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EMC News - Campbellford - Students at Hillcrest Public School learned last week never to judge a person with a disability until you have travelled an obstacle course in a wheelchair. It was the centrepiece of a presentation intended to clear up any misconceptions they might have had about people who require equipment to move around. Organized by Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, the June 18 exercise included opening up a dialogue with the students on what it means to be someone who uses a mobility device, “to bring some more awareness about the abilities of persons with disabilities,” so that “they’re seeing the individual first and not the wheelchair,” said regional services co-ordinator Stephanie Bolton. Among those taking part was Alec Denys, a retired Ministry of Natural Resources administrator who has used a wheelchair for more than

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EMC News - Havelock If patience is a virtue then Havelock-Belmont-Methuen council is remarkably virtuous when it comes to the issue of a long-term-care facility in the municipality. Still, a longfrustrated council is moving closer to the tipping point and a “Plan B” in their efforts to bring long-term care and ancillary services to the township. The township has had a plan Grade 5 student Tessa Etheric begins the obstacle course set up at Hillcrest Public School. Students recently took part in the event, Orga- on the books for more than two years that would facilitate nized by Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, to learn more about life in a wheelchair. Photo: John Campbell

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