Upcoming ASCC Events and Other Events Related to Spinal Cord Disability
Program offers hunt for mobility-impaired women
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) along with the White River National Wildlife Refuge, are going to be offering an opportunity for women who have impaired mobility the opportunity to hunt. These women are fully capable of properly using a firearm, but have restricted ability to access land for a quality hunting experience.
Hunters are considered mobility-impaired if they have a permanent physical condition that severely restricts their mobility from either paralysis or amputation of lower extremities, according to AGFC Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) coordinator Phyllis Speer. “Basically, they must require assistance form a wheelchair, braces, crutches or other similar aides of mobility,” she explained.
Hunters will be lodged at the Potlatch Education Center at Cook’s Lake in eastern Arkansas. Food will be provided and those participating will be taken to, and picked up from their deer-hunting stand. Each hunter will be required to have an assistant to help on the hunt as well as at the lodge. The hunters will be permitted to carry a modern firearm as described in AGFC regulations.
It has been my privilege to coordinate the BOW program for the past 15 years. We hope that this deer hunt will reach a population of women who might not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in such an activity,” Speer explained. “Our goal is to offer the women of Arkansas the opportunity to discover themselves and the great Arkansas outdoors,” she added.
Each of the hunters will be allowed to harvest two deer; one legal buck and one doe. The hunt will be held Nov. 16 at 1p.m. through Nov. 18 at noon. Applications must be submitted no later than Oct. 1. Qualifying applicants will be selected by a random drawing. Five applicants will be drawn for this year’s hunt. A second drawing will be held to form a waiting list in case of cancellations.
Those wishing to participate may contact Phyllis Speer for further information and applications at (870) 424-5750 or pspeer@agfc.state.ar.us.
Arkansas Spinal Cord Disabled Support Groups
A Support
Group for the West Memphis area is now forming. The group has been meeting at the Crittenden Memorial Hospital at 6 p.m. on an agreed upon date. Clients, caregivers and family members are invited to atttend. Contact Sharon McCoy at 870-735-4725 for more information about this group.
A Support
Group for caregivers in the Hot Springs area is now forming. The group has been meeting at the St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center on an agreed upon date and time. Clients, caregivers and family members are invited to atttend. Contact Kim Brown at 501-624-4411 Ext. 428 for more information about this group.
A Support
Group for caregivers in the Jonesboro area is now forming. The group has been meeting at the HealthSouth Rehabilitatiion Hospital in Jonesboro on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Clients, caregivers and family members are invited to atttend. Contact Russell Henry at 870-268-0425 for more information about this group.
The St. Vincent Rehabilitation Hospital Sherwood SCI Support
Group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 11:30 a.m.
at the hospital. Contact Allison at 501-683-1124
for more information about this group and to reserve a lunch for
you.
The White County SCI Support Group is scheduled to meet
on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the White
County Medical Hospital in the rehabilitation area. Contact Larry
Wilson at 501-724-3504 for more information.
The Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute (BHRI) SCI
Support Group meets quarterly (February, May, August, November)
on the first Friday of the month (full week) at 11:30 a.m. in
the Education Room located on the ground floor of BHRI in west
Little Rock. Contact Allison at 501-683-1124 for more information about this group and to add your name to
the lunch list.
