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Home grown products
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Home baked items • Honey • Preserves
Dairy products • Mushrooms • Meats
Tomatoes • Local Artisans
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4:19 PM
It’s grandpa’s first time
in this part of town.
He doesn’t have any
idea how he got here,
how to get home
or who he is.
5:45 PM
You don’t know
where he is either.
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4:19 PM
You’re lost
and disoriented.
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Due West Magazine • Page 30 • Summer 2008
the visually impaired and blind.
Specially trained volunteer guides
offer instruction in 10-week blocks.
“When I told my family and
friends about the Ski Hawks, they
thought I’d gone off my choo choo,”
she giggles. Still, Theresa persevered,
and in 2004 she was awarded
the Wally White Trophy for Skier of
the Year.
If you ask, Theresa will tell you
that rowing in the Henley Regatta in
2005 was one of her life’s most
memorable experiences. “It was just
awesome. It was a truly wonderful
experience.”
Tales of her sporting conquests
are part of her motivational talks.
She tells her audiences, “I was raised
in a time when you never said ‘I can’t
do that’.”
“Whatever challenges we face,”
she tells them, “we can adapt if we
have a positive attitude. Some things
we have to work harder at.”
She says that visualization,
learned in her childhood, has helped
guide her. “When I was a kid we didn’t
have television. We had radio. We
did visualization.”
A voracious reader, Theresa uses
her powers of visualization when she
enjoys books-on-tape from the CNIB
library. And once a week CNIB volunteer
Jean Laux sits down with her
and they enjoy a good book over a
cup of tea.
CNIB volunteers drive her to all of
her public education appointments.
Theresa credits an affinity for
organization for her ability to juggle
so many tasks. She uses a small red
suitcase to transport everything she
needs for her “talks.” A small tape
recorder is always at the ready to play
three audio tapes — one with phone
numbers, another with appointments,
and the last with a list of her
presentations and directions on how
to get to them.
“I’m blind but I guide all my
sighted drivers,” she says. Just don’t
ask her to go camping.