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PAGE 10, WIDTBY FME PREES, THU MSAY, mDICME 26, i99ý By Marlo Boucher The.Ajax-Pickering and Whitby Association for -Coin- muziity Lving huas a new vides, KH eigiibour,' showcasing the. talents and warmtii of tiie deve- Io mentally delayed. We35-minute documentary viecurrently _bein hown on RoggesCable, profilee the. indivi- dual stories of tii. parents and their mentally iiandicapped chil- dren. Ii. vides also documents the. 35-year history of tiie association and its various programs sucii as vocational services.and residen- tial and family services. .Altbough the vides features services such as independent liv- ing, BASE,' the 1f. skills -pro- grmand ARC industries, the. rEaltars are the people. Whitbyresident Denise James lives in on. of the. associations group homes and is a former * student of Dunbarton High * School in Pickering. Even tbough t he 27-year-old acquired %,~e's syndrome at age 15, it hasn t stopped ber fromn enjyng horseback riding and dongcraft work. The. story is told i a touching conversation with ber mother, Marret James, describing Den- ise'sove for people. James talks in the vides about ber -daughter's vivid memiory pior to acquiring Reye's syn- dome. Another Whitby resident, Scott Werry,. 19, is* attending R.S. McLaughlin Collegiate in Osh- awa. He likes to pard*ticpe in sports 1k. bowling andh e com- pCes in tiie Special Olynipica. Werry also loves music, movies and ta]krinjto peple» The section in t he vides, on Bill Davison croates a new perspec- tive on how useflil developmen- tally-d.layed people can b. in society. * Davion lB hownin a com-, p1etél Iffretlighit, *as he more comp.titively enýployed. . BASE is a.program that helps indiiduals tointegate inthe comxpunity .while thé Lifes ils prograým t 1aches- thin the necessa lving, workinq and leisure ad iretiremietit skxlIp to let'peole bpeople teach 'as to be DENIE James works on'a dried flowerarngé on developmentally-delayed people. dcmnayn ih o r PMoto byMar"k E..uoi, Wltby Fr.. P»» bowls- at a club land works effi- ciently at a Super Centre in Pickering. Davison ,is, also an active iember of the Lions Club in A ax. He rocently .moved into bis own bhouse withý a close friend and lives independently. ~jerry Dachii, mnager at the Surer Centre, says Davison 15 "a va uable asset te tth. store.»' Andrew Kyneston is autistic. He is a cub acbut, and a paper boy delivering newspapers in the neighbounhood. His father, TMm, says theIiti- mate goal is for Anýdrew- tobe able %t operate as an indepen dent human being." He admits that social relation- ships will be the. most difficult. ciiailnge foi-hieï-son. Descibed as a good learner, Asijrew cna* .a rya ain gtimesa iordng tehis paiýerOts. a these honest opinions tat1 elp make Andrew athe more normal. 'MHiNeighboIr'succeedswhere it counts: Bhot$g people doig m~y things- tl9i. rest o f us often 'efor grantel. or exýampl ,, Sheila 'Conleyý- p laye piano,i Janet Clark. te achesosjuderitsat. Southwood' Park publice chool i Ajax, and Martin Aire -works- at thii. PRYDE Tlhe vides also covers the early histoiy' and origins ýof the. asso-, ciation. IPrograme .currently.' admiistered by the assoc'iation ,are also examinedýin the vides. ARC industries offers voca- tional training tô develop job skills te enable individualsite b. enhance their *participation in the. community. Otiier programs include, rosi- dential services and family ser-. vices dealing. with.livinig as i- dependently as possibleiiiin tii.community The. infommàati-ie vido as * wrtten and produced by:avoun to.r committe. Of fouïrpeolà ove a period «f six montiis. road Rutland, on. of the, four-,committo. monbers, saLys the . vides is filled with,."wonder- ful atonies. <'W.. aperoached the. board to mÉake a- video, made a proposal and they agre.d,' h. saya.-*.1 Hesays tiieproject started last tt altam effort. '~tand saya h. hors itiie vides williielp "getn oft. myth7 of mental institutions and «shýw the community how useftil they cn b.. l ý aath1galof the vldeo is «eeducatehl dren youth and adults, as.to thé. importance and signiticaince of consciously accé-pting people vwho ar e n- ta . andicapped imto thei. com- The. vldeo portrays. montally handicappedpopea hyare - warm, caring and intelligent witii the capacity to eAjoy the arti and sciences, and contriut-.. mngto society mithi hard work. Keith Powell, -board member of the. Ajax-Pickering and Whitby Asso.ciation for Community Liv- inmg, says the label they receivein, socety is "the handicapped.' «With Igod support, they dont have tii. handicap anymore,» he sahen e letpeople b. people, then th.y teach us how'to be good neighbours,» said Powell. The. assoi ation is a non-profit organization. and received môst of the. funding for tiie video from the. Mimsftry of Communityr Ser- vices and tfiie United Way, witii some monetary contributions from service club and corporate and private donations. It was. made by Grog Grimes witii thei. opeation ofMaclean Hunter, Cable TV station in A-ai. 'Hi N.igiibôur will b. siiown on RoesCommunity channel 10 in Why and Oihawa on Monday, Déâc. 30 at 6:30 p.m-., Saturday, Jan. 4 at 4:30 p.mo. and Sunday, Jan. 5 at 2 p.m. Schools, colleges, w!umversities or service orgamuzations. can, arrangea special sreeningof the. vides or purchasea VHS 'cop by> contacting the, associa- tion'ls Head Off ice at 50 Commer- cial Avenue, Suite 21%2 jax,ý Ont., L1S 2H5p .or cal1427-3300. Any -information^ about the. work of the'. association- and its vocational, residential and family services, can also b. obtained at tiie above'address and týelephone' number. 4,. ALt FIRE YOUR LAND LORD!. a month. pays your mortclacie. FEATURES INCLUDE: e Indoor Pool *Exercise Room e 5 Applianoes *G.S.T. lncluded DOWNTOWN WHITBY HOURS: Mon. to Thurs. 2 - 7PM Saturday & Sunday & holidays 12 - 6 pm When only