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Exactly what chemical process is involved in this effect? What is the scientific explanation of this pheâ€" nomenon? Iam puzzled by the claim that ingesting fluoride strengthens tooth enamel and/or reâ€"mineralizes teeth. My impression is that the claim is in the form of an error in logic, "post hoc, ergo propter hoc." That is, if two events occur one after the other, the assumption is that the first caused the second. To illustrate this error in logic, consider the case of a current major league batter who started this season in a pronounced slump. He discovâ€" ered the cause of his futility; it was his batting helmet. He obtained a new one and promptly began to hit again with power and efficiency, even hitting a gameâ€"winning grand slam home run. Baseball players are notoriously superstitious. Restored confidence based on a personal belief in a magic s you‘re reading this, I am probably still sleepâ€" Ang. Catching up on a few lost hours after a week of sunning on my public deck. Almost a week anyway, since the last couple of days were not exactly perfect. Despite the exhaustion and the fatigue, there are an awful lot of good things that come out of my experience as the poster boy. And it‘s not just for me. I‘ve always considered it an honour to be able to lead the campaign. It‘s such / a great cause and I get the chance to see ‘ Pl l the good that people do. I sometimes think we don‘t celebrate that enough. M Of course, when you spend a week talking to children who have come down to donate their allowance or the contents of a piggybank, or to parents who have walked around the office collecting money, it gives you a pretty good feeling. I‘ve seen kids grow up over the past Eâ€"j decade and a half. Josh Proschk is an & example. He started with us years ago, running a lemonade stand to raise P money. Last year, he spearheaded a BC fundraising drive at Waterloo Oxford school. And this year he came down ‘again to make a donation just ahead of leaving on a school trip. But as we closed off our 14th year, it . really was striking to me just how many people keep coming back. â€" Questions about fluoride My own children have grown up onâ€"site too. At the very beginning, Diana and I would spend time at the billboard greeting people while the girls sat inside the trailer, rolling change and generally havâ€" ing a pretty good time. This year, because of some challenges she is facâ€" ing, Diana could not spend as much time on â€"site. That makes it difficult for me because over the years she has become my right hand, my sounding board and the one person who can keep me totally focused. After more than 30 years together, no one knows me better and no one can read my mood or know my thought process like her. And, of course, she can say things to me no one else can because I know, at the end of the day, that she does it out of love. When you‘re working 16 or 17 hours a day, always on stage, and rushing from one place to the Another campaign is behind him cure may be the explanation. Anothâ€" er answer might be that with the new helmet he no longer attempted to focus on the ball through the ear hole. To return then to the logic of fluoâ€" ride, cause and effect, I don‘t see how ingesting an indeterminate amount of a medicine can help your teeth. How does the imprecise dosage get from your stomach to the tooth‘s surface? And what happens as it circulates through your blood system, your organs, your bones? Anything good? Surely people of different body weight, different metabolisms and different genetics are affected differ ently. I am not saying that the use of fluoride is totally a form of superstiâ€" tion because something does hapâ€" pen, logically, to me from topical contact I fear it is not just a cosmetic change, but an indication of someâ€" I see the evidence of dental fluo rosis in the smiles of many people, especially younger ones. â€" Some kind of physical change has taken place there. COMMENT other to do interviews, edit them and get them on the air, it‘s no surprise your nerves get a little short. It usually just takes a soft hand on the shoulder to bring me back. So I went into this year more than a little conâ€" cerned about my performance because Diana has been such a huge part of the last 10 years. Little did I know she had a clone, and it wasn‘t the one I expected. â€" What I saw was a confident young AN woman able to talk to anyone and RKE make them feel comfortable. She was a wizard with the kids, no surprise given her occupation. Everyone who met her walked away feeling they had done something very special by donating. That‘s the way they are supâ€" posed to feel. She made sure all the kids who wantâ€" ed to be on the radio got the chance. And she also ensured those people who wanted to tell their stoâ€" ries of survival or battle got the chance to do that as well. Looks like she got all the best parts of her mom, and improved on them. We could not have coped without her. __ She showed an empathy and caring which is incredibly unique in people, something very few can carry off naturally and with integrity. Her ability to make a connection was incredible. Brian Bourke, a member of the 105.3 KOOL FM morning crew, can be reached by email at bbourke@koolfm.com. All the girls spent time on site this year, working around their schedules and their lives as much as they possiâ€" bly could. But it was the oldest who really came into her own. Allison is 27 years old and the education coâ€"ordinator at Oxford Learning Centre in Waterloo. Before work and after work and during the entire weekend, Allie was a fixture at our location. When we started this thing, she was just 13 years old. To watch her in action over the past few days was an epiphany. thing far more serious for these peoâ€" ple with the yellowy streaked teeth. So I would appreciate a scientific explanation of what happens chemiâ€" cally to people‘s teeth. And I don‘t want someone talking through their hat or helmet. Jim Githuty Waterloo potato chips I spotted some bags of Uncle Ray‘s Potato Chips at a Jumbo Video store in Waterloo last month and was not only enticed by the flavours (Kosher Dill, Jalapeno, Roasted Garlic and my favourite Hot, to name a few), but 1 was equally intrigued by the unique packaging. These chips come with a written message on the back of each bag, in the form of chapters from The Life and Times of Uncle Ray. â€" Uncle Ray‘s story, as written on the chip bags, is one of desâ€" peration and salvation. The Michigan native was an alcoholic and thought he was going to hell â€" until, that is, he found God. "The Lord gave me ideas and plans," he said in a recent interview with The 700 Club. "It was like a master business perâ€" son talking to me. In my mind and heart, I knew I had the right answers." In an excerpt from Chapter 30, titled Just Peachy, printed on the Hot flavoured bag I enjoyed, it reads: "There are some things I have done in my life that I am not proud of, but I have learned from the consequences not to do them again." At the end of the chapter, Uncle Ray offers some simple things to remember to help demonstrate selfâ€"control in everyday life: "I will not act impulsively, not equate desires with rights, set my own limits, see my anger as a sign that something is wrong in me and walk away from things that aren‘t right." In Chapter 1, titled My First Busiâ€" ness Venture, Uncle Ray shares the MARSHALL story of having his Koolâ€"Aid stand WARD robbed when he was eight years old, w and learning the valuable lesson: "Always be sure to keep an eye on your business or it will get away from you." At the end, of this chapter, Uncle Ray quotes several biblical scriptures from Hebrews and John. Uncle Ray told The 700 Club he does this to honour the God who brought him hope in a hopeless situation, at a time wheh he nearly lost his life to alcoholism. His wife Myrna explained, "Ray was bringing up blood from every open orifice of his : Uncle Ray said it was on that night when the ambulance $ was called that his spirit left his body. "I thought to myself, I‘m going to hell. Going to hell for eternity, forever, was the most ‘ terrifying experience I‘d ever felt in my entire life. It was like looking in the face of a starving lion that‘s about to eat you "In this pitiful condition, this hopeless condition, I felt > God‘s presence with me. He didn‘t dislike me, he loved me, but he was disappointed I had not been a proper husband to my wife and a proper father to my children." On his website, UncleRays.com, he said a few years after starting up the little Detroitâ€"based potato chip company, he > felt compelled to send a message to those eating his product: "If someone was ever contemplating suicide, drugs, stealing or whatever life‘s troubles bring you, I want you to know that you are not alone. Everyone has bad days and I want to be there with a message." ‘ On the Kosher Dill bag of chips I bought, the message is ~ / that of resourcefulness. In Chapter 11, titled Thanksgiving at ; Risk, Uncle Ray writes: "I learned from resourcefulness, when life gives you lemons, you can waste them or you can make lemonade â€" make obstacles work for you." _ a And it was this lesson that turned lfnt;le Ray‘s potato chips into the successful snack food company it is today, with $24 million in sales last year. _ s s At the end of Chapter 11, he concludes with a definition for resourcefulness: "Finding practical use for things that others would overlook or discard." Marshall Ward is a visual artist and independent filmmaker, currently teaching life drawing at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre. Email is welcome at marshall_ward@hotmail.com. Like the back of a potato chip bag. When the chips are down ay Jenkins used to look for answers at the bottom of a bottle. But thanks to some divine inspiration, the entreâ€" preneur dried up, and now finds his answers in a bag of WATERLOO CHRONICLE + Wednesday, April 30, 2008 * 9