22 - Friday, October 31, 1986 - North Shore News
Special Olympics
receives funds

B.C. SPECIAL Olympics recently
received $15,300 frou: the Cana.
dian Progress Greater Vancouver
Club.

The presentation was made at
Canyon Gardens at a joint meeting
of the Greater Vancouver Club
and the Vancouver Evergreen, a
Progress ladies club.

Although active throughout the
Lower Mainland with their fund
raisers, the majority of B.C,
members of the Canadian Progress
Club are North Shore residents,

The recent donation brings the
Canadian Progress Grevter Van-
couver Club’s contricctions to
B.C. Special Olympics °!.°SQ) to
more than $100,000.

Thanks were extended to the
club and its national president,
Keith Bell, who was also in atten-
dance, by BCSO executive direc- ,
tor, Dan Howe. ‘‘for the Cana-
dian Progress Club's donation of
$25,000 and 400 volunteers at the
Special Olympics National Sum-
mer Games that were held at
Calgary this year’’.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefleld

ENJOYING A sunny afternoon together, Evergreen House volunteer Kathleen Stewart takes a strott with 99-year-old Evergreen resident Henry
Copeland. The Lions Gate Hospital Jong-term care facility is currently looking for voiunteers to come and visit with the residents.

WHAT IS a learning disability? speaker Barbara Reid, a founder
Come to the meeting of the North of the B.C. ACLD and parent of a
q . Vancouver Association for child with a learning disability, the
Children and Adults with Learning video What is a Learning Disabili-
L2@Carn about Disabilities (ACLD) and find out. i#?, a discussion of the ACLD™
goals and advocacy role and a
Parents, professionals and discussion of parent and family
ry noe a friends will meet Nov. 4 at support.

adisabilj ties Highlands Community School, The purpose of the NVACLD is
3150 Colwood, North Van, Room information and support.
13 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. for an Everyone is welcome. .
information meeting. For more information call 987-

The program will include 0520. -

November |
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Epilepsy

Month 2 =e $500.00
“A ay SHOPPING SPREE

LYNN VALLEY CENTRE’S SEARCH

PRIZE

NOVEMBER marks Epilepsy
Canada's third National Epilepsy
Month.

Along with 42 provincial and
regional associations from coast to
coast Epilepsy Canada is planning
an awareness campaign on the
subject of epilepsy.

MALL DISPLAY 1) Complete the entry formin full and return it to the Lynn Valley Centre Administration
: Office on or before noon on Nov. ist.

On November 15 at the Park 2) Make your tavourite Kiwifruit recipe and bring it to Lynn Valtey Centre along with a
Royal Shopping Centre there will copy of your recipe before 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, November ‘st, 1986.
be a mall display, providing in- 3) Your kiwifruit creation will be Judged on taste, texture, and visual appearance.
formation about epilepsy and 4) The contest is open to all British Columbia residents aged 16 or over excepting
detailing services available for employees of Lynn Valley Centra; Lynn Valley Centre merchants, family members You are one of usia
those suffering from epilepsy. and affiliated advertising agencies. .

The campaign theme is Epilepsy: 5) All entries become the property of Lynn Valley Centre. Contestants must relinquish mem ber of our Bri-
ft’s not what you think. all rights to the recipe submitted. Lynn Valley Centre reserves the right to print the gade learni ng new

Organizers say they want people winning recipe. ; : :
to realize that more than 80 per 6) Judges’ decisions are final. Prize must be accepted as awarded. skills, meeting new

cent of the approximately 400,000 7) Shopping spree rules: :
Canadians with epilepsy ‘ead nor- a) Winner must pre-arrange a time for the shopping spree. people, being tmpor-
1 lives. t th ft {fe b) No cash will be awarded. , ; r _

fro mi orerudice: and social c) Winner will be accompanied by an employee of Lynn Valley Centre during the tant . to you . com
shopping spree. munity, helping us

discrimination. d) Winner will be required to answer a skill testing question. help others. If you
DISORDER : : .
BRAIN DISO like this picture, call

Epilepsy is not a disease. It’s a . US...
symptom of a disorder of the
brain.

It has no single cause, and has .
many forms, ranging from massive Address:

onvulsions to momentary lapses ;
of attention. ¥ lap Phone: «Postal code:

Epilepsy is an episodic disability.
For the majority, seizures are brief
and infrequent.

meta mos, om Lynn VaLLey Centre — Ds. fotn Ambulance

For more information call the
B.C. Epilepsy Society at 734-2221.

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