86 Castlegar News November |, 1989 November-1, 1989 Ozone OTTAWA (CP) — Ozone depletion over the Canadian Arctic is spreading southern. regions, significant loss over the city of Toron to, saysa federal expert The average volume of ozone ovet Toronto has decreased by per cent 1970, Chisholm, dire Atmospheric to more with about four since said federal Environment Service “1 think we have to be concerned,” Chisholm said when interviewed dt a scientific conference on Arctic and global change The ozone layer, high above the Ear th, filters out harmful uliraviolet radiation from the sun thinning of the Scientists say layer, caused by Don't be Disappointed! ORDER YOUR PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS CARDS N-O-W Yes, order your personalized Christmas cards now while stocks re still complete. Choose your Christmas card from the wide variety available and have them personalized with your name and address We Also Carry Christmas Letterheads su: Castlegar News loss spreading pollution, could drive up skin cancer rates.and cause other health damag Chisholm said the thinning of (he ozone over Toronto is probably linked to similar changes over the Arctic Scientists say chemicals such as used in air con: other products, gradually rise to the stratosphere they through chlorofluorocarbons, ditioners and where destroy ozone chemical reactions. The destruction occurs most rapidly in extremely cold temperatures over When ozone-poor air Arctic mixes with other air ozone polar regions. from the masses, levels) over Toronto are more Southern areas such as reduced. “I think what it really amounts to is this phenomenon we believe is oc curring Arctic said Chisotm. ** depleted and —then it’s throughout the hemisphere MOREGONET| Research this year over the essentially spreads,"" The ozone is mixed northern ISYEAR indicated con tinuing depletion of ozone over the Canadian’ Arctic test Chishori. —Tie—measurements—in January and February found that about three per cent of the ozone had been destroyed sites, said PCBs 'misu VANCOUVER (CP) Polychlorinated biphenyls are “the mast misunderstood chemicals in the of the Western world,” the Environment history regional director of Canada said PCBs can problems for cause “‘tremendous whole ecosystems’’ because they accumulate in the en. vironment if improperly handled, said Earle Anthony But the man-made chemicals are not 1s dangerous as the public believes and impact on human health is * he added their exaggerated Anthony was addressing the Air and Waste Management Association — a professional group of pollution exper “It is a small depletion but we think it’s indicative of what's tocome."’ A hole in the ozone layer over the Arctic was first réported by Canadian 1986, but U.S. government ve disputed that finding, , U.S. scientists argued the ozone thinning in the Arctic is from meteorological causes, not manmade pollution But Chisholm said the Canadian scientists are sticking to their position. “1 think all the facts point to a chemical depletion process going on. Whether you call it a hole is perhaps the point. Is three per centa hole? “Some of our American colleagues would say no, absolutely not. But I think this difference of opinion will be resolved, and there will be recognition that a chemical depletion process can occur in the Ar- over time ctie."” Governments have taken action to control substances chlorofluorecarbons: that ozone layer. Under the Montreal Protocol signed in 1987, major nations agreed to cut CFC use in half by 1999 The Canadian government has since set a more stringent goal, proposing to eliminate CFCs from use within 10 years nderstood' ts who work in government and in- dustry PCBs, a group chemical compounds first synthesized a century ago, are fire- stable and don't conduct have been used for decades in solvents, resistant, electricity. They paints, transfor- mers, fluorescent. light fixtures and other electrical equipment Further production was banned in North America in 1977, but there are vast quantities of PCBs still in elec- trical equipment, environment Canada imported 40,000 tonnes of PCBs, but can now only account for 24,000 tonnes, he said 16,000 tonnes are “lost,” in storage and in the The remaining “he said Congratulations Fran Metge The winner of a fantastic holiday package at the beautiful Bayshore valued at $500. Entry was chosen from Castlegar Spor- ts Centre coupon in Castlegar News Budget Helper Coupon Tab of Wed- nesday, Oct. Congratulations Fran! FRAN METGE 3601 SOUTH RIDGE, CASTLEGAR to: Inn in Waterton Lakes 18/89 LivingWaters Faith Fellowship Phone 365. Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 a.m Nursery & Children's Church provided Mid-Week Service & Study Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 p.m Bible teaching for all ages A Non-Denominational Family Church Preaching the Word of Faith! 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Everyone welcome For intormation 229-4: 3/87 SCHOOL DISTRICT ro Segre Call tor Proposals. School District No. 9 wspaper sted individuals of groups submit proposals con: cerning availability, past experience wages expected and ideas on how such @ report can be an elfective instrument of communication trom the School District to its public, Submissions should be received by.the undersigned by 1200 HRS, on 89.11.06 For further information as t required, contact: Superintendent Schools. School District Paved (Costiegar), 865 Coluenbre nue. Castlegar, B.C. VIN 1H3, 365. 1731. 387 LINES FEARED . . power lines are causing health problems despite a lack of scientit ir claims. Hydro lines scare Courtenay residents By MIRO CERNETIG COURTENAY (CP) — Something frightening is happening inside rabbit hutches stacked near high-voltage power lines on the edge of this quiet seaside town Some rabbits born under the constant buzz of 414,000 volts of electricity are missing half or all their ears Others are crippled by oddly twisted feet or curved spines. And too many, say local breeders, are simply stillborn “It’s never happened before,”’ says Anneliese Thate, one breeder horrified by the genetic miscues she has found since she stacked hutches in her backyard within 30 metres of the stark hydro towers “It all started when I put my rabbits near the power lines.” People in this town — 190 kilometres northwest of Victoria on Vancouver Island — blame the high-voltage hydro wires hanging over the pine trees for a lot more than deformed rabbits these days They say invisible electrical force fields from the, wires known as electromagnetic fields are causing everything from migraines to cancer. None of them have scientific evidence to back up the claims and B.C. Hydro denies there is any connection between power lines and deformed rabbits But an emerging body of scientific opinion suggests that those sounding the alarms just might have a case. CITES STRESS One theory, now causing some U.S. utilities and B.C Hydro to consider re-routing power lines away from com munities, is that extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields generated by hydro lines place stress on the body’s immune’ system. The result, some researchers say, greater incidence of cancer and other diseases, “’m not surprised by the rabbits,"’ sayd Mike Per singer, a professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., who specializes in hydro wire effects. ‘Under a power line, you can cause deformation (in animal em: bryos). [don’t think there’s any question of that “IL would not live close to a power line, ever.”” In the past, few Courtenay residents worried. As in most Canadian communities, the unsightly web of wires swooping over the town’s outskirts was seen as the price of plugging into modernlife Sure, there were some eerie side-effects: neon tubes held under the wires would light up frojn electricity absor bed in the air; metal fences near the! power lines could become electrified without proper grounding Few, however, thought electromagnetic fields could alter the beat of the human heart. Or that the fields — the magnetic and electrical radiation from everything ftom lightbulbs to hydro wires — may double the risk of childhood Icukemia, as some U.S. research now suggests But that was before B.C. Hydro put up steel towers for a new 230-kilovolt power line to accompany the three 138. is a . residents of Courtenay on Vancouver Island say electrical fields from evidence to back kilovolt lines that have run through Courtenay for decades. The new line is to feed a pulp mill in nearby Gold River QUESTIONS SAFETY Its path crosses the land of Darlene Kavka, a 31-year old mother of two — called everything from a crackpot toa savior in Courtenay — who wondered if a hydro line was as benign as conventional wisdom dictated “I didn’tnow,”’ says Kavka, who lives in a dilapidated mobile home 200 metres from the lines. “I went to the library to find out.” She sifted through old newspapers, finding only ob- scure articles on possible health risks from hydro lines Then in June the New Yorker magazine published a series onthe problem Armed with the magazine articles, which maintain that power companies have tried to suppress or discredit studies criticizing hydro lines, Kavka began to muster op. position to the new hydro line “I have no doubt these hydro lines are deadly, Kavka, who was arrested in August after pitching a tent in the path of a B.C. Hydro crew putting up the new line “Look what's happening to the rabbits,” says Kavka, a- B.C. Supreme Court injunction forbid ding further blockades of the new hydro line. “‘How much more proof do you need?’ An awful lot more, says B.C. Hydro, proceeded with the line The Crown-owned utility says blaming power lines for éancer or deformed rabbits is hysteria, not science. CREATES TERROR “I think it is unfortunate the community has been stressed,” says Kelly Gibney, B.C. Hydro’s expert on the subject. ‘People are literally terrified by these fields."” One study showed a person’s heart will fluctuate by three beats per minute when inside a field. But the same thing happens after a deep breath, making the effect almost inconsequential, says Gibney As for rabbits, there is a ‘zero chance" being responsible for birth defects, said Gibney. Defor- mities, he says, are more likely from poor breeding or chemicals. Nevertheless, Ontario Hydro, Hydro Quebec and France’s national power company are spending $4 million on a joint study to see if electromagnetic fields cause can cer. Until a link is proved, B.C. Hydro urges that nobody pa says now appealir which has of power lines ic Deformed rabbits, however, have become a powerful symbol in Courtenay, where some aren't waiting for more study Thate and her husband are selling their property to B.C. Hydro, which is believed to be the first power com pany in Canada to offer a buyout because of public fear over the hydro lines. “There's something wrong here;”" not breeding another rabbit until | go."” says Thate. ‘‘I'm Worker exposure feared VERNON (CP) Construction workers may be exposed to harmful chemicals at pulp mill construction sites, an official of the B.C. and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council said “With the volume of work now oc curring in and adjacent to working pulp mills, the exposure to the various chemicals used in the process is being Construction stay in camps ne: of the council. raised more and more,” told the council's annual convention. workers the mills and are so ‘exposed to chemicals 24 hours a day, said Lippert, acting secretary-treasurer “This problem affects the construc- tion worker in ways the in-plant people cannot anticipate,”" he said. “The con Jim Lippert struction worker winds up in areas where people are not expected to be and which are not protected by sensors andalarms.’ sometimes Lippert said the council is working with the Workers Compensation Board and the B.C. 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Take two Aspirins and use your modem to interface with me in the And your picture ina frame. ane Sadly missed and always remembered It may to that, but there’s no doubt computers are per forming plastic surgery on the face of 88 medicine, The data explosion brought on by im —s re rapidly advancing computer them with pertinent, problem-solving can open up a wide ‘range of possibilities in understanding disease and suggesting control However, he says, gain widespread diagnostic tools “It’s far t00 ponderous a process,"” says Maxwell “No matter much you information “I's quicker than getting a con: sultant on the phone or trying to track ted to office management and billing But many medical practitioners are finding a broader range of educational and clinical applications they will never hever come acceptance as somebody down.”’ by MOM, DAD, BROTHERS AND SISTER AND FAMILIES. ‘Ten years is the turnover period of medical information. If you graduated today and did no further learning for streamline a computer, the human 10 years, you wouldn't be able to brain is capable of aking diagnoses practise medicine.’ — Dr. David Shires, poe rapidly Dalhousie University seria Experience and gut feeling are the how technology is beginning to. send bits and bytes of information into doctors’ offiees.-And-doctors_are_responding with varying degrees of excitement and much more than the THANK YOU to all our friends and relatives who shared with us "special memories’ of our 25-years. together Our Silver Anniversary party at the San dmen was an extreme surprise. Thank you Marlene and Elaine for arranging the party and Ron tor being the MC of the evening. Special ‘thanks to Mom Sophie and Mom Anne who put up with us all these years Love Larry and Bev 88 A SPECIAL thanks to the members and directors of the Robson Recreation Society for our lovely parting gifts. The photos of Robson will always remind us what wondertul community we are leaving behin: ‘GRAHAM AND MARIE ALLISON FIRST KINNAIRD SCOUTING GROUP would like to thank everyone who donated their bottles and their time to help us with our October 28 Bottle Drive We really appreciate your support. _/88 in loving memory of JOHN FARKAS, who possed away accidently November 2 1985 The blow was great, The shock severe. We little thought his death so near Only those who have lost-can-tell The sorrow of porting without forewell Sadly missed b (OM AND SISTER, RAMONA APPLICATION FOR A WATER LICENCE Water Act (Section 8) |, Daniel K. Pereverzott of 1942 Pass Creek Road hereby apply. to the Comptroller of Water Rights tor a licence to store and use water out of Michael Creek which tlows East and discharges into Norns Creek ond give notice of my application to all persons affected. 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DIRECTORY further medicine."" ternational COMPUTERIZED | ALIGNMENTS Call "365- 2955 Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212! in my The “Ten years is the turnover period of medical information,"" Shires, a professor of family medic at Dalhousie University in Halifax. “If you graduated today learning wouldn’t be Shires, a former president of the In Medical Society, says there's enormous poten tial for doctors wha want to get up dated information through machines NEW AWARENESS Shires says he sees the dawning of a new awareness, “I think it’s not too far now when people will be saying, realize I\could do electrocardiograms or have reports the same day.” * buy current office Software developers, such as Dr Bernard Schelew, say computers can help doctors keep current in a world in which the library of says Dr. David biomedical nd did no . literature grows daily for 10 able to years, you “The business practise reason so people personal computers on their desks is because they are tools many have that allow them to be more efficient at they do,” Schelew, the Knowledge electronic Informatics what says president of Halifax-based company SOLVE PROBLEMS Schelew left a seven-year-old medical practice in 1984 to apply his House, a publishing medical training and self-taught com puter skills to the’ development of medical educational software. Sche ‘Gee, I didn’t consultants’ w believes doctors will want to personal computers when sof use of computers tware programs can quickly provide Schelew says patients eventually may actually demand such technology in doctors’ offices. ‘They might doctor You don’t have a knowledge base on your desk? | wonder if I should be seeing you say. to their Just how current are you?" Knowledge House has developed an educational software package called Patient Simulator I. It is designed to let doctors test their knowledge and skilis—by—diagnosing problems, requesting and treatments all with charts prescribing computer simulated patients The results can help doctors deter mine if they need to upgrade their knowledge Dr. David head of emergency medicine at the Halifax In firmary Hospital, agr Maxwell, es computers most effective diagnostic tools for doc tors, Maxwell says. He says it takes him about five minutes to diagnose and decide to treat a patient, depending on the complexity of the problem The problem in using a computer for diagnosis, he says, is in feeding all the permutations and symptoms of any given disease or ailment into a data how base in the hope of covering every possible contingency To illustrate, Maxwell uses the example of a colleague who had treated an elderly patient whose only symptom was that he had taken a fall As it turned out, the patient had a rup: turing abdominal aneurysm ““How the heck can you put that into a computer? The only presenting com- plaint and sole finding was that the patient had fallen out of bed, witha shrug * he says AY nN A B.C. 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