Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 saturday free May abcs mental quip definitely not funny i heard something on Csc radio last saturday afternoon that struck me As uncharacteristic of Public broadcasting High Nora the Host of the win Nipe produced network show definitely not the was imploring listeners from across Canada to Send in videos of their Favourite Cable Access the stranger the pre there was nothing sur prising about but in the midst of her a recorded male voice borrowed from the Waynes world sound track interrupted Are you mental i was momentarily taken Csc radio int the morning Csc radio dare air a voice clip that belittled the plight of a quadriplegic person or a woman who lost her breast to but someone Over there is ultimately someone didst think twice about being flip Pant about people with mental health that because crazy people Are get it in sure anyone who has a Par ent with alzheimer knows How funny it is the first time their father Doest recognize them any and anyone who has a brother who but wont take his knows what a Kne Slapper that can or anyone who has a husband whose inability to Cope with depression has driven him to Sui cide will certainly get the Canadian mental health association has heard them of last readers digest published a readers offer ing in a Section ironically entitled laughter is the Best Stop me if youve heard the joke Wel come to the psychiatric hot if you Are obsessive compel press one if you Are please ask someone to press if you have multiple personal please press and in stopping Here even if you Haven heard it i know you probably but Laurie of the Gordon Sinclair Winnipeg she replied to readers people with any kind of disability deserve respect and sensitivity to the individual issues they she articles such As this one belittle the pain they experience and contribute to the misunderstandings that Are so prevalent concerning mental health this is How readers digests replied bearing in mind that Humour is wrote associate Edi Tor Linda Weir i Hope you will agree that people of Good will May Well differ in their judg we would never knowingly publish any humorous item that we believe would offend our read we see Humour As a Means of lightening Peoples daily burdens and giving them a moments smile or 4 a n indication of the seriousness and concern l which readers digest views this sensitive subject is reflected in the number of times we have published articles on various aspects of mental health More than 10 in the past five All that letter tells me is read ers digest should have known the is they dont get you see its not just that the Media laughing at the mentally ill is and its not a matter of the Cha wanting everyone to be politically what it does is perpetuate the stigma associated with mental ill Ness and stops people from seek ing in there is no More shame in having a broken mind than there is in having a broken the it would belongs somewhere definitely not with the mentally Days of fur Trade brought to life in downtown mural Richard Mano Skeesick paints scenes of fur Trade Days on a 30 metre Long hoarding around the site where the Hudson Bay company gallery is being built on Lily behind the Manitoba the mural took Mano Skeesick and Blair both Art students at Russell vocational about five Days to it is expected to stay up throughout the smaller works by Mano Skeesick and Martin will be part of the he and Martin split a honorarium for their Stevens counting the Days Sunshine fund helps working mom cover costs of summer Camp Eliza a Home sup port worker employed by Cen trial health haunt heard of the free press Sunshine fund and what it can do for Young sters who cant afford to go to sum Mer until a few weeks now her 14yearold son Steven is counting the Days until that the Day Steven is going to Manitoba Pioneer a project run on a Lake of the Woods Island by the inter varsity Christian a Girlfriend told me that there is such a thing As the Sunshine fund and i should see if they take an application from so i made con tact Early last Gagnon said this i and about two weeks i got word that Steven had been i was really surprised at the Speed with which these people sending the Glenwood elementary school student to Camp will Cost Gagnon Only Bettie executive director of the free press Sunshine said who have jobs but dont earn enough Money to pay the full Cost of a Childs camping Are asked to assume 25 per cent of the total they can pay in three or four Walls the Sunshine fund is not getting As Many donations As it did last Walls i know everything was affected by the flood this but we sure Ine Hope it wont affect the kids when summer were 136 kids behind this time last that not by this time last the Sunshine fund had collected enough donations to enrol 300 youngsters in this the number was were also behind in what we have raised so Walls this time we had raised so far this we have in thinking there must be people out there who 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