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Wheelchair-bound residents deserve

Dear Editor: in the lobby at Beacon Hill persons, sitting in person demands. Perhaps
Lodge. Where are these wheelchairs? people who find the sight of
_ Ewas shocked when I read people supposed to sit? These West Vancouver cit- wheelchair patients unpleas-
in tne Sunday North Shore Alone in their rooms? In izens seem to be ant should remember
News, September 15, of the back halls where they will unbelievably insensitive to ‘‘There, but for the grace of
objection of a West Van- not be visible to the visiting the feelings of citizens who Ged, go I.”
couver group to the sight of public? What is frightening should receive the same I visit a friend at Beacon
wheelchair residents sitting about a person, or twenty respect that any able-bodied Hill Lodge, and I have
visited a number of care
homes on the North Shore
and in Vancouver, as |
belong tc a group that goes
to these homes to entertain
residents. Each time our
group goes out | am remind-
ed that we tread a two-way
street; if we give residents
even a few minutes of

Whining cowards
leave nasty taste

Dear Editor: one of the memories that were later barred. | wonder
According to StatsCan, haunt me is the wistful look if the management of this
the residents of West Van on her face as she looked institution was swayed by a
are the richest in Canada, over the barrier into the similar (or the same?)
yet they seem wocfully lack- lobby where she loved to go | squeamish, selfish group.
ing in humanity and but from which the residents Of course those of us who
understanding. are getting older wonder
Who are these gutless what our last years will be
West Van wonders who like. We would have less ap-
cannot bear to look at the prehension if we knew we
aged residents in the lobby would be accepted with
of Beacon Hill Lodge? | compassion and even love
Suggest they provide instead of being thought too
themselves with fans to pitiful or loathsome to view.
screen their ignoble faces I hope we shall hear some
from view as they hurry better voices from West Van
past. to take away the nasty taste
My mother spent her last feft by a few whining
years in a nearby institution cowards.
where, on the whole, she was M. McLeod
very well looked after. Yet North Vancouver

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Does the West Vancouver
group plan to do anything to
cheer these unhappy looking
old people whom they see at
Beacon Hill Lodge? Perhaps
they should attempt to take
positive steps to bring joy to
wheelchair patients, instead
of trying to relegate them to
a spot behind potted plants
in the lobby.

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