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Connect Issue 3

• Welcome to Connect
• Dad speaks out for better access
• Recognition for unsung heroes
• Carer thrives on laughter
• Disability the mother of invention
• Love wins through
• Rocky road to romance
• Single, happy and in no rush to meet Mr Right
• Challenges and change help to strengthen love
• Quality in Queensland
• Home designs that work for everyone
• What difference can a job make?
• School's out.What next?
• Getting involved with Limbkids
• Accessing your Queensland getaway
• Champs honoured!
• Creation builds pride, purpose and peace
• Surfers riding wave of success
• Remembering Roy ‘the lad' — a great paralympian
• Disability Information Awareness Line
• Out and about

Remembering Roy ‘the lad’ – a great paralympian

Roy Fowler's love of sports took him from Tokyo and Tel-Aviv to Heidelberg and Toronto as one of Australia 's paralympian.

Yet, despite a swag of gold medals - more than 100 in total - and a career spanning 40 years and a number of sports including javelin, shot put, discus, table tennis, swimming and his beloved archery, it is for his loveable larrikinism that those who were close to him remember him most fondly.

While Roy passed away last year, his legend lives on - and just this month he was posthumously awarded the title of "Greatest Athlete with a Disability Award" at the Greatest Ever Sports Stars evening in Brisbane.