The Bob Lesperance Report # 80 May 30, 2010
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“One Hundred ways to live to one Hundred # 15 – Have faith in others. “Bristol-Myers Squibb”
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B) Estimated readership numbers
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D) Entertainment - Websites
E) Special Items of Interest = “PROJECT LIFESAVER ONTARIO” - Series - Part - 55
F) Some of the Reader Feedback
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C) Advocacy Related
Proposed Changes to the Application of the Harmonized Sales Tax to Financial Institutions LINK
D) Entertainment - Websites FOR YOUR INTEREST
1. Victoria’s Butchart Gardens in the snow LINK
2. OLD WINDSOR PHOTOS LINK
3. HOLD ON LINK
4. Watch this and you may have a whole different slant on things the next time you drive. Always count to 3 before you start to move at a Green light. Better Safe then Sorry Just In Case the other guy is coming thru, trying to beat the red light. LINK
5. YOU CAN’T HEAR YOUR OWN ACCENT, just like you can’t see your eyes move in a mirror. But you CAN determine what accent you do have with this short test… LINK
E) SPECIAL ITEMS OF INTEREST
Series - Part - 55
Project Lifesaver Ontario - LINK
FM Radio Frequency Electronic Search Specialists
In Partnership with Ontario Provincial Police
Essex County, Ontario Provincial Police
Peace of mind
Tracking devices used by some with dementia also beneficial for some children
Jenna Senger sports a little plastic bracelet these days that she and her family refer to as her watch. The story behind how the 5-year-old from Millersburg ended up with the Project Lifesaver device that would help police and trained volunteers track her should she ever run away is one that makes her mom Julie emotional to tell.
One day last fall, Jenna — who has Down syndrome — and her mom were playing with the family’s dogs in their fenced-in backyard when the phone rang. Julie sat down outside and answered it. Within mere minutes, she was panic stricken when she noticed the yard was quiet. Jenna was missing, along with two of the family’s dogs.
After Julie called 911 and summoned the town marshal, her husband, neighbors and even teachers from the nearby elementary school, south of Goshen, Jenna was found waving out the front window and signing “daddy” to her father, who had just pulled up.
Her parents believe she climbed the fence and was led by the dogs back in through a gate they’d unlocked and opened during the search. Days later, the Sengers heard about Project Lifesaver, a program that equips kids and adults with medical issues such as dementia and Down syndrome who tend to run away with bracelets containing small transmitters that allow them to be tracked. If they become lost, police and trained volunteers use a special device with a range of one to two miles to find them.
In Elkhart County, the national program is run via a partnership between the sheriff’s department and TRIAD, a group of law enforcement, social service agencies and senior citizens. Lt. Jim Bradberry said there are currently 11 participants in Project Lifesaver, which has been in existence in Elkhart County since 1999.
“It’s the best-kept secret in the county,” he said of Project Lifesaver, which he became involved with about four years ago. His efforts have been focused on getting the word out about the program, he said, and getting more participants — specifically children — enrolled.
In fact, he approached a support group of family members with children who have Down syndrome — which includes the Sengers — about the program in an attempt to make them aware of it. The technology has proven its value, Bradberry said. In recent weeks, when a 16-year-old autistic girl ran away, an Elkhart County officer found her in just minutes using Project Lifesaver.
The criteria for participating in the program, Bradberry said, is pretty straightforward. Clients must have an around-the-clock caretaker who could notify authorities if he or she comes up missing and a past history of wandering or running away, he said.There is no up-front cost to be equipped with a monitor, he said, though families are asked topay a $15 monthly fee to help cover the cost of a battery and wristband change.
Funding is provided for the program primarily through TRIAD’s member organizations, which accept donations, have fundraisers and obtain grants, Bradberry said. Project Lifesaver technology is available in St. Joseph County, as well.
It’s also administered via a partnership between St. Joseph County’s TRIAD and the Mishawaka Police Department. Capt. Dan Gebo, with Mishawaka Police, said there currently are five participants in Project Lifesaver here, but more could potentially be added.
Clients here are also asked to pay a monthly monitoring fee, he said, but no one is turned away because of an inability to pay. In the future, Gebo said, he’d like to equip city firetrucks with tracking devices. Bradberry, from Elkhart County, said he’d like to expand the program there by adding two more tracking units to sheriff’s patrol cars. For the Sengers, Project Lifesaver offers comfort.
“It’s not that we can’t watch her,” Senger said of Jenna. “But we know that if she should climb the fence again, we have another resource available (to help locate her.)” “Is it a baby sitter?” Julie Senger said. “No. Is it peace of mind? Yes.”
Staff writer Kim Kilbride:
kkilbride@sbtinfo.com
(574) 247-7759
We cannot predict when a loved one will become lost, however we can prepare,
ALL PUNS INTENDED… (John J.)
12. A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, “Doctor, doctor, I can’t feel my legs!” The doctor replied, “I know, I amputated your arms!”
13. I went to a seafood disco last week…. and pulled a mussel.
14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, “Dam!”
16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Not surprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse. “But why,” they asked, as they moved off. “Because,”he said. “I can’t stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.”
18. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt, and is named ‘Ahmal.’ The other goes to a family in Spain; they named him ‘Juan.’ Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, “They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Ahmal.”
19 Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him (oh, man, this is so bad, it’s good….) a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
20. A dwarf, who was a mystic, escaped from jail. The call went out that there was a small medium at large.
21. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Does Anyone Praught? (Bill G.)
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell .
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while
a wiseman and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down,
in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
So if Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn’t Mop?
And I’ve often wondered: How come we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? Makes no sense!
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