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Child marshal a first for a Shriners’paradeThe Shriners really broke with tradition when they named 15-year-old Cindy Radford parade marshal for two Shrine parades this week^Cindy is the first child parade marshal in a Shrine parade anywhere in North America, and the first female to lead a Shrine parade In Canada.Shriners usually bestow parade marshal honors on prominent Shriners.So the Shriners saluted the International Year of the Child and named Cindy parade marshall. The gesture is also symbolic of the Shriners* concern for handicapped children.Cindy was bom without a right forearm. Last winter the Shriners gave her a myoelectric arm, a life-like prosthe-ses valued at about $3,000.Cindy said in an interview she was “very excited to learn she would be part of the parade.The grade 10 student plays basketball at Sisler High School, and enjoys swimming. .Cindy had only one negative thing to say about the myoelectric arm: “It’s very heavy, especially in the summer,”Once Cindy gets used to the arm’s heaviness, a wrist-action will be installed into the arm. The artifieal wrist will enable her to use the arm to perform such tasks as installing light bulbs.Cindy is able to open and close the myoelectric arm's hand by pressing her upper arm’« muscles against electrodes inside the prostheses. •The result is a grasp strong enough to “squish a Coke can.The first obstacle Cindy encountered, in learning to use the German-made arm, was reading the instructions. They were all in German.Cindy and her family thought there must be something wrong with the arm, because it didn't seem to work. Later they found the off-on switch.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Aug 21, 1979
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