Double amputee veteran receives scooter – The Northern View

Nov 2, 2016

A double amputee in Lax Kw’alaams, who had been home-bound, received an electric scooter this month, enabling him to move around his community again.

Through money collected in the Legion’s Poppy Fund, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 27 in Prince Rupert donated the $4,660 scooter to Norman Brooks, who had served in the army reserve as a young man. Pat Lewis, a nurse in Lax Kw’alaams, who worked with Brooks had tried to reach out to many organizations on the North Coast to assist in improving her client’s livelihood, but it was the legion that came through in the end.

“It was very exciting actually. I had gone to a lot of different service groups,” Lewis said. Brooks enlisted in the army reserve, Irish Fusiliers, in 1962.

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