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HELPING OUT . tH Santa met Chistes morning to fill his gift bag tor ex- tended care patients at the Castlegar and District

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Lions Club b

sand . Santa — who also hands out fruit baskets from the hospital auxiliary — has handed out gifts at

the extended care unit for the'past five years.

Hospital. The gifts were purchased with a Lions Club

Hospital raised funds

The South Slocan Chapter and took part in the Decem- books compiled by auxiliary of the Kootenay Lake Dis- trict Hospital raised $4,821 in 1984 for equipment for hos-

pital use.

Members

show, garage sale, bake sale

President is Bobby Mac- members. kay, secretary — Carol Ridge, treasurer — Hazel Varney and crafts director — Mary Axworthy.

SuperValu and Safeway receipts will be handled by Hazel Street.

ber craft sale in the Chahko- Mika Mall.

Many tiny toques were donated to new-born infants. well at the Hospital Gift The 1984 executive has al Shop. Some $750 was raised 50 consented to carry on its from the sale of the cook- duties in 1985.

Toys and garments sold

held a fashion

Sexual trials of disabled are overcome

WINDSOR, ONT. (CP) — The sexual trials of adol- eseence are difficult enough for able-bodied teenagers, but for the handicapped they ¢an seem insurmountable. If not approached in a proper manner, experts say an un healthy view of sex can result.

“A lot of parents (of disabled children) believe their children will not take part in the relationship game,” says Bill Rowe, a specialist in sexuality and the disabled. “And rather than have them take part, they'll protect them and not have them in the game at all.”

Rowe, a social work pro- fessor at the University of Western Ontario in London, said a protective approach will cause the child to have poor self-esteem and con- fused feelings about sex during adulthood.

“A lot of people are afraid to touch them,” said Rowe. “So they end up getting touched less in a personal way and more in a clinical way. They end up having to focus on their problems, and their self-esteem is enor- mously assaulted.”

Reggie Topping, Ontario's 1982 Easter Seal Timmy, said he's a little selective about the kind of girl he'd take to the school prom.

“I'd probably ask a dis abled girl,” says Reggie, 14.

“T'd feel more confident with one of my own kind, I guess.”

Reggie was born with spina bifida, a defect of, the

spine that causes the spinal cord to protrude through an opening ‘in the back. The effeet is paralysis or muscle weakness, but in most cases the upper part of the body and arms are unaffected. At birth, doctors said Reggie. would never walk, but by the age of two he was on his feet. - And while he now is involved in speech contests, and does almost anything his able-bodied friends do, it's because of the birth defect he would feel better dating physically disabled girls. “They seem to be more understanding,” he says. “With able-bodied girls I talk to them and everything, but it’s like they don't know. “Maybe it's a combination of not knowing what I'm going through or what I've gone through, or who I am.” Unlike many adolescent boys, Reggie isn't afraid to discuss his sexuality or the feelings he has about girls. “There's nobody yet,” he said, responding to a que stion about girlfriends. “But there could be. You've got to leave doors open.” FRANK AND FAIR Reggie's mother, Diane, credits her son’s humor and ive nature to his being raised in an atmosphere of frankness and fairness, where he has treated the same as his three older sisters. “I've never said to him: “You can't do this because you're disabled,” she said.

1985 EXECUTIVE . . . Castlegar Selkirk Lady Lions new executive includes: (from left) Dee Lewis, treasurer;

New execu

Corinne Crockett will head the Castlegar Selkik Lady Lions for 1985. Joining her on the executive are Ginny Bas- son as vice-president; Dee Lewis, treasurer; and Elaine Audet, secretary.

1984 was another busy year for the Castlegar Sel- kirk Lady Lions. Major proj- ects included helping the Lions at the annual Trade Fair and operating the con cession at the rodeo.

In September, approx- imately 1,200 local children were fingerprinted and pho- tographed in the first Little Pepsi ID Program. This will be rerun in the spring — dates are not set as yet.

The rodeo concession en- abled the Lady Lions to make the following donations in 1984:

¢ $275 to RCMP to pur chase a set of sexually ex

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$150 to Camp Winfield, a summer camp for handicap- ped children.

e $500 to Easter Seal House.

$100 to Royal Canadian Legion for Christmas Ham-

e $200 Timmy's Telethon. e@ $200 Castlegar Group

made the monthly meetings fun and informative.

In the summer the Lady Lions had their annual salad supper. In December they had the Christmas cookie swap and annual family pot- luck dinner.

pers. $500 to Little Pepsi ID Program. © $200 to a bursary for a 1985 graduate.

Crops grown organically

TIVERTON, Ont. (CP) — This is not just another organic farm with a few rows of vegetables and a couple of goats out back.

Phillip and Lawrence Andres have run their 47-cow milking operation on 121 hectares of flat land in southern Bruce County without commercial fertilizer or chemical pesticides for six years.

The brothers have n in business long enough for their uncommon croppjrig techniques to have failed. Instead, the operation has iis -aedins the leading example for an alternative to “modern agriculture.”

“A lot of people think organic farming is just doing nothing: just plant and sit there,” says Lawrence. What it takes, he says, is a concern for the well-being of the earth.

A year ago, Lawrence became president of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario and membership has grown since then to 145 from 40. His wife edits the group's quarterly newsletter and there have been articles in Farm and Country and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board's magazine.

A dignified old Mercedes lounges in the lane that curves past a pair of prosperous-looking homes where

One barn haquses the milking herd another, 15 purebred Arabian horses.

For the past two years the breed class average of the brothers’ Anbros registered Holsteins has placed them third among all Bruce Country dairy herds on milk recording plans.

Six years is long enough for one full rotation of crops on 81 hectares of crop land following Lawrence's careful soil-use plan. The remaining 40 hectares are bush, buildings and permanent pasture.

Lawrence measures his success by what he hears from his neighbors.

“The first year here, crops looked good. They said ‘That's no big amount, there's still all the fertilizer from the previous owner.’

“I didn’t say very much. There could be a carry-over of phosporous and potash. They said, “Just wait until the second or third year and you'll be in total disaster.”

CROPS IMPROVE

Instead the crops “gradually got better,”

says.

Lawrence

“Suddenly, I never heard that argument any more.”

Lawrence, 32, and Phillip, 29, live with their wives, hild and Ann, and a pair of young sons.

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“It's growing out of a philosophy,” says Lawrence of his agricultural system. “But compared to conventional farming systems, it shines. Profitability is much higher if it’s done properly.”

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