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School budget approved but

By FRANK ISERNIA

Sun staff writer

Castlegar. School Board Trus- tees approved their 1991-1992 operating budget, but not without some opposition from trustce

. member Bonnie Horswill.

Horswill told board members that in all good ‘conscience she could not approve the budget.

“We were given a draft copy of the proposed school budget; and a separate shect listing all the increases that were proposed. In that sheet there was an expense in excess of $80,000 to staff Bluc- berry Creek school,” she stated. “I

haven't supported opening Bluc-"

berry Creek School since it was first agreed upon. I have yet to find factual information that will support opening that school. But

during the investigation, late last week, I was told ‘that the actual cost of for housing kids in.Blueberry Creek school versus housing the studonts in their current school is a difference of $6,000 to $8,000 and that trans- lates into an over budget of $70,000.”

Horswill said that unless it could be explained to her, she has

falls within the Ministry's guide- lines given the numbers the School district is allowe

“All T can ‘gay to you,” auld Turner, “is thank God we've had that kind of increase, Although the Ministry stated that 3.75 Per cent was allowed across the province, we got a litte more. for various factors, It a very difficult budget, There were some areas where we under

to assume that the schooling is

“So what I asked the Board tonight is for clarification of the information, but I didn’t get it, sol felt that I couldn't support the bud- get,” she concluded.

The new budget estimated at $15,046,051 represents a 7.45 per- cent increase over last year's bud- get. That increase according to Board Chairman Gordon Tumer

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‘Tumer also stated that they. may get even more students because of what's 8 in the communi-

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value per student.

School Superintendent Terry Wayling said that they are project- ing a two per cent student popula- tion increase,

However, when questioned about layoff notices, ‘Tedhiced hours

in and

not filling positions Ieft vacant as a result of retirement notices, Turner)

very, ‘cautious and conservative approach to the budget at this dme,

: He’ said that wherever possible

| these reductions will be made

t retirements leave of absence) or, i Along ',

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Wednesday, ‘April: 17, 1991

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school: supplies, equipment

ft replacement: and in-service: for

2 The board also announced the Late, French Immersion Pro- gram is- being extended ' ‘to Grade "Eight and that the Russiin Bilin | ‘to Grade

Five,. It was; also announced ‘that School be be

with these ‘staff reductions,’ cut- » backs were made in curricular ‘and |

Tumer, “is looked at ‘a number of areas in the budget. As a matter'of fact we put those areas in at a less- er percentage than it was last year, and carried it for a period of time, And if in fact we get more’ stu- dents, then we know what to announce to the ministry to give us for those students in‘late fall or early January, We could, in fact, be looking at adding money back into our budget.” .

Turner said that the Board hopes that it can address those issues when they find out what how much the Ministry is willing to give them in additional funds for the additional students.

Responding to the question of :

how many additional students that would include, Turner replied,

“last year we had 44 additional stu- °-

dents and received $51,000. We were hoping for $225,000. In Jan- uary, we're looking at an action al 38 students.”

Turner said that because the ministry changes budgeting rules, they cannot budget that money.

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OPERATING EXPENSES: FUNCTIONS 1-7 (Howe 3). Migs Laas LOCAL CAPITAL EXPENSES: FUNCTIONS ,

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SUBTOTAL (Note) SHAREABLE CAPITAL ALLOWANCE (Note 2) DEST SERVKES: SCHEOULE ® 1990/91 DEBT SERVICES DEFICIT ESTMAATE

TOTAL (Hote

13, 284,420

Penorcaniess REVENUES

10,778 ACCREDITATION (Hate 2)

13,295,206 ‘BUBTOTAL (Hote 2)

185,349

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Note 1: All projected deficits require the approval of the minister. Districts are request-

Note 2: Note 3:

“ed to seek approval by letter prior to incurring the deficit. The amounts — revenue and expenditures — must agree. DO NOT include Provincial Resource Programs in Operating Budget Summary.

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VICTORIA—Premier Rita John- ston dumped four of predecessor Bill Vander Zalm's cabinet, shifted four others, and reduced the num- ber of portfolios from 22.to 19 in. what pundits characterized as an attempt to distance herself. from the policies and personalities of the Vander Zalm years.

At the same time she

the so-called “Four Horsemen” group of dissidents who quit the Social Credit caucus in the winter of 1989. Mr. Bruce took over Municipal Affairs; Mr. Mercier, Environment, and the third, Larry Chalmers, moved into Agriculture and Fisheries, r

Losing his position at bead of Intemational Trade. and Immigra- tion is Elwood Veitch, who moves to Provincial Secretary, Multicul- turalism and Immigzrati

reviews of the government's con- troversial Education 2000 initia- tive, its rejection of shared-cost school lunch programs and its agri- cultural assistance programs, the restriction of future business subsi- dies to firms in danger of shutting down, and the cancellation of gov- emment spending on promotions. Gone from the cabinet are and EB Bud Smith, who announced he wouldn’t run in the next election anyway next week; Environment's Cliff Serwa, who was a fill-in after

Other notable involve

Jack Davis); Lyall Hanson from Affairs to Ti tion and Highways; Howard Dirks from Provincial Secretary to Devclopment, Trade and Tourism. The Tourism, Parks, and Inter- national Business ministries will all disappear. Parks becomes part of Dave Parker's Lands Ministry. Victoria political analyst Gerry Kristianson said that Premier John- ston was doing “what she had to do—distance herself from her pre- ” Mr, Ki called it

Jack Weisgerber, the highly suc- cessful. native affairs.minister, 49 Energy. (vacant since the death of

“politically gutsy’ to change so many: cabinet members so. close to a.legislative session (May..7). And

the appointment of two of Mr. Vander Zalm's earliest and strongest critics to the cabinet— Messrs. Mercier and Bruce— clearly distanced her from the policies of the past.

But New Democratic Leader Michael Harcourt said the “shuf- fle didn’t make any difference. It won't change anything for British Columbians.” The policy initia- tives he denounced as “a Hail- Mary Pass” and a “scramble of proposals” to. win back popular support in the last weeks of the Socred Tre

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inadequate fees leaves legal aid lawyers withdraivaing

VANCOUVER (SNS) - Lawyers in private practice who take legal aid cases began withdrawing their services Monday to protest inade- quate legal aid fees.

“The Legal Services Society has a statutory obligation to provide legal services and that obligation

John Rey last fall; Harry De Jong, the Agricul- ture and Fisheries minister for only a few months; and Tourism’s Clif- ford Michael.

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of services,” said Legal Services Society Chairman Mark McEwan.

“We will continue to provide legal aid to the extent we can, and we urge all people who need legal aid to continue to come to our offices and apply for it.”

He said the withdrawal of ser-

vices by lawyers who take legal aid cases draws much needed attention to the crisis in the provi- sion of legal aid. Lawyers have had difficulty in placing legal aid cases, particularly family cases.

The difficulties are most acute outside the Lower Mainland. The Society has been having to fly counsel into northern communities so that people can have legal repre- sentation.

The Legal Services Society grents legal aid to over 50,000 people a year who are unable to afford lawyers.

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Civil servants may strike

VANCOUVER (SNS) - Canadi- an civil servants have voted for a nationwide strike this summer to Protest wage controls imposed by the federal government, their union said Monday.

The 170-000 member Public Service Alliance of Canada said at its national convention in Vancou- ver it has received 62 percent sup- port for a walkout that could lengthen border-crossing lineups, delay flights and hamper i income tax collection, -

Union president Daryl Bean said the alliance will use the strike mandate to make the government abandon the 3 percent ceiling it put on civil servant wage raises for the next three years.

Bean said the strike would take place in July or August unless other job action forced the gov- emment to negotiate, “ It’s their cal, we have our strike mandate,”

he said.

He said the walkout could involve as many 2s 110,000 work- ers. Some 40,000 union members, designated essential to public safety, are barred by law from strikin;

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Imperial hoopla greets

TOKYO (SNS) - Soviet President Mikhail’ Sorbactiey Saved here Tuesday i ‘i

But the very prospect of a friend- ly chat on the palace lawn between

marked by imperial hiophe tough iecurly, and high hopes on both sides for friendlier relations between the Soviet Union and Japan,

Gorbachev, the first Soviet lead- er to visit this Asian nation, won’ the hearts of the Japanese people last fall when he announced that he hoped to visit Tokyo when he could view the cherry blossoms - this country’s favorite springtime ritual.

In fact, he arrived about five days too late. The blossoms are well past their peak, and the grounds of the Akasaka Palace, where Emperor Akihito was to greet Gorbachev Tuesday, were covered with such a thick blanket of fallen blossoms that it looked like pink snow,

‘First institution of the mew

LONDON (SNS) - London is set to become the “financial crossroads” between Eastern and Western Europe, the British Prime Minister, Mr John Major, predicted Monday at the inaugural meeting of the new Bank for R and Development - described by its president as “the first institution of the new world order.” The bank, which will play alead-

Japan’s and the Soviet Union's president reflects the con- siderable optimism here that the two countries this week will reverse a pattem of sour relations that dates back at least to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5,

Gorbachev got off to a good start + in Japanese eyes, at least - before he even arrived here,

During his visit here and his mecting with Prime Minister Toshi- ki Kaif, Gorbachev is expected to express regret for Soviet treatment of Japanese prisoners of war during

and after World War II, ‘The ©

Japanese, for their part, are expected to approve delivery of about $100 million in emergency food aid to the Soviet Union. The aid had been delayed last winter after the Soviet crackdown on the Baltic states,

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En route from Mi » the Sovict president stopped in the city of Khabarovsk and paid his

cts at a cemetery where some 60,000 Japanese soldiers from World War II are buried. The scene of a Soviet leader offering a bow - a sign of humility in Japan - to the

Japanese dead was banner news ©

bere Monday,

to draw.

“Tt has for a long time been the financial crossroads between East and West, and I am deli; that it

's wife Raisa is sched- uled to take part in a tea ceremony, see a kabuki play and go shop

ets just afler World War II.

Without a territorial settlement, Japanese officials said, there is little chance that the two’ countries will sign a formal peace treaty ending their status as the last two combat- ants of World War II yet to reach a formal armistice.

But both sides want to pave the way toward improved political and commercial relations, a change that inevitably would alter both countries’ relations with the United States. ie arrival | of the Soviet leader

Gorby in Japan

Pouring of demonstrations from

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which car is canying the president.

With characteristic Aiveliness Japan's 's merchants are ready to cap- italize on a Gorbachev boom, if one '

leaders in general and G bachev in

PB Security guards from both coun- Gies are taking no chances, About 20,000 policemen will be on duty during Gorbachev's four-day visit to Japan, Wherever he travels, the motorcade will include at least two identical black Zil limousines so that

in Tokyo's Ginza district, one of the world's richest centers of glitz, glit- ter and capitalistic excess.

It seems unlikely that Gorbachev and Kaifu will settle their chief dis- pute - the status of islands seized from Japanese control by the Sovi-

world order’

Unusually for an intemational finance institution, the bank has a specific political aim of promoting the free mar-

will now be where Eastern and ‘Wester Europe meet at the EBRD.”

Mr Major emphasized that the pew bank would be “focusing” on the private sector, and would fester new business, encouraging compe- tition and promoting better business

ing role in ch Westem money and economic know-how into former Communist countrics of Central and Eastem Europe, was also hailed as the first institution of the post-Cold War period.

Mr Major welcomed 30 presidents

The private sector in the East was still small and weak, and mov-

ket system.

The borrowing members of Cen- tral and Eastem Europe, including the Soviet Union, own 12 per cent of the bank's 7 billion pounds capi- tal. The 12 Community members, Plus the Commission and the European Investment Bank, own 51 per cent, the United States 10 per cent, and other European and

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Kuwaiti troops replace U.S. forces on Border

SAFWAN, Iraq (SNS) - As USS. forces poured out of Iraq Monday, hundreds of Kuwaiti troops moved north to take up positions on their side of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.

With colorful quilts and blankets hanging from the sides of armored personnel carriers, about 600 Kuwaiti troops in assorted uni- forms set up camp a few miles south of the demilitarized zone that straddles the border.

A United Nations observer mis- sion, assigned to patrol the nine- mile-wide buffer zone, is expected to arrive in the region this week, Several U.S. Army checkpoints along the roads to and from Safwan were ye abandoned Monday.

At Checkpoint Charlie, once the

ing to a free market y would not be easy or painless. But the bank would help to liberate the spit of private economic initiative,

and prime mini: to the i meeting of the bank, which will have its beadquanters in London.

‘The idea for the bank was first put forward by President Francois Mit- terrand at the 1989 Paris economic summit. Its location in London was a personal triumph for Mr Major.

At the opening ceremony, he said London was determined to remain Europe's greatest financial centre, Britain’s bankers, stockbro- kers, accountants and lawyers were uniquely well placed to offer the expertise that Easter Europe necd-. ed. He added: “In-Britain’s-drive for privatization, London has built up a wealth of experience on which

said the choice of London symbolized its financial importance and Britain's commitment to the new entesprise.

He emphasized that the bank would involve itself with both the private and the public sector. The bank’s president, M Jacques Attali, a former aide to President Mitter- tand, described it as “the first insti- tution of the post-Cold War period and the first institution of the new world order’.

He said its creation brought together former adversaries who two: years ago-would have: found it unimaginable to-be-seated.around the same table. ,

US denies rift with British policy

WASHINGTON (SNS) - The Bush administration denied Mon- day that it was at odds with Britain over its response to the Kurdish refugee crisis, but officials dis- tanced themselves from Prime Minister John Major's recent strong rhetoric and his refusal to mule out the use of military force in northern Iraq.

Mr Richard Cheney, A

White House spokesman, said the two parties were “very close”, but “using slightly different words”. But Mr Fitzwater stressed that while the US military is increasing its contribution to the relief opera- tion - it could exceed 8,000 men belping in the airlift and transport of supplies - no large ground force contingent would be committed to

Defence Secretary, echoed the

George Bush that all American ground troops would be out of southem Iraq “within days”.

He was speaking as a Senate sub-committee on Capitol Hill was told that between 400 and 1,000 Kurdish refugees were dying every day in the mountainous border regions of northem Iraq.

There was no detailed response to Mr Major’s television interview on Sunday in which be refused to tule out the redeployment of allied ground forces to protect the Kurds from the Iraqi military.

But in Washington, the empha- sis remained on the rapid pace of

: aud

3,000 US troops will take

the lied refugee safe havens.

The White House has consistent- ly made clear it believes the inde- pendent and UN-affiliated relief agencies are best suited to dealing with the refugee crisis.

A small contingent of about Up posi- tion along the new UN:: i demilitarized border between Iraq and Kuwait, but Mr Cheney empha- sized this was a transitional measure until the UN force was in place.

Mr Bush has recently taken to calling the troops “our kids”, emphasizing their supposed vul- nerability and the necessity of bringing them home and out of harm’s way immediately. The

the rest.

Mr Peter Blackie, a member of the team representing the EC, one of the 41 shareholders, said that under the bank’s statutes, 60 per cent of its lending had to be to the private sector, though that could include public sector companies being

of allied forces in the sector, sandbagged bunkers were empty, the gate open and the American flag gone. The next checkpoint north is operated by Iraqi soldiers.

To the north and west, U.S. forces continued to roll back from

itions along the River

consisting of about 17,000 troops, is now out of Iraq and awaiting redeployment in Saudi Arabia.

~ The 1st Infantry Division, also with about 17,000 troops, began moving south and should

express concem that the refugees in southem Iraq could fall victim to Iraqi forces.

Iraqi and Kuwaiti forces will not be allowed in the U.N, buffer zone,

from Iraq in two or three days, leaving no U.S. forces deep inside Iraq, according to military spokes- men in Saudi Arabia.

- The 11th Aviation Brigade is still in Iraq, providing security and

ig for the withd:

forces, and is expected to follow the Ist Infantry Division to Saudi Arabi:

na.

- The last sizable contingent of U.S. troops in southem Iraq, the 3rd Armored Division, awaits the arrival of U.N. forces. Its ib

but their g are to handle civil administration in their territo- Ty, including immigration control and police duties.

The prospect of dealing with Iraqi police has frightened many refugees and has contributed to a Steady stream of refugees moving from the American-run camp to the Red Cresent camp, which is inside Kuwait. Some refugees have threatened to lie in front of with- drawing U.S. tanks.

‘The head of the U.N. observer

are scattered throughout northem Kuwait and in the demilitarized zone, which reaches six miles into Iraq and three miles into Kuwait.

Troops of the 3rd Armored Divi- sion have been feeding and caring for an d 11,000

mission, A Gen. Greindl, arrived Saturday in Kuwait City, where be met with govemment officials before travel- ing th Boghidad Monday,

U.N. observer mission, con- asin of 1,400 observers, Support and troops, has strict

huddled around an con-

ittle as

for How far the bank is Prepared to

valley. Nealy” half of the 540,000

lend ona basis may be clarified in the next two days as officials from the share- holder countries discuss its role.

troops have left the the- ater, the U.S. Central Command in Saudi Arabia said:

- The 1st Armored Division,

struction building south of Safwan. Another 6,000 refugees are at a nearby camp mun by the Red Cres- cent, a counterpart of the Red

U. S. military commanders

weoale ils ‘ask i is to observe, not to confront, said Joachim Hutter, the U.N. delegation’s acting spokesman. Full deployment of UN. forces appears to be at least a week away.

italians hope to avert Riviera oil spill disaster

ROME (SNS) - Italian authorities were cautiously optimistic Monday that'they'could avert the' worst pol- luti di: ter the hi uhas ever faced by siphoning the oil,

from a tanker which is lying on the seabed after sinking off the Liguri- an coast on Sunday. It had been feared that the tanker would split in two when it went down,

Signor Ferdinando Facchiano, the Italian Minister for the Mer- -chant Navy, said the situation looked better than when the 169,0C0-ton Haven was still ablaze.

The Cypriot-registered tanker was carrying 100,000 tonnes of Ira- nian crude when it exploded during a pumping operation last week.

Admiral Antonio Alati, Genoa harbourmaster, said: “The tanker is holding together. It is sitting on ite seabed and the risk of p

“I have seen the pictures and they are very clear. The discharge is incredibly small, infinitesimal. It’s.like a dripping tap,” be said.

““T am more optimistic than I was

this moming. We are beginning to get positive results.”

. The slick: created ‘by the thou.

sands of tons of oil which have. escaped continued to threaten Ppop-

in other oil related news

‘OTTAWA (SNS): = Canada's Energy Department said Monday it will send equipment and experts to

clean up the world’s largest 0}

mounted digital camera’ that

form, sensitive enough to. sense subtle changes i in oil color color agaitet a

not increased.”

Adm Alati said remote-con- trolled cameras sent down to exam- ine the wreck, lying more than 200 ft below the surface, had found leaks in two tanks.

Canada

Called the Mult Detector Elec- tro-Optical Imaging Sensor. (MEIS),

suited to monitoring oil spills

Canada sends help to Gulf

the Gulf later this month.to help detailed: images, the Energy

It plans to send an airplane- :

aecords visual images in’ electronic.

because, unlike satellites, aircraft can travel’ freely to any site and at lower altitudes and make more ent said. : Similar technology was used daring the Exxon Valdez oil spill Off the coast of Alaska.’ *

in’ Bahrain and. Qatar : Tequested the aid: S

ular resorts on the Italian Riviera.

has reached a town more than 60 miles away from the sinking.

The first oil-covered birds were found Monday and patches of the thick, syrupy crude were reported at various resorts to the west of Genoa. The Word Wide Fund for Nature has set up an emergency bird-clean- ing centre at the scene of the spill.

All along the Italian and French Rivieras people are hoping the ship will remain stable on the seabed, as a major spill might wipe out tourism for years to come.

Every available vessel is being used to tackle the slick before a change in the good weath- er hastens the oil’s progress towards

estimate that if the good weather holds, the worst of the slick could be cleaned up within a week, assuming that no more is released from the tanker.

Cabinet reshuffle expected this week

OTTAWA. (SNS) - Prime Minister is expected to shuf-

offi- cials stressed the protection of about 1.5 million predominantly Kurdish refugees would be left Principally in the hands of UN and the aid agencies. Questioned about reported dif- ferences between Washington and London, Mr Marlin Fitzwater,

public supports him in this aim, although opinion polls reveal widespread dismay at the suffering of the Kurds.

There was no enthusiasm at the UN in New York Monday fora new Security Council resolution to. back the safe haven concept.

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D keymiecateecke one new face on a goverment preoccu- pied with ig, the

given Quebec special status in Canada and allowed it to sign the constitution.

Quebec plans to hold its own ref- before the end of 1992,

of ‘Quebec.

An election is due by 1993 at the latest and Mulroney’s Conservative Party is trailing in third place in the opinion polls, with only 17 percent

support. “He needs with him

either on full sovereignty or a new

set of constitutional proposals that

would grant it some form of special

Status as a largely-French speaking

province.

Constitutional reform has Proved 's tou;

who can handle national unity. He

needs an excellent lieutenant,” a official, i

anonymity, said Monday,

Political analysts expect Mul- roney, first elected in 1984 ona platform promising national unity, to give greater priority to dealing with the restive French-speaking Province.

He announced late last week that

“anyone interested in Cabinet shuf-- >

fles” should not go on vacation this week, when parliament is in recess.

Speculation has focused on,;

“rumors that Extemal Affairs Minis- ter Joe Clark may Ieave the post he ‘ has held since 1984 to become min-

ghest

weighing the problems of free ode deal with the United States, over which he fought the 1988 election.

Last week Mulroney used the past tense in describing Clark, prime minister of a short-lived administration in 1979, as one of

Trade Minister John Crosbie, who oversaw the free-trade deal with the United States and is now

ing for talks on that to Mexico, is considering leav- ing politics, sources said.

There may be also be new minis-

ters of the environment and of mative affairs because of widespread criticism of the current ministers as ineffective.

The shuffle is expected late in the week, after Mulroney has briefed the Conservative caucus in the weekly meeting Wednesday.

“Walk across Canada” to raise money for diabetes

TORONTO (SNS) - Newfound- land has been conquered.

Now Nova Scotia is next on the “Incredible Joumey” list of Ken McColm and Darren.

d marks the com-

the best external affairs mini: in Tecent years.

Clark, who has said be is happy in his current post, is seen as among the best qualified to act as both salesman and referee in the consti- tutional squabble.

* There is also speculation that Finance Minister Michael Wilson may need a change of job after

, drafting seven annual budgets and

pletion of the first leg of the 13,000 km joumey. As of Friday, April 12, Ken has been walking for 24 days and 905 touch kilome- tres which has resulted in $13,000 for diabetes research so far.

Ken McColm of Bathurst, New Brunswick, began his trek on March 20 that is to last nine months, from St. John’s New- to Victoria BC,

ister of federal. relations.

_- That job “would make him

responsible for selling any new con- Is to the

a hugely 7

\.’ Percent value-added tax in January.

If Wilson were to leave, his

Provinces which last summer scut-" \ted an accord that would have’

ne

may well be Treasury

“Board President Gilles Loiseile,

for

With his pilot dog, Darren, Ken is walking across Canada appeal- ing to the generosity of Canadians and educating them about the seri- ousness of diabetes.

Not only is diabetes a part of Ken’s life, but he is also the vic- tim of blindness, one of its most common and serious complica- tions,

He has committed the funds be raises during his walk to the research programs supported by the Canadian Diabetes Associa- tion (CDA). As sole recipients of the research funds, CDA is very excited about this unique partner- ship and fully supports Ken's enthusiasm and determination and encourages all Canadians to SUP port him.

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