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Monday, December 5, 2011

What's It Like Being Confined To A Wheelchair

Mayor Ivan Court, Councillor Gary Sullivan and some city hall staffers getting a real eyeopener of what it's like to be wheelchair-bound. 

The Wheelchair Dare is a fund and awareness-raising initiative of Muscular Dystrophy Canada. 

The Mayor tells CHSJ News to make your way about requires a bit of planning beforehand to find the path of less resistence.
Court says he found carpets to be a tough slog and he scraped his knuckles a couple of times trying to get through doorways.

Sullivan, the principal at Millidgeville North, found it very time consuming just to go from point A to point B. 

The City's Cultural Affairs Officer Bernie Cormier says your perspective changes because you're looking up at everybody and they appear larger than if they were at eye level.