Community

Organizer pleased with a
near-iarget donation drive

Last week’s ALS Week proved
to be a “resounding success,”
with the collection of $28,899 in

_ donations, co-ordinator Peter

Chance said Tuesday.

The Naval Officers Association
of Vancouver Island and the ALS
Society of B.C., who organized the
week-long fundraiser, are
delighted that their target figure of
$30,000 was nearly met and may
yet be achieved with donations
still coming in, Chance said.

The aim of the event was to
promote awareness of ALS —
commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s
disease — and to generate dona-
tions for research into the devastat-
ing disease.

ALS stands for Amyiotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis, which is a dis-
ease that attacks the central nerv-
ous system through the spinal
cord.

As yet, there is no known cure
and it can strike anyone, with the
likelihood increasing with age and
with men more so than with
women.

It has a particularly high inci-
dence among retired seamen. In
fact, retired members of the naval
community are said to be 50 times
more prone to contracting this
terminal disease than the national
average.

The ailment was first diagnosed
120 years ago but it first gained
wide-spread attention when it
struck down the famous baseball
player Lou Gehrig in 1941.

It is not unlike Multiple Sclero-
sis in the way it causes a wasting

away of the voluntary muscles.
However it kills much faster than
MS — usually between three and
five years from its onset.

Also medical research into ALS
still lags behind research into MS
due mainly to less funding.

This is why the Naval Officers
Association (NOAVI) of Van-
couver Island worked so hard last
week to recruit more volunteers to
help with the administration of the
ALS Society, as well as to generate
much-needed donations, Chance
said.

The ALS Society is run by
victims and family members and
desperately needs volunteers to
help it to operate, he added.

Moreover, most of the money
donated by the public will go to
scientific research in Canada into
seeking a cure for the disease, he
said.

Last year the NOAVI and the
ALS Society of B.C. raised
$15,000 in its campaign to fight
ALS and would like to thank
everyone who helped them to
nearly double that figure this year,
Chance said.

He added that he is particularly
grateful to the Brentwood Bay
chapter of the Rotary Club who
pledged $5,000 towards the cause.

Anyone who would still like to
make a donation to the ALS
Society is invited to send a cheque
or money order to the Flower Day
Committee of the ALS Society at
PO. Box 6274, Victoria, B.C. V8P
5L5.

Chamber asked for farm marketing

Central Saanich council will ask
the Saanich Peninsula Chamber of
Commerce to help Central Saa-
nich farmers improve the market-
ing of agricultural produce.

The resolution was made Mon-
day in response to a letter sent to
council from the Association for
the Protection of Rural Central
Saanich.

Association director Clarence
Bolt said the future viability of
farming in the community is in
jeopardy and expressed dismay
about a recent water rate increase,
which will further increase the
cost of agricultural farming in the
municipality.

Bolt went on to suggest that
council should consider imple-
menting a lower water rate “for

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bought its water from the Greater
Victoria Water District at cost and
could not sell it at a loss.

New truck boughi

Council voted to accept a tender
of $15,768.56 for a 1990 three-
quarter tonne pick up truck for the
municipality, Monday.

Glen Oak Ford’s tender was the
lowest of 19 tenders submitted to
Bob Clark, superintendent of pub-
lic services for Central Saanich.

An additional $1,000 was
authorized for the purchase of a
two-way radio for the truck.

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