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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1973-03-29, Page 15in Thin` L stow.i or, WI Forel# wllrltr:!'I'elr" i,.. Today, acro6s Canada, there are children who are unaware , r of the happiness ofparticipation in the sports ase Pe d gamest. in whiten all children should' have , the- "oppor- tuntty' to take Parts These .chil- dren are handicapped, The 1913 Easter Seal Campaign,; already underwais for their benefit,.tQ atd in� theinb struggle for a.norntol way of life. The .campaign, spon- sored by numerous service groups'. acrosS, the country, hi. isa time consuming pr ogram:•and`the peeSe behind it have donated, in • many cases, a large percentage of " their time. . - The Easter Seal Campaign has, a message. A message filled with love, involvement and hopefully' success in 1973. District .chair - mann of the campaign this year is Ralph. Moran of Mount. Forest. Mr. Moran • is a Lions Club_ member. • The Message e The message Says, "There is somethi .g • satisf i Y � about a ghingof appy children laughing and playing, but too often it something we take f For o> anted.: Pat walk- ing is an effort. Running and climbing and playing games are even tougher. But, with help, crippled ' children . can do these things.- The crippled child is' not only confined to the ` major cities or treatment centres. Many live in your home town: Listowel, Mount Forest, Wingham and the sur- roun nngg area. These children also need and depend on th k tee Vance: is director for Wingnam and area. and aid of citizens, and area sere ice clubs; the• .• is In ListQwei area.w ,y� Leh in cludea l es ,p'a �ef?5t�►a W lean ! a eQ Gowanstown, Atw.� � oddand , sections of Monkton, the c i atilpa gn is handled by �. In x'y.Wingham and: Mount Forest, .s t, Lions Clubs take on the res .: Po.,nsibilit . y. The 1973 Easter Seal . Cam- paign, running from March 22 to April 22, has a provincial objec- tive of $1,675,000, in order to meet its obligation to aid over 14,000 children in Ontario. Prime Minister Trudeau officially launched the Ontario Society for. Crippled Children's Campaign by purchasing the first sheet of seals and addressing about 500 Easter Seal service club representatives from Southwestern Ontario at a campaign kick-off dinner in the Ivanhoe Club, London, on March 21. Mr. Trudeau spoke en the role of the volunteer in today's society. The Ontario Society For Crippled Children Founded over 50 years ago, the Ontario Society isa private, charitable organization. The Easter Seal campaign is the only province -wide annual ;appeal for funds conducted by the society, through 230 affiliated. Easter Seal °'service clubs. .The Society's services ,tand, h ri y 0• 114 X x � physicallyhandicapped youngs- ter g ter in `Ontario under 19 years of age. The program includes diag- nostic services, active surgical and medical treatment, physical restoration, psychological and .social adjustment, education, vocatk,jal training and job train- ing. The .London District Crippled Children's Treatment Centre fes one such centre which .protudes,,,. extensive facilities for manydhil- drep in the area and surrounding counties. The London centre serves Bruce, Huron, Perth, Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford and. - Elgin Counties, birth to 10 ar m � niieen;ab. e • quest.. Short term resident , meat is aVallable • from four 10, About youngsters from counties ,:were patient'• The centre is 'lei handicapped anis their future welfare, The Kitchener Crippled dren's Centre, like the centre is filled with f ,, offering many services , crippled child and his "r:fain-0Y. Diagnostic faoilitiess.J Offered both: centres include :consu1tantlo Les McKay, Listowel':director for the Easter SealCa npaigrn. in paediatrics, neurol4,`'' p yew be done. Because oft, their eff or many materials have been donated,such as braces, ' . a hearing aids, electric tooth brushes, wheelchairs, crutches and artificial limbs. bs> have been donated to area children and centres for permanent use and some short term needs. Last year 80: volunteers, :driv- ing from Guelph and. Cambridge, donatOd 890 hoursto helping tr crip- pled children visiting ,the Kit- chener t- chener'centre. The Society arranges or spoa stirs anyneeded transportation " :ran poria tan, for youngsters to treattnent centres, hospitals, clinics or camps throughout the province. The . iety's 4 fire summer cam provide Ps ,the�argt drip pled children's camping , program; in the world to about t,t00 each year: It also . provides ;social holid;s a Tor the severely ndi« lt�naUX . PPed, e attend to �a end .r crippled children's cam work of "the -Ontario for ppled. is a never ;battle jts Yelu s. .nom is.&fight against the unhappiness and lonelibees of a e.. Crippled ldren screw: Ontario need understanding 1 a -rent:. yr . �� � � tbem a pe,for the future. )logy, f hysical`nled1cine:'#thOr^�' ByKEITfI 'WILLI t , • edits, � Alr'ISON • will., lee held at the Uiuversit of plastic. Surgery and denit try Se i As usual 1972 was again .$' very . Ps i ear, nose OA tlit`oa RR 3 Walton Y rvices uicludG, speech therapy` physiotherapy, nursery s,x occupational therapy, special:.' education and social services, active year for members of the ,• Provincial Junior Farmers' Association, dhd it promises to be the same for 1973. To start off every year there is the Talent Festival held in,Toron- tp, which gives County members a chance to compete on a Provin- . tial level in such activities as choir, folk singing, square danc- ing, debating, photography, etc. This year Spring. competitions which are usually held in Guelph will for the first time be held in Ottawa. This will give Junior Farmers; the : opportunity 'to :. t"fv'el ttIt ' t ,tlii'lo.asrid coni _ in °cu Misr_ bowling, basketball and volley- ball. For a team to be fortunate enough to -go to Ottawa, it must first win on the County level and then 'be victorious on the zone level. Throughout the summer and fall workshops are organized in music, square dancing, debating, etc. in several locations in On- tario for people that have an in- terest in these activities. Provineial field day in August The Society assists the wo 15 of these regional treit.. centres throe out"tat `;On t � payment of approved treatzen through local Easter Seal service; clubs or special grants towards` capital costs.,,': There are 21.divisions' district, including 14 clubs oz councils representing area ns men, Lions and Rotary elms; wellf,: `pllli<e , ladies', ,elulb, , y� Inthe eyes .=a of the ..Societ Listowel chairman, . McKay, the Kinettes of : KincairdinilAre "one of the hardest vlrorking groups" in the district. According to Mr. McKay ,the work .involved in supporting the campaign is ‘ almost a 12 -month= a year jobl„but well worth it too". The centres of Listowel, Wing - ham and . Mount Forest have many volunteers who donate their time to the work that must Guelph, where competitions are held in baseball, swimming, soccer•and track and field events. The Junior Farmers' Associa- tion also sponsor young people on travellingscholarships to : the United Kingdom. Also an ex- change delegate that meets the requirements. wall be sent to New Zealand and Australia in early 1974, and because the Provincial Association believes there is a great deal, of value in having Ontario young peoplelearn about the, way .ofe in other parts;of our country and world, travel op- portunities . are organized and sponsored each year. one t °e is'i berta, Manitoba, Nova:: Scotia, Prince Edward Island,, to the Rural Youth U.S.A. Conference in Illi- nois and to the Future F ers' of American Conference in - sas City, Missouri. ' It is hard to imagine why there are so many young people com- plaining about being "bored and having nothing to do, when. there is an organization just for young people, like the Junior Farmers' Association of Ontario. Rotary Club and friends standing by Billy Gaus On March 31, Bill Gaus of towel will be eight years old. Birthdays are special to Billy, possibly even more special to him than to other children his age. For the past two years Billy's life has been a strugglefor survival. Two years ago, on Easter Mon- day morning about 10 o'clock,. Billy swallowed a quantity of drain cleaner., He had mistaken the purple -colored liquid in a clear container on the kitchen cdvnter for grape juice. Imme- diate efforts to control the effects of the cleaner on his body were unsuccessful. A number of opera- tions and hospitals later, Billy is still fighting for his life. Billy found it hard to swallow after the accident. The opening in his throat, where normally food would pass was affected by the cleaner. Recently, doctors have attempted to stretch the passage in three operations performed at the Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto, where Billy has been a patient for the past month. The operations have not been a com- plete success, but presently Billy 1s eating and drinking some foods in .,the normal manner. . "For three weeks he has been fed diluted food sthrough a tube leading to his stomach," said his father, William Gaus. Billy has not been alone in his fight, His family has been close by is side. "If it had not been for close friends and many people in Listo- wel we could have never survived the past two years," said Mrs. Gaus. "The Rotary Club of Listowel has been standing by ever since it happened," she said. "They have aided in costs for treatments and offered many tinges to help us out." Lis- gotten him either. "His classmates in grade one at Central are always sending him cards and games they make themselves," said Mrs. Gaus. A former teacher, Mrs. Wilfred Noble, sends Billy school work, although classes are conducted at the hospital in Toronto. Billy misses his family, especi- ally his new baby brother David, who is only eight weeks old. Billy has only seen David once, said Mrs. Gaus. He also misses running and jumping and the hockey and foot- ball games. During most of the past two . years he has been con- fined to a hospital bed. At present he is allowed to sit in a wheel chair for 15 to 20 minutes at a time. Nurses at the•hospital read to Billy. The television in his room helps pass the time. Circumstances have not made a normal way of life possible for Billy Gaus, but help from his family, friends and many stran- gers keeps him smiling. LISTOWEL'S TIMMY is Billy Gaus, a patient at Sick Chil- Billy's friends at Central Pub- dren's Hospital in Toronto. Billy will be eight -years -old on lie School in Listowel haven't for- march 31. (Family Photo) PHYSIOTHERAPY is important to children of all. ages at Crippled Children's Centres. ( London District Crippled Children `Photo) ACTIVITIES AT CENTRES—Even though many of the children at the centres cannot get out of bed, school is not forgotten. Individual lessons are often given. (London District Crippled Children Photo) CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S CENTRES are designed for the handicapped and dedicated to their service. These centres are lorated throughout Ontario. ( London District Crippled Children Photo)