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' THE HURON. EXPOSITOR, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1975 SECOND SECTION PAGES.' lA '4 SA
Goal is '2355
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Easter Seal cam
1,500 appeals have been mailed
out to Seaforth and District in the
annual Easter Seal Cafnpaign, by
the Seaforth Lions who 'handle
fund raising here for the Ontario
Society for Crippled Children.
Orville G. Oke, chairman of the
local Lions Club Easter Seal
Committee said returns are
coming in well, even though the
campaign just started officially on
February 28.
Mr. Oke said that this year's
objective is $2,553. which is to be
raised from Seaforth and Seatorth
rural routes„ Egmondville and
Waltmand Walton rural routes.
The Ontario wide goal for the
society, which provided treatment
centres, day care facilities.
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ORVILLE G. OKE
summer camps and equipment
for 12,000 physically handicapped
children in the province last year.
is $2 million.
According to Ian Bain, execu-
tive director of the society, they
plan to enter the field of genetic
investiga tion and counselling of
parents with a view to limiting the
eurriber of children born with
handicaps.
This year's Timmy is Jeff King
of Windsor, a 13 year old Windsor
baseball player, whose right arm
was amputated because of cancer
when he was a young child.
This year's Easter -Seal
„ campaign theme is "Back a
Fii ,hter -- a '13 year old 'fighter
like Jeff.
Easter Seal facts and figures
TIMMY & BASEBALL GREAT — Hank Aaron was
one of 40 head table guests at the recent Sports
Celebrities, dinner in aid of the Ontario Society for
Crippled Children paying tribute to Timmy's courage
and determination. Timmy is 13 year-old Jeff King of
Windsor. Jeffrey is a grade 8 student at St.
Christophers in Windsor. At an early age his ,right
arm had to be amputated above—the, elbow due to
cancer. However, this hasn't deterred him from
playing baseball and ho8key,4 nor from riding his
10-speed bike. In paying tribute to Jeffrey's courage
and determinOon, Hank Aaron summed up what
everybody felt at the dinner when he said: "We
should all back a fighter like Jeffrey".
1. The Ont ario Society for Crippled Children's 1975 Easter
Seal objective is $2,000,000. This figure is based on a
careful analysis of Society's minimum needs in order to
meet its obligation' to almost 12,000 physically
handicapped youn ers throughout Ontario.
2. founded more`tha 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 phy'sically handicapped
youngsters throughout the Province, the Ontario. Society
for Crippled Children is based on the work of 234 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 develop 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
a physical handicap.
6. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children'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, c ping and community recreation
programs, artifical mbs,„braces and other aids, training
for employment, ounselling and medical research._
8. The Ontario Societ for Crippled Children's current active
case load consists of.almost 12,000 physically handicapped
children throughout Ontario.
9. The Ont ario Society for Crippled Children's 21 District
Nursing Offices proyide 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 la, jest specialized camping program of
its kind ^in the world to more than 1.000 physically handl-
"‘capped 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.Th e Ontario Society for Crippled Children's annual
travelling consultants' clinics bring modern diagnostic
skills to more than 2,000 physically handicapped
• youngsters in the remoter areas of the province.
13.The Ontario Society for Crippled Children arranges or
sponsors any needed transportation for physically Kan&
capped children to t reatment centres, hospitals, clinics or
camps..
l4.The Ont ario 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 15 regidnal 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 government's program of financial assistance
towards the cost of drugs and equipment for needy cystic
fibrotic children,.
19.The Ontario Society for Crippled Children advocates the
removal of architectural barriers to the handicapped from
the plans of all new or reconstructed public buildings.
Use the addressed envelope you have
received with your Easter Seals in the mail,
but if this has been misplaced, send your
EASTER SEAL. DONATION anyway.
BUY and USE Campaign Conducted by
LIONS CLUI3-0F SEAFORTH, Orville 0. Oke, Chairman, Easter Seal Committee
in association with THE ONTARIO SOCIETY .0011 CRIPPLED CHILDREN
TO CONSERVE MAILING EXPENSES, RECEIPTS FOR GIFtS UNDER $5.00 SEW ONLY UPON *EQUEST.
EASTER' SEALS Sendyour doilationt too*