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bylaw favored A highway accident at Myrtie last Thursday claimed the life of a' young man who waý- a passenger on a motorcycle involled in the crash. Dead. is Scott \Jffery Arnold Bonq, 17, of Pick ring. He was /a passenger on the cie driven by' a you hWho receive la broken leg as a r ult of the a cident. Hie was ch g~ with careless driving. Hle calnot be namedunder the You;ng Offender Act. ýccording to Ontario Provincial Poýice, the motorcycle lost control and struck a 1979 Fiat being driven by Mildred Harrison of Ashburn. The impact threw Bond fromn the cýcle and into the path of a 1984 Deodge driven by James Hardiman of Port Perry. The car ran over the youth. iThe accident occurred on BaId- g<n t. (Highway 12) just north of Myte Road. SEE PAGE 2 A big piece for Dave! DAVE DEVALL~ of Whitby, CFTO-TV the Whitby Mal weatherman, enjoys a suce of a huge longtime store cake at the openaing last week of the Peters. See stori newly expanded Miracle Food Mart in GUY STAVELEY, president of the Fort Erie Op- timist Club, shows Jimmy Dimitroff, one of the Sur- vival Guide Project organizers, that the tires are just fine on a bus donated by the Fort Erie club to the Project to transport equipment to rock concerts held at Ontario schools to promote drug abuse awareness. Meanwhile Dimitroff, a Whitby Optimist, prcsented a $4,000 cheque from his club to the Project to purchase a new sound system for the concerts. ill. Joining Devali was e patron Mrs. Willy ry on page 8. Free Press photo patient undergoes Falk treatment By JANET BROWNE Wanda Martin is one of only a handful of cancer patients for- tunate enough to be able to afford six monthly visits to the Falk On- cology Clinic in Toronto. For about $500 a week, patients undergo four-hour sessions of an experimental treatment called "lhyperthermia," similar to the chemotherapy offered in hospital clinics, but different in one significant respect. Through the use of heat, in the form of radioactive waves, or microwaves, only minimal chemotherapy drugs are used, and the patients are spared the distur- bing effects of regular chemotherapy such as hairloss and natisea. "The heat makes it work faster and intensifies the chemo drugs," says Martin of Whitby. "We get only minute doses of the drugs, rather than the high dosages in the regular treatment." The clinic is the result of years of research carried out by Dr. Falk of the Toronto General Hospital. Although Martin says Falk is welI- respected in this research field, the clinic receives no funding from the Canadian Cancer Society, and patients are not covered by OHIP. "It's not funded by anybody but private donations," Martin ex- plains. "The Cancer Society just doesn't recognize the clinic, and that's ail there is to it. " According to Lana Bryant of the Falk Climce, OHIP will not cover the treatment because it is experimen- tai, and "it is not on their fee schedule." As to whether the clinic wilI receive funding in the future, Bryant says they have "no idea, it is up*to the Ministry of Health. "If payment is a tremendous burden on the patient, we cannot charge them. But generally, we have to - we have no alternative." The clinic is open throughout the week, and the machines are run- ning constantly, according to Mar- tin. She calculates that they service "tat least 25 patients a day," on the 14, heat machines and the 2 microwave machines. The microwave machines cost* ap- proximately $500,000 alone. Martin knows of patients who have mortgaged houses and sold businesses to afford treatment. Some are Ainerican who commute fromn as far as Florida to receive the therapy. Other more fortunate patients have company insurance plans which cover the phenomenal cost of the treatment. "But we little Whitby people who SEEPAGE2 i - 4ttf A à4 41~I $ ~ ii $$I jeep' Local cancer