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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-09-05, Page 2Peg - The Wingham Advence-Times±, Sept. 8.1989 ; • • • ,• • • Editor's Note; In what Is to become a regular feature in this newspaper, Welcome Wagon hest- eis Christina Yake has provided us with the names of newcomers to our town. If you meet any of these people, make them feel welcome: —Jean and Al Huntley have moved to 149 Catherine Street from Grand Bend. They have six grown children; —Jane and John Robertson now reside at 447 Highland Drive. They come to Wingham from Kincardine and have a seven-year-old daugh- ter; —Deb and Frank Krebs have moved to 404 Highland Drive from Kitchener./They have two children, aged five and eight; —Mildred Holmes of Elmira now is living at 32 Bristol Terrace. She has a 16 -year-old daughter; —Betty Dreaddy, formerly of Clinton, now is residing at 45 Alfred Street; —Tracey MacBride of C , has moved to 13 Bristol Terrace; —Christine Holden has moved to 40 Bristol Terrace from Walkerton. She has three children, aged two, five and seven years; —Charles and Crystal Kalish, formerly of Wroxeter, have moved to 320 Josepl ine Street; —Greg h )rton now resides at 127 Patrick Street. Mr. Horton comes to Wingham from London; —Donna Woods, formerly of Fer- gus, is living at 11 John Street East; —Liz and Alvin Moore, formerly of Belgrave, have moved to 357 Carling Terrace: They have two child/rein, aged two and four and; —Irene and Wayne Tessier now are residing at 69 Bristol Terrace.. The Tessiers are from Schreiber and have two children, aged 12 and Man will appear in court Oct. 5 A Wingham-area man has been charged under the Criminal Code for failing to provide suitable food, water, shelter and care for 31 dogs, says a spokesman for the Kitchener - Waterloo branch of the Ontario Humane Society Donald MacAdam, 60, of RR 2, Wingham will appear in court Oct. 5 at Walkerton to answer to the charges. Correction A report that appeared in the Aug. 22 edition the newspaper may have left the impression that resi- dents of Turnberry Estates are not sorting their garbage for the town- ship landfill site, but they are. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. tl For today's highly mobile fami- lies, transportation consumes 13 per cent of the family budget. In the days of the first survey, before air travel and auto ownership both became commonplace, just 5.5 per cent of family spending went towards transportation. TIME2E17271:!-77:7711tEEMEarrAll'f4 Church -Director St. 'Paul's Church (ANGLICAN) WI NG HAM John Street at Centre Street THE ANGLICAN PARISH OF WINGHAM AND BELGRAVE AH services from the 'Book of Common Prayer" SUNDAY, September 10, 1989 11:00 a.m. - Matins Next Week: Sunday School Registration and Teddy Bex(§124Ric ot 11:00 a.m. • -,Aon-tomir.,* MiniSteittneV.D. Madge ,******** Trinity Belgrave - 9:30 a.m. - BILLY GRAHAM TV SPECIA • •MAIIMMINIIM100.11.11 1 ERRY'S TEAM MEMBER—Little Aimee 'Leith/flan, daughter Of Waneeta and Allari'Leislmian ot Morris Township, is this year's Terry's Team member for Wingham's second Ibrry Fox Run 'Team members are cancer patients whose disease is in remission. 4thicksbYn_, Johnston, 2.6, o Johnston was iout , • -street and driving a 1 say the OPP. Mr. Garniss tal ham and Dior* Hos t, ment of minor in' was not damaged, a .police. • In a separate incident day, a Turnberry Wow•l'is4 was involved hit,and1/4•744' mishap on Highway 4, south of grave. The police report t Soot: - ' bound pick-up bud; green in color, crossed the•centre:„ line of the highway and'4,,ruC)4 northbound 1976 pick-up , Greg Duck 29 a La it Turnberry. • i! ' • Mr. Duck received, minor iti*riefir according -to the OPP, ,hisy vehicle sustained daniage t.O.Its left front. earn member Symboli2 the dream of Terry Fox By Margaret Stapleton When participants in this year's Terry Fox Run in Wingham start off on their 10 -kilometre trek on Sept. 17, they will be led by a tiny child who symbolizes Terry Fox's dream that cancer can be beaten. Aimee Leishman, the two -and - one -half -year-old daughter of Waneeta and AllanLeishman of •Belgrave, has been chosen as Wing - ham's 1989 Terry's Team member, someone whose cancer is in remis- sion. • For linfigo,-,parents, the deei *pn, to olost.*.t._74*ugio*,,$6::poor,... pa4: ;imon:.wcv.04#483'• Mrs.' says they owe child's life to the miracles of m ern medicine and the knowledge �f their London doctors. The Terry Fox Run raises millions of, dollars each year to conduct the necessary research for cancer drugs, treatments and even cures. Today, Aimee Leishman is a happy, curious child. She is rather small for her age and ifs hearing impaired, but those are the only two reminders of the valiant fight that marked her early life. ' Aimee was born with a lump on her right buttock at the baee of the spine. The doctors told Mrs. Leish- man it was a embryol sarcoma_and removed it when the baby was three months old. "We asked ourselves, 'Where is the justice in this?' and found there is none" The Ininp was benign and Aimee was fire for a thatith after she returned home. But then she started to go downhill — not eating and extremely lethargic, Mrs. Leishman was worried, but doctors could find nothing wrong with the child. One morning, Mrs. Leishman found her daughter with her knees drawn to her chest in pain and moaning. Aimee was admitted to 4011111111•111•11111,1110•01110111011101111011101/101/101111011111 l AIiTORIME-THEATItE Phone 357-1630 for 24 hour movie information • 1 TOM HANK SI hospital- and when her condition especially other children, in case deteriorated the next day, she was Aimee WOuld pick up a bug that hurriedly sent to London by ambu- would play havoc with her immure 'lance. system. Mrs. Leishman stayed close to The isolation was hard. on the Aimee during those uncertain days. entire family, but particularly hard When they arrived atthe hospital, on brother Jeremy, who was then it was found that the tumor had just over two years•old. In fact, the grown back, almost overnight. A body scan indicated that a tumor was blocking the little girl's bowels and kidneys — no wonder she had been in such pain. family stayed at home the Christ - Inas of 1987, for fear that Aimee would come in contact with dis- ease. Aimee spent her first birthday, in The London doctors hinted to February of 1988, in the hospital Mrs. Leishman and her husband taking chemotherapy. Her birthday that Aimee's iforkt000t be can- piCtuis,s,0010(ale, cerous, brit,'n.ditinl want to think with ifo hair—but a radiant about it. .1 wAfeitilPto bei-twist...—F44344141,1)e 0091,441)4108 ed bowel or something. I wanted treatments were over. They had her to come home that night."' lasted eight months. But Aimee would not return She did not show much improve - home that night or for some tine. ment until August of last year. But Several days later, their worst slowly and surely, she started to get fears were confirmed — Aimee had stronger. On Dec. 23 of last year, cancer and treatment would begin she stood up, "the best Christmas immediately. Mrs. Leishman and present ever," says her mother. her husband came home and tried Aimee's cancer is now in renis - to make sense of what was happen- Sion, says Mrs. Leishman. Although ing to their small daughter. there is always the chance that it 'We asked ourselves, 'Where is will recur, every day without inci- the justice in this?' and found there dent lets the family breathe a little is norie." easier. It was difficult seeing their small Since Aimee missed so much daughter subjected to debilitating during her early life, today her chemotherapy treatments. Follow- mother tries to stimulate the child ing treatments, the tiny girl would as much as ssibl h g -.o- PLAYING FRIDAY TO THURSDAY, SEPT. 8TH TO vomit, she could not eat and all her ries, games and learning activities. 14111. HOINTIIVIES: FRIDAY & SATURDAY 7:00 AND 9:00 P.M. SUNDAY TO THURSDAY 8:00 P.M. A a EACH EVENtG. • ••;.,4,,tillk NE 8 PARENTAL .111•11•111•111•111•11114101111•11eill•11•1110111•111,11•1 • sujoAiscE R i "WHO IS JESUS?" TUESDAY 8:00 p.m. Channel 8 "THE UNKNOWN GOD" WEDNESDAY —8:00 p.m. Channel 8 "WHY GLORY IN THE CROS" THURSDAY 8:00 pm Chahnet 0 Case - 1Q oz. cans Regular or Diet Pepsi Cola or 14.1p • . ... 41 • 340 g Kam Luncheon Meat • • . • v*ven Hoimi200giq Iistanj Coffee • ...... • • • PAM° a litre ' • 4' Vegetal 011 entail 28 oz SPitglietti Sane • • d • • • White "Mil 140111.4 • • PapelPapeiTewe1g •••• • • •-• • • • • • • ' hrieTtleta 6.99 1.99 4.99 2.99 hair fell out. When she did return home for short stays, her tempera- ture or hemoglobin count would climb so high that she would have Through it all, Mrs. Leishman tried to be by Aimee's side whenev- er it was humanly possible. Her husband was forced to return to work, but says he was unable to concentrate — his mind was far away, on his little girl. The strain of having a sick child is incredible, but Mrs. Leishman found support in the caring doc- tors, nurses and social workers at London. She also found solace in talking with the parents of other child cancer patients, including a young Wingham couple, Dale and Linda Edgar, whose little girl Alyson was undergoing treatment at the same time. Mrs. Leishman stayed at Ronald McDonald House while in London, a home for the parents and families of sick children. The few times Aimee was allowed td return' home with her parents, it became like an armed camp against disease and infection. Aimee was so suseptible to infec- tion, her mother did not take her out, nor did she allow visitors, to be re -admitted to hospital. Aimee, who is hearing impaired because of the cancer drugs, soon will be fitted for hearing aids. In spite of Aimee's slow start in life, her mother is determined that she will live as normally as possi- ble. "We know it (the cancer) could come back, but we can't live our lives like that, for her sake." Next Sunday's Terry Fox Run is one way the Leishmans can say "thanks" to their doctors and the miracles of modern medicine for Aimee's remission. Mrs. Leishman says she has some idea of what the doctors go through because numer- ous times she had seen Aimee's doctors filling out mountains of forms required for research dollars. When the Edgers, organizers of the Wingham run, asked that Aimee be this year's Terry's Team member, the Leishmans readily agreed. No one knows better than they how badly money is needed for cancer research. There are a lot of people walking around today who had cancer five, 10 or 20 years ago, notes Mrs. Leishman. The fight must continue to find a cure and new drugs that will ease the pain and suffering of cancer. ,•tr '•-• • • $ -Jenyte1shiu,four, presented sister owes 4110".had plckecl. Aimee is this year's for the Wirighaniletty Pox Run, scheduled } • •