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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN. DECEMBER 19, 2001 PAGE A9 Clarington smoking survey CLARINGTON from page I The Regional health and social services services committee passed a recommendation recommendation last week to ask the eight municipalities municipalities whether the Region should proceed with public consultation on a bylaw. Regional council will consider the committee's recommendation at a Jan. 13 meeting. If approved, a majority of municipal councils would then have to give their blessing for the Region to proceed through a public process toward toward a possible bylaw. The bylaw could take the form of those passed in all other GTA regions, including Toronto, where restaurants cannot allow smoking and bars must phase out smoking by June. 2004. The results of the Clarington survey survey will be posted near the time of the January Regional council meeting, the mayor says. Anyone who would like to participate participate in the survey can log on at www.municipaIity.clarington.on.ca. RON RIETRONIRO/ Statesman photo Hearts in the right place B 01VMA N VILLE - Staff at Lakeridgc Health Bowmanville already knew Frank Guthrie has a good heart, after he made a blanket box and raffled it off with his fellow members of the St. John's Anglican Church Men's Club, in aid of the hospital. The $1,286 raised helped buy a new ultrasound machine. Maureen Hughes checks out Mr. Guthrie's heart with the new equipment. 'I like to be alive' says centurion I from page I take him anyway. He hasn't taken his medication since." ; Mr. McCuaig suggests be never needed the medication medication anyway. I "I have fun with the doctors, doctors, I tell them I'm older, I've seen more and they can't tell me how I feel, I tell them. I never took, a needle and they're not going to punch me full of holes. I'm still here. Lots of doctors are dead but I'm still here." Mr. McCuaig came to Clarington in 1998. He spent the first 99 years of his life in Sudbury. His only son, Alex, 70, visits him often, and his grandson John Daniel, 40, who lives in Bowmanville, visits him with his family every week. ; He still stays up late, watches every hockey game and he even played hockey until he was 70 years old. "In the early days I played all kind of sports, oiitside of swimming, for many years - hunting, fishing, fishing, working the mines," he recalls, but adds his job in the mines was different from the traditional miner image. "I took care of all the stuff in the nickel mines, making sure everything was safe. I wasn't a big, heavy guy breaking the rocks below, but I kept them safe." As the years continue to pass, Mr. McCuaig says he still feels 50. "I like to be alive," he says. "It's been a hell of a good life as far as I'm concerned concerned -1 got no enemies, I hope I don't. I never paid much attention ' to the past, today is today and tomorrow tomorrow is tomorrow." 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