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Welcome to Omaha’s monkey Party, the only one of its kind locally. Each month these foster parents get together to talk about the trials and tribulations of raising another baby, only this time it’s *** baby monkey. What’s it been like having her? Wild. I retired and I thought, well, I’m really not doing *** lot with my retirement time and I thought, you know, I, um. That would be *** good thing to get into. And so I did, and now sometimes I wonder what have I done. Joanne Pelner has had Callie for about 8 months, what could be called 8 long months of 2 a.m. bottle feedings and diaper changes. Nellie Gray got Cranston about the same time Joanne got Callie. She says you have to be willing to put up with *** lot of monkey business. you have to get your eyeglasses adjusted. Yeah, I think we’ll have to stop and do that on the way home tonight. He’s really had them today. and Michael Wilmot have had Woody for about 1 year. Each of the monkeys will remain in their foster parents’ care for the 1st 4 years of their lives. Then they’ll go back to Boston, where they’ll be trained by the Helping Hands Project to care for quadriplegics in wheelchairs. That’s the main goal, I think, of Helping Hands is to take *** person and let them become independent if that means allowing. Them to live in their own apartment instead of in *** parent’s home. The foster parents put *** lot of time, effort, and love into socializing their monkeys on human terms. Louise Wilmot has taken Woody to local high schools to talk about helping hands. At one point, she and Woody visited with children in wheelchairs, and Louise proudly relates how Woody really seemed to sense something different about these kids. But in that classroom with the wheelchairs, he was calm and just very, very. loving. It was just really neat. Each of the foster parents say the hardest part about taking in *** monkey will be letting it go 4 years from now, but all say it’s *** rewarding job they may do again once they get over the loss. It’s not easy becoming *** foster parent for helping hands. You have to be home about 10 hours *** day. You can’t hold *** full-time job, and you can’t have kids under the age of 10 under your care. That’s so the monkey gets your undivided attention.
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Omaha residents get together with their monkey fosters to discuss trials and tribulations of raising a baby
Omaha’s monkey party was the only one of its kind locally in 1991.Each month foster parents would get together to talk about the trials and tribulations of raising another baby, only this time it was a baby monkey.”I retired and thought, well, I’m really not doing a lot with my retirement time. And I thought, you know, that would be a good things to get into. So, I did, and now sometimes I wonder what have I done,” said Callie’s foster mom.See all of the monkey business in the video above.More from the KETV Archives:Tyrell Spain practices with Nebraska football for first time in 2006, a year after joining team”I would tell you that he was one of the players that made the most progress during the winter conditioning program from the first day that we had timed him until the last day when we finalized the for,” Coach Callahan said.’We just heard the roar’: Portsmouth, Iowa, man reflects on tornado that leveled town in 1940″We just heard the roar. I would say like a freight train. At first it knocked all the windows out of the north side,” said a Portsmouth resident.
Omaha’s monkey party was the only one of its kind locally in 1991.
Each month foster parents would get together to talk about the trials and tribulations of raising another baby, only this time it was a baby monkey.
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“I retired and thought, well, I’m really not doing a lot with my retirement time. And I thought, you know, that would be a good things to get into. So, I did, and now sometimes I wonder what have I done,” said Callie’s foster mom.
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Tyrell Spain practices with Nebraska football for first time in 2006, a year after joining team
“I would tell you that he was one of the players that made the most progress during the winter conditioning program from the first day that we had timed him until the last day when we finalized the for,” Coach Callahan said.
‘We just heard the roar’: Portsmouth, Iowa, man reflects on tornado that leveled town in 1940
“We just heard the roar. I would say like a freight train. At first it knocked all the windows out of the north side,” said a Portsmouth resident.
