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September is flu prevention awareness month and physi- cians are advising high-risk pa- tients to get a flu vaccination as NEED PHOTOCOPIES? We can do them for you! Letter, Legal & Ledger. Reduced & Enlarged. PORT PERRY STAR 235 Queen Street 985-7383 8 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, September 6, 1989 September is flu prevention month soon as possible. "Each year brings a slightly different strain of the flu," Dr. Ted Boadway says in a recent statement from the Ontario Medical Association. "To be effective, shots should be given in September or Octo- ber to give the body a chance to build immunity to the virus be- fore the flu season sets in." Dr. Boadway is the director of health policy at the OMA. He predicts the immunization could reduce 82 per cent of flu- related deaths and 72 per cent of the people hospitalized be- cause of the ailment. High risk patients include seniors and children on long term ASA treatment, the press release states. 'Others at risk include any- one suffering from heart or chronic chest conditions such as emphysema, asthma or bron- chitis; chronic conditions like diabetes and other metabolic diseases; blood diseases like cancer, anemia, renal disease or sickle-cell disease; and imuno- deficiency/suppression. As part of the awareness month, the OMA will be distrib- uting posters to the waiting rooms of most health care facili- ties. The purpose of the posters is to i fluenza and encourage people in high risk categories to get the nform patients about in- ghot, bered the others six to two, they obviously wanted no part of any confrontation in a public restaurant, for they promptly paid their bill and left without finishing their meal. M WN Aon n an area of Ontario where the English and the French used to get along pretty well with each other. Viewpoint by J. B. McClelland acquaintance said these kind of incidents are com- Life's Like That by Julia Ashton Practitioner of pain I'd rather walk through the gates of hell than walk through the double doors at 238 Queen St. There is something about that building. Something so fearful, so eerie, so painful. Looking out of my office window, | watch others -- who like myself -- must pass through those doors at least twice a year. | feel for them. Shots of pain rip through my body when | envision the torture being. performed on them. But alas my day has come. At 11:30 a.m., | have an appointment with my dentist. If I'm lucky, I'l get hit by a car while crossing Queen Street. The thought of sitting in the dentist's chair makes me ee) Wes 2 Plsonse at os final sit- ting, waiti or the electric volts to pass through his body. | don't know why I'm such a wimp. Today's appointment is only a check-up. Heck, | brush regularly. And every once in a while | even floss just like my dental hygienist taught me. But there is always that chance Mr. Dentist will find a cavity and that means I'll have won 2 foun trip to the dentist office at 238 Queen t. There will be no puppet show to distract me from the procedure at hand. No sugarless gum as a treat for being so good. Just the re- ality of a drill bit hitting enamel, while my face is frozen and a tube is sucking the goober from my mouth. Actually my dentist is a wonderful man. He's nothing like that ruthless "practitioner of pain" Steve Martin depicts on the movie Little Shop of Horrors. Did you see that movie? Steve Martin por- trays a dentist who wears black leather out- fits, screams through town on a Harley David- son and then doesn't give his patients freezing before using a Makita power drill to fix a small cavity. His patients enter the office, but they never come back out. | think something like that happened behind the doors at 238 Queen St. just this week. It was around noon on Tuesday. | was dumping last weeks" articles from my comput- er and getting ready to go for lunch. From my office window | watched a man in his early 30s carefully parallel park his truck in front of the dental office. He jumped out of the burgundy 4 by 4, locked the door, and then headed for the den- tal office. "Another r soul," | said to myself and then headed out for lunch. The view from my window didn't change much that aay. At 4 p.m. when | was ready to leave work, the truck was still parked outside the office. "What have they done to him?" | wondered. "Did they inject too much freezing and are now waiting for him to defrost? Did he go in for a routine check-up and get mistaken for - someone needing false teeth too many cotton swabs?" I'm not sure what the senario really was but his truck was gone the next morning when | arrived at work. | think his next-of-kin probably picked it up sometime during the night. LIE IR Did he swallow "Julia Ashton," | said to the receptionist. "I'm here for my 11:30 appointment." | took a seat in the waiting room and picked up a magazine. Systematically | flipped through the pages, but | don't think | read a word. | was too busy watching the patients come out of the different offices. One man came out holding the side of his face. Another man spits while talking to the receptionist. Obviously the fault of the freez- ing. Minutes seem like hours until finally my hy- gienist summoned me into "the room." Mr. (con't on page 10) But not any more, my friend said. His own personal an- er may have been heightened somewhat by the fact that is highly educated son has an excellent research job with the federal government in Ottawa. But he "can't wait to get out because he's not French and in Ottawa, (the civil ser- vice) you don't get anywhere unless you are French." Granted, this is just one person's opinion, perhaps tainted by the fact he has a personal axe to grind. But | was shocked at how agitated and vitriolic he was, constantly using the word "frog" modified by a common vul- garity that begins with the letter f. | wondered if this was just an isolated case of animosi- ty. Surely, | thought to myself, this attitude cannot be repre- sentative of a majority of the English speaking people who live in this area of the province. Our conversation on this topic ended when my friend said in a loud voice something to the effect that "it's too bad (Rene) Levesque is dead. If he were alive and still trying to take Quebec out of the country, I'd be over there helping himdo it." In one small town | visited the local paper contained stories and letters to the editor about the town council's de- bate over French language services in Ontario. One letter, in particular, written by a man with an obviously French name, lamented sadly how he is beginning to feel unwel- come in the province (Ontario) where he has lived all his life, just by virtue of the fact his first language is French and his origins are French. He had apparently read this letter at a meeting of the council for one of the news stories quoted a councillor as saying this was a "typical over-reaction." Personally, | think there is a great deal of animosity running just below the surface in many parts of Ontario. Certainly | saw and heard some incidents in the eastern ar- eas this summer. Granted, a few signs with the French words sprgy-painted out, one angry man, a confrontation over language in .a restaurant, and the machinations of a small town council by themselves may not mean much. But if they are representative of the way ple feel, this country may be in a heap of trouble over language, a lot more trouble than some of our federal and provincial pol- iticians may believe, or want to believe. Letters to the Editor ... our policy It has always been the policy of this newspaper to encourage our readers to make use of the letters to the editor column. Our readers have a right to freely express their opinions and view- points on just about any subject, and we feel that a lively letters col- umn helps make a better community newspaper. We. insist, however, that a letter writer sign his or her name. On rare occasions, we will agree to with-hold publication of a letter writer's name, if we feel there are very good reasons to do so. Under no circumstances will this paper print an anonymous let- ter to the editor. While we enjoy receiving letters from our readers, we must con- tinue to insist on knowing the identity of the writer. 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