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2 The Acton Free Press Wednesday April 11 1979 with Jennifer Ban- April is daffodil month a month when the Cancer Society tries o focus attention on the monetary needs of cancer research with the hopeful message Cancer can be beaten No one knows he full portent of this message as well as Acton resident and businessman Lome Lome has had a running battle with a particularly virulent form of cancer for the past five years and is now well on his way to recovery I don want to press my luck Lome says reluctant use the definite word cure but he has been clear of recurrence for two years Early detection and treatment Is the most important part of beating any cancer Lome reels In his own case a bothersome knee troubled him for six months before cancer was diagnosed and his leg was amputated After amputation chemotherapy was recommended but pursued until some months later when a spot was discovered on the lung Lome feels if he succumbed to chemotherapy immediately the cancer was diagnosed he not have needed the lung operations he had to undergo Chemotherapy was indeed initialed and continued for a year until Lome had an allergic reaction lo the drugs Now he goes for monthly checkups soon become monthly where he is rayed and scanned to Insure there are no more secondary tumors We re living with it constantly says Lome but he is feeling carefully confident he disease is now under control Worst moment he was a cancerous growth and would have to lose his leg was the moment In Lome ordeal Without his wife June daughters Lisa and Leanne and supportive parents he says he wouldn have pulled out of the slump of depression Even then he felt his life was over and he be a cripple forever until a cheerful little nurse pointed out malcrof that he d be walking normally as soon as he was filled wilh a prosthesis artificial leg From that moment he has never been quite as low again She handed me a tomorrow A courageous man he rapidly became adept at walking with crutches then with a temporary prosthesis finally with the finished leg residents of five years ago will remember triumph of Lome riding in the Acton Fall Fair parade barely four weeks after his operation He has since ridden horses like a maniac climbed up on his own roof to repair it and has generally terrified his family many times over An artificial leg docsn I seem to have any effect on his activities Never die Of course at this stage Lome figured his brush with cancer was finished He figured wrong ended up having three lung operations and chemotherapy something he d rather forget Yet all through the ordeal Lome said he never to give up I just lo live I wanted to see my kids grow up The operations treatments and checkups were an annoyance frightening annoyance Lome considered them only in never once feeling this was IT Doctors are now believing a positive at real gut belief in cure is a strong factor in cancer remission His illness changed Lome life he says He now enjoys his days more fully appreciating friends who stood by him his invaluable staff at his car dealership who kept ihe business going and his family more than ever He says he has a closer relationship with God whom he felt never deserted him More leisure time and family holidays loom large on his agenda these days Also Important to Lome is the time he spends with other people going through the same battle Many days he called down to Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto his Alma Mater to dutch uncle a patient facing amputation surgery or chemotherapy Lurne is over modest about his help to which includes active supportive help for Track Three skiing an organization for amputee and crippled youngsters Helping in the same boat is ail part of dues he feels a very small way lo say thank you Cancer is a name for many many forms of abnormal growths Every cancer has a different prognosis and treatment Bul doctors ore unanimous In stating early detection and treatment is very important in effecting a cure and love do the rest Cancer can be beaten Lome will tell you that Cabinet backs but ICG appealing The Ontario Municipal Board has nothing to fear from provincial cabinet concerning a board dec which hands Ontario Hydro the key to Hills Cabinet issued an order in il yeste rday which confirms the dcasi permit tint Ontario to build a corridor down the of Hit the door to Hills is not yet open there arc a scries of complex steps opponents he corridor including Hit and Hit Interested Citizens Group ICG may take The town according to ICC spokesman John Minns is iskmg the 1 reconsider Us decision Depending on how the hoard handles the town request the ICG may still question in court the to decision itself may at divisional court because a number of in the ICOs appeal lo cabinet one just turned down were not addressed by cabinet Mr Minns Opponents to the corridor may also try and llit ear of Ontario Premier William Davis lo see if he will do some thing about cabinets support for the Lastly there is the Ombudsman whose staff the ICG Is meeting today Many breakins here fast week A rash of break mid entries in the kepi Regional Police hopping this week A St resident reported theft of from a after si entered his by pushing front duur luck through Approximately in cash was taken from tht week this forced tht i into building SI J sophs St tool linktn way of on unlocked window and is removed from dr in lit front I Dominion staff donates wages to crippled children Over was raised Saturday for be Crippled Children Fund the Hotel Staff and management had decided last week to donale two hours wages ill salts protttds Hit good cause pat hotel from O were told when heir money would be Some even their pur liases Jem ant Vcrn irbor Fucker Ilea Karen Binder John I en Ihc Intel Mr and Mrs Mer tin ire especially I I who held i sptei r use funds I- limit Family gain Centre II 1 police say was gained when the air conditioner is removed from he wall Stolen were portable jogtmg suits pair 1 jeans and one small iss table Police have no suspects many of above is possible however in the of a cassette re corder and car speakers from Halton Hills Furniture II is unknown at the lime if investigation if wis missing when someone gained entry to a Tidey Ave A man re ported the thtft of a let from his car while is parked it lltlls Collision It I It personal papers and credit P wis stolen ffiliwmt break someone shooting pellets at hem with an air gun A motor off rotor lil ler was taken after some one entered the fenced portion of a Park Ave home Total value of the motor is set at A snowball broke the bide window of a Reliable Taxi police say Police set the damage at to a red pickup ruck after someone driver door while it was parked on Main St N Tht owner lives be Maria SI apartments llunnlng out of gas proved to be very ex pensive for a Nelson resident While he left his vehicle attended on Highway between Fourth and Lines someone smashed out front rear and right side win dows of his car Police have suspect agreement Hills General Committee Monday evening recommended the revision of an agree ment by law between the town and for the use or lands re claimed as a result of dredging of Fairy Lake by Prospect Park The agreement comes under revision every two Many returning from a southern holiday may want to continue their sun tan beware Getting an artificial tan from a sun lamp sent 12 North Americans to he hospital in for injuries ranging from sunburn to eye liberal party energy critic Julian Reed Burlington said in a press release follow cabinet s decision thai the order in council demonstrates he government The government argues the need far the hydro corridor because of the urgent need for hydro power However Ontario Hydro earlier this week decided to delay completion of one of the main units at the Bruce nuclear general ing station on Lake Huron Hydro planned to have a 109mile long power corridor from nuclear generator to Milton transformer station Mr Reed went on lo say he has pointed out lo premier the energy minister and others the change in the con sumption growlh rate of power in Ontario would provide the solid reasoned ground for changing cabinets decision allowing the government lo grant the oft asked for non- Hydro Independent study for the ICG EASTER FASHIONS Senior police shuffle moves men Musical chairs for 11 senior Regional policemen were ex changed following a shakeup of top trative staff The shuffle comes after an Ontario Police Com mission report on ihe force and includes the recommendations of OPC advisor Stan The postings take effect Monday Apr and in elude three specific changes from No 1 District MiltonGeorge own Acting Superintendent Roy Taylor will leave Georgetown to report headquarters as 4H Club honors Nino Braida by Brad OtUway The Acton Club paid credit Nino Braida for his years of work on behalf of the farm organization The group presented Mr with Calf Club Jacket for all the years of support and work he has put into our club according to the organization The presentation came during he clubs or ganizational meeting March at the com centre The club returned three women to the top executive Jobs president Marie Murray vicepresident Karen Brown and secretary Elaine Cunningham This is the third term for the president and the second for the vicepresident The second Thursday of each month was selected as the date for club meetings Vicepresident Brown reminded members of the success of the dub Family Day last year Members families played a game of base ball which was followed by a picnic A committee was organized to arrange this year Family Day Secretary Cunningham recommended the club take advantage of any chance to send a delegate to a regional conference for 15year olds Club members learned that agriculture rep resentative Mark Leahy left for a job elsewhere He was the represents live for about four years Easter Egg contest Sat Acton Public Library has planned an Easter Egg contest for this com ing Saturday April Children have been invited to bring a dec orated Easter Egg to the library and place it on the tree Prizes will be awarded in various cat with the winners receiving Iheir ribbons at nam There will also be a special Easter draw Lightfooted for Spring Summer TENDER TOOTSIES HAVE ARRIVED