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HIE HERALD Wednesday May Page Gehrigs spirit lives in the fight against ALS In this anniversary year of Lou Gehrigs strikeout by baseballs Iron Man con tinues in spirit an name to pro mote public awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Better known as and more easily pronounced Lou Gehrigs Disease is- now disabling at least 36 residents of the Waterloo- Wellington district The average life expectancy after diagnosis is twoandahalf years Thats the bad news says Bill president of the WW Chapter of the Society of On tario The good news is that some of us with are in the slow lane Dr Stephen Hawking the British physicist and bestselling author has had it for a quarter of a century A close runnerup is who is president of our Metro Toronto chapter Im believ ed to be an eightyear survivor much luckier than the late actor David Niven But we are seeing too many people Adie of Fergus who lasted only months after diagnosis and died last year at Other departures since our chapter was formed more than a Terra Cotta WI installs new officers The April annual meeting of the Terra Cotta WI was held at the home of Mrs Catherine Leslie with the vicepresident Linda conducting the meeting Christine Bishop gave the Peel North board meeting report for March Muriel Lyons installed new officers for The list in cludes past president Mrs George president Mrs vice president Mrs Art Dowds secretary treasurer Barbara assistant secretary Mrs Douglas McDonald District Director Mrs CG Bishop and for public rela tions the WI will install Mrs Art McKane Program coordinator will be Eleanor The hostess for the Ma meeting was Florence Christie and her assistants were Mary MacDonald and Eleanor Macdonald A special visitor was Peggy Kanpp who is the presidentelect for the Federated Womens In stitute of Ontario She brought greetings from the province and mentioned some of her respon sibilities There was an interesting report of the District Annual Meeting which was held in Inglewood United Church given by Eleanor The roll calls included a travel experience and in formative session with Cyr from Travel Agency There was an 80mimite video presenta tion and a question period after ward Muriel Lyons described three in teresting trips she had taken in cluding a canal trip in England a trip to Bavaria and an inside passage to Alaska Courtesies were given to end the meeting by Eileen The June meeting will be a tour of the Elora and Fergus areas year ago include Ralph Rock of Cambridge Anne Hamilton of Kit chener Iris Secular of Breslau and Rowland Davies of Elora This is why the Chapter and others across Canada are gearing up for June ALS Month when the sale of blue corn flowers will again raise funds Net proceeds after outofpocket ex penses are devoted to medical research into this baffling disease discovered more than a century ago by French physician Charcot The crippling motor neuron disease has so far defied researchers as to cause or cure It affects both sexes and all ages from to 90 Pollution andor viruses remain on the suspect list Since last years fundraising campaign the Chapter has not only contributed financially to research but three of its members are among those participating in University of Guelph studies of ALS by Prof John Brooke They are Bill Dingman of Arthur Ruth Burt of Acton and Bill of Elora The chapter has been steadily growing to where there are more than members But we need many more volunteers Mr Doole says not only to staff our flower- sale campaign June but for various duties including driving patients to hospital or shopping babysitting visiting advanced- stage patients and helping in publicawareness activities Mr expressed much ap preciation for the trailblazing done by Guelphs Brenda Bates who with her late husband Keith founded the original Guelph Chapter Much help has also come from area residents including Lome Voll of Waterloo whose wife learned she had ALS last December Mary Lou Little of Kit chener whose father died of the disease Theresa Markus of Kit chener whose husband a relative ly young man was an ALS casualty leaving three young children A substantial moralebooster has come with the founding of the Trillium Funded Ontario Chapter Mr Doole said Indefatigable Jack a nineyear ALS paraplegic is president His vicepresident is Guelphs Elinor Knight who also doubles as administrative chair for the WW Chapter I have been ask ed to chair the provincial awareness committee Karen Bulk Foods FOR ALL YOUR BAKING NEEDS is executive director If you would like to volunteer for flowersale day or a longer stint please call Kathy Hofstetter in Kit chener 5769677 in Guelph Elinor Knight or Brenda Bates evenings or weekends on ly or in Eloca district Bill Doole before pm only The disease is not contagious is rarely hereditary- is as common as multiple sclerosis It could even happen to you 8770109 8770109 Simon CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Phone S 4168770109 Mam Street South Georgetown Ontario 8770109 NORTH END NISSAN 610 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