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Tim Benjamin, Editor
October is a time to get fired up for the next Legislative session.
State Rep.Torrey Westrom is a friend and a member of the disability
community. He has been a positive force in the on-going legislative
struggle to fund Metro Mobility and maintain high standards for Metro
Mobility to follow. We have a profile of Rep. Westrom this month that
will give you a glimpse of his history and how he got into Politics.
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Mental Illness/Brain Disorders A New Definition of ‘‘Protect and Serve’’ by Pete Feigal After
many hours, a suicidal man is “talked down” off a bridge when a police
officer makes a connection with him through the man’s love of his pet
cats. A man in crisis with schizophrenia who will not get into the back
of the squad car is simply asked by one of the officers on the scene,
“Why won’t you?” When the man explains that he sees “acid” on the ground,
the officer goes to a nearby garbage can, and with some discarded newspapers,
lays a path of paper over the “acid” allowing the disturbed man to get
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Spirituality and Disability Borne Identity by Derek VanderVeen October.
The harvest moon casts a glow over the world, cradling us in a dusky,
pale-amber embrace; fallen leaves carpet the neighborhood streets, a
blanket made up of all that remains of a summer season full of memories—memories
that have been reduced to nothing more than the crumbling crunch-and-shuffle
of a footstep; jack-o-lanterns fill the air with the stench of smoke
and burning pumpkin so acutely associated with the cool air of autumn,
their empty features hollowed out in perpetual laughter . . . . |
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