TERRACE — An entire sawmill has joined Patti Mortimer and her 19-year-old son Guy in his battle against cancer. ‘More than 100 of her co- workers at Skeena Cellulose have banded together to help her pay for the, high costs of drugs and flights to Vancouver. It all started on Jan, 29 when Guy was «diagnosed — with osieosarcoma — a form of bone cancer. A week later he turned 19 and was dropped from his mother’s medical plan. She had to drastically cut back on the number of hours she works as a first aid attendant at the mill to care for Guy. Between the drop in income and the new expenses, Mortimer began to feel the pinch. ‘Tt doesn’t take a detective to figure out a single parent with three kids isn’t going to have a pile of money behind them,”’ Mortimer says. . She was planning to mortgage their home — or sell it if the bank refused to help her -when the un- expected happened, - Mortimer was told that 108 mill workers had set up a voluntary payroll deduction plan to skim a few dollars off their paycheques for her. She now receives an extra cheque for just over 51,000 every Iwo weeks, “Tl was 30 incredible — J didn’t know what fo say,”’ she recalls. ‘*When I found out, I just started . crying.’’ Sawmill employees now talk of making it a permanent fund for employees in need. ’ The suppoit helps case the rol- | -lercoaster tide the family’s been on since the.day. Guy was diag- nosed —:a day Palti remembers well, “T was shocked,” she says. ‘'T just couldn’! believe’ it, I said *He’s 18 years old. How can he have cancer?’”’ It: was a double blow because they learned at the same time ‘the cancer that started in his legs had also spread to his lungs. Morlimer says the doctors had litle hope for Guy at first. The specialist had only seen one case worse than his. “1 remember telling the chemo doctor ‘Why not me?. Why not me? I can take it,””’ “I've always been able to kiss it and make it better,” she says. “But this is something I can’t stop. And that’s difficult to deal - with.”? She says Guy has been coping amazingly | well despile | intense pain some days, He tells his mom not to cry. He tells her and everyone who will listen he’s going to beal the disease, His first round of chemotherapy ‘ restrictions “last -year,.. residents The name Punk Rock “same” wete sing as much as 15 million from the trees on top of Little. Herman, From a distance,’ they. -- gestrictions allow sprinklers to be litres a day. Introduced ‘June 15, the 1992 used only 6-10 a.m. every second - day. * When this year’s restrictions are Introduced, Christensen said, they will probably limit sprinkler use to every second day, but allow it any time of the day, ~ MAYHEM | « Fiends of floo . hockey Wy Stew Christensen However, he couldn’t promise» they wouldn’t get tougher Jater in the summer, “Tt all weather,”’ Christensen pointed, out, And there’s a snag in the cily’ s plan to provide a new source of water for homes and businesses. While it had been hoped to have a back-up well waler ‘supply avallable this year, Christensen said that won’t happen now. Faced with an estimated, cost of $1.2 million to put in'a ‘well and hook it up to the city’s water sys- tem, he said council had decided to put the: project on shold for now. Christensen explained: ‘the city had: applied to the. provincial government for a grant: -[0-. cover "50 per cent of the project cost, If and when it gets approval of . that grant, council will. look. at the project again, but not ‘for this year, he said, Council set aside $400, 000 in the 1992 budget for the well pro- ject, approximalely a quarter of which was spent on exploratory drilling and engineering costs. The proposed well would be lo- cated al the corner of Frank St. and Hwy 16 West. depends on the: 1