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HELPING CANAAN – Can of Worms will be performing at the Guild Theatre this weekend. Ticket sales will be shared with Canaan Care Centre. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Can of Worms SA to perform for Canaan

Over the past 28 weeks, we’ve brought you news about the Fit for Logan (FFL) Challenge and how it relates to Logan Bartle, Cerebral Palsy and Canaan Care Centre. This week we bring you something unconnected to the FFL Challenge and yet…

‘Serving from the heart’ Gary’s motto

Caring orthotist and prosthetist helps improve little Logan Bartle’s quality of mobility and his life We recently shared a bit about Paul Fick, the paramedic who tends to be the first responder on duty when Logan Bartle needs assistance…

FACE BEHIND THE NAME: Little Logan Bartle’s smile lights up the world and encourages us to persevere to achieve our goals to assist him Picture: SUPPLIED

Help Logan and the Canaan Centre

Weight-loss fundraiser comes to end in October Wednesday October 6, 2021 will see the culmination of a whole lot of hard effort and an immense amount of weight lost since the campaign was launched in March this year. We have faced a…

LOVING LOGAN: The local Fit for Logan Challenge is aimed at raising funds towards three-year old Logan Bartle’s medical expenses and to create awareness about cerebral palsy Picture : SUPPLIED

We can all play our part to help

Sponsor challenge participants to lose weight and contribute towards Logan’s medical expenses Four months have gone by since the Fit For Logan Challenge was launched and we now have just a further three months in which to reach our weight…

MIND OVER MATTER: Wendy Kretschmann shares her inspirational journey so far with the Fit for Logan Challenge

Changing habits and mindsets is not impossible

The Fit for Logan Challenge article published on April 15 was titled “A season of change”. My weight loss journey has proven that headline to be very appropriate, as I have changed many of the bad habits I had amassed over time (pun…

SA CHAMPIONS: Paralympians, from left, Ernst van Dyk, Jonathan Ntutu, Union Sekailwe, Charl Bouwer and Natalie du Toit celebrate during SA’s 2012 Paralympics held in London. Picture: VELI NHLAPO

Celebrating athletes with cerebral palsy

Athletes conquer condition to succeed The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games is set to open on Tuesday August 24 and will end on Sunday September 5, 2021 which was postponed from 2020 due to Covid. The first Paralympic Games were hosted in Rome,…

AQUA THERAPY: Swimming is an essential form of therapy at Canaan Care Centre. Picture: LEIGH TEBBUTT

Enabling activities boost your motor functionality

Cerebral palsy sufferers benefit from therapeutic stimulation and exercise Though cerebral palsy does hold restrictions, there are still sufferers who have sufficient functionality that enables them to participate in activities that…

ROOM TO IMPROVE: The GO! & Express team will be decorating a room at Canaan Care Centre. Picture: LEIGH TEBBUTT

Adopt a room at Canaan Care Centre

Come on board with GO! & Express as part of your 67 minutes Nelson Mandela International Day or Mandela Day as it has come to be called provides a unique opportunity for the global community to offer humanitarian aid to honour the life…

Logan Bartle turns three

Monday, May 31 2021 was a day of celebration in the Bartle household as Logan Trevor Bartle turned 3 years of age. Celebrations began a couple of days prior to that though when the occasion was marked by a party compliments of Venom Pit…

FITTING CAUSE –  The official logo for the Fit for Logan challenge

Progress in our fitness challenge

It has been 11 weeks since the majority of us began our journey with the Fit for Logan Challenge. This puts us at around one third of the way into the 29-week challenge which sees Tubs Lingham (Pot O Curry owner), Caron Troskie (Link FM…

LIVING AND LOVING: Hayley Bartle holds her son Logan during a visit to the beach when he was two. Picture: SUPPLIED

Logan’s mom tells her tale

Born by C-section at 27 weeks, weighing 760g It’s important for us all to remember that Logan Bartle is not only a little boy who has cerebral palsy – he is also a son, grandson, nephew and cousin. Though the focus of the Fit for Logan…

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: Liezel Wellen with Missy, her Boston Terrier. Picture: SUPPLIED

Living with cerebral palsy

Liezel Wellen explains what it is like to have CP “When one has a disability it is important to know and understand your limitations. I know mine and so do things at my own pace. My sister-in-law says I have Selectapalsy. But on a serious…

Caring for Canaan

“Every child with a disability should be treated with love, respect and dignity and be given the best life that one can give them. Treat disabled children as you would everyone else and remember that just because they cannot speak does…

FITTING CAUSE – The official logo for the Fit for Logan challenge

What is cerebral palsy?

“Fit for Logan” aims to raise funds for Logan Bartle who has CP. Over the past few weeks, a few of the participants have shared a bit about their journey and why they joined the “Fit for Logan” campaign. The goal of the campaign is…

NETWORK OF SUPPORT: Wendy Kretschmann is losing weight in order to help Logan Bartle. Picture: SUPPLIED

A season of change

Pictures of me as a baby show chubby cheeks and so-called bangles around my wrists. I lost some of my ‘baby fat’ by the time I was four or five years old, but regained it at a time when I developed a penchant for a particular carbonated…