Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 6, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press a August a town opens its heart residents rally to save youngster with anorexia by Doug Nairne staff reporter v some facts arid warning signs about anorexia obsessive Star Patton and and vomiting ratio of women to men affected by eating disorders is nine to according to the eating disorder Centre in while of All Ages struggle with both anorexia and bulimia the most co Mph age of Onset is Between 14 and studies indicate about one to two per cent of women in this age i group have anorexia Nerosa three five per cent have Zulim another 10 per cent of women have Many of the symptoms of these eating about on third of sufferers recover fully from the Oneal relapse during periods of High Between 15 and 20 per cent do not recover Many of these people will die from medical complications or there Are markers that parents can watch for that indicate a child is excessively concerned about body image constant talking about the subject isolating prefer ring rigorous exercise or dieting to hanging out with friends always finding a reason to skip dinner having a dramatically de body Here Are some tips on How you can defuse potential eating prob lems if your child complains of being too dont dismiss their to put their Wor Ries in try to avoid commenting on your Childs parents should not dwell on their own need to lose minimize Media exert More control Over childrens to help children think More critically about the images they explain that someone in an and May be a healthily thin or that there Are different kinds of Binscarth people in this town raised More Money than anyone thought they could to build a now they Are going to do it again for a Little the outpouring of concern has overwhelmed Pat whose 13yearold is dying from anorexia i feel like Shes not Only my daughter she the whole town has taken her in As their daughter just mentioning the name Jamie to most Binscarth residents draws a passionate i have a daughter Jamies age and i know this can happen to any said Lesley we All want her to get this is a Small town and every one knows said Bev in a Small peo ple try to be there to take care of each a difficult which causes people to Stop eating and strive to lose weight to the Point of has made Jamie drop to 25 kilo about half of what a healthy teen her size should her Mother fears that if Jamie loses any More she will the Community of 500 near the Saskatchewan Border is raising Money to Send Jamie to the Mon Treux eating disorder clinic in Vic although Jamie has spent most of the past three years in Manitoba it is hoped the Victoria which is privately run by the Mother of two will save her with a specialized treatment the Monteux clinic has attracted International attention because of its Success in treating the often fatal eating but the province of Manitoba will not fund the treatment because the clinic is not a recognized medical ins Titu Woodhouse Gisele director of the adult eating disorders clinic at the health sciences said there is a dire need in the Community for help for youngsters with her three bed clinic which has a waiting list of 25 people has lost two Joe free press Jamie left has been adopted by the town of says her Pat theres been a growing prob Lem with child and adolescent eat ing Morier Martin a Winnipeg has some patients who Are fighting an Uphill other than myself and a couple of not a lot of people Are real he his patients usually 20 at any Given time Are primarily from Ages 12 to the youngest girl he has treated was these Young girls dont have voting there really swept under the so of the needed to get Jamie into treatment has been but the initial pay ment will just be enough to get her admitted to the clinic for two treatment May take six months or the fundraising drive has Cap tured the hearts of most people in the area and prompted Walka teas and donations from numerous groups Over the past two but most of the Money is still coming in the form of Small donations by Ordinary peo ple who want to there have been a few but most of it has been people giving us or at a said Harold who along with the rest of the Binscarth Lions club has championed Jamies but raising the Money is still a monumental task for the people who live in the rus the town that anchors the local is Home to Only this is a very emotional Issue for All of us and Well keep going if it takes a month or a year to raise what we Hasslen it will be a proud Day for us if she gets the treatment and can come Home and be a Happy Young lady donations to help Jamie can be sent to the Royal 16 rus sell Box Job Shes a Hiroshima Maiden skin grafts in new York meant Chance for a new life Batree Nathan staff reporter Misako Tachibana is Quick with a witty Story and a she loves her life in Calgary and the 28 years she spent in win on a visit to the City last every Day was filled with lunches and dinners with old friends and hairdressing for the second world War is but it didst end on for the 15yearold girl burned in the bombing of the War went on another 10 badly scarred and emotionally she spent those years in seclusion in her family it was difficult enough to be a she but her looks were her Faith in life was and so were most of her there were nine of them together at the school of the same age and from the same and under Cloud a sudden darkness a1 after the she never saw them i was so then in one everything was i was Down in my Mother was she cried with i Felt i was a worthless person to live in this but she was a Good psychiatrist and a Good in those years of Healing after the Tachibana and other Young women disfigured by the blast were brought together by Kiyoshi he Spear headed a fundraising Effort to Send the 25 Hiroshima Maidens to new York for badly needed plastic surgery in had already had four operations in which the family paid scarce medical supplies meant Only local Anes thetic was used and Only sparing she some japanese people were asking Why go there to they think it is enemy but i wanted to be Beau Why would i criticize when she arrived in new she was separated from the cocoon of her family and didst know a word of but in that she lived with 10 different Quaker Fame who treated her like one of their i met wonderful american they gave me the courage to go out in she had nine More ski graft operations in that using skin from her thighs for her forearm and today she Only has use of three fingers on her gnarled left when she returned Home to Japan in it was with us in her a Farewell gift from her she was anxious to put it to Good use enrolling in Beauty school in the first school rejected she saying her scars would offend but another accepted her and after working in she returned to new York in took English earned a Tachibana everything gone new York licence for hairdressing and worked in a shop in times when her visa ran she was forced to return to by then it was 1964 and the summer olympics were in she worked Long hours for the foreign including some from the nearby Canadian but she missed new and when she found a Magazine and saying Canada was looking for skilled she jumped at the within three she was approved and on her Way to win where she arrived in it was no new i was so i was used to big but Here i it was in the and in looking out the window of my room in the Royal Alexandra hotel and i just see these dirty to her hairdressing jobs were hard to and she found herself shampooing hair for a after two weeks i wanted to go it didst work out that she met a japanese woman at the Knox United landed a hairdressing Job for a and stayed for 28 she met her husband Hiroshi Here and while he worked at the japanese consulate general As an she Cut the couple moved to Calgary in july when Hiroshi found a new Job As a tour i didst want to she says i met so Many wonderful people so Many wonderful the couple never had Tachibana was 38 when they she really int she i Hope i never face War again in my but i dont think the americans did the wrong if Japan had the they would have used it at least it ended the maybe a lot More people would have been killed if the went m profit the enemy that binds animal rights Hunters on common ground by Doug Nairne staff reporter they make strange bedfellows but Hunters and animal rights activists have found common ground with their opposition to of trophy organizations representing the two groups differ on sport but when it comes to their feelings about the people who buy and sell animal parts for they form a United if someone comes to me look ing to get they wont be no apologies to business a1 doing any Hunting around said Grant president of the Manitoba trappers Assoc provincial officials say the Large amount of Money involved in Tro Phy Hunting a prize head from a Elk or Moose can fetch thou Sands of dollars from american collectors has led to More poach ing As people Hunt out of season and in wildlife preserves looking for big Armstrong is a Hunting advocate who makes his living off the but his position on trophy Hunting is not much different from that of animal rights activists who oppose most forms of to Slaughter animals for trophies is the most disgusting exam ple of humans showing their Power Over the said Barb Groberman of the Manitoba Ani Mal there is no formal link Between pro and ant Hunting groups when it comes to the trophy but their positions Are similar in Many both profess a concern for the future of the provinces wildlife and both agree that by killing off the strongest and Best animals Tro Phy Hunters Are creating a weaker group of if you keep taking the biggest and the Best out of the population pretty soon you wont be left with said Larry head of the Manitoba wildlife we want to use the not destroy Milian said All Hunters suffer from the negative publicity caused by trophy Hunting poachers and the wildlife federation is working to help Stop illegal the federation spent on signs asking people to turn in suspected he even the Manitoba big game trophy an Organiza Tonthat collects information on the biggest animals killed each is strongly opposed to the Sale of animal even though its members Hunt the big we Are on record opposing the Sale and Export of Heads in this said association presi Dent Greg its wrong to be Hunting animals to get Fehr said Hunting trophy animals for sport is one thing but Hunting for profit is another All he said groups like his and the Manitoba wildlife federation have lobbied the provincial government to take Tough action to curtail com Mercial Jiro Phy including imposing a ban on exporting the problem the local wildlife groups run Fehr is the million the Hunting and fish ing Industry pumps in to the provincial Economy each much of it from americans and europeans lured Here in search of big Brian coordinator of the Manitoba lodges and outfitters said that if regulations get too severe it will keep the for and their r i ;