THESE FOUR youngsters were our fire chiefs for the day recently, getting a chance to par-
ticipate in events that included a ride on one of the new fire boats positioned in the Vancouver

herbor.

With the pint-sized chiefs are (from left) Karl Barth of the Lions Bay Fire Department, West
Vancouver firefighter Dan Steinbart, and Dave Burgess and Terry Abrams of North Vancouver

City and District, respectively.

The chiefs were picked up at school by a fire truck, then taken to meet their municipal
mayor, given a fire hall tour, had lunch at McDonald's, and saw a movie at CN Imax; as well as
getting to ride on the fire beat. The North Vancouver District chief got an extra treat of a

helicopter ride.

Export of yew needles and boughs approved .

THE PROVINCE has authorized
the limited export of Pacific yew
needles and boughs to be used to
produce Taxol, the promising
cancer-fighting drug, Forests
Minister Dan Miller announced
recently.

Miller said the use of yew nee-
dies and boughs from the province
will support international research
on this drug. B.C. researchers and
patients are currently involved in
clinica! trials using Taxol.

‘Highland Forest Products Ltd.
of Powell River can. export the
needles and the boughs only until
the end of the year,”’ Miller said.

The intended customer is
NaPro, of Boulder, Colorado,
which has facilities to use the ma-
terial.

“‘Highland currently supplies
yew bark to the Richmond-based
Towers Phytochemicats Ltd., but
the B.C. processing company will
not be able to use the yew needles
and boughs ait its proposed plant
on Annacis Island in Delta
because this material requires a
different extraction method,’’
Miller said. .

“We now have the opportunity
to use the yew needles and boughs
which are, at present, being
‘destroyed in the post-harvest
treatment of harvested sites.
We're restricting the collection of
this material to areas scheduled

for harvesting,’’ the minister said.

While the concentration of
Taxol in the needles and boughs is
fower than in bark, they are still
desirable sources of this potential-
ly valuable drug, which is being
used in research trials for treating
ovarian and breast cancer.

Because the Taxol production
capability of yew diminishes after
harvesting, storing the materia! is
not a viable alternative.

“Tam in faver of our resources
being processed in British Colum-
bia,’’ said Miller. ‘‘However, until
a facility in our province is able to
use needles and boughs, exporting
this material is the only way to
support this important cancer
research.”

The Pacific yew tree is relatively
rare and is found only in 8.C.,
Washington State, Oregon and
northern California.

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