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Oakville Beaver, 5 Sep 1993, p. 10

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KW HELP OTHERS AND YOURSELF BY DONATING T0 AMITY! “Spruce up your closet, help the environment, and most importantly provide jobs and rehabilitation programmes for people with intellectual, physical, and emotional disabilities!” Ami Goodwill Industries is a non-profit agency that has been helping society’s disa antaged since 1935. Your donations of surplus clothin and household items, are processed and sold in Amity Retail Stores in Halton and Hami ton. The proceeds are then channelled to job assessment and job-training programmes operated by Amity’s Rehabilitation Department. But the entire system relies on your continued donation of surplus clothing. With the children back-to-school in new clothes why not make a donation of last year’s garments that are now too small? What are the results of visiting an Attended Donation Centre nearest you? ° Help our environment by recycling usable goods ° Provide jobs for people with disabilities ° Reduce social assistance costs ° Tax receipts for your donation Please telephone Amity Goodwill Industries at 332-9855 for information about our Tax Receipt program or home pick-up service. THANK YOU OAKVILLE FOR CARING AND SHARING! convenience. Oakville attended Donation Centres are open 8-5, seven days a week, for your ‘ Trafal at Village Mall QEW Trafal ar Road Parking lot 0 North Service Road ° Ho dale Mall 3rd 'ne Rebecca St. GOODWILL INDUSTRIES amity Children are all 'miracle’ babies far couple Registration forms can be picked up in advance at most downtown banks, local sports stores, Town of Oakville recreation centres and Sharkey’s on the Water. Registration fomis can also be picked up at Sharkey’s on race day. The race fee is $12 for adults or $5 for children. The organizers of the race hope to attract more than 500 adult and 100 chil- dren participants in this year’s race. The 5km Run for the Kids is the primary fundraising vehicle of the National Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases organization (NT SAD) â€" a non-prof- it group founded in the Oakville-Burlington area.. Tay Sachs and the more than 100 allied diseases are a group of rare genetic disorders that primarily affect young children â€" and tragically, are always fatal. There is no known The 7th Annual 5km Run For Kids benefiting National Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases will be held Monday, Sept. 6th at Sharkey’s on the Water in Oakville. In addition to the 5km race for adults there is a 1km race for children aged six to 12. The children’s race will follow the completion of the adult’s race. The adult race begins at 10:30 am. at Sharkej’s on the Water, 111 Forsythe St., with the registration desk opening at 8:30 am. Many prizes are available to participants including: first place cash prizes of $250 for males, females and seniors, over 100 door prizes, tâ€"shirt giveaway to first 200 adult registrants, free fruit “nibbles” and juice during the postâ€"race prize ceremony. There will also be entertainment for children and adults â€" such as clowns, faceâ€"painting, an aerobics “warm up” and other demonstrations. treatment or cure. just. That there were any children at all is something of a miracle. After four years of marriage, Cannata devel- oped cervical cancer and was told she would not conceive. After per- forming a conalbiopsy to remove the cancerous tissue, doctors said the next step would be a hysterectomy. However, Cannata and her husband didn’t want to accept this finality and they were spiritually sustained by the prayers of their family priest, she said. “I hung on until the middle of the night and Julie was born on Sunday, Sept. 6th,” she said. Monday race benefits Tay Sachs Nor could they accept the word of medics on another occasion. When pregnant with Reid and experiencing some problems while vacationing in Hawaii, doctors thought she had lost her child and recommended a DC but, following the blood tests the Cannatas requested, the doctor admitted he had been mistaken. Still, pregnancies are problematic. Because of the removal of most of the cervix resulting in loss of support for the baby she is carrying, Cannata said she is confined to a wheelchair when out of doors. At these times, her husband takes over such heavier housework as laundry and vacuum- mg. It is, indeed, a labor of love.

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