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C2 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN CITY SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1998 b.r.. Navy: Family 11 a t--crj I it 1 LdLg-irc ROD MACIVOR. THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Two separate fires at Kott's lumber yard on Moodie Drive yesterday destroyed a warehouse and caused extensive damage to a building. Simultaneous fires ignite suspicion Kott lumber yard suffers $1M in damage in early-morning blazes provides strength Continued from page Ci She is not looking for sympathy, only understanding. One of the most hurtful things she hears from outsiders is their negative reaction to members of the Armed Forces or their misconceptions about military perks.

The family is anything but rich. In order to buy the trampoline in the back yard, they dispensed with cable TV. They have lived in cities where $80,000 would get you a nice house (Nova Scotia) and $200,000. would get only a small one (B.C.). And they have not always come out on the winning end of real estate transactions.

Mrs. Bergeron seems too polite to be a complainer but expresses some frustration at constantly redecoratipg houses, finding new doctors and dentists for the kids, planting trees and not seeing them grow. The family seems intent on settling in the Ottawa area, at least for the next four or five years, since Cmdr. Bergeron will likely be posted to headquarters in here when his two-year captaincy ends. The Bergerons are justifiably proud of their children, who are educated in French but slip easily between the fwo languages at home.

Michel, 15, has an 85-mile-an-hour fastball and is trying out for the provincial baseball team this weekend. Guillaume, 10, is a Boy Scout who wears a Chicago Bulls jacket and would like to grow up to be Steve Young, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. And if that doesn't work? "I don't know. Just keep trying." Catherine, 13, can tap out Titanic's My Heart WUl Go On on the piano and do some frightening flips on the trampoline. She would like to be a singer.

Christina, 8, is precocious, once giving a talk at school entitled Les Voyages de Mon Papa (must have been a long lectifte). Asked what her father will do in the Gulf, she answers: "They stop the boats and take the guns out and everything." Mathieu, 17, is a little too full of teenage cool to be easily summarized. He makes it plain he did not want to move from Victoria this last time, about 18 months ago. "I don't like anything about it here." On the verge of seizing control of his own life, he hopes to return to B.C. when he is finished school His father admits that the last move was the toughest, particularly on the two oldest children.

And it is a decision that weighs heavily on him. "For me, my family comes first. If there comes a point when it would become too difficult for my family then it would be time to do something else." Cmdr. Bergeron's own father djed when he was 15. He has a youthful, almost baby face, and a habit of pinching his eyebrows to fix you with a laser-sharp look.

While he is commanding a ship that can launch missiles and torpedoes, one gets the impression his re-al power comes from home. "I've been very fortunate to be blessed with a great wife and great kids." Paul Kruyne, owner of Kott Lumber Company on Moodie Drive. One of the fires completely destroyed a warehouse where roof trusses were made. The other was in the basement of a house at the front of the lumber company, which serves as its offices, and caused extensive damage to the building. The fires were reported at about 5 a.m.

yesterday. Crews from four of the five Nepean fire stations and water trucks from the Rideau and Goul-bourn fire departments were called in to fight the blazes, which were brought under control at about 10 a.m. At the height of the fire at the warehouse, the flames shot 20 metres in the The warehouse and the house are about 100 metres apart, and there was almost no damage to the outside of the offices. The company employs 80 people and mainly builds molds that are used to build the interior structures of new homes in the area. It is located on the southwestern edge of Nepean where there are no fire hydrants.

Firefighters were able to use a newly installed "dry hydrant," that drew water out of the nearby Jock River, to fight the blazes. "It was particularly helpful in fighting the fire in the office," said Nepean Fire Department platoon chief Paul Whitney. "Without it, this house wouldn't be standing right now." air, and scorched nearby piles of lumber. Investigators from the Ottawa-Car-leton police arson task force, the Ontario Fire Marshall's office and the Nepean Fire Department have are still trying to determine the cause of the blazes. Yesterday afternoon, they were still waiting for the wreckage of the warehouse to cool down so they could bring in a special dog team, trained to sniff out traces of flammable liquids used to set fires.

"Whenever you have two fires at the same time, you have to determine what caused them," said Chris Williams of the Ontario Fire Marshall's Office. "From there, we'll know what kind of direction the investigation will take." By Jake Rupert A Nepean lumber company owner says he'll shuffle employees around to avoid layoffs after two simultaneous and suspicious fires caused about million in damage yesterday morning. "It will be hard for a while, but it's a fairly large business, so we'll try to find things for people to do until we can replace what was destroyed," said Winners: Still a regular teen Board: Members should be publicly elected, mayor says tensive political experience has lamented the hospital's handling of the Levine matter. But the trustees unanimously backed his appointment. Mr.

Chiarelli has called on the Ontario government to "move as quickly as possible" to overhaul the hospital's governing structure. He suggested that board members could be publicly elected, like school board trustees, or be replaced by a committee of municipal councillors. Mr. Watson added that despite his concerns about the hiring of Mr. Levine, "nothing will be accomplished by trying to keep the issue alive.

"The board has made the final decision. What we should try to do now is put the issue behind us and begin Continued from page Ci Hospital trustees, such as chairman Nick Mulder, have said that the furore over Mr. Levine was far more than they had bargained for. The hiring hit a raw nerve among Ottawa-Carleton's most ardent federalists, and their reaction to Mr. Levine's PQconnections pushed the issue onto a national stage.

When the board members reaffirmed Mr. Levine as their choice to head the Ottawa Hospital, they also apologized to the community "for inadvertently opening wounds on the serious issue of Canadian unity." Several trustees have acknowledged the hiring process was flawed and former regional chair Peter Clark the one hospital board member with ex that didn't develop malformations. Miss Heslop decided to take the study on and, under the supervision of Dr. Griffith, has been trying to determine how methionine can prevent developmental defects. Her'project garnered a gold medal at the Canadian national high school science awards last spring in Regina, but to comply with the rules of the international competition, Miss Heslop completely redesigned her study.

Dr. Griffith is amazed at how intuitive a scientist Miss Heslop has become. "I think (her research is) very impressive for a high school student We're hoping to be able to publish it in some form." "We're looking at one part of the spinal cord that hasn't been looked at," Dr. Griffith said. "So anything new is significant, but of course this is an animal model so when you talk about a cure there's this whole process of going from animal models, all kinds of animal models, to all the clinical trials.

This is way, way, way before that. I would consider this basic science research." Meanwhile, the national capital region has reason to celebrate the efforts of another science whiz-kid. Ottawa's Christopher Tremblay won a silver medal at last week's Canada-Wide Science Fair held in Timmins for his project, Interactions Subatomiques. The 18-year-old OAC student at College Catholique Samuel-Genest in Gloucester has spent some 4,000 hours on a computer program that traces the three-dimensional interaction of subatomic particles in an accelerator. Continued from page Ci She has already been offered scholarships at two prominent U.S.

universities, even though she is only in Grade 11. But she is also the quintessential teen. "I do do other things," she said. "I've co-hosted a couple of art shows in school and I've displayed some art in Almonte. A lot of painting.

And I like going out with friends." Miss Heslop's scientific prowess at the international level started largely because of a Grade 8 science fair project on Lactancia milk, which sent her to compete in Whitehorse in 1995. "As soon as I got a taste of what the competition is about and how much they really honour these young Canadian scientists, I wanted to do it again. The more I became involved in medicine and science the more I began to appreciate it," she said. Her quest to help find a cure for spina bifida a congenital neural tube defect that causes vertebrae to protrude in roughly two per cent of the population began two summers ago with the help of May Griffith, a University of Ottawa assistant professor of cellular and molecular medicine and Heslop family friend. Dr.

Griffith had a post-doctoral student under her direction who didn't have enough time to continue some research related to the effects of vitamin A on chick embryos. High levels of vitamin A are known to cause spina bifida. The student found that methionine was somehow linked to embryos 'The board has made the final decision. What we should try to do now is put the issue behind us and begin JiJll "'jf iti mi Tr if! If -a m-. a a.

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They met in the early '50s when Hugh played in the Quebec Hockey League for a team called the Ottawa Senators. They were like twins; fast-talking, quick with a gag line, and fierce competitors. On a golf course, they should have charged not just for their skills at the game, but their continual sniping at each other. Eddie never lost his love of boxing and maintained contact with Joey San-dulo at the Beaver Boxing Club. When he moved to Carleton Place after the heart attack, he found Clayton Kenny, a former Olympic boxer and a man who shared a love of the pugilistic art and the stories that go with it.

Ask his daughter Colleen Clark of Toronto for a memory, and she comes up with: "Meatballs and spaghetti. He lived on the stuff. He was always travelling, and he always brought back gifts. One time he showed up with a painted rock from California and at first it was disappointing. Then he explained he had to ride a bicycle 15 miles to find the rock, and it became important." His daughter Kathy MacMillan lives in Ottawa.

Near the end of his life, Eddie picked up a new cause and asked his family to make it part of his funeralcelebration arrangements. Donations can be sent to the Colo-rectal Research Fund. Cheques should be made to the Ottawa Civic Hospital Foundation, and marked to account 3-13-136. Funeral arrangements will be completed today. Continued from page Ci Rough Rider coach Frank Clair knew that, as did former boxer and real estate wheeler dealer Gayle Kirwan.

Lally Lalonde, one of Ottawa's great characters with a record in sports that has yet to be matched, was a favored MacCabe target. They were much alike, quick-witted and always firing from the lip. In the heyday of the Ottawa Rough Riders, MacCabe could get anybody, anytime, by telephone. He played a key role that linked the team to the community. Ron Stewart was close, as was Russ Jackson.

MacCabe's book on Jackson, Profile of a Pro, would become a classic. He had the same kind of close link to Howard Darwin, one of Ottawa's prime sports promoters. The MacCabe I knew was quixotic. During a visit to Ottawa by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, MacCabe came up with an idea on how to get an exclusive.

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