Fundraising
 

Never Say..."Never" Golf Tournament 2010

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2006 Golf Tournament electrodes are applied  to muscles to allow Scott Osler, assisted by Craig Simpson, to stand and takes steps.

Scott Oster, a 26 year old, who had a spinal cord injury at the T4/T5 level in April 2001, used the FES equipment in the SCITCS Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Exercise Clinic located in The Steadward Centre at the University of Alberta to rebuild his legs. This included the FES rowing machine developed by Drs. Wheeler and Andrews and a wheelchair propelled by FES attached to his legs, which was developed by Kelly James and Dr. Stein of the Rehabilitation Neuroscience group at the University of Alberta. However, his real desire was to walk again and for that purpose Dr. Stein and Robert Rolf worked with Frank Hayday of Karl Hager Limb and Brace to combine FES with a new kind of brace, called a stance-controlled knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO), developed by Gary Horton in Little Rock, Arkansas

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Pull-Tabs

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THE GIRL, THE TABS & THE WHEELCHAIR

This is a story about a young girl with a beautiful heart who has a strong desire to help whomever she can. Her name is Rylyn Laing and she is seven years old.

Her mother Pamela used to work in a group home, located in Saskatchewan where Rylyn had the opportunity to meet many of the clients who had disabilities. Rylyn saw how a wheelchair is essential for their mobility and how it increases the peoples ability to be involved in the community.

Rylyn heard about Wheelchairs for Kids at the Kinsmen Centre in Saskatoon and she became very excited at the prospect of helping by collecting tabs. What started out as a small project eventually became her mission. She would scour the ground looking for tabs and was always happy when she found a few. She expanded her search by asking all of her family members to help collect the tabs. This year she expanded her mission even further by asking her friends and the other pupils, at the Dunstable School, for help in helping others by collecting the simple little tabs. The news about the tabs spread quickly to Duffield School and Busby School where the students are diligent in their search. They talk about how many they have collected and the unusual places where they were found. The desire of a seven-year-old girl to help, by collecting tabs, has spread across Canada and the USA. Rylyn receives tabs from Guelph, Ontario and Arizona, USA.

Rylyn is aware that it takes over eight million-aluminum tabs to purchase a manual wheelchair but she believes that every little tab makes a difference. You can help Rylyn "to pick up the tab." Simply use the Project Wheelchair poster and start collecting tabs!

FIRE HALLS SUPPORT SCITCS PROJECT WHEELCHAIR 

The fire halls of Edmonton, St Albert, and Fort Saskatchewan have been assisting SCITCS for over 15 years to assist people with a spinal cord injury to purchase wheelchairs or provide essential parts for the wheelchairs by accepting the aluminum tabs from pop cans which SCITCS volunteers then pick up from the fire halls.

The Jasper Place Legion has contributed Tabs for SCITCS for many years. This year (2010) they requested that their donation go towards a wheelchair for the Legion. This request has been honoured and a wheelchair has been presented.
The number of Tabs donated to Project Wheelchair is declining. Therefore I am soliciting your help, SCITCS needs your help, and people with a spinal cord injury need your help.

Please download the poster requesting that Tabs be collected and taken to the nearest fire hall. Please distribute the poster to all your family, friends, acquaintances, clubs and associations, restaurants, etc.

Tell the personnel at the fire hall that the Tabs are to assist  SCITCS to purchase wheelchairs, etc. for people with a spinal cord injury.

This unique project is absolutely a team project. We need you to be a part of the team.

Thank you

Louise Miller C.M. A.O.E.
President