Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba U Spett kinds window covering super Sale by to 620 Kino Edward 7832680 shop at Winnipeg free press january 1990 pages 1320 Chuck features editor Alice Coopers career shocked Rock world for two Tempo charities struggling for dollars by Portia Prieger the Canadian press cystic Multi ple muscular dystrophy theres a Host of debilitating diseases and people Are trying to raise Money to find a cure for almost every one of that has led to a dizzying array of bailout appeals and celebrity events like Golf tournaments and gala but does the furious Competition among Good causes risk exhausting Public generosity Paul a doctor from Saint thinks it in a democratic every group has the right to decide its but therein lies a danger of overtaking the generosity of the says who teaches Medicine at dal couple this May be followed by negative Handa raised concerns about the Boom of so called disease clubs in a recent Issue of the respected journal of the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of big time he says people usually form groups to support victims and to learn about the but most eventually try to break into the big time world of Charity fund Ais people get interested because they have the they want to talk about they want to invite people to speak on the Handa but then it becomes a research oriented people working on behalf of Little known diseases insist they have every right to vie for a slice of Canadas Charity there All equally in need and equally says Judy administrator of the Canadian rett syndrome Assoc a formed six years ago to help victims of the rare neurological disorder that causes mental retardation in Young the Toronto based group raised last year and is sponsoring a 1991 climb of mount Everest to help it scale new philanthropic says but the picture is less Rosy for Many other Annette who coordinates groups concerned about sleep disorders ind Tourette syndrome a disorder that auses nervous tics says its hard to be More than a self help you cant go to a major Benefactor and say people died of this last so its very difficult to get canadians clearly dont have bottomless pockets for Canadas registered almost of them Are health excluding the 29 per cent of canadians who claimed charitable deductions on their 1987 income tax forms on other statistics suggest the average Ca Nadian donates a year to Bob Myers Heads a Campaign by the Canadian Centre for philanthropy that is aimed at increasing Public awareness about the need for he says canadians Are less generous than they were 20 years in almost one per cent of personal income went to that total slipped to in about 88 per cent of charitable donations come from eight per cent from corporations and the rest from found government Bel tightening is increasing the demand for Charity and prompting hospitals and other Public institutions to increase their Charity says so even Well established charities must work some Are moving into Eye catching marketing with auctions of luxury cars and celebrity Mila honorary chairman of the Canadian cystic fibrosis was the Host of a glitzy gala shown on National television in Decem the cystic fibrosis foundation raised million last million of which went to research into the killer disease that attacks the lungs and digestive systems of its Young that Money helped scientists at Toron tos Hospital for sick children who last year found the fatal Gen defect that causes the inherited a crucial step toward a mid Coey hosted glitzy by Greg Pindera Hal full cigarette matches and lighters pile up on the stage like discarded crutches As the wretched me seeking salvation from the Faith they have assembled Here believers and 300 people in their Stinky coughing and prematurely to see if he really can perform the object of their desperate Hope a goo looking Young Man in a conservative dark White dress shirt and Turquoise the Southern twang of a Christian evangelist in his his face bronzed by the Sun of his Florida he preaches the evils of their habit and tells the crowd if they and listen to his they can be born almost like Jimmy says one Man stepping out with the rest for what they Hope is the last cigarette of their but unlike the convicted to this velvet voiced Man at the microphone in the ballroom of Winnipeg International inn offers a Chuck Borden its going to be a he tells the people Are going to get out and for the first time in their life Start their car without lighting up a a spirit of camaraderie hangs along with thick smoke in the lobby before the seminar Nam tagged smokers telling their sad tales of earlier attempts to of being outcasts at debating and George shuffles Over near the stack of at least 400 Glass ashtrays piled on the ninety six per he huh ninety six per cent quit that what they say about this Vogt is a Manitoba department of government services employee who driven in from Selkirk on this degree Hes been smoking 37 years and in the last while spent about on Stop smoking programs nicotine government lung association Hes managed to half his intake to 32 cigarettes a i heard about it from a couple of friends who went last they find out after three weeks there not smoking they gone cold Turkey for three weeks without even knowing i believe in he marching Forward into the seminar Borden has a very captive i want to see one woman tells the All Borden give Marilyn a Tell us your i want to live to see my children grow sighs the loosened up in a revival meeting what Borden says during his seminar about smoking devastating effects on health and Wallet should convince anyone to Stop the subconscious mind but perfectly intelligent people hear the medically proven facts they should be equally motivated by the per package sign on the cigarette machine Down the Hall then they whimper and Light up another so Borden appeals to their subconscious travelling hypnotherapist preaches evils of smoking mind he the desire to smoke and the belief that fighting it is is All these people dont believe they can Stop if they Felt they could do it without me they be says the 33yearold son of Charles Borden who in 1981 set the world record for mass hypnosis says his publicist when he got people at once to Stop smoking in Hometown what we want to do is change that from a belief that you cant do it to a belief that now Only you can do but youve already done he the next thing i do is encourage them to buy this he holds up one of his self hypnosis audio cassettes because i know that if All else fails listen to it brings Back the Good feelings that they had lucrative sure its a lucrative says the former european circuit Tennis three Hundred people at a crack plus an average of two audio tapes per person equals about for one and Charles and two associates do about 70 gigs a lucrative but its vastly More affordable than private says and the fee is Only a bit More than a Carton of say the Lee has the wide eyed look of ecstasy of someone who seen the she came to bordens session in the City six weeks ago and Hast smoked go mans Back tonight to thank Chuck and has brought three paying i Haven wanted one at in when i walked in Here tonight with All that smoke in the i believe it made me me who smoked for 35 years completely she Carl was freaked by the last session and amazing for him quit smoking for three Job stress got him so Hes Back for i will now for he says after Borden advises him to stick to the program of pausing twice a Day to Borden says smokers quit with his hypnosis technique because convincing them that the Battle is won gets them Over the critical first three Days when there fighting intense physical its not All smoke and mirrors though part of his presentation stresses the new a smokers must make a conscious Effort to learn to to never pick up a cigarette Borden asks a woman who quit in Yifong to share her Success ant tobacco crusader Lloyd Bartlett says smoking is such an unhealthy and overpowering addiction that people should do anything they think May help them quit provided its not and they dont whine if a costly method in not aware of any scientific reason Why hypnosis does help smokers but in certainly not opposed to its use if people find it says president of the Manitoba medical he cynical about the travelling roadshow style seminar and has never heard of any cessation method with a Long term Success rate higher than 30 per virtually All the smokers including me now typing with a Camel no filter dangling from my Mouth leave without or a about 40 per cent will Start based on bordens followup and he lets them come Back the lights Are i want you to close your eyes and let them remain closed until i Tell you to open Borden says in a soothing Light hypnosis is not like a following bordens instructions to focus on losing the tension in every muscle from head to take deep and visualize a Calm scene on a Caribbean the attendees become very slumped in their like just before you a positive changes youre a and youre going to go through some very positive changes in the next few hours and the near first of youre going to find youre just going to fee eel better he also reminds you As a non youll be so grateful youll want to bring Back friends when he returns to the International inn As a instead of a cigarette youll take a deep drag of fresh i clean air and youll slowly release lets do that we do several phlegm Hacks Echo j through the darkened then youll begin to repeat in your in a in a i want you to repeat those i words right in your Over and the mind conditioning lasts 53 most people say afterwards it Felt like 10 or after a stretch and bordens final words of George Vogt struts in a he in converged the Way he explained it is and when youre relaxed like that and i was almost falling off the chair you take it All everyone is gone but the smoke still Hast cleared from the where the wretched had frantically puffed during that was More than two hours and the converted have left at least for cigarettes Are Charles Borden packs the one big suitcase with everything but tonight and flies on to ;