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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-08-31, Page 2Page 2 — Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 31, 1994 VOTERS' LIST TOWNSHIP OF KINLOSS Clerk's Notice Of Posting Of Preliminary List of Electors Municpal Elections,Act, R. S. O. 1990, (Section 28 (4)) as amended. 'NOTICE is hereby given that I have complied with Section 28 of the Municipal Elections Act, as amended, and that t have posted up at my office at the Kinloss Municipal Building in Holyrood, and two other conspicuous places, on the 6th day of September, 1994, the list of all persons entitled to be electors in the municipality at municipal elections, and that such list remains there for inspection. AND I hereby call upon all electors to examine the list for the purpose of making • additions or corrections to. or deletions from the list. The last day for filing applications for inclusions, additions, or corrections to or dele- tions from the list is the 14th day of October, 1994. The place at which the revision will be taken is the Township of Kinloss Municipal Building.in Holyrood. Revisions of the list will be undertaken during normal office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Tuesday, September 6, 1994 through to Friday, October 14, 1994. DATED IN HOLYROOD this 31st day of August, 1994. Mark L. Becker, A.M.C.T. Clerk & Returning Officer, TOWNSHIP OF KINLOSS Courts do not utilize their power when sentencing men who batter By Bev Fry The courts have more power than they are willing to exercise, when it comes to sentencing men who have abused women. Clark Schneider, co-ordinator of the Owen Sound men's program: Ending Women Abuse, said the judges "are primarily men who play into the power system and don't see what's going on. It's not in their reality. We have very old judges in our community who don't see the problem." He was speaking to a group of volunteers from The Women's House of Bruce County last Wednesday night at the Kincardine United Church. Schneider was speaking about the men who batter, and the treatment process.' His program, which runs out of Owen Sound and Chesley, is funded by the Ministry of Corrections and the Ministry of Community and Social Services. There is a waiting list in Owen LuCknoW Vag4arkct LUCKNOW • 528-3001 We Reserve The Right To Limit Quantities To Normal Family Requirements MEADOWGOLD Assorted Varieties 4 Titre Pail . . CLOVER LEAF Skipjack Light 170gTin ' SelectedVarieties 24 x 355 ml Tins or Unit Pride 5.9/100 ml 750 ml Bottle + Deposit Unit Prjce 7.9/100ml Coke 4.99 or Sprite . ■59 MAPLE LEAF 6.5 oz. Tin OLD SOUTH Frozen Assorted Varieties 355 ml Tin • Flakes of Ham, WITH THIS COUPON SAVE .30 off' 16's/24's 500 g Pkg. or KRAFT Cheez Whiz, Plain, Light or Mexican 500gJar Cheese Slices Special Price W/o Coupon 3.29 Offer Expires Sun. 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He said the men require support and guidance to get over their reluctance toaccept they do have a problem. "Some men are able to change their behaviour. But the research and study on this is very new and incomplete. Some men make a sizable change and some make no changes at all. We don't know why that is." He said treatment is a way of understanding what is going on. "This is very new and the research is terribly inadequate, but the treatment is a start. That's why I'm involved in treatment. I want to do something about it." He said spousal abuse is "very prominent in our counties." (Grey and Bruce). Later he said it ' is no worse in Grey and Bruce than anywhere else. "The rural nature of our commun- ities fosters isolation and depend- ence. It is easy to keep the abuse quiet, to restrict movments and money." He said it was the same way in the immigrant communities in large cities like Toronto. The women at the meeting were, asked how they would solve the problem of abuse. Some of the answers included: early education, stiffer sentences, more law intervention and more police action as well as reducing the tolerance by men of abuse. Schneider said the educational system. suffers from inertia. "The school system is very diffi- cult to work under. Teachers say they can't be social workers and teachers at the same time. "It's interesting, but we know if kids don't get the right nutrition, they can't learn. But if they don't get enough nurturing in the home, they can't learn either. "I think a lot of kids can't take in information in the schools because there is too much going on at home." In response to the suggestion of more stiffer sentences and more police action, Schneider said there are not enough jails or enough police. "We all know if fines are stiffer, the lack of money will hurt the women and children." He said for some men, going to jail "is a horrid experience. They are so embarrassed and so ashamed it can have dramatic effects. On some other guys, it has no effect." He told the women at the meet- ing,"the bottom line is,. guys don't- come on'tcome to the program unless they are forced. They have tobe forced to make the change and if I was a woman I'd be really p...ed off. You still have to do the work." He said the challenge is to create a way for men to be responsible for men. "What are men going to do' about this. We have to stop it, we have to speak out, we have to take care of + our brothers. "We need more' of mens' voices to say we have to change this. Positive peer pressure is tremen- dously effective." He agreed it will take time. "I'm impatient. I want to see my sons live in a different world." The phone number for the Men's Program office in Owen Sound . is 372-2720. Statistics on wife abuse * One half of all Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of violence since the age of 15, Statistics Canada reported in 1993, in a violence against women survey. , * Almost one half of those women, reported violence by men know to them. * The same survey reported that one quarter of all women have experienced violence at the hands of a current or past mari- tal partner (includes common- law unions) * More than one -in -ten women who reported violence in a cur- rent marriage have at some point felt their lives were in danger. * Women with violent' fathers -in- laws are at three times the risk of assault boy their partners than are women • with non-violent fathers-in-law. * Women whose, partners had witnessed violence by their fathers endured more severe and repeated violence than women whose fathers-in-law were not violent. . *. Children witnessed violence against their mothers in almost 40 per cent of marriages with violence. In many cases, children witnessed/ very serious forms�'of' violence: in over one-half of cases in which women feared for their lives, children witnessed violence in that relationship. * Over the period 1974-1992, a married woman was nine times as ' likely to be killed by her ,spouse as by a stranger. Plan must react to growth •from page 1 from neighbouring townships, a process that often results in disputes and expensive Ontario Municipal Board hearings. "We're suggesting we . move to 'negotiated boundary adjustments' as the way to go," Kennedy said. ' .Kennedy said an earlier stand, based partly on the province's Sewell Report, that would have prohibited development on private services has been 'softened' because of concern that a ban on development would mean death for some municipalities. "The Official Plan needs to be able to accommodate and respond to growth that will occur in the future and ensure that growth oc- curs in a way the county wants," Kennedy said. "I don't think we're looking to have change for the sake of change. The elements of the county that are seen by the public as being valuable, we expect them to be maintained, in the context of growth and development in the e future.". ° The draft official plan gives special recognition to the impor- tance of the Bruce Energy Centre complex and draws a distinction between "rural" land that could be developed and "agricultural" land that should be preserved. Once the draft plan is adopted by • council Kennedy expects a "protracted debate" at county coun- cil and in the public forum over the detailed principles and maps needed to meet the goals of the new of- ficial plan.