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As Castlegar News November 20, 1983

Children warned of sexual abuse

“I was at the Fairview Mall in Kitchener collecting -

OTTAWA (CP) — Children should be warned about
sexual abuse in the s4me way they are taught about the
dangers of fire or. playing in traffic, says a volunteer group
devoted to helping abused children.

The southern Ontario group, Citizens Concerned with
Crimes Against Children, has published a coloring book to
help’ parents educate their children about abuse.

“There's a far greater chance that your child will be a
victim of sexual abuse in one form or another before she
reaches puberty than the chance of her being hospitalized by
a fire or traffic accident," said group spokesman Judy

“That includes daddy, grandpa, the next-door neighbor,
the swimming coach. Children who practice saying no to
adults will be able to say no to strangers, too.”

The eight-page coloring book titled Talking and
Drawing About It, tells parents: “For most children, saying
‘no’ to an adult goes against everything we teach them.

“We like our children to be polite, pleasant, compliant
and co-operative with adults, on the correct premise that
most adults would never betray that precious trust.

“By teaching our children the principles of self, owner-.
ship, feelings and trust, we can equip them with the moral

th and

Harding in a telephone interview from Ki

“We spent two years planning this book because
parents have trouble broaching the subject with their
children.” ‘ ‘

The issue is important because 50 per cent of verified
abuse cases reported through Family and Children’s
Services to the Ontario government in 1981 were sexual and
80 per cent of those cases involved someone known to the
child, added Harding.

Statistics Canada figures show that one in four girls and

to say ‘No!’ when the situation
demands it.” :

The simple line drawings of everyday situations are

by htforward for parents to
read along with children five years old and up.

“Private places are covered up by your swim suit,” the
book states. “Your body belongs to you. You decide who gets
to see it and touch it.”

The group began in 1981 when two lenient sentences in

London, Ont., court brought a public outcry. The cases
Ived at

id who had been raped. by her grand-

one in 10 boys are sexually before hing
puberty.

“Rather than talking about strangers in the park,
parents should teach their children that it’s OK to say no to
anybody who makes them feel uncomfortable or who touches
their body,” she said.

y
father and four girls under nine years old who had been
raped by their stepfather over a period of several years.

A petition to the federal government garnered 40,000
signatures in just eight weeks from people who wanted to
express their of the light

She helps poor fight for rights

WINNIPEG (CP) — Helping the poor fight for their
welfare rights is more than just a job for Olga Foltz, who
tries to ensure they receive the help she once needed
herself.

Foltz is director of the Manitoba Anti-Poverty Organ-
ization, formed about 18 months ago to help’ welfare
recipients deal with the system.

Foltz, who saw her own life all but crumble, tries to
make sure Winnipeg’s 6,000-odd welfare recipients get their
cheques on time, and helps them battle landlords and find
decent food and clothing.

“The number of people who have to ask for welfare.
assistance in this city and throughout Manitoba has grown
by leaps and bounds and there is increasing frustration and
anger about this, particularly from people who have never
had to go on welfare,” Foltz said in an interview.

Her organization, formed with a $8,000 grant from
various churches, runs for welfare i to
make sure they aren't short-changed.

“Our relations with officials are fine but we find that
caseworkers do hassle people unnecessarily in their efforts
to find those who are abusing the system,” said Foltz, whose
personal life was all but shattered by an alcoholic husband.

Abandoned by her husband, and with six children to
feed, “we were going down, down, down,” she recalled.

The family was soon on welfare — and Olga Foltz came

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840 Rossland Ave, Trail

to know first hand what it’s like to hassle with officialdom.
She moved her. family six times in six years and what

she remembers most are the hassles with the welfare office

for rent money and the h from the many lar

she met.

“I was a very naive person. But then, I really had no
reason not to be. I didn’t look into the community. I didn't
know who the mayor was, who the premier was, in fact I
couldn't tell you the difference.”

Things changed fast.

Foltz became the first Winnipeg woman to conduct her
own divorce proceedings without a lawyer, went on to form
a self-help group for divorced people and a broader organ-
ization known as the Winnipeg Council of Self-Help.

MUCH TO LEARN

Most people who come to her office now are either too
upset or uninformed about the welfare system to know who
to deal with at government offices, Foltz said.

“There are also those who are too depressed and too.

proud even to apply for assistance.” 4
Recent statistics show that as of Oct. 81, about 6,000

people in Winnipeg were on welfare, a 27 per cent increase

from the same period last year. Of the 1,788 people who

began collecting welfare last month, about five per cent had

their benefits. +

When the Anti-Poverty Organization was formed last
year, Foltz jumped into the ring and hasn't stopped fighting.
Foltz says she just wants to make sure everyone in the
welfare system has a heart. { Y
“Then we can figure out the basic needs.”

signatures and an elderly woman was shaking s0 much as
she signed the paper that I told her she was under no
obligation to add her name if she didn’t agree with the
statement,” Harding recalled.

“She replied that she certainly did agree with it because
she had been a victim of sexual abuse from the time she was
four until she was 14, and this was the first time she had
ever told anybody. She was 84, and she had kept the secret
all those years because she thought she would be told she
was to blame,”

The citizens’ group also has branches in the Ontario

cities of Cambridge and St. Thomas.:

Self-help groups have begun for teenagers and adults.
who were molested as children, and parents of recent
victims of sexual abuse. Sey.

The group hopes to be able to make a film for parents
and children from the proceeds of the coloring book sales.

The $2.60 coloring book is available from Citizens
Concerned with Crime Against Children; P.O. Box 1715,
Station C, Kitchener, Ont., N2G 4R8.

Ottawa
won't stop}
Alberta

OTTAWA (CP) — Ottawa
would not try to stop Alberta
from opting out of provisions
of the Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, Jus-
tice Minister Mark MacGui-
gan said Friday.

The federal government: |.
would regret such a decision
but would be powerless to
step in, he told reporters as
he left the Commons.

Alberta Attorney General
Neil Crawford said the prov-
ince would pass a law over-
riding some charter provi-
sions if necessary to enforce a
ban on strikes in the public
service.

The Alberta Union of Pro-
vincial Employees has been
planning a court challenge of
provincial labor law, main-
taining that the strike ban
violates freetiom of associ-
ation and other rights.

MacGuigan said the power
to opt out of certain charter
provisions was “a regrettable
concession” made when con:
stitutional changes were neg-_
otiated with the provinces in
1981. i:

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Hotel
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VANCOUVER (CP) —
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are furious over what they
believe are excessive conces-
sions in a tentative contract
agreement between the B.C.
Hotels Association and Local
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“It puts the hospitality
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“We're never going to
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Hotels association presi-’
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Local 40 secretary Ron Bonar
have been unavailable: for
comment, and did not answer
messages left for them.

Langley said Local 40
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critical issues of contracting-
out, date of expiry and shift
schedules while failing to win
wage increases to cover anti-
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The expiry date moves to
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By CHERYL CALDERBANK
Staff Writer

Coaching two levels of the same sport, non-stop for
an eight-week period every fall with almost no breaks and
for almost two decades, makes anyone overdue for a
change.

For the past 16 years, coach Verna Chernoff has

. devoted over two years — eight weeks per year — to
coaching field hockey at both the junior. and senior level

‘ But now, she says it's time for a change — at least

) from coaching senior field hockey. It's time to try a
different sport,

In the senior Rockettes’ 11 years in the West
Kootenay high school-league, Chernoff has led them to
the title nine times, pretty good for a coach who, when
she started her teaching career 20 years ago, didn't even
know what field hockey was.

Chernoff began coaching field hockey in her native
Nova Scotia. In her first year of teaching in the Anapolis
Valley, she went with the intention of coaching girls’
soccer, a sport she herself had played in high school,

“along with volleyball.

But a male teacher explained that the girls didn't
play soccer, they played field hockey.

“I didn't have a ‘clue what it was,” she says.

The teacher gave her a stick and ball and a copy of
Marjorie Pollar!’s field hockey “manual. Following the
book through to the end, her team managed to win the
provincial championship two years in a row, Chernoff
laughs, retelling the story in her little office, surrounded
with field hockey memorabilia.

Chernoff got her training as a physical education
teacher at the Nova Scotia Teachers’ College, taking a
two-year general: training program, followed by PE
training through the Nova Scotia Summer School
program. She took more training at Notre Dame in
Nelson, after moving to Castlegar and eventually got her
Master's degree at Gonzaga University in Spokane.

She decided to pursue physical education as a careet
because of her interest in sports. and on the recom-
mendation of a fellow teacher. *
Her move to Castlegar resulted from someone who
dared her to apply for a position across the country — at a
:time when female PE teachers were a real rarity and
,when it was common for teachers to apply “all over the
country.”

A position came up a J.L.. Crowe in Trail in the

iS provincial paper and Chernoff tookithe dare and applied.

; But fhe position bad already been filled and her name was
Castlegar School District, who needed a teacher at
Stanley Humphries. '

At 1 a.m. the phone rang. It was the. school district
offering her the job, but Chernoff thought it was the
people who dared her, playing pranks.

“Three calls later I started taking the calls seriously
and'said yes to the job,” she says.

_ Coach w

‘ansferred to -Claude Bissell, superintendent of ~

The district had forgotten about the four-hour time
difference. é

The 24-year-old Chernoff after teaching in Nova
Scotia for four years drove across the country, having no
idea what Castlegar — which didn't even appear on the
map — was like.

When she came to the overpass by the junction she
was impresséd — until she drove through to the railway
tracks by the ferry. There was no through road, as the
dam had not yet been built.

“I thought, ‘My God, that’s Castlegar,’ and went back
to the Flamingo Motel and cried for two days.”

“I thought I was coming to the big time when I came
to the overpass.” ef 5

When she first began teaching here, Chernoff admits
she didn't like field hockey ‘much.

“I did volleyball. I did field hockey to try something
different.”

At that time, it was the norm for a PE teacher to
coach every team. When she came here — the only female
instructor among two men — she did just that. She
coached field hockey, volleyball and basketball at both
the junior and senior levels.

“It was kind of expected in you,” she says.

She has continued coaching both levels of field
hockey, and is confident, principal Loch Farrell will be
albe to find someone to do the job.

In the past, her fall leisure time has been restricted.
For eight weeks in the fall every weekend except
Thanksgiving is taken up by games or tournaments.

In fact, the day before the recent teachers’ strike
was the first time in eight weeks she was able to gé home
at supper time since schoo] commenced. :

“That's the workload: a coach goes through,” she
explains. “Crazy hours.” .

The first week after all the intensity — which ends
with the provincials — is her chance to recuperate and
become a “basket case.” Now she's ready to start some
other activity — like playing badminton, cross-country
skiing in the winter and golfing in the summer, with her
husband Harry. She also reads works by Sydney
Sheldon, her favorite author.

Then in the spring it’s back to field hockey helping
with background work for summer games and regional
teams.

Chernoff's involvement in field hockey also extends
to the provincial level. She was a past commissioner on
the B.C. ‘for junior devel

.. And she has noticed a dramatic growth of the sport .

on the girls’ side in the past 10 years. Girls’ soccer now
seems to be on 'the move.

Presently, schools are trying to coordinate the two
sports in order that girls will be able to take part in both
sports.

. "You will see girls’ soccer come very quickly,” she
says. “Some of the high schools have introduced soccer
tournaments for girls on an invitational basis. You will

ants a change

see it become a West Kootenay high school sport very
quickly.” ,

The problem in Castlegar is finding field facilities.
The fields are usually booked up with field hockey, boys’
soccer, and track and field.

Schools which have started a girls soccer program
are those who don't offer field hockey. Chernoff also notes
that field hockey and soccer are very similar.

What made the Rockettes a winning team?

“Hard work, self respect and pride in accomplishing
something they have set out to do,” she says.

Because Chernoff feels she doesn’t know the sport
very well and has never played it in her life, she tends to
stress team work and cooperation.

She feels that one of her faults as a coach is the fact
that a lot of talent has come through the program and she
hasn't been able to develop their skills to a high enough
level.

“People who have been sent to trial to B.C. teams, .
have been cut because of lack of skill. It's a real disap-
pointment,” she says. But she has had players on
university teams.

“All I can do is make the university coaches aware
that a player is there with talent,” she says. “The
problem is sometimes the players don't always have
enough confidence to try out.”

What does she look for in a player?

“Coachability,” willingness to learn, quickness,
physical strength, ability to read a play and specific
skills, such as a quick stick and ball movement.

“What they will look for coming from here (the
Kootenays) is a kid's willingness to learn and to catch up.”

Making a regional or summer games team,
competing ona provincial level, also helps in order for the
player to see what real field hockey is all about.

Looking back on the years, Chernoff remembers the
serious best i at the provi was when
her 1979 team finished seventh. In 1974 the team won the
consolation round, but to Chernoff that has always meant
ninth place.

“If we can get into the winners’ side of the
championship, we have done very well. Our team plays
eight weeks and competes against kids who play all year
round,” she notes. ae

When Chernoff goes home to Nova Scotia in. the
summer, many of her former players will still tease her
about one year when she and the team were driving to

_the proviricial championships at Halifax.

“I went into the Angus 1. Macdonald bridge and I ga
didn't know what massive thing this wag. 1 thought it was
the high school we were to play at and I parked at the
entrance to the bridge. Then the car stalled and wouldn't
go. I was definitely from the country.”

-But the nicest things in the 20 years of hing came

DUE FOR A CHANGE... .
Stanley Humphries field
hockey coach Verna Cher-
noff, is

retiring from

this year when her team won the sportsmanship award at
the provincials. ;

field hockey after 16 years.

Senior Rock

—CotNewsPhoto by Chery! Calderbank

Rockettes
fail to
win title

L.V. Rogers Secondary
School of Nelson beat Trail’s
J.L. Crowe three games to
two Thursday night to win
the West Kootenay senior
girls volleyball title and ad-
vance to the provincial cham-
pionships next weekend.

L.V. Rogers beat Trail.
with scores of 16-14 15-11 and
16-11, while Trail won two,
matches 16-2 and 15-12.

Stanley Humphries lost
both of its matches against
Nelson and Trail. They lost
16-10 and 16-13 to Nelson and
17-15 and 15-7 to Trail.

SHSS coach Bruna Horcoff
said the girls played the best,
that they could as a team, but
just didn’t have the depth to
come through as winners.

“We had a good first game
against Trail, where we
should have beat them,” she
noted.

Diddlers
beat —
Hi Arrow

The Dam Inn Diddlers beat
Hi Arrow Arms 19-17 Thurs-
day night in Castlegar Dart
League play, giving the Did-
dlers a total of four wins and
one-tie over Hi Arrow with
two wins and one tie.

The top five teams this
week are Mark Earle and
Steven Spence of the Hi Ar-
row lead with 29 wins.
Teammates John Wilson and

Nick Smith are second with i

27. Frank Loukianoff and El. HANDS UP . . . Stanley Humphries Senior Rockette Anita Briggeman sets ball in
mer Pelerine of the Dam Inn volleyball game against L.V. Rogers T!
Kootenay title. L.V. Rogers won ch

are third with 25 points,

hursday night during playoff action for West

OILERS OVER NEW JERSEY
Kurri picks up five goals

EDMONTON (CP) — Jari Kurri had five goals, Willy
Lindstrom three goals and Wayne Gretzky picked up eight
points Saturday night to pace Edmonton to a 10-4 victory
over the Devils.

Gretzky had three goals and five assists to give him 64
points on the season and extend his consecutive games
points streak to all 21 games this season. It's the first time
this season he has had eight points in a game.

He went into the game 18 points and three goals ahead
of his 1981-82 pace when he finished with NHL records of 212
points and 92 goals.

me MAPLE LEAFS 5 DETROIT 4

TORONTO (CP) — John Anderson's power-play goal
with five minutes and 63 seconds remaining lifted Toronto to
a 6-4 victory over the Red Wings.

Detroit defenceman Reed Larson was sitting out a
holding penalty when Anderson, parked at the edge of the
Red Wings crease, deflected Jim Benning’s slap shot from
the blue line past goaltender Greg Stefan.

for his 16th and 17th goals of the season for the Leafs. The
team's No. 1 shooter had scored only once in eight previous
games. A
BUFFALO 5 CALGARY 2

CALGARY (CP) — Buffalo scored three third-period
goals Saturday night, beating the Flames 5-2 in a game that
killed any Calgary hopes of avenging their 11-2 to the Sabres
a week ago.

Buffalo scorers were Sean McKenna, Mike Moller,
Gilbert Perreault, Lindy Ruff and Mike Foligno. Kent
Nilsson and Doug Risebrough hit for the Flames.

the NHL's Adams Division, three points behind Boston
Bruins. Calgary remains second in the Smythe Division,
ISLANDERS 6 CAPITALS 2 :

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Butch Goring scored a pair
of shorthanded goals, including the gi it di
night, as New York Islanders outscored Washington
Capitals 6-2,

The victory enabled New York to earn a split in the
weekend home-and-home series after a 7-1 loss Friday night
in Landover, Md.

New York jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period.
Bryan Trottier took a pass from Stefan Persson at the
corner of the net and pushed it behind Washington
goaltender Pat Riggin at 5:36. It was Trottier's first of two
goals for the night and gave him nine goals in five games.

BLUES 4 PENGUINS 4
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Perry Turnbull scored with 18
seconds left in regulation time to give St. Louis a 4-4 tie with
Pittsburgh Penguins.

St. Louis rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third period to

Right winger Rick Vaive broke out of a scoring slump *

The win before 16,764 fans leaves the Sabres second in .

extend Pittsburgh's home winless streak to 11 games.

The Penguins, 0-9-2 overall, are the only NHL team
without a home ice victory.

Bernie Federko scored a power-play goal at 2:58 of the
third period, deflecting a pass by Jorgen Pettersson for the
first of three St. Louis goals. At 5:11, Guy Chouinard tipped
in a shot by Rob Ramage to pull the Blues to 4-3.

CANADIENS 5 BLACK HAWKS 5

MONTREAL (CP) — Guy Lafleur fired his 10th goal of
the season at 18:20 of the third period capping a four-goal
third-period rally that provided Montreal Canadiens with a
5-5 tie against Chicago Black Hawks.

Lafleur tied the score when he dug Bobby Smith's
rebound out of Tony Esposito's pads and flicked a
backhander over the Chicago goaltender.

Smith jammed one past an out-of-positionEsposito at
8:57 to ignite Montreal's third-period surge.

WHALERS 4 NORDIQUES 4

QUEBEC (CP) — Right winger Blaine Stoughton
unleashed a low wrist shot from the centre of the right
faceoff circle for his 10th goal of the season at 19:17 of the
third period lifting Hartford into a 4-4 tie with Quebec.

A short-handed goal by Louis Sleigher at 9:23 of the
third period had given the Nordiques a two-goal margin
before the Whalers launched their comeback.

Sleigher fired in a backhand after goaltender Greg Millen
had stopped a shot from the blue line by defenceman Blake
Wesley.

RANGERS 6 BRUINS 6

BOSTON (AP) — New York defenceman Ron Greschner
scored from close up at 16:04 of the third period and New
York Rangers went on a 6-6 tie in overtime, spoiling goalie
Pete Peeters's return from the injured ranks.

The Rangers jumped to a 3-0 lead and then had to hold
off a Boston comeback before coming from behind
themselves to snap Boston's eight-game winning streak at
home.

With the score tied 4-4, New York's Don Maloney and
Boston's Mike O'Connell exchanged power-play goals early
in the third period.

MINNESOTA 8 WINNIPEG 7

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Brian Bellows scored
at 2:53 of overtime to lift Minncsota to an 8-7 victory over
Winnipeg Saturday night.

Bellows scored his 10th goal of the season from the left
side of the net after taking a pass from Steve Payne.

Tom McCarthy's second goal, with 1:22 left in
regulation time tied the score 7-7. McCarthy came from
behind the net and stuffed the puck past Jets goalie Brian
Hayward, who had replaced Doug Soetaert after Minnesota
rallied from a three-goal deficit in the third period to tie the
score 6-6,