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Orono Weekly Times, 26 Aug 1992, p. 12

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Travelled around the world above speaking with Linda countries and four continents. The Holland, organizer for MS, World, Tour was cornpleted in completed a World Tour for MS in 1986. 1986 and was part of the Richard is now an active contingent of bikers over the past spokesperson on improving the lot week-end on the of disabled persons and is a OronolPeterborough tour. goodwill ambassador for MIS. He Richard was diagnosed as also assist witb cycling events and having MS in 1975. Beginning in this year was part of the last week- 1983 he rode bis customized end tour. He resides in Ottawa. M ore Deàulirious Writings, by Helen MacDonald a budget? Alcor bas a tbrift plan. Recently CBC's "Witness" ran $35,000 will afford suspension of a two-part series on aging and your bcad for later reattacbrnent to dying, "Heaven Must Wait". In, a bost body. "No price is too bigb their quesi for eternal youth, 10 pay, and no odds 10 small to eternal life, Americans spcnd in take", stated one of Alcor's cxces of $4-Billion each year on principals on "Witness". anti-aging lotions, potions and 1 Science and medicine alrcady puIs. Some pay $3,500 for a one- have available the technology 10 week visit to tbe Cadillac of healtb cxtend life, but some question the farms wherc thcy subject quality of life. As one interviewee themnselves to a regime of tortuous statcd "liow boring il would be 10 exercise on a diet of legumnes and sec thc saine faces for a thousand greens. And, an estimatcd one years."1 million Americans had cosmetic As in most instances, plastic surgery ini 1991. tecbnology is developed witbout Some consider aging to be a the benefit of thoughtful disease, rather than a natura'l discussion, amongst ail members process in the circle of life. The of society, which seeks tbe moral United States is borne 10 the and ethical truths. A case in point worlds largest facility wbich was the splitting of the atom. As studies aging and dimentia. Tbree we marked another annîversary of hundred and fifty scientists and the atomnic bombing of Hiroshima technicians work with 21,000 mice a few weeks ago, 1 wonder at the and rats spending billions of lack of foresight and dollars to study aging - to find a accountability of science wben 1 cure for Old Age Disease. see the ongoing saga of this one While plastic surgeons retard event. the aging process (and fine their How much engineering, time, pockeîs) lifting faces, tucking humant effort and money should tumies and reshiniig breasts and we bc putting into the prevention bottomis, niew-age believers of of aging and death? What would cellular regeneration dling 10 be the social impacts and the evanigelic preachings and promises impact on the global environment? of "Deathlessness". Given the chance to live for For those who accept death as thousands of years, there would be unavoidable. tdieL.S.-based Alcor no endings, and even more Life E,ýîension Fouindation offers regrettable, as one middle-aged hiope for life after death. For the man noted, no beginnings - no sumn of $140,000, Alcor will new Mozarts, Beethovens, suspend your dcceased body for an Rembrandts. "Imagine family ind.,-Iinlitc pericod wiîh the promise gatherings?', he scoffed. "Life was to reaninlate the body once the meant to bc a continuai tumning of technology bccomnes available. On dic page". To meet with Jack Epp over nuclear waste 1In mid] August at a special meeting of the Port Hope counicil a resolution was passed inviting Jack Epp, federal minister of Energy, Mines and Resources to speak witb counicil on the radio- active waste issue that is under study in the town. Epp is to meet with coundil on September 3rd. Mayor Betty Collins in putting forth the resolution stated that realities must bc faced as to the waste problem. At Ohe presenit time a Port Hope Community Liaison Group, like in Hope Township and Oie Town of Newcastle, are in Phase Four of a study relating to the removal of low-level nuclear waste fromn the) tbree communities. It was pointed out at the meeting that Geraldton or Deep River are not sure centres as host communities for the low-level waste from Port Hope. It was also stated that il may well be safer and mucb cheaper for Canadians if Port Hope and the other two centres kept their own waste. Collins made it clear that counicil was not usurping the role of the local CLO wbich bas been set up to hear the wisbes of the Town residents and convey these wisbes bo the federal task force. .Collins said that the Town was only asking Epp to corne down. Since the meeting there bas been some speculation of discord between counicil and the community liaison committee but this has since been smootbed over witb a member of the CLG stating that the group realizes council bas tbe right t caîl anyone to meet with thern. It was asked bowever îbat better communications be established beîween council and thc committee. The Reeve of council said tbat council must be prepared if the waste is 10 remnain in the Town. Sbc said the proccss could go on férever. DURHAM REGIONAL CIME STOPPERS 436-8477 I think of my grandmother wbo died in lher eighty-fourtb year this year. I did not know ber when she was young; w hen lier skin was cream-y smooth, her haïr long and dark, and ber body slim and nubile. What I saw, though, was not a wrînkled, useless, old lady. I saw a woman wbo loved me and- whose heart was full, whose eyes danced at the sigle of ber grandcbildren, or a memory; whose kiss was warm, whose voice was gentle and wise; and, whose soul soaredwith precious moments in thejoy of living. 1 will visit my grandmother's grave 10 recail Uic essence of thc woman wbo gave my father life. I cant imagine visiting ber head in a freezer, wishing upon bher a MORRIS FUNERAL CHAPEL LTD. Established in 1881 623-5480 7- .. . . .4 Division St. Bowmanville PRE-ARRANGEO AND PREPAID FUNERAL SERVICES AVAILABLE Mark M. Stapleton fL<estoration & 50?çroduction 6720 Leskard Rd. N., Orono 983-6098 Historical Restoration and Reproduction o f Century Homes. Also all types of -General Carpentry.J MERVYN B. 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