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4 - The Canadien Champion, Tueaday, Juna 22,1999 w- VACATION PICTURE WIU. THIS SUMMER? It May be time for a cooling system check-up! Ai CONPflITIfrVC ,~ conditioning system ONTARIO'S inspected and DRIVE serviced today by a CEAN Iicensed C.FC. Accredited Test facility. & Pepair FaciIity* . Licensed Technician on duty for both R 12 and the new R 134A Freon GO OUfllELAR a Some improvement noticed a from HOPE on page 1 dopamine-producing celîs of an abortcd fetus. In Ms McKenzie's case, the celîs of four fetuses were cultivated and then transplanted tbrough four botes drilled into ber forelsead. It's estimaled about 10 per cent of the transplanted celîs will attacb and develop in Ms McKenzie's brain. 'I'lat could bring Ms McKenzie's ceil count back up to 45-50 per cent a level at which slse'd experience no symptomas. She received tie operation afiter taking part in a 40- person study arranged by US Parkinson's researchers and funded by the National Institute of Heaitls in Washington, DC. flsougb participants eventually received actuel fetal transplants, some were initiaily given placebo opera- tions. Ms McKenzie received a placebo operation in 1994. She traveled to Colorado for ie real transplant last December. Tbough it typically takes up to 15 monts for results to show, Ms McKenzie bas already noticed some improvement. 'Il don't need belp getting out of the bed every moming," she said. "I'm feeling a little more indepen- dent about hoing able to go places and hoing able fo bang in there." Symptoms of Parkinson's range from excessively rapid movements to almoat complete immobility. Generally tbougbt of as an older person's disease, today 20 out of evety 100 sufferers are under thse age of 40. Wbile tise exact cause of the disease is unknown, it bas been linked fo everything from genetic suscepti- bility to head injuries and even chemicals in the air. There is no cure. To fight the disease, Ms McKenzie clowns 25 pis a day. At the beginning of April, she went for a poat-opera- tive check-up, undergoing about 12 hours of medical tests. At one stage of the check-up, Ms McKenzie was temporanily taken off ber medication. Prior to the operation, that would have rendered ber completely immobile. lse news was slightly better this time around. IthinklIdid better than befre, I she said. Icould move. Tlhat was e plus." Heading into the operation, Ms McKenzie was fea- tured in a The Nature of Thinga television documen- tary aimed et showing the tnse face of Parlcinson's. She bas continued ber campaign before the camera witb a recent taping of 20/20. She was on the show to discuss the ethics of placebo operations. Today, Ms McKenzie defends the procedure. "Nobody twisted my amin to go in to do the sfudy," ase said. Ms McKenzie is looking forward to meeting the other study participants for the firat time in July. .1Ithink it will bevery emotional for alot of us"abse said. "Wýe've been thsougls a lot. T7here will ho a lot of bonding, I tbink." Thougs the operation has flot yet proved to ho a wonder cure, Ms McKenzie bas not given up hope. "It (hope) basn't decreased, but it's more realistic," ase said. "I'm flot thinking that there will be an overniglit miracle." Showdown looms before 0MB efrona APPEAL on page 1 ers for students and faculty only. Use property. Mr. FlindalI said residents would like to come to a No more than 27 people are permitted fo occupy Use reanlution wiUs Use museumr - an egreed 11sf of condi- site et any one lime and no ovemight accommodations tions - to avoid an 0MB hearing. are permitted, except for up to fve tenta and two trail- Theearing is slated for Use felI. miLTON Absence checks ~ONUUNEIk board woes Special ta The Champion It could ho a long and wind- ing road towards developing an absence check program for Halton public achools. ."It's a lot more complicated than anyone imagined," Oakville Trusfee\ Peter Petrusich told a recent board meeting. 'The more you think about it, Use more things come Up., He spoke during an informa- tion update about the Halton District School Board's efforts to develop policy on Use issue. School boards are hoing urged to establisb absence check sys- tema by the Ministry of Education. Absence checks involve tale- pboning or sending a message to parents as a safety measure if Useir cisild does not arrive at school. phone lines to cail parents of absentees is no easy business. "If you ask staff, they don't have Use phsone line to do if and they often have to leave the room andI lock their office," said Mr. Petmusich, a member of the policy development committee. "We have to get clarification about wbat kind of levels were going to do. And we should go back and get costing information firsf." He also cited situations like a snowsform, wbere up fo 150 families migbt have to be called. Mr. Petrusics suggested establishing absence checks at elementary scbools firat and possibiy later et secondary achools. 'I don't tlsink it's do- able at the secondary achool level; there are fewer volun- e s» PROGRAM on page 14 J for adl occasionsJ Karen Caruana - Vocalist Erin Schachter - Pîanist 878-8478