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8 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER
April 2020
Charbonneau
Women’s
Association
By LEE HARKER
All about limbs, joints
and bones
CWA’s
March lun-
cheon was a
combination of
a St. Patrick’s
Day celebration
as well as a fas-
cinating pre-
HARKER
sentation by
Kathy Park,
head of development for our own
Shriners Hospital in Portland, cel-
ebrating over 90 years of service
to children with limb, joint, and
bone problems.
The Shriners began as a subset of
the Masons in the 1920s. A nation-
wide organization, they raised funds
to help establish hospitals focused
on the treatment and support of chil-
dren crippled by polio. Our Portland
hospital was the fifth such hospital
established, and takes in children
from Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Alaska, and British Columbia. Even-
tually 22 such hospitals were creat-
ed, 20 in the U.S., one in Montreal
and one in Mexico City. They have
always been nonprofit facilities and
didn’t even take insurance payments
until after the 2008 recession, using
the Shriners Endowment to support
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the hospitals and provide care. Pa-
tients are cared for regardless of the
family’s insurance status or ability
to pay. When the Salk vaccine was
created in the 1960s, the incidence of
polio dropped dramatically and at
that point the Shriners Hospitals
broadened their care to include all
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problems involving limbs, joints and
bones in children. They not only pro-
vide the essential surgeries but are a
main center within the entire Shri-
ners Hospital system for the creation
of prosthetics (artificial limbs to fill
the gap of missing parts) and orthot-
ics (braces and devices to support
limbs and joints that don’t work
well). Problems that are typical for
them to care for include infants with
cleft lip and palate, children with
missing limbs, and severe scoliosis
needing surgery. They are at the
forefront of pediatric orthopedic
care; constantly looking for ways to
provide care in a better way. We
were all touched by a video that
showed several of their patients, in-
cluding a 6-year-old girl who had
been born without completely devel-
oped legs who is now walking using
their prosthetics. It was wonderful
to see how the
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The tables were for event
very cheerful with confirmation
Oxalis plants com-
plete with “pots of
gold” at the end of
rainbow colored ribbons and lepre-
chauns wishing us well.
The CWA Spring Fashion Show,
“It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighbor-
hood” May 11 guarantees to be a fun
time. Our models are excited and
will be getting their outfits selected
in late April at J.Jill. Big congratula-
tions to all of them: Cindy Anglin,
Donna Bane, Linda Brugh, Claudia
DeVries, Leesa Gango, Kathi Gray,
Lynda Huber-Marshall, Carol
McHugh, Mary Tillery and Margie
Wiesenthal. There are table reserva-
tion forms and a notebook for sign-
ups in the CCC coatroom; we will
have a total of 22 tables with seating
for 176 members and guests. Cost
per ticket is $30 for members and $35
for guests.
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