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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-03-11, Page 9XPOSITQR.i. 1078 TOM YOUNG The Ontario wide goal for the society, which provided treatment centres, day • care facilities, summer camps and equipment for 12,000 Physically handicapped children in the province last year is 2,000,000. According to J.A.Butler, President 0.S.C.C.„ they plan to enter the field of genetic investi- gation and' counselling of parents with a view to limiting the number of children born with handicaps. This year's Timmy is Kevin Collins, Orillia, a 12 year old. This year's Easter Seal campaign theme is "Back a Fighter" -- a 12 year old fighter 'like Kevin. • •• 4 , Goal is '3000 I ions start Easter Seal cginpiaig. LOOK HERE TIMMY — This year's Timmy, 12 year old Kevin Collins of Orillia, didn't quite believe the two Rolls Royces Story until Argo million dollar runningback Anthony Davis showed him the press clipping. Davis was one 0.60 guests at one of the longest head tables ever assembled when he 4 attended the 25th Annual Sports Celebrity Dinner in March 18 Toronto recently. The dinner which ended with Timmy's .address, started , the Orillia youngster's shceduled appearances on behalf of the Easter Seal Campaign of . the' Ontario Society for Crippled Children in their efforts to raise $2,200,000. The Seaforth Lions sponsor the campaign here. April 1 61, Over 1,500 appeals have been mailed out to Seaforth and District in the annual Easter Seal Campaign, by the Seaforth Lions who h andle fund raising here for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. Orville G. Oke, chairman of the local Lions Club Committee said returns are coming well, even though the campaign just started officially, on February 28. Mr. Oke said that this year's objective is $3,000.00 which is to be raised from Seaforth and Seaforth rural routes, Egmondville and Walton and Walton rural routes. 1. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children's 1976 Easter Seal objective is $2,200,000. This figure is based on a careful analysis of the Society's minimum needs in order to meet its obligation to almost 10,000 'physically handicapped youngsters throughout Ontario. 2. Founded more than half a century ago, the Ontario Society for Crippled Children is a private charitable organization incorporated under the laws, of Ontario. 3. Devoted to the welfare of physically handicapped youngsters throughout the Province, the Ontario Society for Crippled Children is based on the work of 233 affiliated service clubs and financed largely by contributions to its annual Easter Seal appeal. 4. More than half a century of public support has enabled the Ontario Society for Crippled Children to develope a province-wide system of treatment facilities and services without equal on this continent. 5. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children's services and facilities are available to any youngster in Ontario, whose restriction of activity by reason of neurological, musculo- skeletal or other non-acute organic defect produces a physical handicap. 6. The Ontario Society for CrippledChildren's objective is to assist physically handicapped youngsters in achieving their maximum potential by means of a comprehensive treatment •and training program. 7., The Ontario Society for Crippled Children's program includes skilled diagnosis, clinical evaluation, specialized _ dental services, active rehabilitation treatment, district nursing services, camping ' and community recreation' programs, artificial limbs, braces and other aids, training for ettn3loyment, counselling and Medical research. 8. The Ontario Society for Crippled thildren's .current active case load consists of almost 10,000 physically handicapped children throughout Ontario. 9. The Ontario, Society for Crippled Children's 21 District Nursing Offices provide a consulting nursing service to physically handicapped children and their parents in the home through its 40 specially trained public health nurses. 10. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children's five summer ,camps provide the largest specialized camping program of its kind in the world to more than 1,000 physically handicapped youngsters each year. 11. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children offers parent relief by providing special holidays for severely handicapped . children unable to attend the Society's special camps. 12. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children's animal travelling consultants' clinics bring modern diagnostic skills to more than 2,000 physically handicapped youngster's in the remoter areas of the province. 13. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children arranges or spOnsors any needed transportation for physically 'handicapped children to treatment centres, hospitals,' 61inics or camps. 14. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children 'provides wheelchairs, braces, crutches, artificial limbs and other equipment for permanent use, and lends similar equipment' from its Loan Cupboard to meet short-term 'needs. 15. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children sponsors basic and clinical 'research into crippling disorders of children, preventive measures and new treatment techniques. 16. The Ontario Society' for Crippled Children operates Variety Village, a residential vocational training school for physically handicapped boys and girls between the ages of 16 to 18 who are unable to obtain training elsewhere.• 17: The Ontario Society for Crippled Children assists the work of 16 regional treatment centres throughout Ontario by payment of approved treatment through local Easter. Seal service clubs or special grants towards capital cost. 18. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children administers the provincial governments program of financial assistance towards the cost of drugs and equipment for needy .cystic fibrotic children. 19. The Ontario Society for Cri'pled Children advocates the removal of architectural barriers to the handicapped from the .4 plans of all new or reconstructed public buildings. Easter Seal facts and figures • He waiits to make it—all on his own. He's one of Canada's crippled children, fighting hard to overcome physical disability. Some need wheelchairs. Sonic Help crippled children with Easter Seals. need crutches or long-term therapy. But they all want the chance to become everything they can. That's why they need you. Use the addressed envelope you have receiVed with your Easter Seals in the mail, bu,tifihis has been misplaced, send your EASTER SEAL DONATION anyway. BUY an-0-14E EASTER SEALS --Ctl'inpaign Conducted by LIMCLUB OF. SEAFORTH,.TOM YOUNG, Chairman, Easter Seal Committee in association with. THE ONTARIO SOCIETY FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN TO CONSERVE MAILING EXPENSES, RECEIPTS FOR GIFTS UNDER $5.00 SENT GMT UlIGN REQUEST. w.