Castlégar News ‘Jenvary 10, 1988 Hawaii crime ‘lowest ever’ HONOLULU (CP) — Po- lice Chief Douglas Gibb free ly admits this Hawaiian cap ital isn't as safe as Toronto, “but then I can't think of any North American city that is.” Having just returned from an international meeting of police chiefs in Toronto, Gibb insists Honolulu's beefed up police force and tougher laws have restored Hawaii's image as a paradise unspoilt by crime. “Back in the days when crime became a factor for Canadians, Honolulu really took a bad rap,” Gibb says. But today's crime rate — “our lowest ever” — repre- sents a 30-per-cent drop from During that year, hardly a day went by without reports of muggings, robberies, thefts, rapes and murders, including a series of attacks on Canadian tourists whigh prompted Ottawa to make a formal protest to the U.S. government. There were 65 murders in Honolulu in 1980, a record for the city of just under a million. A British Columbia man was shot and killed while camping on a remote beach on the big island of Hawaii. Weeks later a man from Aldergrove, B.C., was badly beaten and his family terrorized by a group of local youths. The publicity hurt the tourist trade and the number of Canadian visitors steadily dropped. The 1976 record of 300,000 is still unmatched a decade later. But Gibb points out that less than five per cent of Honolulu's crime victims are tourists, and he doesn't see any repetition of the sudden surge in violent crime that made headlines seven years ago. Situated on Oahu — the most populous island in the Hawaiian chain — Honolulu is a beautiful city which, despite its size, has retained many of the pleasant attri- butes of a small town. Almost a city itself, the Waikiki area provides a flamboyant contrast to the staid amosphere of down town, just six kilometres north. Gibb's office at police headquarters is midway be tween the two. “Our biggest problem is theft of personal property,” Gibb says. don’t mean to cast aspersians on our visi tors, but they simply don’t take care with their things.” He says it's unfortunate to have to worry about your camera, “but this is a tourist destination and there are people just waiting for some- one to be careless.” He notes that some airlines have agreed to return crime victims to Hawaii free of charge to testify in court, ' Gerry Goodridge, a spokesman for Canadian Air- lines International, says his company reviews each case individually, but only five people had to be returned during 1986. Ina state where marijuana has joined sugar cane and pineapple as one of the biggest cash crops, it’s not surprising to hear Gibb cite drugs as a major problem. “We have trouble with prostitution too,” he adds, “so in that sense we've just like any other city.” Hired as police chief in 1983, Gibb says the sug. gestion that racial tensions led to the crime wave of 1980 was overblown by the media. “It’s really no different here than in any other city, the factors are just the Gibb’s reassurances sound almost chilling “T'd like to say a few things to Canadians about Waikiki. One is that we now have an assignment of police officers — plainclothes and in uniform which is three or four times the number we had seven years ago. And we have a police substation near the beach, right on the main drag.” How to make your New Year resolutions work TORONTO (CP) The spare tire around your mid dle is a constant reminder that you're 15 pounds over weight. You can live with the extra baggage, but you re- solve to shed it because you envy your best friend's svelte shape. Resolutions go hand in hand with the parties that ring in every new year. If those resolutions are moti. vated by guilt or social pressure, there's a high rate of failure, says Lee Pulos, a psychologist at the Univer. sity of British Columbia in Vancouver. “If it becomes and ‘I have to’ rather than an ‘I want to,’ it’s almost assured that’res- olution won't work,” says Pulos. The 60-year-old Calgary native has produced more than 40 cassettes on hyp- nosis, learning through re petition and self-talk — the art of talking to yourself — to help people change their thinking but building con fidence and self-esteem. He has worked with the Edmonton Oilers hockey team and the Canadian na tional ski team and has coun selled cancer patients. Losing weight, quitting smoking, working on stress management and _ building goals, write them down and continue to reinforce them. Most successful athletes and politicians do this. Pulos has a five-step pro cess to setting successful goals. Make sure it’s something you really want rather than what someone else desires or and self-est are tops on the list of resolutions people make Jan. 1, Pulos says. Only 10 per cent of the people he deals with succeed in keeping their resolutions, he adds. “If all of a sudden you set a goal to lose X number of pounds, your self-image automatically says, ‘I can't do that’ or ‘It’s never worked before.” “People learn more effic iently when they're relaxed. You have to crystallize your goals and get a clear vision of where you want to go. “The most successful people set daily or weekly CANADA'S FIRST Kids’ cancer ca KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) — The freckle-faced girl in the pink snowsuit looks like any other child riding a toboggan until she removes her hat and Uncovers an almost bald head. Desiree’s checks and chin are painted red like a clown's and only a few strands of hair, yellow and fine as corn tassels, are growing from her scalp ‘because of the drugs she takes to fight cancer. But for five days recently at Camp, Trillium, Desiree and 47 other children forgot their illnesses, hospitals and wigs and just acted like kids again — painting thier faces, playing pranks on grown-ups, throwing snowballs and rid. ing toboggans. “I've never been to camp before, but it's fun and I like doing crafts,” the seven-year. old from Ingersoll, Ont., says, explaining what it's like at what is believed to be Can ada’s first winter camp for children with cancer. Inside the camp recreation centre, the youngsters from across southwestern Ontario wait i ii ly for lunch, mashed potatoes. “You don't want to sit at home thinking you're going to die. So you come here and you have fun and then you know you're not alone any more.” The sounds and sights around camp all seem com mon enough. Yet, as camp founder John Maher ex- plains, the commonplace be comes extraordinary for chil dren who may not see another winter. “There aren't a lot of places dying children can go and have fun,” says Maher, a 26-year-old medical ethics student from the University of Western Ontario in Lon. don. “But getting away from home for a few days, getting into nature and playing with other children, has a tremen- dous therapeutic effect.” Maher, who as a boy lost his best friend to cancer, started a summer camp for children with cancer three years ago in London. He has seen his dreams grow into a provincial network offering to more than 300 banging tables with their fists and setting cutlery rat- tling. NOT ALONE “Cancer's not a fun thing to have,” says 13-year-old Paul Bechberger of London, scooping up a forkful of youngsters last summer “Adults expect and de. mand when what is expected of you. e Write the goal down. e Draw a picture so you have a visual representation of what the goal looks like. “People move toward what they picture in their mind.” e Bring the future into the present as=if the goal has already happened. “By laying neurological tracks, the goal becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.” e And, repeat your goal to yourself and positively rein. force it. “Turn negative thoughts into affirmations by stopping yourself in the middle of a bad thought and replacing it with, ‘Boy, will I look good 15 pounds lighter.” mp fun of 15-member adult staff. Half assistant are part the the campers are siblings of children who have cancer or who have died of the disease. Two campers have arti- ficial limbs, two are bald from chemotherapy and others are recovering from surgery. For many youngsters who have attended Camp Trillium before, the five-day winter camp is a reunion. Some have beaten cancer and inspire the others, Maher says. The children know some of them won't recover. Since last summer's camp, two children have died. And some may spend much of 1988 in hospital. Until now, Maher has rented sites for his camps. In 1989, Camp Trillium will open at a permanent location on an island near Picton, where facilities for cancer patients and their families and a conference centre for the Ontario Cancer Society will be devel The land and $1 million are committed to the program, Maher-says, with most of the money coming from a ho- telier who wishes to remain anonymous. they're having a hard time,” he says. “Children didn't have the same opportun- ities.” Two nurses and a nurse's Get Your Message Across Fast! 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