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Crosswalk petition B6 Eggs greet scabs SPORTAl Lifetime Service Guarantee the HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills Established 1 866 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1987 OPEN1010 Its the to Acton PROTESTING PUPILS BLOCK HIGHWAY Smokefree policy stirs students to walk out By MARY HZ SHAW Herald Staff Aboul Georgetown High School students blocked Highway 7 for one hour Friday morning to protest the school smoke free policy The sitdown protest which began at 11 30 a was on the street In fron of Georgetown District High School and had traffic blocked for about one kilometre each way Earlier in the protest some cars and rucks managed to cut Ihrough a thin opening left by the students before police arrived to divert traf fie The students stayed on the street until about 12 when Principal Barbara Singleton promised sus student smoking detentions un til Monday momlng Grade students Brett Robinson George Osborne and Mike Tyler will meet with the Principal at that lime to review the smoking ban The students were standing in the middle of the road shout smoke free sucks and passing around a nine page petition against the schools recent policy to ban from grounds Teachers at the school however are permitted to smoke in a designated Principal agrees to study issue A8 The protest was organized about 10 a and gained as students reached the street These some tense moments during the road blockage as two trucks to burst past the line of protesters One student leader Brett Robinson jumped on the grill of a tractor trailer is he driver to squeeze his rig through the line of protesters A policeman Constable A arrived on the scene about 15 minutes later and tried to convince students to move to the side of the road Brett Robinson sat on the ground and refused to move About 100 students then decided to join Mr Robinson on the street and the highway was blocked completely The students charged the school with discrimination allowing teachers to smoke in the staff room Under the current policy students who arc caught smoking on school grounds are issued a warning A slu dent caught twice for smoking on the grounds is suspended for a day A full threeday suspension is issued to students who arc caught more than twice If re old enough to smoke at home you re old enough to smoke at school sold James Gage a student The school Vice Principal Joseph Bray said he felt the protest was unworthy It creates bad feelings and acts in the disinterest of students Mr The school smoking policy was the result of threeyears of research during which time the students were asked for their opinions he said The vice principal added he did not believe the protest would change the schools policy Six more policemen arrived and the students to continue their protest every day until they wire assured the policy would be reviewed We 11 keep coming back again and again said one IByear old dent who asked not to be identified Pupils feel road sitin was only way to be heard Herald Stud Many students protesting the smoking ban Georgetown District High School were heir protest led to a blockade Highway But they were Just as adamant about what they feel is their right as students to smoke on school pro perty We re glad the blockage but we t want it to come to this said Jay Johnston one of the protesters The students want their smoking area back after a smoking ban on school pro get til school been receiving twoday sions for smoking while property The pupils fed there is a con diet ion concerning the smoking ban The prime issue is that the teachers can smoke said Jay Johnston It dlscnmimlion We have lo fight for our rights If teachers tan we should be able to smoke in side the school said Julie Van Students found in the school parking lot arc bcin suspended by teachers and it depriving us of our education public said Hat Met One of the protesters few students art old smoking ma is inn quadrangle which v is fixed up often smoking in was levelled Julie Van s she be satisfied if were told liny smoke school property It doesn t me if teachers don 1 smoke so that s no good The only thing we want is our smoking back said David J Presswood Some students told Thi the vicepnntipal pni Lipid are more eonccrncd the schools reputation a leader in having a smokefree environment for students They re jeopardize our education by suspending us just to protect their reputation said David How tin tlicy lake our right away when we arc at the age lo lie asked Georgetown high is one only few schools his a ban on smoking ill areis of the school property I for the pro testers Brit Robinson was not with Ins first meeting with Si nekton No one to anything Shi she prepared glvi us back smoking so no re just to sit it said the student leaders move the pupils from the highway but Bret Robinson said they give them help The turnout estimated to be i round students with as many is GO actually sitting on the road way was than we ex peeled he said The protest started at a m broke up it about 12 when Barb Singleton agreed to lift the ban until Monday when talks would be held with student representatives The principal went out to the crowd of pupils and warned the teens that people negotiate when they feel backed into a cor This Is football day this Is sup posed to I e their she said The principal s message that no more smoking suspensions lie in until Monday when we this calmed the crowd and is pursed shortly it Pleas for help in effort to stir son Coma videotape gives mother hope Ht raid Stilt A Georgetown women whose son is in a coma is reaching out for little bit of hope Mary Franks la searching desperaely for a videotape of a television show about coma patients hoping the methods shown will stir some movement from her son The Chapel Street mother of two is asking the help of the community for anyone who taped a Fifth Estate show Oct 13 called Cruel to be Kind It could make a difference in said Mrs Franks The program tells a treatment used by a hospital in Birmingham England to stimulate comatose pa Paul Franks survived a single car crash on near Fergus five months ago but he slipped Into Paul a coma Mrs Franks has been told by doctors at Suunybrook Hospital In Toronto that her son has BO per cent brain damage Until Oct Paul was at Sun but his mother wanted him closer to home and since then he has been at Ihe Georgetown District Memorial Hospital said there nothing more I hey could do she said Mrs Franks heard through friends the Fifth segment was about comatose patients This doctor was to stimulate the pa Paul has opened his eyes a lot more One girl was in a coma for six his mother said Paul is closer to his Eire but now walking and brother Brian father James and The doctor never gave up she girlfriend Jennifer as well as other friends now he s in town It a long shot but as a parent Unhappy with her son treatment you want lo try aft the long shots you while at Mis ranks can nothing but praise for the staff at Since he a been in Georgetown Georgetown hospital Nursing MDs appeal begins day 1 Dr Jack Fords Toronto hearing reveals facts about revocation TORONTO Jack Ford conducted an average of 500 times more hysterectomies on women under than at College Hospital said lawyer Joshua The lawyer made his remarks while crossexamining a witness testifying on behalf of gynecologist and Ford pcrvisor Betty Diaz spent one her days off to come down to Sunn brook to see Paul she said The Georgetown hospital really pulling In of time with him Mrs Franks said The Georgetown hospital had a lit tie Acton girl in the rehabilitation a year ago about Paul stage and has to say a few words she noted Paul has had a tracheotomy and lie is fed through a tube in his stomach Part of the skull was removed bone removed because his brain was swelling after the dent Paul was driving his fathers car when it suddenly went out of control There was no drinking involved and no signs of skid marks which would Indicate a sudden slop his mother said Her son an employee of Bochiners at the time t wear a scat belt If you have made a tape of the show Cruel lo be Kind Mrs Franks at877 ThL hearing of the Ontario Hospital Appeals Board Into the dismissal of the Georgetown doctor began Tuesday with statements by three witnesses Gaiin MacKenzie counsel to ap pellant Jack Ford called two doctors from Georgetown And District Memorial Hospital and an expert on gynecology and obstetrics to testify In his opening statement Mr MacKenzic told the appeals board of two doctors and three lawyers that Georgetown would suffer a grave loss if Dr Ford hospital privileges were not reinstated Dr privileges were April following a decision of aboard of directors Mr MacKenzie presented the ap peals board with numerous af fidavits including seven doctors four nurses and two patients of Ford The doctors testified that Dr is competent and pleasant He la unquestionably an asset and he Is blessed with pleasant per said David VanDer Bent of Acton in written state ment Mr MacKenzic called Adrian llobart a general surgeon who has assisted Dr Ford on about two to three operations per month Ford is an absolutely first class operator Dr said when asked his opinion of the appellant abilities as a surgeon He Is technically the best nave worked with tin the area of gynecology and added that Dr Ford is verj calm and confident in surgery Joshua counsel for the board of directors asked specific quesllons concern obstetrical or gynecological operations said he could comment only In a general way and not on areas relating to complex cases of gynecology Arc you saying you arc capable of commenting on Fords judge ment Mr asked said he is able to judge how Ford reacts in the handling of tissues or In a case of bleeding Appeals board chairman Thomas Wood reminded Mr that testified he is a general surgeon and a specialist in gynecology or obstetrics Mr used statistics based on a review of Ford conducted in July of by College Hospital staff member Robert Calf The hospital lawyer pointed out that Dr Ford has conducted an average of times more hysterec tomies on women under than doc tors at College Hospital In one six month period Ford and Valerie Kumar conducted hysterectomies on women under over a month period doctors Women College conducted Mr said I am baffled by those statistics said Mr referred lo a case of a baby whose spinal cord was snap ped during a mid forcepts delivery and later died as a result of the operation When said he was not aware of the case Chairman Wood said he wanted to know why Mr Lltwood was referring to specific cases If he Is not aware of these cases he may want to change his opinion of Mr Gavin MncKenzle hen called Dr Allster Macintosh to testify for Dr Ford Macintosh is a general practitioner and a consultant In In medicine at GDMH He Is also the coroner for Hills Macintosh said he refers five to ten of his patients per month to Ford and he has found the ap pellant to be helpful In the handling of patients During his cross examination Mr Listwood asked Dr Macintosh about one of his former patients who had been sterilized after she had been through menopause According to her charts Macintosh said the patient had been experiencing post menopausal bleeding Why would Doctor Ford sterilize a woman who had been through menopause several years before Mr Dr Macintosh said his original diagnosis of his patient was She was experiencing pre menopausal bleeding hcsald The appeals board Is now hearing the of Ronald Benzie professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of tawa and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Ottawa General Hospital Dr Benzie told the appeals board that with the exception of one or two cases handled by Dr Ford he would not hesitate to hire Dr Ford on his staff The hearing is expected lo con for seven days according to chairman Thomas Wood Following statements made by Dr Benzie under questioning of Mr MacKenzie Mr Listwood has refer red to more than five specific cases of Dr Ford Mr Listwood questioned Dr Ben on procedures operations and patient management The lawyer is basing his question on a review conducted by Dr Robert Gall a staff member at College Hospital and a associate pro fessor at the University of Toronto He also referred to a second review conducted by of professor Drew Allen which examines opera Ford In earlier testimony Benzie told the appeal board he disagreed with Ford method of treatment I didnt want my silence mistaken for acceptance Gavin Mr Listwood said Gall was surprised at the high number of ana C Dilation and Cutcragc operations that had been performed at GDMH and C is a procedure in which a doctor dilates the cervix and scrapes the uterine wall Another physician had expressed concern over the finding of a healthy uteri that had been removed following hysterectomies Mr Gall s report also points out that a large number of operations to relieve incontinence had been performed GDMH Mr I islwoodsaid Gavin MacKenzie told the board that he questions the statistics quoted by Mr I didn want my silence to be mistakened for acceptance Mr said Under intense questioning by Dr Dr Benzie said he could not comment on specific cases without knowing the patients ed Mr provided the witness with patient charts Benzie said the urinary proceed in question now general ly referred to a special unit at Mount Sinai Hospital In Toronto I remember discussing this with Dr Ford on the telephone before I left Toronto two years ago Benzie said He usually heeded my Mr Listwood then referred to three cases involving women aged 15 16 and 19 Each women had had D and operations and or insertions of lnterutcrine devices BJDs Benzie again declined to form an opinion of Ford judgement because the coses were unique he said The justification of any pro cedure is difficult without being there he said In one cose a 19yearold had been experiencing scanty bleeding She had two and C operations in one year Mr It would appear to be on the surface but I can certain Dr Benzie said Dr Benzie admitted surprise however over a case involving a 16- yearold girt She had an removed when it was suspected to be he cause of her abnormal bleeding problems She then under went a D and C operation during which the same IUD was reinserted Why put it back In when it Is suspected to be the cause of her pain Mr asked Ben zie said Mr had made a fair comment That surprises me he added The lawyer also questioned a ease concerning a women who has had a cesarean may have a vaginal birth providing the obstetrician watches the patient carefully and has an ex perlenced assistant available the specialist said The patient in question had been experiencing some complications with her pregnancy As she was her delivery date Dr Ford telephoned Valerie Kumar asking her to take care of his patient Dr Ford then left Georgetown for Toronto Mr Listwoodsaid The patient was handed over to Dr Kumar without her prior con sent the lawyer added That is unacceptable Ben tie said The hearing will reconvene on Dec after this week two days of hearings