Agency:	MSDE	Writer:	John Rosson	
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Project:	JR McGraw	Director:		
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VIDEO 		AUDIO	
			
WS PANMS PORCHREVERSE OF CHIMES		(NAT FULL)
'windchimes'	
SIGN 'FRIENDS/RELATIVES'		(narrator track)
on a sleepy farm in worcester county, 	
RACK TO SIGN		where friends are friends and the humor home-grown --	
SOYBEAN CROP		soybeans stretch for miles --	
TOMATOES		tomatoes ripen in the sun --	
EXT. HOUSE/WAVY PLANTS		and the day has a natural flow.	
NAT FULL		(nat full)
'more chimes'	
DIZZ TO NAT FULL		(nat full)
'JR in tractor'	
TRACTOR HOLDINGCG - AUGUST 16, 2006         EDEN, MD (OUTSIDE SALISBURY)		(narrator tractor)
jim mcgrath -- 	
		('jr' to everyone here) --	
		tends his crops and minds his business.	
		he works with the timeless, easy care born of life on the 'shore.	
		and all was well, until his accident.	
SOT JRCG - JAMES 'JR' MCGRATH         WORCESTER COUNTY FARMER		(sot jim mcgrath)
'I stepped down off the tongue of a manure spreader, and I thought I had twisted my ankle, or I thought I had twisted my ankle, but I had broke it and I never went to the hospital for three days. Infection started into it.	
SOT JR		(sot jr)
'And finally they had to amputate, in October .. two year ago...'	
HIS ANKLE CLOSEUP IN TRACTOR		(narrator track)
the accident jr presumed a sprained ankle cost him his lower leg.	
		and nearly THE FARM.	
NAT FULL		(nat full)
'cars inbound on driveway'	
MEETING WS		(narrator track)
JR GOT HELP FROM FRIENDS HE DIDN'T KNOW HE HAD.	
CUTS OF MEETING/JIM/ANKLE		THE DIVISION OF REHABILITATION SERVICES, called 'dors', is THE LARGEST DIVISION OF THE MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.	
NAT FULLCG - NANCY S. GRASMICK         MD SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT		(nancy at demo)
'In the last six years, more than 65 Eastern shore farmers have been helped through this entity...'	
NAT FULL JR		(NAT FULL jr)
'They added a step on where... it's a hard job to reach up there...where I have a step here now I can enter the tractor...'	
STEPS		(narrator track)
dors provided assistive devices --	
		from a lower step on his tractor --	
HIM WALKING		to a prosthetic device so he can walk.	
SOT JR OUTSIDE		(sot jr outside)
'I've never had any help from anybody in my life except for these two hands, I mean it was a different ballpark for me altogether...'	
SOT NANCY GRASMICK		(sot nancy grasmick)
'Mr. McGrath would have had to stop his farming. He farms a thousand acres, and this is continuing that operation because of what the Divison of Rehabilitation Services was able to do for him.'	
FOLKS IN CROWD		(narrator track)
DORS, AND MARYLAND WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW OF THese SERVICES.	
SOT ROBERT BURNSCG - ROBERT BURNS        ASS'T. SUP'T., DORS		(sot robert burns)
'The prosthesis, the modifications to the home and the equipment, but it's really the support, the person-to-person support, the encouragement...'	
SOT ROBERT BURNS		(sot robert burns)
'... is important.'	
NAT FULL KRISTEN COX		(nat full)
'Was it difficult for you, overall?'	
NAT FULL JR		(nat full jr)
'Well, the mental part was the worst.'	
SHOTS KRISTEN & JR		(narrator track)
PEOPLE SUCH AS KRISTEN COX, MARYLAND'S SECRETARY OF DISABILITIES, know firsthand the value of the help.	
SOT KRISTEN COXCG - KRISTEN COX         SECRETARY, MD DEPT. OF         DISABILITIES		(SOT KRISTEN COX)
'I'm blind, and when we work in a field of disability, I think 50% of our battle is overcoming stigma, overcoming low expectations. 	
SOT KRISTEN COX		(sot kristen cox)
'it's getting people to believe it's possible.'	
			
JR VIDEO		(NARRATOR TRACK)
YEARS AGO, THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.	
		BUT TODAY DOORS OPEN TO PEOPLE LIKE JR --	
NAT FULL JR		(NAT FULL INSIDE - jr music under)
'knowing that you can keep on workin' ... knowing that you're just not an invalid...'	
NAT FULL JR		(nat full jr)
'... and I want to thank you all for bein' here. (claps)	
EXT. FARM PULLOUT		(narrator track)
and life goes on ... down on the farm.	
		this is msde tv.	
HOLDING SHOT		(music sting)