Stillman Valley senior Barry Glaudel tosses a football with his father almost every day.

It’s not for practice. It’s for healing.

And it’s not on a field or in the backyard. It’s at the Van Matre Rehabilitation Center on Mulford Road.

“You don’t have to whip it at me, geez,” Barry said jokingly to his father, Barry Glaudel Sr., during a rehabilitation exercise last week. Young Barry, a lefty, threw the football back harder to his dad with a grin. Continue Reading »

REGINA — With May 2009 proclaimed as spinal cord injury and physical disabilities awareness month in the province, the Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) wants to spotlight everything its members can do.

“It’s the abilities of people with disabilities — don’t focus on the disability, focus on the ability,” said CPA Saskatchewan President Del Huber. “We’re trying to just make people aware of … not so much of what they can’t do, as what they can do.” Continue Reading »

The message on the marquee at the entrance to the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital goes to the heart of the sacrifice made by the men and women receiving treatment at the facility.

It reads: “The Price Of Freedom Is Visible Here.”

“Yes it is,” said hospital director Stephen Lucas.

Nowhere on the hospital’s campus is that more apparent than inside the spinal cord injury center. Continue Reading »