tabs from aluminum softdrink cans

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I was looking for pics online from a wheelchair presentation ceremony this year by the tabs for wheelchairs program (which I attended) and I stumbled across this thread. I just want you all to know that the tabs for wheelchairs program is very real. They manage approximately one wheelchair per year and have 160+ schools and I think about 180 businesses and organizations saving tabs from all over Manitoba. They trade the tabs in for cash and recycle them. The recycling company accepts the whole cans as well. It's called Western Scrap Metal Inc. Cans should be dropped off at the recycling facility at 18 Sutherland Ave. (Just tell them it's for the Tabs program and they will put it on their account.)
Tabs are stored throughout each year at Holy Cross School in Winnipeg and are cashed in after the presentation ceremony each year. I believe you can drop your tabs at your nearest participating school or business, or Holy Cross School. For more information about the program, please call Gwen Buccini at Holy Cross School (204) 256-4227.

Finally, I want you all to know that my son, Tarok will be the recipient for the tabs chair next year (2011). With all the schools and organizations collecting tabs, he's sure to get his chair right on schedule next spring, but the program has managed two chairs in one year before and I'd love to see that happen again. The more tabs saved, the sooner the next child will get a special wheelchair.
Here's a picture of Tarok.

This is Tarok on his special bike from Freedom Concepts.

Welcome....Thanks for that info....and great looking kid btw.

Thanks MissFae, and welcome to the sandbox...

cool

we have recycling boxes at work that have a "cans for cures" thingy on the outside. No idea where it goes, but its definitely better then just going in the garbage.

we also collect the tabs here separately AND our company has coolers full of free pop for the workers so we tend to go through quite a bit here.


on a side note, what inquisitive eyes your son has. Its like he is looking into your soul.

Awww, I got rep'd. I feel at home already. I may just stick around.

@Deank, yes, he does look into people's souls. He also steals their hearts. He's always had a weird, ethereal quality that tends to just melt people. Since he doesn't speak, it really works to help him connect with people. He has more close friends than his almost normal little brother :p

Thanks for your interest in helping out with the tabs program everyone.

Welcome to the Sandbox MissFae!

Interesting name Tarok. Is that from something or did you create that yourself?

There's a story behind it, but longer than I'd like to type. Suffice to say that I made it up initially and found out later that it's also a popular name in the middle east (thanks informative cab driver!), usually spelled "Terek" or "Tarek". I had never heard of it before I named my son, then in the next 8 years I have met at least 5 people who share the name. It's always pronounced pretty much the same (like Derek but with a T) with subtle differences based on spelling. We have met ONE person who shared the same spelling....out of all the places in the world, it happened in Children's hospital's 8 bed PICU (before the new one) where they were both patients at the same time. What are the odds huh?

According to informative cab driver, it means "close to God", which is pretty fitting given his etheral quality and matches his middle name, Piran (peer-un), which is Irish and means "prayer".

Also, somewhere out there is a gorgeous doctor with hypnotic blue eyes named Terek that I'd really like to do unspeakable things to. (He was a resident at Children's during a couple of Tarok's stints as an in-patient)

I put a lot of thought into naming that kid....then I gave my second son the most popular name for the year he was born (Ethan- 2004) :p

"I'd really like to do unspeakable things to."

LOL, yup... you will fit in on the sandbox.

Hehehe, you don't know the half of it :p

If you are still looking for some pics from this year.


http://schools.retsd.mb.ca/vg/news/Pages/TabsForWheelchairs.aspx

Yeah, I did find that one. Isn't Emma adorable? She was SO stoked to get her new chair. What I really wanted was a better picture of the rims on the wheels. They had these sort of knobs coming out of them to make it easier to grip and move the wheels. I was telling a friend about them because I think her son could really benefit from those things on his chair. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to get an idea what features are available for chairs in our system. The people who do the ordering for the chairs the government pays for can't even seem to find a footplate that doesn't have sharp, protruding objects that hurt Tarok's ankles and feet. I know it'll be different with his Tabs chair. The Tabs people encourage you to order all the bells and whistles, but if I can even find out what these things are called or show them to my friend and she could specifically ask for them, it would be very hard for the government to justify saying no to the expense of having them added to her son's existing chair.

My friend's son, Brandon also happens to be a super awesome, ethereal, heart stealing, super-kid :p

MissFae, gotta tell you.. I googled some stuff and you are all over the place


I hope the wheelchair you will be getting soon will help.

Yeah, I'm not really big on anonymity. I just hope you don't stumble on that amateur porn I made with those Quebecois drifters....

LOL great.. now I am going to be searching all night!

I haven't found it yet. I honestly don't think they ever did anything with it.
I'm curious now as to what exactly you googled and what you found :p

Tarok Manitoba

ended up reading about dogs

ooo and what your son's condition is

Oh yeah, me getting my b1tch on at the Fluffy's law rally? :p

As far as his condition goes....he's about to turn 8 in August. They said we'd have two years at best. Since he turned two, he has gone to Disney World to meet the Bear in the Big Blue House, become a big brother, got his first bike, made his first best friend and a few more really close friends since, learned his numbers 1-10 in ASL, learned how to recognize his entire class's written names, inspired countless people to be as awesome as they can be, taught his class how awesome rats are as pets and taught everyone around him how to talk without language. He's doing a-ok He hasn't even had a stint in the hospital in the last year or so.

aha.. now I remember why the name sounds familiar

Turok Son of Stone

(comic book... and apparently a movie in 2008... now I have to find something about the movie.. thanks.. I am gonna be googling quebec drifters and turok all night.. )