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Peninsula News Review . .

- “Excuse me; there is a-

rooster and a dancing cow
out front to see you,” was
the’ message Thursday
morning from the unflap-
pable Sandi Burchill, office
manager at the Peninsula
News Review.

It was going to be one of
those days: ee

The fabulously flamboy-
ant feathered rooster and

bovine buddy on the other
side of the counter were on
tour for the day, touting
their upcoming entertain-

ShowTime! at ~The
| Butchart Gardens.

singers and dancers and

| ‘The song and dance variety’
‘show is jam-packed with 33.

: ‘sented ‘by brightly-cos-
tumed performers.
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_ | and flamboyant'as Show-
‘Time! anywhere else in:Vic-
toria,” said musical director ©

-| Tobin Stokes, a local musi-

cian and composer who is. :
responsible for arranging

the energetic, upbeat 1 music
for the show.
“It's a Broadway review-

style production, and that’s. °;
what makes it so much fun:

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four band members who ©
| will put. on-an- ‘energetic
hour-long production. in.”
The Butchart Gardens’ out.”
‘| door. theatre. this summer..’

to put together.”
‘The cow. and rooster in

‘question were two of the
“successful auditioners, out
of more than 100 people |
‘who applied to be-in the th
show. Artistic director and.

- choreographer a
Sanders, who, ‘has ‘worked: &
‘on The Gardens’ mainstage
‘productions for 17. years,
‘said the response to ‘the
“casting call “was very en-
thusiastic.. We'r re. getting

very. well known, and audi-

tion tapes came .in from
across the country.” ....
She ‘knows’ the ropes |
well: Sanders was one: of
those singers and dancers ~

who tried out. (success:

‘fully).in the early auditions. .

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Several cast members have

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- tions, while others have trod |
- the boards of local stages. ©

Others lead dual lives of.

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They aren't just a any barnyard critters. Morgan (the
- rooster and Mandy aremembers of ShowTime!. .

‘This’ year’s Show. has oy
: four: non-stop segments and:|.
boasts - an ‘eclectic ‘mix: of |.
‘music and: ‘choreography.
Costumes are colorful-and
creative — and: the cos-

- “streaks of-blood, alcoholic
Sp ‘gastric contents or the mys- 7
‘-“terious bodily fluid memen-.
‘tos commonly: acquired i in’:
pediatrics. Our.concern that
’ first night.was that the hos-
- pital intercom system would -

¥: ever get sick in July.
It may surprise you

8. to learn that, nurses
aside, the entire medical
care and keeping of our hos-
pital wards after 5 p.m. is in
the hands of interns :.. and
only. interns.
emergency occurs on the
hospital wards, it is an in-
tern who jis.called to the
rescue,

Each July the : battle-
hardened experienced in-
terns leave the hospitals .
and .head. out into the
world to hang their shin-

and hang their stock bro-
kers. In: their stead enters
nervous. .new © interns,

freshly graduated from med

school. parties, who think
CPR is a railroad and that a
defibrillator. is a lie detector,

test.

Should ‘you, therefore,

- happen to have -your heart

attack in July,-you' may end

“up getting a mouth to”
~ mouth caboose while being
forced te confess whether _
or. not you've ever voted .
_ NDP. I would strongly urge
- you to consider having a
cardiac. arrest in: May . or
“June.

My: formidable f first night

urgently. blurt out “CA”,

- meaning “Chretien Abdi-
-cates”-which, ‘of course,

would: cause - Cardiac Ar-
rest.

‘Predictably, within min-

utes of donning-our white
coats we heard “C.A: South
4.” We dashed about madly, .-

intent on arriving at South 4
as soon as possible. South 4
may as well have been the
South Pole, We had no clue
where it was.

After frantically touring
most. of the hospital, the
morgue and downtown Vic-

toria we finally stumbled —

onto the South ward, Know-
ing that the first intern who

When. an-

arrives on the scene is auto-
matically_in charge of run-
ning the arrest treatment,

one intern stopped to do'an:

emergency shoelace tie up,
leaving Max and I to carry

on. We had practiced car-°

diac resuscitation several
times on Annie the Man-
‘nequin in a classroom, but
now Annie. was: a living,
breathing, dying Mr. Blog-
gins. ‘Max froze.at the door.

Analyzing’ the.
rhythm and the nurse’s con-

stant mouthing the letters

“VE”, I realized: that Mr.

Bloggins was in Ventricular .
Fibrillation. With eyes wide -
shut I grabbed the paddles, —

placed them on his chest

-. and fired. I'm not sure who
ae jumped higher; him, me or
“the nurse .whose’ fingers ..

“were ‘still underneath the
£ paddies.
“In those good

‘we had to actually diagnose °
that the patient had Ventric- »
ular Fibrillation (the deadly a

heart rhythm caused by a
cardiac arrest), before de-
livering a shock. Had we
shocked ‘someone with a
‘normal heart rhythm, then

frankly we could kill them:

(another reason not to get

ill in July). Now, the new im-

proved Automatic Defibril-
lator takes that nasty guess
work out of any cardiac ar-
rest,

Anyone..can use it. By
simply attaching two pieces
-of tape to an apparent. car-

- diac arrest victim, the ma-

chine not only diagnoses
the condition, but will actu-
ally treat it as well! It de-
cides what the problem is,
then fires off a lifesaving
‘shock to the patient’s heart.

heart

These automatic defibril-

~ lators are now in the hands

of the general public. They
are found in stadiums,
theme parks, casinos and
airlines (note: though Amer-
ican Airlines, Delta and
even’ Air Zimbabwe have

. them on board each plane,

the'two major Canadian car-
riers have not yet acquired
these).
One theme park, Busch...
Gardens, was actually suc-
cessfully sued for not hav-
ing a defibrillator on site
when a patron suffered an
arrest.
And now you can actu-

ally own. your own. With a

cardiac ‘arrest, chances of -
survival drop by 10 per cent

~each: minute that passes

without intervention, mean-
_ing that in 20 minutes, you
- will be 200 per cent dead. If
-the defibrillator is applied.
quickly the survival: rate

soars.
How. many vot the 35,000

. conaliane who die of V. fib.
annually. could be saved had -
‘a machine been available? .
How many more would sur-:
vive if Someone in the vicin- ©
‘ity’ knew CPR (cardiopul-.
_monary resuscitation)? Tf eth
you happen to arrestin a’: §
_.. primitive locale. with node.

a one ¢ close to you died an un-
‘old days "necessary. death simply be-

cause you did net know ba a

sic CPR? ae
‘Ontario is remedying this -

problem. Each. year: all

150,000 Grade 9 students in -

- that province will be trained
in. CPR. Unfortunately in:

B.C., Mr. Ramsey is too |

busy ‘battling parents and©
school boards so that our
“kids can read My Two Dad-

dys, A useful Education Min- '

ister would request that the
» Advance. Coronary Treat-

ment. school: ‘based . CPR
training program. (1-800- .
465-9111 if you want to help.
make our province a safer
place to have a heart attack)’

would, at no cost, be imple-

mented in our schools.

- Otherwise, next time you
feel chest pains, head to a
high school in Timmins .
on Air Zimbabwe.

~ The Justice. Institute of B.C. Fire &

Safety Division. is looking for men and
women who are interested in a career. as a

firefighter, The Fire & Safety Division's
Pre-employment: Program screens and ©

trains candidates for the Fire Service, You
must have at least one year post-secondary

"t education, be physically fit, well coordi-
nated, a team player, committed to public
‘service, able to communicate clearly in’:
English and have a good driving record, |
Ability (o speak, another language: and

knowledge of different cullures is an ire ;
red

For. infor mation, call the HBC:

Safety Division at (605285682. :

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