Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Strip Bond guaranteed Cclain May 7884040 9257423 9257420 show bits today on television tit it just happened Fred Astaire and Ginger Artsy network Marks the passing of Fred Astaire with this look at the famed hoofers celebrated pairing with Ginger of bears Arctic terror offers an american perspective on the uneasy coexistence Between Polar bears and the citizens of the unofficial Polar Bear capital of the John Mahoney frasier narrates the account of How programs that educate and protect Church ills citizens also have reduced the necessity of shooting overage res Sive hungry 7 Royal still together Royal Queen Elizabeth ii arid Prince arrive in newfound land today to Mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot Landing on Canadas East her majesty will be in Bonavista tomorrow to witness the expected arrival of the a replica of Cabot ship which is sailing across the late for Berg Chicago Hope and Brian Wimmer China Beach Star 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jaw cafe a nays 500 Jam with the blues Pyramid cabaret space kid and coming soon Buah Winnipeg june Howie Mandel Centennial concert june Winnipeg free press life june 1997 Barry 0 i Doest see any contradiction Between comforting the dying and entertaining the healthy by Landor Reynolds free press columnist Are Nolan professional life is a study in ibb palliative clowning balance nurses life four Days a Shes an administrator at hospice and palliative care a nonprofit organization that matches Ter Minally ill patients with Volunteer friends to support them through their the rest of the spends literally clowning her sideline and love is her clowning she entertains at Chil Drens birthday picnics and Day any time a group of children wants to be Nolan is willing to slip into her curly red wig and Clown she Doest see any contradiction Between comforting the dying and enter Taining the Young and the palliative care came i think the clowning has always been in she says in her comfortable Boniface Ive always loved kids and this is a Way to express even without the wig and and devoid of her High pitched twinkle its obvious Nolan has potential As an her face is her voice she Doest need her stuffed animal sidekicks to she leans Forward when she emphasizes her searches the listen ers face for its a face equally suited to Clown ing and helping the dying make their final Nolan graduated from the University of Manitoba school of and began working in palliative care in Montreal in its a profession that found her As much As she found when i was still in nursing my Grandfather died of cancer in Boniface he was in the palliative care and it was a really Good i realized that the kind of nursing i wanted to it was very very a Way of seeing the whole person and not just As parts or an this kind of care helps a whole an aunt later died of Lou Gehrig Dis ease Nolan was in third year Nurs ing she experienced being on the other Side of the she realized the importance of palliative care for the patient and the its been a difficult you cant really work in this Job and not feel you have to feel to be effect you have to have although it can be i dont find it being allowed into Peoples lives at a time like this is an Nolan helps to train the volunteers who will visit with patients and their she still sees some patients Volun Teers undergo a lengthy screening process and exhaustive a major part of our screening process is looking for people with a Strong but who can also respect other Peoples volunteers Are also forced to take care of often being Given self care Homework it could be or Reading or just taking some time in often reminded that i need to do it Nolan the clowning is part of that working in palliative i guess in always reminded that life is a in this dont put off your enjoy the moments in the i just enjoy being she i thought id be married with 10 children by instead of waiting for some elusive embrace what you have and enjoy where youre Nolan took a continuing education pro introduction to clowning and Mim almost four years i found i had a she in a natural at balloon her first Outing As a Clown was at a inner City childrens the first Little kid whose face i his eyes just lit i knew this was some thing i wanted to she Learned to do magic obtained some stuffed animal props and eventually produced a audio tape of Chil Drens in my in a character who lives in a suburb of the kids love the Story and All the characters who share it with she Doest want to part with either they both keep me they give me you just find what you like to for its being with i have lots of i think dreams Are what gets us up in the three words women fear the most Lindor Reynolds is on while she is Well be reprinting some of her most popular there Are three Little words that no woman wants to three words that strike fear into her heart and set her delicate Knees to those words Are not in or in leaving its not even Revenue Canada no those three Little words Are Bikini Wax i Call amnesty International and report the human rights Viola do they have any idea whats going on Here whomever first decided women had to suffer to be Beautiful must have been a theres no other lets look at this you go into a Beauty Parlour and head to the farthest room from the Entrance so your screams wont scare off Poten tial a woman named Olga Lindor Reynolds shackles your tender parts with hot lets it dry and then rips it when you can walk you apolo Gize to leave her a Large tip to make up for All those Nasty things you said about the and hobble looking As though youve spent the past week on if youre a Guy and this is a foreign experience to you and if its please dont write and Tell me All about imagine the sensation of having a Large one of those really Gluey placed on a Vulner Able part of your Anatomy and then torn off by someone who Doest like ouch no and we pay big Money for this because lets face it its not that much fun on Olgas part if you suspect it run As fast As your Little waxy legs can Shell try to do your eyebrows there Are of if waxing sounds too brutal and youre still convinced you resemble a hairy Mammoth in a you might consider this is i love this you boil up a mixture of sugar and you drink it and your colds All wrong you boil it until its a spread it on a Sheet of plastic wait until its really gooey and then you attach it to some sensitive hirsute portion of your its Best not to do this near an open window or youll have bees trying to build a hive in your when everything is Sticky and youre wondering Why youre doing this and the phone has rung twice and the meter Reader has arrived and your cat has licked your youre you tug on the plastic wrap and that makes sure your nextdoor Neighbour comes Over to Rescue you and discovers you like to Swath yourself in sugar and Saran forget being asked to join the Pat this you can but that just an invitation for a spat with your who has been using your razor since september and has neglected to put in a new youll discover this while bending in a Way mature women Arent sup posed to what youll say will Force you into another apology just As soon As you Stop theres Only one other solution its the one i prefer dont go to the you can Tell everyone youre trying to avoid the if they press the Tell them the real they wont ask this column originally appeared on april ;