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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,2000 11 Hydro stresses safety to By FRANCES The New Tanner It was hard to tell who squealed louder, the teachers or the students. when Bill Coakley ran 120-volts of elec- tricity through a dill pickle at St. Joseph's Catholic School yesterday (Tuesday) morn- ing. With that very graphic demonstration of what a shock can do -- he also caused shrieks when he stuck a fork in a toaster -- Coakley and his puppet Wires, held staff and students spell- bound with his entertaining and informative electrical safety presentation. The younger grades learned all about fuses and electricity and how to pull a plug and why to stay away from hydro lines and sub-sta- tions. With older kids. Coakley runs 600-volts through a wiener -- it flares and blows up -- and talks about a 12-year-old Dresden boy who was electrocuted recently when he broke off the ground plug as he hooked up his computer. "We want to save lives," Coakley said when asked about the school safety pres- entation. "I was just in Whitby where they lost a 12-year-old boy getting into a sub-sta- tion on a challenge and got electrocuted. Last May, in North Bay, a 12-year-old boy and two friends threw students Loonies into a sub-station and dared someone to go ina get them. One boy went in and, never came back out," Coakley grimly said, adding the two friends and the hy- dro linemen that went into the sub-station all required psy- chiatric help. Coakley, a former Oakville Hydro employee, was hired by Halton Hills Hydro (HHH) to take the electricity safety message to the local schools and HHH general manager Kurt Durski, says Coakely's $700-a-day fee is "well worth the money." "It's not cheap...it may seem expensive, but it's money well spent if it saves one life," Durski said on Fri- day, adding they also spent $2,000 on pencils to give the students after the presenta- tion. Durski had no statistics to prove the education cam- paign works, and couldn' t re- call any incidents of kids get- ting into hydro sub-stations in Halton Hills. "We want to be very proactive and maintain a good (accident) history. The worst thing in the world is to go into a sub-station and see a kid slumped over a wire, dead, or something like that," Durski said, adding HHH re- peats the HHH school safety program every four years. oakley visits McKenzie- Smith Bennett students on April 26. He was at Robert Lit- tle school late last month. Daniel Varanelli Certified General Accountant Personal and Business Tax Returns Electronic Filing Evenings and Saturday Appointments 273 Queen Street, Acton -- SHOCKING CONDIMENT: Dylan Agnew and Sherina Gunasinghe, Kindergarten students at St. Joseph's Catholic School watched with wide-eyed wonder on Tuesday as electri- cal safety instruction Bill Coakley prepared to run 120-volts through a dill pickle to show what happens when you geta shock. 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