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Workshop will cover drug, alcohol issues
By Tim Cumming
Goderich Signal -Star Editor
Alcoholism can affect
different families in different
ways.
Dr. John Schneider will
discuss a "systems approach"
to how and why families
organize themselves
differently in response to
alcohol in the family as part
of a day -long Drug
Awareness Week Workshop
at Knox Presbyterian
Church, at the corner of East
and Victoria Streets, in
Goderich on Friday, Nov. 16.
Dr. Schneider, Executive
Director of the Interfaith
Pastoral Counselling Service,
has conducted research on
families struggling with
alcohol abuse and his work
reflects a change in the
therapeutic community
towards working with the
family of an alcoholic, not
just the individual with
alcoholism.
Health care professionals,
volunteers and people from
families dealing with alcohol
issues and other interested
individuals are all invited to
register for the workshop,
which takes place from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Deadline for registration is
this Monday, Nov. 12. The
cost of the workshop is $40
and includes lunch.
The event is sponsored by
Huron Addiction Services.
Anyone interested in
registering for the event can
phone (519), 482-1767. It is
not long distance from
Goderich.
The workshop would be
beneficial for "anyone who
has struggled with
alcoholism (in the family),"
said Judy MacKechnie,
marriage -and family therapist
with Huron Addiction
Services.
Participants in the
workshop will learn that
different families cope with
the effects of alcohol in
different ways.
"Some families cope really
well while some struggle
with it and some are
devastated by it," said
MacKechnie. "My hope is
people will get an
understanding how it is
families find an effective
way to cope."
The talk will raise,
awareness, she said, of the
role family members can
play in dealing with alcohol
and its effects.
Dr. Schneider is an
American citizen and
Canadian landed immigrant.
He is an adjunct professor
with the couple and family
counselling program of the
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
at Wilfrid Laurier University.
He has a PhD in
counselling psychology and
clinical training from the
University of British
Columbia.
Dr. Schneider believes,
according to information
from the Huron Addiction
Services, that "by being
aware of drinking patterns,
individual characteristics of
the drinker and personality
differences, we can respond
with more appropriate
interventions."
Alcohol is a major problem
in Huron County where
booze is sometimes
perceived as socially
acceptable and is used as the
"drug of choice," according
to MacKechnie.
"Alcohol often plays a
significant role in marital
breakdown, in children's
difficulties in school," she
said. "It's a difficult issue for
people to reach for help."
It's too early to know the
effect of events since Sept.
11, including economic
uncertainty, on alcoholism in
Huron but it is well-known
that Christmas time, and the
weeks after Christmas, are
very stressful.
That makes the November
workshop well-suited to
finding coping strategies
now, said MacKechnie.
The information at the
Nov. 16 workshop can help
people who might otherwise
feel "powerless" to address
addiction problems, she said.
"I thinkknowledge is vital
to having an understanding,"
she said.
Families have an important
role to play in outcomes for a
person with alcoholism.
"We make changes better
in a community of supportive
people."
Man suffers serious head injury after falling in bar
A 21 -year-old Brussels man was
charged with a liquor offence and spent
the night in jail after a disturbance at
the Brussels Inn where another man
received a serious head injury on Nov. 4
at approximately 12:30 a.m.
Huron OPP were called to the
Brussels Inn on Turnberry Street in
Brussels and found a man lying on the
floor inside the bar area.
The man was transported to a local
hospital by ambulance personnel and
treated for his injury. Inn staff members
told the officers that the man had fallen
down, striking his head against a table.
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Officers were called when the staff
were unable to eject people involved in
a ruckus.
One who was asked by police to
leave, did so immediately, while the 21 -
year -old Brussels man ended up being
arrested.
Brussels building damaged
Windows of Mechanical Design
Services on Mill Street in Brussels,
were smashed and cracked sometime
overnight on Nov. 1, reports the Huron
OPP.
One window was smashed while two
others received damage when thrown
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Any person who can assist in the
solving of this vandalism is asked to
call the OPP or Crimestoppers.
Theft at McGavin Farm Equipment
A $34,000 New Holland skid steer
loader was stolen sometime during the
past three weeks from McGavin Farm
Equipment in Walton.
The yellow and black loader was
taken from the back of the lot.
Anyone who can help solve this case
is asked to call the Huron OPP or
Crimestoppers.
Nominations are now being accepted
for the 2001 Awards Program
Let's recognize the best of our young people. If you
know a young person, aged 6 to 18, who is involved
in worthwhile community service; a special person
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youth who has performed an act of heroism; or a
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better for others, doing more than is normally expected
of someone their age — help us recognize their contri-
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until November 30, 2001.
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