| Firefighters band together in the fight against cancer
MOUNT STEWART — Rod MacDonald hopes to garner $5 from every volunteer fireman or woman across Prince Edward Island in an effort to make an Island contribution to a national campaign fighting cancer afflicting those who fight fires. It’s called F.A.C.E.S., Firefighters Against Cancer Existence, and it’s a North American campaign started by an Ontario volunteer who contracted cancer from 20 years of fighting fires. "It’s firefighters helping other firefighters against cancer," said MacDonald, a volunteer with the East River department near here. "A lot of fires are fought in factories and places with toxic chemicals that are causing big problems for some firemen and women." Statistics show that firefighters can contract up to five different cancers due to toxic smoke and other contaminants.
Our Take
Give a little bitDonate your love, time or moolah. Maybe your heart will grow three sizes.
While many University students will be spending their holiday break giving gifts and enjoying home-cooked meals, many others will not be as fortunate. With winter break quickly approaching, now is the time to start thinking about how to give back to the Athens community because, after all, 'tis the season.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation, Toys for Tots and The Salvation Army are three organizations that would benefit this winter from both monetary and material donations and can be contacted via their Web sites.
Many Athens churches and other places of worship will host canned food drives and/or accept donations of blankets and coats, which will be given to the city's needy this winter.
Cudahy Tanning to be shut down
Cudahy Tanning Co. Inc.'s plant in Cudahy will be closed after the firm agreed to merge with a tanning company in Maine. Prime Tanning Co. of Berwick, Maine, said Friday that it has a definitive agreement to merge with Cudahy Tanning Co., a deal that the company said will create the largest premium leather producer in North America, with revenue in excess of $250 million. The combined business will be called Prime Tanning. Work now performed at the plant in Cudahy, at 5043 S. Packard Ave., will be moved to a facility in Hartland, Maine. The plant has about 100 employees. The addition of Cudahy's customers will broaden Prime's account base to include other footwear, accessory and specialty leather brands. Prime Tanning's current customers include brands such as Born, H.
Making a clean skin of cosmetics testing
New regulations have begun to force cosmetics firms to test their products on artificial flesh, not animals. In Provence, specialist scientists are trying to meet the challenge By Doreen Carvajal
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, GRASSE, FRANCE
Friday, Nov 23, 2007, Page 9 .
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