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PAGE 16 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1988 BRIDES â€" ENTER THE DRAW FOR THE PRIZES DISPLAYED AT THE FASHION SHOW. ENTRY FORMS AVAILABLE AT WESTMOUNT PLACE P e * vores ang 0 ? o se mliked CE T o4 Haroids akAAkLk WESTMOUNT ROAD NORTH AT ERB, WATERLOO U Hrs.: Mon., Tues. & Sat. 9:30â€"6; Wed.â€"Fri. till 9 FRIDAY 7 P.M. â€" SATURDAY 2 P.M. BRIDAL FASHION S$HOW Beautiful Beginnings.. Friday â€" 7 p.m. Saturday â€" 2 p.m. BRIDAL FASHION SHOW SEMINARS & DEMONSTRATIONS FOR THE BRIDE AND HER FAMILY 1 HOUR PRIOR TO & FOLLOWING THE FASHION SHOWS Isobel Lawson Chronicle Staff A highâ€"gloss "roleâ€"model" magazine focusing on the careers and aspirations of the handicapped is being sent to advocacy groups, trade unions, health and rehabilitation centres and government offices throughout the province. The oneâ€"shot effort, Profile, is the brainwave of John Rae, 39, a consultant in the Ministry of Labour‘s Handicapped Employment Program. Rae, who is considered blind, and information officer Marylyn Higgins were in Waterloo Thursday as part of their provinceâ€"wide promotional tour to release the magazine. The magazine contains the stories of 34 Ontario residents whose handicaps range across as broad a spectrum as their chosen occupations. The handicaps are a result of the effects of diseases such as polio and diabetes, accidents which left some blind or limbless, and also those mentally handicapped. The occupations vary from service sector, professionals, public employees and entrepreneurs who have started their own businesses. Those featured, said Ra:e "are quite representative of the individu als in the province." Both Rae and Higgins, who is termed as having a mobility impairment, said they wished they had known of careers other handicapped had become successful at because it might have made their lives easier. "If I had known then what I know now then perhaps I would be in teaching," Rae said of his unfulfilled dream to teach history at the secondary school level. They hope the people reading the magazine will be inspired and those people in hiring positions will realize handicapped can fill the role as well as anyone else. Besides reaching areas of the workforce, Rae said he wants the magazine put into the hands of high school guidance counsellors. As a youth Higgins said she was discouraged from continuing her education in broadcast journalism by her school counsellor. Deter mined she could succeed, Higgins enrolled and graduated from Centennial College in Toronto. She has never worked in the field of her studies having chosen to work with agencies supporting the handicapped. While changing public attitude is important, Rae said, the best way for change to take place is by getting handicapped in the workplace and integrated into the school systems. Through dayâ€"toâ€"day contact, working and playing alongside a handicapped person, attitudes can change, he said. "I guess the attitudes are the big one because if attitudes c!lange and awareness changes then these other things full into place," he said mosa 0 o33 P e L e e h a k o n Pe o e o e ies ce a Besides, added Rae, many employers would find minimal alt.faratmr:i are required to the work setting when a handicapped person is hire And these changes are not usually costly. â€" l eS re not 1 Rae said he hopes readers attempt to contact the people featured in the magazine for more information. The magazine, which "cost in the neighborhood of $50,000", is distributed freeâ€"ofcharge in English or French and on audio cassettes. To receive a c;py Program, Ministry Provincial Liberals hold annual meeting The aspirations of handicapped logged in Profile The Waterloo North Provincial Liberal Association will hold it‘s annual Dinner Meeting Thursday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m Ontario‘s Solicitor General, Hon. Joan Smith, MPP for London South will be the guest speaker. Tickets are $10 and can be ordered by calling 884â€"8153. ive a copy of Profile, write to the Handica ped Employment , Ministry of Labour, 400 University Ave. 1E:>ronto, M7A 117 John Rae