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Asthma Calendar released as part of Clean Air Celebration By WILMA BLOKHUIS Oakville Beaver Staff tudents at St. Mildred‘s Lightbourn School spent the noon hour Wednesday blowing up balloons, picking up tree seedlings and watching the American Lung Association‘s ‘Blue Sky Awards‘ video featuring several popular rock artists performing environmentally conscience music, as part of the Clean Air Celebration visiting local schools courâ€" tesy of the Halton Lung Association. The Clean Air Celebration is being held in conjunction with its new Teenage Street Guide to Asthma calenâ€" dar for 1994. Similar to this year‘s asthâ€" ma calendar, it illustrates and explains how teens can deal with their asthma without embarrassment. A number of calenders were handed out at St. Mildred‘s by project coâ€"ordinators Tanya Kulnies and Dorothy Coates, but only to those with asthma and students who have asthma in their families. The new calendar is similar to the lung association‘s first effort, for which Maplegrove United Church 486â€"8742 cz im 48 MUSIC Young Children‘s Creative Music Movement Classes® velgsyoung chiigaren 6 months to 3 1/2 years old (in 6 month groupings) REGISTER NOW for 10 week winter term starting January 7 8 Musical For babies and ry young children Kulnies and Coates won the Special Contribution award from the Ontario Lung Association. Last year, 500 calenâ€" ders were distributed across Halton. Starting this month and early next year, some 5,000 calendars will be distributâ€" ed, some of them going across Canada, thanks to corporate sponsor Astra Pharma Inc., of Mississauga. And like last year, typesetting and design was done by Colleen O‘Hara of 4 Eyes Art Design. The illustrations, by Sheridan College graduate Frank Bedek, have been repeated. All of the work to create the calendar has been donated, with printing costs paid by Astra Pharma. "With this calendar, were hitting the 5% to 10% of the student population who have asthma," said Kulnies. "But with out Clean Air Celebration, were reaching 100% of the student populaâ€" tion." Another component of the Clean Air Celebration is to discourage students from starting to smoke. According to statistics obtained by Kulnies and Coates from Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, emergenâ€" cy visits for asthma total 953 during its Certa ProPumters "David Wilkins has been recommended by us to maw people. He is a very professional businessman and worker. We will delfinitely be using him again." * DEPENDABLE x WE THINK GREEN * QUALITY x FAST FUSSY For A Free Estimate Joanne D. Ross, Oakville 845â€"3777 1992â€"1003 fiscal year. The highest numâ€" ber of such visits to emergency were 16â€" to 20â€"yearâ€"olds, 162 visits; 21â€" to 25â€" yearâ€"olds, 102 visits; and 26â€" to 30â€"yearâ€" olds, 103 visits. Most of the repeat visits also come from these age categories. The problem, say Kulnies and Coates, is that teenagers with asthma are reluctant or shy about using their ‘puffers,‘ resulting in complications due to their asthma. "The younger teenagers are ashamed to use their ‘puffer,‘ "* says Coates. ‘"It‘s not the thing to do." Both agree that smoking, which often begins during adolescence, is one of the major contributing factors in the increase of asthma related illnesses and deaths among teenagers. "Smoking is one of the things that aggravates asthma; so it‘s like putting the nail in the coffin," said Kulnies, adding "teenagers have a higher rate of increase of deaths (due to asthma thanâ€"any other age group). "With all the medication that we have today and with the knowledge we have on asthma, it should be going down." David Wilkins Serving Oakville Since 1986 282 Lakeshore Rd. East Port Credit) 278â€"8055 NOâ€" pAl CR S pnCE aA o (2 lights east of Hwy. #10)