| Letter: Plea from the heart
I am a senior at Astoria High School, and use an electric wheelchair for long distances because of scoliosis and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
I don't know much about politics, but I do have some knowledge of the current situation going on with Clatsop Community College. High school really isn't my cup of tea, so I have made my decision to start simultaneous enrollment with CCC. However, when I signed up for classes I quickly got the hint that CCC meets little or none of the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for handicapped accessibility.
When I went to Astoria High School, a boy who had a wheelchair, and attended before me, fought and got an elevator put in at the high school. However, there was only one handicapped push-button on one door in the whole school.
Direct Relief provides assistance to build larger facility for the ...
With financial assistance from Direct Relief, the Pakistan National Institute for the Handicapped is initiating the construction of an additional wing to its Islamabad care center. The Center provides rehabilitative care to people struggling with physical handicaps or recovering from major traumatic injuries. Direct Relief's $90,000 grant will cover the majority of the project's total costs, projected at $175,000. Pakistani aid group Marafie Foundation will manage the project and is ready to provide additional financial backing if necessary. Both organizations share a common concern for the health and welfare of disaster-affected populations in Pakistan and are engaged in activities designed to save lives, relieve suffering, and lay foundations for recovery. The new wing will include additional examination rooms, stores, and separate male and female wards where family members can come and stay with patients while receiving treatment.
Program would transport seniors
You're 85, don't drive anymore and are out of groceries. You're not able to walk to the bus stop down the street. A taxi is too expensive and your children live out of town. Starting in March 2008, if you live in Lexington or one of four surrounding counties, you might not have to worry about how you're going to get to the store. That's because an Independent Transportation Network affiliate could be up and running by then. Retired businesswoman Gale Reece is working to set up an area ITN affiliate, which would offer rides to people 65 or older and visually impaired people of any age at about half the cost of a cab ride, or less. An ITN affiliate would offer car transportation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No advance notice would be required, and "door-through-door" assistance would be available.
Hearing passionate on death with dignity
Suzi Coy said she watched as her mother withered from Alzheimer's disease and as her father, a fundamentalist Christian, suffered so terribly with cancer that he questioned his own faith at the end. "Do you want your beloved people to die like this?" Coy, of Palolo, asked state House lawmakers last night at a hearing on physician-assisted suicide. But Patricia Lockwood, who has multiple sclerosis and gets around with the aid of a wheelchair and her guide dog, Stanley, said the state should be talking about how to help the disabled have productive lives rather than giving them options on how to die. "I just don't think that's right," Lockwood, of Chinatown, said. 5-2 VOTE TO HOLD BILL State Rep. Josh Green, D-6th (N.
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