20 - Wednesday, October 29, 1986 ~ North Shore News

November
is Diabetes

Month... : :
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FUND RAISERS for the J with fern
Canadian Diabetes Associa. §

tion display the poster for " a g9
Diabetes Month. Pictured § Bf Y } t 2
from left to right are North rican 10 e § 3 for

Shore honorary campaign § $1.49 each
chairman Marlene Buck, |

provincial campaign director z 99

Valerie Thoem and North § ie ris Sr

Vancouver campaign chair- § or

man Myron Moxley. The jf

charity is looking for volun-

teers to help out during the § <2 aie ”

November campaign. ; {M38 1821 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. ss ij
mo : 922-396 ,

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

against

| diabetes)

NOVEMBER IS _ Diabetes
Month and on the North
Shore the campaign head-
quarters for the fund-raising
campzign is at Dave Buck
Ford. -

By KIM PEMBERTON
: News Reporter

Dave Buck president Marlene
Buck is this year’s North Shore
honorary chairman.
Campaign director Valerie ;
Thoem of the Canadian Diabetes | ~ i Pius
Association said this year’s fund- = il ° i
raising target is $200,000. She said 3 applicable
canvassers will be going door-to- : tax
door asking residents to give :
generously.
This is the second year that the
diabetes association has organized
a door-to-door fund-raising drive, . :
and because it’s so new, Thoem | ~
said a monetary target for the > Kids love Lego,

North Shore is not available.

Diabetes is a condition where the | - because they love to use their imaginations.
body cannot use sugar properly. . . 1 ®
Sugar builds up in the blood, | Now you can get four different Lego sets from McDonald’s,” a new one

body eels ey Snorage in each week, for 59¢ each. There’s a truck, a plane, a boat and.a

Over one miltion Canadians suv helicopter, but with a little imagination, they can be almost anything!

fer from diabetes, and about five

cent of the population xX-  §
pect 10 develop diabetes at some Collect all four, because more Lego means more fun.
stage in iife.

While symptoms of diabetes ye .
may vary from person to person, Starts this Friday October a ,
common signs include feeling f . v3
tired, an unusual thirst, frequent ;
urination, change in appetite, f ag euaeeea Locally owned and operated by:
unexplained weight loss or gain, y 4 .
irritability, blurred vision, itchy >
skin, skin infections slow to heal, gosh | Bache 24 Malcolm Kerr
nausea and vomiting, sweet-smell- Ss 8 RS McDonald’s Restaurant
ing breath and abdominal pain. os Serene s eo , 1455 Marine Drive,

Diabetes is still considered a ate
serious condition. While injected ' K West Vancouver, B.C.
insulin is life-saving, it cannot Pa stars = V7T 1B8
restore normal conditions.

For more information call Van-
couver’s division office at 732-

1331.