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Reaching by direct mail 9,000 homes and businesses in North Grenville and Merrickville/Wolford Vol. 5, No.20
The Voice of North Grenville
May 17, 2017
CLNG celebrates Community Living month and 50th anniversary
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May is Community Living Month throughout Ontario and Community Living North Grenville has jumped into the celebration with full force. On May 3, they hosted their 15th annual pancake breakfast at the Municipal Centre which drew a recordbreaking crowd. The morning ended with a flag raising ceremony to hoist Community Living’s flag to the top of the flag pole at the Municipal Centre to show the municipality’s support for the work that Community Living NG does in the community. On May 4, they hosted a free movie night
at the Municipal Centre which was extremely well attended, and if you drive by the Community Living NG building in the evening, you will also see it lit up in blue and green – the colours of Community Living. “[We want to] raise awareness around inclusion for people with disabilities to be full citizens in their community,” says Sandra McNamara, Executive Director of Community Living NG. This year is special for Community Living NG, as it marks their 50th anniversary in the community. It all began in 1967 when a group of passionate parents came together because they wanted better options for their
children with intellectual dis- leisure activities and provides abilities. In 1968, Maplewood respite care. Community LivSchool in Oxford Mills (now ing NG has been recognized Maplewood Hall) opened over the years for advocating, its doors to 17 children with improving living conditions intellectual disabilities. This and raising awareness in was the first time that those the community for people with intellectual disabilities with intellectual disabilihad access to education in ties. “Full inclusion is to treat the area. “The journey to everyone as people,” Sandra inclusion [everywhere] really explains. To recognize the started in the 1950s and 60s,” parents who were the catalyst for creating Community LivSandra says. Since then Community ing NG, they gave carnations Living, North Grenville has to all the mothers and mints to grown to support over 110 all the fathers at the pancake people in the community and breakfast this year. In the past, Communiemploys 70 full and part time ty Living NG has hosted a staff. Community Living NG runs 8 residential homes in comedy night as their main the area, supports people liv- fundraiser of the year during ing independently in the community, runs recreation and continued on page 2
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