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B2 BRITISH COLUMBIA The Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, May 26, 1992 COMMUNITY Wolunteer 's efforts praised fby Children 's Hospital staff ACCIDENT FIGURES Slowdown on highways saving lives, police say OU GRANT thought she might get a few comments when she shortened her first name a few years ago from A JAMIE BAXTER daughters Gabrielle, 10, and Bethany, seven. Grant still wakes up several times each night to what she calls Morgan's "horror howls." "He rolls over in the night on to one of his sores and he cries out," says Grant. "Sometimes he wakes up and he needs his dressings changed, but sometimes he doesn't "Mari-Lou. i "No one commented about that for a long time," she says, referring i to the character played by Ed Asner in the Lou Grant television i series. There have been comments, how-fiver, about Grant's herculean efforts on behalf of Chilis dren's Hospital.

Barbara Constantine, manager of marketing and communications at Children's Hospital Foundation, wrote recently to tell me about Grant's commitment to pro- moting the good work carried out at the hospital. "Lou's attitude has inspired all of us who work with her, especially as we learned of the challenges she r.and her family face, and the seri- pusness of Morgan's condition," 'wrote Constantine. Morgan is Grant's six-year-old on and the reason she has devoted countless hours to the hospital. He was only hours old when he was transferred to Children's from Thanks to the help of the nurses, and of family and friends, Grant has been able to spend some time expressing her gratitude to Children's for the excellent care he received during his lengthy stay. "I figured it (volunteering) was a way of paying back, a way I could contribute," she says.

According to Constantine, Grant's initial contribution took the form of stuffing envelopes and updating mailing lists. "Hardly exciting stuff," Constantine wrote. "But Lou came in whenever we needed her, and her attitude was always great. She was upbeat, positive and dependable." Since then, Grant's volunteer duties have expanded to include the training of telethon volunteers and booking the Miracle Team for fund-raising events. The Miracle Team consists of 50 volunteers who promote telethon awareness.

"Since January, she's put in 10 hours a week at the foundation," says Constantine. "But it's quadruple that now that the telethon is about to happen, May 30 and 31." Grant is also taking night courses at Vancouver Community College in fund-raising and volunteer management, with a view to establishing a society for epidermolysis bullosa, patients and their families. It is a workload that would bring most people to their knees, but one which Grant finds very rewarding. She also finds Morgan's progress very rewarding. He is currently attending kindergarten where, according to his Mom, he is doing very well and has "girlfriends coming out his ears." lliSlllSIBil v4 -fe- B.C.

motorists are responding to pleas from police to slow down, said Insp. Gary House, head of the province's RCMP traffic division. "From my observations and from those of officers in various traffic sections, I can say that there has been an over-all reduction in the speed of traffic on highways," House said Monday. He said a study for the month of April showed that in RCMP jurisdictions in B.C., serious and fatal traffic accidents were 41-per-cent lower than in April a year ago. "And if you take the average over the past five years, this year's figures for April were 35-per-cent lower," he said.

"Those motorists who are slowing down have made the highways safer and should be praised," said House. However, he would not credit the RCMP's recently announced "compliance enforcement" campaign against speeding drivers with reducing speeding. "We can't say the program is responsible. All I can say is that speeding has been reduced." House said the media were wrong in labelling this program "zero tolerance" for speeders. "We never said that.

The officer still has discretion on whether to issue a speeding ticket," he said. Asked if the program had resulted in a surge of tickets being given to motorists, House said it appears that fewer tickets are being issued. rf-Lions Gate Hospital, suffering from epidermolysis bullosa, a crippling even wake up." She says the pain associated with the disease is something her son has learned to live with. "It's really hard to determine if the pain is constant," says Grant. "He has lived with it all his life and he probably has a higher pain tolerance than most people.

He doesn't seem to cry out as much as he used to." Morgan requires extremely specialized treatment for his disease, including a bath nurse and a night nurse. "It takes a lot of time to bath Morgan," explains Grant "The bath nurse takes off all his dressings and pops his blisters and then he soaks for a while to get off 'any bandages or clothing that is stuck to his skin. And usually by the time he gets out, more blisters have formed." disease that results in severe Sand recurring blistering. It is a disease that affects one in L50.000 children. Morgan spent the first two years tH his life at Children Hospital Rattling the disease, as did his mother, who was constantly at his side.

the years sfnce his returnTiome'' have been full of emotional upheaval for Grant, who is separated and also raising two WARD PERRIN INSPIRING ATTITUDE: Lou Grant with son Morgan ETHNIC BROADCASTING Multilingual family radio station draws offer of $5. 1 million KEVIN GRIFFIN Sun Multiculturalism Reporter A Vancouver-based partnership that includes a subsidiary of the Hongkong Bank of Canada has offered $5.1 million for the city's scholarship program for journalists. Jan van Bruchem, the station's president and general manager, said Monday he is selling the family-run station because he wants to retire. "I will stay involved for a year and by that time I'll be 64 and I can put my feet up and go fishing," van Bruchem said. When van Bruchem, a former Canadian representative for Radio Netherlands, went on the air with Man charged in stabbing A 30-year-old Vancouver man has been charged following a stabbing and slashing incident at 2754 West Fourth, a police official said Monday.

The official said a man was stabbed in the back after confronting a man who had kicked in his door and grabbed a butcher knife in the kitchen early Sunday. A second male was slashed in the face. Both victims ran outside and a suspect was arrested at the scene. There were no serious injuries. Charged with attempted murder and assault with a weapon is Paul Alvin Bodenham, of 1049 East 11th.

mam multilingual radio station. The proposal by Y.B.C. Holdings to buy CJVB Radio, 1470 AM, includes a five-year, $515,000 public benefits package to develop local CJVB in 1972, advertisers scoffed. was rather a meagre beginning. At first, the concept did not catch on in B.C.," van Bruchem said.

"I sold my home in Toronto to start the station (because) I believed this was an up-and-coming thing. Thanks to a dedicated staff, we worked very hard and all of a sudden the concept took off." The purchase needs approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Interventions can be submitted until June 27 and a decision is expected by late August or early September. CJVB is a 24-hour station that broadcasts in 23 languages. The lion's share of broadcasting time goes to Overseas Chinese Voice, a Chinese-language program on the air from 9 p.m.

to 9 a.m. seven days a week. The five partners in Y.B.C. Holdings Ltd. are: Wardley Canada an investment banking subsidiary of the Hongkong Bank of Canada.

1320 Communications headed by Jack Stark, a founding partner of CHQM AM and FM in Vancouver and of a television station and two radio stations in Prince George. In 1990, Stark sold his' interests in the four broadcasting outlets. Fairchild Media headed by Thomas Fung, whose family owns Hong Kong's Sun Hung Kai Bank. Fung is also the developer of Aberdeen Centre, a Chinese-Canadian shopping mall in Richmond. Oakbridge Investments headed by Brian Hui of the family-owned real estate group Park Georgia Group.

Anson Holdings headed by Stephen Kwok. Ron Erdman, chief executive officer of Wardley Canada said it would be his company's first equity involvement with a communications company in Canada. He said Y.B.C. Holdings will continue CJVB's multilingual programming, and foresaw no major changes in how the station is operated. ethnic broadcasters and set up a OneS harp Decision Leads to Another.

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