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' ( Change of attitude Steve Stewart still competing despite loss of leg Photo by Ady Vo» Steve Stewart instructs youngsters during a weightlifting seminar this week By Ady Vos The Intelligencer Next month Steve Stewart will come to an anniversary he would just as soon forget. However forgetting August of 1989 is something Stewart will never he ahle to do. It's heen almost two years since Stewart was involved in a serious car accident. The accident initially threatened his life; Stew- art survived, but his right leg did not. It was amputated below the knee while his left leg, also seri- ously injured in the accident, will never be the same. Still, despite being disabled for the rest of his life, Stewart does hnve some cause for celebration. Today and tomorrow he'll be competing in the Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled in Hamilton. "I never thought I'd even walk again," Stewart, 29, said earlier this week while instructing stu- dents during a weight training session at a local football clinic. Stewart will compete in power l i f t ing at the Games and consid- ering his bench press of 330- pounds at the regional Games in Cornwall recently, he'll give the other competitors a good run for first place. "F3ut I'm not in it for the glo- ry," says Stewart. "Far from it. I just get a high being around these athletes. They just have so much courage-especially the wheelchair guys. Just being able to compete, physically and men- tally is an accomplishment. Some friends of mine came with me to the Games in Gornwall and they were just blown away by the com- mitment and courage of these guys," Stewart says. There was a time when Stew- art wasn't satisfied ,ust to be a competitor. He was a star high school football player plus an award winning bodybuilder He - participated, and did well, »r 1989 accident, and ilding, beginning m his progress has been 11 '"condition contributed - to his surviving the acci- dent 'Stewart has no qualms about a rehabilitative program