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Waterloo collegiate teacher/picheter Jack Bristow walks the walk in front of his school Tuesday morning during day two of the provincial teachers‘ strike. Sandra Steingraber, the author of ‘Living Downstream, an Ecologist Looks at Cancer & the Environment‘, will be speaking to the public mm- 7:30 pm. at the Regional and Social Services building at 99 Regina $t. South, Room 508. â€" The event is being sponsored by Waterloo‘s : Words Worth Books and the Waterloo Region Breast Health Network and has been organized ‘as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Admission is free. Stcingraber is a professor of biology, a pubâ€" lished poet and a survivor of cancer. When she was diagnosed with cancer in her twenties, she wanted to uncover what factors had contributed to her getting the disease. Living Downstream‘ is the result of that search. "The breast milk of many mothers is so contâ€" aminated with pesticide residues and industrial chemicals that it would be illegal for sales as a food commodity," reads one sentence in Steinâ€" graber‘s book. Another sentence says of all pestiâ€" cides used for agriculture, only 0.1 per cent reaches the pest the pesticide was made for while the other 99.9 per cent goés into the genâ€" eral environment. Besides her own battle with cancer, the other An author who has investigated the links between the causes of cancer and the environâ€" ment will be making a public presentation on the topic tonight (Oct. 29) in Waterloo. (@b)am L nsm is i in in hidhie is ies it on inasat c ycniag s viscarinianitopn on i aninrennebs is MMpnpinpe n alereaiep unsm napinepasarimits irepisiinainn im on e e aiee CCE ns ie ENBE ACF 3 WALKING THE LINE Trish Brown Now is the best time to take advantage of the great interest rates. Give the professionals of Scharf Real Estate a call. "If 70 per cent of women in this age group (50â€"69) received a mammogram every two years, we could expect to see the breast cancer death rate in women of this age decrease by 30â€" 40 per cent," the Waterloo Region Breast Health Network said in a news release. As of 1990, only 34 per cent of women 50 years of age and over in the Region of Waterloo had ever had a mammogram, the news release Currently approximately 18,000 Canadian women will develop breast cancer this year. And if a woman lives until age 85, she has a one in nine chance of developing breast cancer. The Waterloo Region Breast Health Network is trying to encourage more women, particularly women between the ages of 50â€"69, 10 take a mammogram every two years in order to screen for breast cancer. Currently 70â€"80 per cem of breast cancers occur in women 50 years of age Network recently released some statistics regarding breast cancer as part of Breast Cancer Although Steingraber will not be talking specifically about breast cancer during tonight‘s attention on the impact of pesticides on the inspiration for Steingraber‘s book is Rachel Car B THINKING OF SELLING OR BUYING A HOME? Toni Halliwell The program, run in conjunction with the Waterloo County Board of Education and the City of Waterloo‘s Partners in Parks Program, beautiful," Reinhart said of the 127 willow, burr oak, alder, oak and viburnum trees that she and her classmates planted. _ What was just a field on Friday became the home of a future forest that will run along side the schools property _ _ _ That‘s the dream of the 12â€"yearâ€"old Reinhart, who, along with hundreds of other Centennial public school students, took part in this year‘s ‘Spark to Action‘ program on Friday afternoon, demonstrating their commitment to making positive changes to their home communities. Twenty years from now, Ainsley Reinhart hopes to be able to bring her children 1 the forâ€" est next to Centennial public school and show them the tree that she planted when she attended the school as 2 Grade 7 student Centennial public school students, from left, Ryann Yog, Rachel Willmot and Ainsley Reinhart plant a tree during the school‘s ‘Spark to Action‘ environment program last Friâ€" Students ‘Spark to Action‘ Cindy Mellou! Mike Mcllou! Bob Mathis Chronicle Staff * Represents Sales Representative and ** Represents Associate Broker Lance Roberts Janet Schnarr Dave Seegmiller Judy Reck Ben Koenig, 12, knows that the tree he planted will also become a wind shelter to the adjacent school grounds and that the tree will take away (absorb) the excess moisture in the bog next to their newly created forest "We need schools to do these things 10 help the environment," said Koenig. "If we plant them, they will grow. And when they‘re grown, they‘ll provide more oxygen 10 the environment," Willmot said of the brightly colored tree that she, Reinhar and Ryann Vog planied together. trees are that she helped to plant on Fride As well, several groups arended educational tours put on by the City‘s parks and Forestry Departments, the Regoonal Landfill Sue . and the Mannheim Water Treatment Plant to learn about how the City and Regional governments are working with the community to reduce the impacts on the environment. Rache} Willmot. 11 . also realizes how vical the saw 600 studeras planting wildflowers. trees and shrubs at several of Waerioo‘s parks in order 40 invite nature back ito the city Jack Sheppard Scort Snider Carol Tuckwood Birgitta Weberâ€"Adrian Terry Yates Bors Zapalac Jeff Rowley