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Commune with nature
Patients of Terrell State Hospital
share a lakefront sanctuary with the
wildlife that inhabit Lake Tawakoni
and its environs, 15 miles from the
hospital.
The hospital leases 14 acres of
woodland along the lake that serves
as campsite and refuge. On the slice
of land are a large lodge complete
with kitchen, a pavilion, several
cabins and picnic tables.
The 735 feet of shoreline has a land
jetty, swimming beach and pier.
By April 1986, the hospital will
have a 51-acre lake on its own prop-
erty. The new lake will be built by
the Soil Conservation Service of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture as a
means of easing flooding on other-
wise usable land.
What I did on my
summer vacation
Any person in Texas with devel-
opmental disabilities can spend a sum-
mer session at Camp Kiwanis on the
campus of Lubbock State School.
The only requirements are that the
camper be at least six years of age and
toilet-trained.
Camp Kiwanis, built at and
donated to the school by Division
Seven of Kiwanis International,
gives campers a rich learning ex-
perience and a chance to be
themselves without having to meet
someone else's standards. The pur-
pose is to offer everyone a memory
of a happy summer at camp.
Campers, in groups of 18 for each
week-long session, experience the
outdoors together. They have an op-
portunity to interact socially, to
learn self-reliance and to enjoy a
freedom they may not have known
before.
Activities include rafting, swim-
ming, bowling, arts and crafts, na-
ture hikes and field trips. Sometimes
Ronald McDonald visits, or the Lub-
bock Rock and Gem Society makes
presentations.
The camp comprises a fort, amphi-
theatre, bunker, paddleboat lake,
remote campsite with teepees and
covered wagons, and complete
playground equipment for people
with handicaps.Zo
Tinkertoys
Thanks to the muscle and generosity
of a San Antonio volunteer organiza-
tion, residents of San Antonio State
School (SASS) have a playground area
that rivals any in the state,
The playground developed as an
offshoot of a therapeutic park project
undertaken in 1980 by the school and
its Volunteer Services Council (VSC).
SASS had purchased playground
equipment for the park, but the pro-
ject ran into a snag. The approximate-
ly $18,000 needed to assemble and
erect the equipment had to be de-
voted to other essential projects.
SASS administrators turned to the
VSC Executive Board, and board
member Nancy Jeffreys took the
problem back to her group-the
Telephone Pioneers. The Pioneers, a
volunteer organization of South-
western Bell and AT&T employees
dedicated to community service,Y~~t~"
pledged to use their spare time to in-
stall the equipment for use by the
summer of 1985.
Assembly was not an easy task.
"The equipment was like a giant
Tinkertoy set,'' says Pioneer Paul
LaBleu, chairman of the project.
After the sorting was done, the
Pioneers brought in reinforcements.
More than 52 volunteers from the
organization gave 2,500 hours to the
project. Each Saturday, the wooded
area down the hill from SASS's eight
dorms came alive with the sounds of
hammers and drills and the shouts
and laughter of the Pioneers.
The Pioneers kept their word,
completing the project early enough
for the summer season. Besides the
playground equipment, the Pioneers
installed barbecue pits and tables to
make the area useful for day camp,
family visits and picnics.A park of one's own
Each spring and summer, San
Angelo State School clients have
the chance to board a bus or train,
enjoy the slow winding ride through
pastureland and disembark in their
own beautiful wooded park. The
Concho River curls through trees
and rocks, and huge pecan trees en-
tice birds and lively gray squirrels to
the area, providing hours of enter-
tainment for those who watch.
The school's 5-acre park has picnic
tables, benches, swing sets and bar-
becue pits. More-active clients play
croquet, Frisbee, softball and volley-
ball. Nature hikes, of course, are
always included in the park activities.Recreation department staff super-
vise day-camp trips and "roughout"
camping at the park. Day-camp
outings begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at
1 p.m. the same day. Clients are
treated to a picnic lunch provided by
food service and snacks furnished by
the Volunteer Services Council.
Roughout camping trips begin at 4
p.m., when tents are pitched in the
park and a campfire dinner is pre-
pared. Sing-alongs and storytelling are
favorite activities during marsh-
mallow roasts. As the sun rises the
next morning, a real "camper's
breakfast" is served. Clients return to
campus at 8 a.m.IMPACT MAY/JUNE 1985 3
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