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4 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 9, 1999 Le ud "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Secret chocolate recipes added at Nutty Chocolatier By Heather McCrae Port Perry Star When Harvard researchers declared recently that chocolate lovers live longer, nobody was happier with the news than Ken Koury of The Nutty Chocolatier in Port Perry. Chocolate, like red wine, contains plenty of the antioxidant phenols that not only reduce the risks of coronary heart disease, but also make your immune sys- tem more resistant to cancer, according to the recently published Harvard release. Mr. Koury is in the chocolate making business, and knows his trade well. And since opening up his confectionery store on Queen St. 11 years ago, he's watched his business grow. : The most recent expansion was last summer when At 84, Henry Mr. Koury transferred his factory operation from ' Peterborough to Port Perry. Before moving to Port Leiberman Perry, staff had been manufacturing the delectable . chocolates at the back of The Nutty Chocolatier in still gets a Peterborough. Since moving his Home Sweet Home glint in his eye when he talks about chocolate' Candy Co. to 119 Perry Street (formerly the home of the Port Perry Muffler Shop), Mr. Koury has tripled work- space, resulting in a more efficient operation. Already his original staff of four has more than dou- bled, and soon he expects to increase to two shifts. "That will keep us hopping," he said. : from a retiring candy maker in Toronto, Henry " Lieberman of Lieberman Splendid European Home Made Quality Chocolates. Mr. Lieberman, a kosher chocolate maker, had operated his store at the corner of Eglinton and Bathurst for 41 years until his retirement last-fall. When the vet- eran candy maker turned 84 last fall, he felt it was time to retire and sell his stock and trade. "It shows that chocolate is good for you," Mr. Koury said. "At 84, he's got more energy than you and I put together. He still gets that glint in his eye when he talks about chocolate." ' The expansion was necessary to handle a large vol- ume of machinery and equipment Mr. Koury purchased Ken Koury has purchased secret recipes from a retiring chocolate maker. With the equipment came many secrets to the trade. Mr. Lieberman's success was due greatly to his own secret formulas. Although the veteran candy maker passed these on to Mr. Koury, no one is about to spill the beans. "Mr. Lieberman has been here and already has shown us how to make our own marzipan, something we'd never made before, but now we make it here in Port Perry," said Mr. Koury. "It's easy now that we know how to make it." Soon Home Sweet Home Candy Co. will be making its own hazelnut nougat, too; that's another one of Mr. Lieberman's fine recipes. | Another product Mr. Lieberman made was miniatures, and by this fall Nutty Chocolatier stores will be carrying its own brand of tiny chocolates. "This spring Mr. Lieberman will be spending a day here showing us all his methods of making chocolates," said Mr. Koury. Mr. Lieberman has already been to the Port Perry factory, touring the premises and tasting the sweets. "He's sampled my products and thought they were as good as his," Mr. Koury said. Of the many pieces of equipment and machinery Home Sweet Home Candy Co. Please turn to page 12 Heart disease victim a survivor By Heather McCrae Port Perry Star There isn't a day that goes by when Gerald Jackson isn't grateful to be alive. Plagued by heart disease since he was 46 years old, Mr. Jackson, who will be 67 this May, had a quadruple bypass in December 1993. "That surgery saved my life," he says. "Without it, I would have been a goner." Mr. Jackson's battle with heart problems started in the late 70s, when he came home from his shift at GM suffering from what he thought was indigestion. But after an assessment at the local hospital, he was rushed to Oshawa General Hospital where he was a patient for two weeks, a victim of his first heart attack. "Our only son, Robert, was 9 years old when I had that first attack", he says. "I didn't know if I was going to live to see my kids grow up." Off work for two months, he began taking his heart medication religiously, quit smoking and began to walk for exercise. But in 1985 problems occurred again. On a Friday afternoon before Mr. Jackson and his wife, Emelda, were to leave for a holiday, the Port Perry man suffered his second attack. "I thought, good gosh, this can't be happening to me, he says now, reflecting on that day 13 years ago. 'After the second heart attack, Mr. Jackson had an angiogram at Toronto Western Hospital. Although the tests proved he did have a bad heart, his condition was- n't severe enough to make him a candidate for heart surgery. Angina attacks followed, making him weak. In November 1993 his family doctor sent him to the hospi- tal for another angiogram. This time the prognosis was " will be knocking on doors throughout February to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. grim: "One artery was blocked 100 per cent and the oth- ers weren't much better," he says. Also, the main artery, "the widow maker" as the surgeon described it, was blocked 60 per cent. - A quadruple bypass was the only alternative now if he Please help make a dif- was going to survive. ference with your contri- "Without the surgery I don't think Gerald would have bution. lived until Christmas that year," Mrs. Jackson said. On Dec. 2 of 1993, successful quadruple bypass surgery was performed at Toronto General Hospital. Five days later, the patient was home recuperating. "Everyone was wonderful to me and my wife at the hospital," Mr. Jackson said. "The surgeon explained everything about the surgery, before and after, and the thing we liked most is the staff cared about the entire family, not just me." Over five years have passed since Mr. Jackson received his new lease on life. Now, while taking minimal medication, he enjoys long walks, goes hunting once a year and likes to tinker away in his workshop. But the greatest thrill is being a grandpa to his 12 grandchildren and two great-grand- children. "If I hadn't had the surgery, I wouldn't be here today," he said. Thirty years ago the outcome wouldn't have been so encouraging. But, over the years, research and education, funded by donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundations, have made a difference between life and death. Heart disease and stroke are Canada's number one killer, but it won't be a losing bat- tle if you help. Canvassers throughout Scugog Township