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Page ALTON IMT DropIn Centre receives MOH funds The Ministry of Health will give towards a dropin centre to Improve the health of low income resldeotfllnOakvitle The Elm Street Centre stress good nutrition reducing com diseases In children and promoting selfesteem Organizer hope It will become a major centre for promoting good In the community The Halton Regional Health Unit been working with residents on plana lor the centre which wag recommended for funding by the District Health Council A project coordinator will be hired to coordinate activities and residents will be encouraged to iden tify and find solutions to local health problems Staff will train residents Programs on the risks of smok GAS BAR two years The grant la of announced by the Ministry recently to help com groups promote good health The groups will use everything from peer counselling to martial arts training native culture and secondlanguage classes to get people Involved The programs will cost over two years They range from a workshop for teenagers Good health Is much more than the treatment of Illness said Mrs It has much to do with social physical and economic fac tors It Is no good pumping money In to hospitals health clinics and doc tors services if we don also give the tools to help them make thy lifestyle choices aSS SEy a depreaUor a province- P f j reject help hearing ral1 to Halt and J- MP for Centre Researchers look for link Nuclear power plants leukemia GEORGETOWN CINEMAS GUEIPH STREET From the Ottawa Bureau of Thomson News Service The Atomic Energy Control Board baa ordered a twoyear study of the Incidence of leukemia among children bom In the vicinity of four nuclear facilities in Ontario The nuclear regulatory agency decided recently to proceed with the project after learning earlier In the year of a British Study that reported an increase in the number of leukemia deaths in children bom near the Sdlafleld nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Scaocale West Cumbria The study will involve children up to 14 years of age and bom within- kilometres or reactors at Pickering Chalk River and and the uranium fuel refinery at Port Hope The previous ly measured radiation doses of parents employed at the facilities over the next three yean to finance the project A project manager on the staff will be named to oversee the operation and a panel of health and medical experts will be appointed to establish guidelines and review the findings of the study A contract agency or consultant will conduct the study The study Is to be completed by May 1990 TUESDAYS AnySeaf Any Show I PASSWORD THURSDAYS See Wednesdays Herald for Details CINEMA CHEVY CHASE FUNNY FARM 15pm Sat Sun Matinees at 2 p saain ho PASSES OR COUPONS STALLONE RAMB0DI Now Playing 00 1 Sat Sun matinees n SORPVJ HO PASSES concentre will reviewed Any firm evidence of leukemia children will result In a detailed study and dominations of around other nuclear opera ions the board decided Studies in both the US and tain have found concentrations of childhood leukemia near some nuclear facilities But they are regarded as Inconclusive because higher concentrations have also been found In areas remote from nuclear plants and other nuclear operations are free of the problem Other British studies suggest and biological factors mya ve an Impact on the higher of leukemia In some districts Nevertheless the AECB con It prudent to proceed with ita own study and committed Tracy English grid a ted from be University of Jane with a Bachelor of Commerce degree Is a of Milton District High School She Is now training to be a manager at Michel Baguette In A UNIQUE FACILITY WITH ADEQUATE PARKING 5 or 7NITES90 DABBER INFORMATION LINE 8730BB JACKPOT KILL PRIjgE BOARD