NEWS photo Paul McGrath Sunshine Girl TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Kathleen likes sunny destinations and has travelled to Florida and California. Her favorite band is Ace of Base. She enjoys exercising and dancing. Parks money allotted From page 9 the GVRD's success in generating revenue. On the North Shore, parks at the Cupitano River, Lyna Headwaters and Granite Falls would be affected. If passed, the most imminent development would be at Granite Falls, where the $500,000 Phase | improvement would provide basic on-shore picnic facilities and moor- age for small bouts. The program would be tied to- site stabilization and hazard reduc- tion through selected quarrying. A master plan will be prepared to gnide Phase 1} and Phase 2, a $1 million improvement skted for 2001-2004, which will be tied to additional land purchases to com- plete the park. (n the years 2000 and 2001, $476,000 would be set aside for Capilano River to receive formal- ized west side access with parking, visitor information, trail head devel- opment and washrooms, along with additional trail works, bridging, sig- nage and surfacing along the river bunk to improve access and views of the river. in 2004. Lynn Headwaters would get $100,000 toward a major trail rebuild initiative which would provide formal access to Lynn Lake as well as improved toilet facilities at the park entrance area. Gibson foresees no difficulty in getting the plan passed, noiing that it isn’t a particularly large develop- ment project for the GVRD Parks department. “We don't sce our long-range plan as being controversial at all,” he said. Brain injury recovery studied AN OCCUPATIONAL thera- pist at Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) represented Canada at the first ever joint annual con- ference and exposition of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists and the American Occupational Therapy Association Inc., July 9 through July 13 in Boston, Massachusetts. Cara Shorter’s paper on cogni- tive retraining was chosen from 696 submitted from across North America. Twenty LGH patients who had sustained a traumatic brain injury participated in a one-year study. Many brain-injured adults sus- tain cognitive impairments (prob- lems with memory, concentration, attention and problem solving) which prevent their return to a sat- isfying lifestyle. Traditional treatments have gen- erally fallen into either a remedial or an adaptive category. Remedial treatments focus on improving patients’ skills and abili- ties and may include repetitive memory exercises using computers or worksheets. 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