NEWS photo Neil Lucente

THE ROYAL Canadian Legion Granch SC helped raise $2,500
towards the installation of the West Vancouver Aquatic Cen-
tre’s wew $8,090 bool lift. Legion members demonstrate the
.system which enables physically challenged people to enter
the pool with ease. President Dick Davenport (centre) and
Jadies auxiliary president Dolly Cartwright watch as Claude
cartoonist John Mythen tests out the equipment.

Occupational therapists
most definitely in demand

IF. YOU enjoy helping
others, and working as part
of a team in a treatment en-
vironment, then you should
think about a career in, oc-
cupational therapy!

As an occupational therapist,
you would help to rehabilitate
mentally and physically disabled
people by evaluating the patients’
disabilities, then teaching them
vocational skills such as carpentry
or typing.

The therapist also involves dis-
abled patients in activities like
handicrafts. and dramatics, and
teaches them daily living skills.

Often, the most challenging
aspect of occupational therapy is
helping someGne accept and adjust
to a disability.

Occupational
also:

@ give the clients pre-vocational
tests in order to discover their
skills and interests;

pe attend = meetings
rehabilitation team and

therapists may

with the
attend

workshops on occupational thera-
py; aud

@ supervise and instruct oc-
cupational therapy students and
other employees assigned to the
department.

To get into this field, you must
complete a bachelor’s degree in an
accredited university program ap-
proved by the Canadian Associa-
tion of Occupaticnal Therapists
(CAOT).

A specified period of supervised
practical experience in a CAOT-
approved ugency is included in the
program.

Licensing of occupational ther-
apis’. is a pravincial responsibili-
ly.

Due to a labor shortage in the
field, occupational therapists are
in demand.

Take hold of this opportunity to
enter the field by contacting the
Canadian Association of Occupa-
tional Therapists, 1100 Eglinton
Ave. West, Third floor, Toronto,
Ontario, M4R 1A3.

-Courtesy News Canada

Babysitter course offered

A RED Cross babysitter course is
being held at the Lonsdale recte-
ation centre.

The course teaches basic child
care, child behavior and devel-
opment, as well as safety preven-
tion and basic first aid.

Future Sabysitters gain the con-
fidence and understanding they
need as caregivers of young
children, accordirg to Red Cross
youth coordinator Brenda
Saws ada,

“Participants practise handling
young children and first aid skills
such us ‘restoring stopped
breathing and) care for shock,’’,
said Sawada. ‘*Proper handling of
emergencies is stressed.

Students receive. a certificate
upon successful completion of the
course, ‘

For information on the Red
Cross babysitter course schedule
on the North Shore, contact
Laurie Butterfield at 987-7529,

TICKETS:
ADULT
CHILD

$25.00
$12.00

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AT PRESTO CATERING, NORTH VANCOUVER
{1999 Marine Drive at Capilano Road)

GREAT WESTERN DINNER _
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KIDS AUCTION

SOME OF THE FABULOUS AUCTION ITEMS ARE:

812 ft. totem pole replica from movie set White Fang 2
sPaari Jam signed and framed poster
891981 Rolling Stone Magazine with John Lennon and Yoko One
oVancouver Canuck ViP pkg of 4 tickets, ,
dinner and autographed Canuck jersey
“Weekend at Whistler
“10 Bryan Adams autographed Tour Bosks
*Conehead baseball jacket and mask
and lots more. 0

PROCEEDS TO:

EMILY MURPHY HOUSE

Emily Murphy House is a transition houz2 on Vancouver's North Shore that
allows women and children to seek refuge from abusive or violent situations.
The women are made welcome, given appropriate counselling and help in
their search fer shelter and safety on the road to renewal: In 1992, while Emily,
Murphy Heuse helped 260 women and children, they turried away over 500.
Quite clearly they need snore room and are in the process of a “makeroom
capital campaign.”

TICKETS - 987-1773 wnastercarn)

or at the North Snore News
1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver