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NORTH SHORE Association for the Mentally Handicapped staft
members (left to right) Kathy O’Donnell, Jeanne Slight, Katrina
Hansen and Bonita Holman gear up for the agsociation’s annual
door-to-door fundraising campaign. Canvassers will be knocking
on North Shore doors Sept. 30 through Oct. 7.

Sunday, September 29, 1991 ~ North Shore News - 39

Mentally handicapped assoc.

set for fundraising campaign
Mental Handicap Awareness Week Sept. 30 - Oct. 7

THE NORTH Shore Association for the Mentally Handi-
capped (NSAMH) is set to undertake its annual door-to-
door fundraising campaign Sept. 30 through Oct. 7.

North Shore municipalities are
proclaiming the week Mental
Handicap Awareness Week.

Approximately 600 canvassers
will be knocking on doors during
the week to solicit funds for the
association.

Said NSAMH_ resource devel-
opment coordinator and door-to-
door fundraising campaign orga-
nizer Pamela MacDonaid, ‘‘The
door-to-door campaign is crucial
to fund our adult services pro-
gram. It completely funds the
adult support component of the
client services department.’

While government funding sup-
ports the association’s residential
and family-support programs, the
adult services program requires
the community support.

“St provides personal support,

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

advocacy, counselling. The form it
takes is basically whatever the in-
dividual needs — _ vocational,
educational, recreational, legal,
whatever,’” MacDonald added.

The adult services program
serves 815 adults. But there is a
waiting list of at least 100 more
individuals seeking help.

But said MacDonald, ‘Our
mandate is such that we have to
serve people who cail us in an
emergency. Emergency situations,
such as an emotional crisis or a
financial crisis, take precedence.

A director and two adult
counsellors juggle their time to

provide immediate assistance.
“What happens eventually is that
people burn out, so they have cut
down the caseloads of these peo-
ple,”” MacDonald said.

Last year the door-to-door
campaign raised about $58,000.

Members of the public will be
able to identify NSAMH_ can-
vassers: they will carry a kit in-
cluding a receipt book with an of-
ficial charitable tax number,
NSAMH brochures and an ID
tag.

The association was founded in
1956 when a small group of con-
cerned parents banded together
with the hope and purpose of im-
proving the quality of life of their
mentally handicapped sons and
daughters. The association strives
to assist people with mental hand-
icaps to achieve their fullest
potential.

Pre and post natal fitness offered

NEW THIS fall at the Lynn
Valley recreation centre, located at
3590 Mountain Hwy., is a pre-
and postnatal exercise class being
offered Tuesday and Thursday
evenings at 6 p.m.
This program will commence
Pre- and postnatal programs are
ideal for women currently on an
exercise program but are pregnant

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and need exercise modifications
for comfort, and for those who
have delivered their babies and
would like to start a new exercise
program.

This program is great for
women to meet others with infants
to exchange ideas and informa-
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Women should not embark on
any exercise program during this
time without approval from a
physician.

For more information on pre-
and postnatal fitness, contact
Karen Magnussen recreation cen-
tre at 984-9341.

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