The Huron Expositor, 1973-03-15, Page 14Easter Seal facts
Founded over 50 years ago, the Ontario Society
for Crippled Children is a private charitable organiz-
ation Incorporated under the lawS of Ontario.
The Easter Seal Campaign is the only province-
wide annual appeal for funds conducted by the Society
through its 230 affiliated Easter Seal service clubs.
The Society's 1973 Easter Seal objective is$1,675,000.
This figure is based on a careful analysis of the Society's'
minimum needs in order to meet its obligation to more
than 14,000 crippled children throughout Ontario.
, More than 50 years of public support has enabled the
SOciety to develop a province-wide system of treatment
facilities and services without equal on this continent.
The Society's services and facilities are available to
any physically handicapped youngster in Ontario under
nineteen years of age.
The Society's objective is to assist physically handi-
capped youngsters in achieving their maximum potential
by means of a comprehensive treatment and training
program.
The Society's program includes diagnostic services,
active surgical and medical treatment, physical restor-
ation psychological and social adjustment, education,
vocational training and job placement.
The Society's current active case load consists of
more than 14,000 handicapped children throughout
Ontario.
The Society's 21 District Nursing Offices provide a
consulting nursing service to crippled children and their
parents in the., borne through its 40 specially trained
public health nurses.
The Society's five summer camps provide the largest
crippled children's camping program in the world to more
than 1,100 youngsters each year.
The Society also provides special holidays for
severely handicapped children unable to attend regular
crippled children's camps.
The Society's annual travelling consultants' clinic
bring modern diagnostic skills to more than 2,000
handicapped youngsters in the remoter areas of the
province.
The Society arranges or sponsors any needed trans-
portation for crippled children to treatment centres,
hospitals, clinics or camps.
The Society provides wheelchairs, braces, crutches,
artificial limbs and other equipment for permanent use.
The Society's Loan Cupboard provides wheelchairs,
crutches, walkers and other items for short-term needs.
The Society sponsors basic and clinical research
into crippling disorders of children, preventive measures
and new treatment techniques.
The Society operates Variety Village, a residential
vocational training school 'for boys between the ages of
16 to 18 who are, unable to obtain training elsewhere.
The Society assists the work of 15 regional treatment
centres throughout Ontario by payment of approved
treatment through local Easter Seal service clubs • or
special grants towards capital cost.
Or
Seaforth
Lions
Club
Seaforth, Ontario
thart„ a much better response will
be made during the next few days.
If the campaign is to be a
success - and it must be a
success, Mr. Oke said - a great
many more contributions are re-
quired. • Between now and the
close of the drive, at least 1,000
donations are required to put
Seafortlp over the top.
Trudeau
will open
campaign
Prime Ministei Trudeau will
, officially launch the Ontario So-
ciety for Crippled Children's 1973
Easter Seal campaign by pur-
chasing the first sheet.of seals
and addressing 500 Easter Seal
service club representatives
from sSuth-western Ontario at a
Campaign Kick-off Dinner in the
Ivanhoe Club, London, on Wed-:
nesday, March 21.
The campaign runs until Eas-
ter Sunday and this year's pro-
vincial objective is $1,675,000.
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Seafort Lions Begin Campo' n for Crippled 1(ids'.
Olympic arkd world championship skater, Karen Magnussen (R) and Canada's Pairs ChaniPlons,
Val and Sandra Bazic (L),. gladly pass along a few tips to fellow skater 10 year old. Ricky Ware,
Ontario's 1973 Timmy.
Despite an artificial leg, Rick plays goal for the Scarborough Lions House League. Last
season, he had 5 shut-outs in 7 games and his first game this season, was also a shut-gut.
The 22nd annual Sports Celebrities Dinner was Timiny'sfirst official appearance in connection
with the forthcoming Easter Seal Campaign. The Campaign officially starts on March 22nd
and runs until Easter Sunday. This year's objective is $1,675,000.
Rick is a Grade 4 student at Donwood Park Public School. About seven years ago his right leg
was amputated below the knee us a result of being mauled by a bear. Since then, he has gone
through 4 artificial legs but none of this prevents him from enjoying hockey, baseball, swimming
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It was a snowy day in Nov-
ember, 1922, when a dozen men-
some of them physicians and
surgeons and others representing
10 service clubs met at the
Prince Edward Hotel in Windsor
under the auspices of the Rotary
Club.
After a long discussion the 12
men realized the tremendous
number of uncared for cases of
envied children across the P ro -
vince and were appalled. They
realized too, the special skills
some of them had acquired during
World War 1 in dealing with se-
vere battle casualties. They de-
cided to employ some of the al-
most miraculous techniques of
orthopedic surgery which was
then developing rapidly.
So they did something positive
about if and formed the Ontario
Society for Crippled Children.
In the first year the 10 ser-
vice clubs looked after 75 handi-
capped children. Today 230 ser-
vice clubs are affiliated with the
Society in the tiniest villages and
largest cities of Ontario and
wherever crippled children need
clinics, braces, artificial limbs,
wheel chairs, summer camps.
cerebral palsy clinics or trans-
portation.
As the number of children
needing help continued to sky-
rocket towards today's 14,524
case load, servtce club mem-
bers such as Kinsmen, Lions,
Kiwanis, Rotary, Richelieu and
others have raised through the
sale of Easter Seals - $20 mil-
lion since 1947.
And now it's no secret. In
the past decade, world leaders
in the treatment and rehabilita-
tion of handicapped children have
flocked in large numbers to the
Rumsey Rd. "Mecca", which is
the Ontario Crippled Children's
Centre. They acknowledge free-
ly that the Ontario Society for
crippled Children's program of
treatment and research there is
one of the best in the world.
In the beginning, the service
clubs were the backbone of the
infant Society. Today they are
Chairman
ORVILLE G. OKE
who is chairman for the
Easter Seal campaign be-
ing sponsored locally by
the Seaforth Lions Club.
Proceeds from the cam-
paign make possible the
Lions Club crippled chil-
dren's work in the area.
inore involved than ever. With-
out them the Society could not
function.
As well as backing the Soc-
iety with generous donations of
time, skill and money the year
round, service club members
begin well before Easter to or-
ganize their intensive Easter
Seal mailing and publicity pro-
grams.
Many service club members
are medical and orthopedic spe-
cialists and several of the clubs
they belonged to have initiated the
formation of summer camps and
clinics in hard-to-get-at places
all to help handicapped children
enjoy as normal a life as pos-
sible under their special circum-
stances.
Many of the most pathetic
cases of crippled children are
discovered in backwoods country
by the Society's 37 travelling and
specially trained District
Nurses.
You will not always find this
particular brand of nurse in a
starched white uniform and dri-
ving a shiny car. She often wears
a parka, slacks and snow boots
and trudges through Northern
Ontario's mud and bush country.
Society nurses have travelled on
skis, in helicopters and by canoe
to reach the crippled child. They
can all swing axes and build
their own camp files, too.
The nurse acts as liaison
between doctor and parents. Spe-
cially trained in the care and
treatment of physically handi-
capped children as well as being
a graduate in public health nur-
sing, she interprets the doctor's
orders and sees that they are
followed.
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USE THE ADDRESSED ENVEL-
'..OPE YOU RECEIVED WITH
YOUR EASTER SEALS IN THE
MAIL, BUT IF THIS HAS BEEN
MISPLACED, SEND YOUR
EASTER SEAL DONATION
ANYWAY.
Mail To:
Orville G. Oke
Campaign Chairman for Eager Seals
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According to committee
chairman, Orville G. Oke, some
. 2500 envelopes have been mailed
to residents of Seaforth and sur-
rounding area.
This year the local objective
is $2,000, Mr. Oke paid. To
reach this the co-operation of
the entire community will be
necessary.
Almost since its founding
more than forty years ago crip-
pled children's work has been one
of the main projects of the Sea-
forth Lions Club and it is
only through the sale of Easter
Seals that members are able to
assist locally any crippled child
who needs special braces or
other assistance, in order that
they may live a happier add more
useful life.
The committee in charge of.
this year's drive has asked that,
anyone receiving Easter Seals
who does not care to send in a
donation, to please hand or send
the seals to a friend or neighbor.
Please do not return the seals
to the club, since this results in
an unnecessary expense in
redeeming them from the Post
Office.
While some envelopes con-
takning cheques or cash have
been received, it is anticipated
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