Byline: United Press International
Dina Parker hunched over a table she shares with other mentally retarded adults Tuesday, and with scissors snipped loose threads that hung from a special leg bandage designed for racehorses she is helping to manufacture.
"You got to get those threads right off," the 34-year-old woman said with evident pride. "I've made as much as $62 a day doing this. I'm saving up to get married to my boyfriend next June."
Parker and 80 other mentally retarded people have been making what Saratoga Horseworks - a shelter industry for mentally retarded adults located near the Saratoga Race Course - describes as an innovation in …
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