Dear Editor
?I enjoyed Danica Lorer's column, Time and technology keep marching 0n (Regional Optimist, Jan. 28.)?However, the centenarian she refers to as "the oldest person in Canada" is actually only the oldest person in Saskatchewan. Another woman, who is also currently 111, has just been locatedin British Columbia.
According to a recent UPI news release, Sum Ying Fung turned 112 Jan. 27 at the Renfrew Care Center, where she has lived since 2005.? Pearl Luztko, the woman from Ituna is about two weeks younger, as she won't celebrate her 112th birthday until Feb.15.
After hearing the initial, incorrect, reports aboutLutzko's claim to the title, I was surprised to learn Pearl's son, Nick Lutzko, had died. He passed away Jan. 27, as Sum Ying Fung, was celebrating her milestone birthday. Nick was 94 years old.? ?My son, who was born in 1999, just 100 years after these two women, had a chat with me about how amazing it would be to live to the ripe old age of 94 and to still have your mother living.
My sympathies to Mrs. Luztko, both on the loss of her son, and on the loss of her briefly held title as the "oldest person in Canada."??
R. Denise Porter
Neilburg
