide. Waiting for payments and charging “less than what is fair” is in keeping with Dalton's philosophy of what makes a case special. The people who he says are the most vulnerable are often low-income people — the elderly, unemployed and disabled people. Dalton says he generally finds that those who are the least able to pay are the most willing to pay and the people who are the most able are the least willing to pay. Currently, Dalton is involved in a case against Revenue Canada. He feels that collection agent used unfair intimidation when contacting the wife of a Castlegar debtor. “This young lady was four months pregnant and she was very upset by things and to me, I just think as a matter of professionalism and courtesy that this kind of conduct is totally unacceptable,” he said. It bothers Dalton that people seem to be intimidated by Revenue Canada and he feels the tax agency should be held accountable. He said a number of people he contacted to write letters of support for his client were afraid to. “Certainly, the people in our area including all Canadians appear to be intimidated significantly by the Department of National Revenue and I think that is unacceptable,” he said. Dalton says he will drop the lawsuit if Revenue Canada issues “an acceptable apology” with the stipulation that it may be published. “We would like people to know that if this kind of conduct is being regularly engaged in that they have legal remedies and they cannot allow themselves to be intimidated.” Despite trying to avoid anxiety, it's been a busy year for Dalton. He says his involvement in the Spike protest was particularly stressful. “Facing the CPR. Knowing that if I made a mistake it may result in jail for all my clients, trying to develop a strategy that would actually turn the sprayer around — all of that certainly was working under urgent as well as stressful conditions,” he said. In the meantime, Dalton is preparing for a November court date to represent the Robson-Rasp- berry Ferry Users Ad Hoc Committee against the Ministry of Highways and hasn't quite forgotten his involvement with the closure of the Celgar woodroom. And he is still representing teachers who lost their life savings when the Teachers’ Investment and Housing Cooperative collapsed. He juggles cases as they heat up, often working on one for part of the day and then another. With the Spike case, he and meetings with other clients through most of the evening and then sometimes came home to work‘until midnight, he said. When he does have spare time he likes to read — mostly non-fiction — and will occasionally take those books for a weekend to a local hot springs. He says he used to coach sports and that gave him a “great deal of satisfaction.” But Dalton has never been married and doesn’t really think he has time for that. He said he used to be concerned that his not having an office would look as though he wasn't a good lawyer, but found people seem to like the situation more. “Clients say to me, ‘Terry, the reason we like it with you is that you sit on the couch with your feet on the table and I sit in an easy chair and we just talk. It is more or less just two friends exchanging information and I like that very much.’ ” pects third-quarter net income and earnings per share to show a decrease from last year's third-quar ter while nine-month results will show solid gains. “We remain convinced that in 1988 * UtiliCorp will achieve record results in net income, revenues and earn. ings,” Richard C. Green, Jr., presi dent and chief executive officer of UtiliCorp, said in a prepared release. Forthe three-month period ending Sept. 30, the company projects net income of $10 million and operating revenues of $130 million compared with net income of $10.7 million and revenues of $123 million in the third-quarter of 1987. For the first nine months of this year, UtiliCorp expects net income of $29.9 million and revenues of $482 million, compared with net income of $21.1 million and revenues of $418 Earnings per common share for the nine-month period are projected at $1.53 versus $1.21 last year. Green said net income and earn ings per share decreased in compar. ison with last year's third-quarter primarily because the company's Peoples Natural Gas division last year recorded one-time gas supplier refunds that increased net income by approximately $2.4 million. The re funds were primarily the result of a 1982 rate proceeding involving Peoples’ main gas supplier. Other factors contributing to the quarterly decline included an electric rate reduction in the amount of $5.4 million annually implemented by the Missouri Public Service division on Sept. 15, 1987. The decrease primar- ily reflected the beneficial impacts of the 1986 Tax Reform Act. enay Power subsidiaries both are expected to help third“Quarter finan- cial results. West Kootenay Power will be included in financial results for the full three months this year versus one month in last year's quar- ter. 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