Valk helps pay for repairs and replacen THE VINTAGE YEARS WHEN THE world tip- ped over and flang me down on the ice last January, an anguished “Oh, not a broken hip!’’ flashed through my mind. It’s the classic scenario | for brittle old people, and used to presage death, as they’d coutract ; preumonia and succumb “ fn short order. “That's changing, has chang- ed considerably, partly because _ we. who are now growing old ‘have more consciousness of the need for active lifestyles, and we re more limber. ~~ We eat differently, too, giv-' ing more priority to sinewy silhouette than to pleasingly a -plump. But then we take up resi- dence in an area that invites accident. We've muitiple op-: portunities to break things - when we’re climbing’and ski- ..ing and sail-boarding and - sky-diving and leaping around tennis courts. : _ Even the sedate stroller is vulnerable to road damage in - -our volume of traffic. Lucky for us, all this potential threat ' ‘has drawn some splendid prac- ‘LIFESTYLES our Jocal hospitals. They do wonderful things in their operating rooms, You recall Juliette’s praise of the revolution wrought in her knees, and how she runs around Kitsilano every day. You may know the burly chap I know who has had his whole shoulder recreated; or the 90-year-old woman whose new hip is so comfortable she forgets her cane half the time. But stuff like this costs. The actual repairs and replacements are expensive enough, but the research too is ongoing, and no one wants to see it stop for lack of funding. So next Sunday offers a special opportunity to see how once-doomed people can savor an active life, and to help them make sure the research stays alive too. It’s called “‘Hip, hip, hooray’? with a small chaser for knees and ankles, and it takes place at Cates Park. A pledge walk, you see, of a mile, and all the entrants are hoping to achieve the $200 challenge per walker and outdo last year’s success of $1. 1 mil- lion. That was accumulated from pledges for similar walks all across Canada, with a total of just over 5,000 walkers. They’re hoping for half as much again, of both walkers and contributions, this time. Fifty per cent of local money raised stays here in the community — the rest is pool- ed for Canada-wide applica- tion. __ If you,want to participate and sponsor a walker, you go to Cates Park about i1 a.m. next Sunday, you enjoy your picnic and the fun that’s been planned, and at 1:30 p. m. the ‘walk begins: If you've not got someone special in mind for whom you wish to pledge, I offer a- much involved in this year’s undertaking. She has endured years and years of pain and frustration which started when she was only three years old. The terrible damage has been corrected over the years to the point where she now can walk unassisted, but she is whole-heartedly committed to the blessings of rehabilitation. Her name is Valerie Thoem, she is co-chair of this year’s walk in our area, and her nightmare began when she and her mother had gone to Wales for a little holiday. Within days Valerie had contracted polio. No diagnosis was made, though — the focal small-town doctor had had no _ experience with what was known in England at that time as ‘‘the American disease’’ and he called it summer complaint. Sadly, the time lost in diagnosis allowed the illness to wreak its appalling conse- quences before it was finally revealed as the dreaded crip- pler. Valerie thus learned to walk in steel braces, endured repeated operations on her feet and ankles, graduated, if that’s what it could be termed, toa wheelchair, and at 17 was fi- nally liberated to the freedom of walking on her own, dif- ficult as that is for her. She now runs her household, drives her car, rides horses when the lovely opportunity offers, and swims with pleasure. That she does all these things is sufficient testament to CORRECTION NOTICE in our B5-1A Accessories Fair flyer, Boys’ Omega Sandals on page 5 are in jimited quantities and in assorted sizes. . In our BS-1 White Sale flyer, Ther- Mos Minute Grill Gas BBQ on page 14 does not include tank. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. ents her grit, but in addition one finds it remarkable that her voice is soft and gentle, her eyes alight with enthusiasm for the bravery of other people, and her smile without rancour, She has overcome. Make your pledge for Valerie. 20 SESSIONS / 4 FREE. ony? QO 3. You can share with a friend. Offer ends May 30/93... “91028 1 1124 Lonsdale Ave, 986: 01 1 0. ; ‘(next to North Shore Credit Union) * BRITISH COLUMBIA HYDRO AND POWER AUTHORITY ° APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF A 3.9 PER CENT. 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