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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-06-10, Page 10PAGE 10 --GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, ,JUNE 10, 198i THE SIGN OF A GOOD BUSINESS NtIGHBOUR ,, gyral �fi,r THE SIGN OF A MERCHANT WHO CARES ABOUT PEOPLE this emblem identities the l i1 Il-mindexl hili 11('„1111' r1 t% Ill) ,pr)n,ur the l iI111111111i11 For information call: 524-4516 or 524-4863 BOOK & GIFT SHOP Just off the Square on East Street, Beside the Post Office. Your Community Card "Shop •Greeting Cords .Party Wore •Office Supplies .Books 8 Gifts •Wedding Stationery 5 P.M. -CLOSING q BREAKFAST 1099 NEW YORK SIRLOIN DINNERS ,..2 /1 6.95 LUNCH AND DINNER SPECIALS DON'T FORGET - JUNE 20 15 GREEK NIGHT! NGK MOTORCYCLE SPARK PLUGS f rm HON 9$c� ,ii.a- it right o1- ice fit it FREE OIL y.. FILTER with tu) = Lops di rep irs tLw' �H ®2 WHEELERS 3 >'•s HEELERS ®4 , '9EELERS A- KAWASAKI - by $ edory tr ih ed techneki SUZUKI IrS o dealers please. VARNA 262-3.318 CHURCH DIRECTOR'S North Street United Church 56 North Street, 524-7631, 524-6951 Sunday, June 14, 1987 • WORSHIP AND SUNDAY SCHOOL Sir rnment of thy Lords Supper Cable I) ir•II•rrr,t At 1 r!(1 PM REV. ROBERT O. BALL MINISTER Robert Blackwell Director of Music C :!vary Baptist Church BAYFIELD ROAD AT BLAKE STREET PASTOR TERRY WOODCOCK Phone 5246445 Nursery Facilites available Sunday School Morning Service Evening Service I000am 11 00 am 700 p m WORD OF LIFE - teens Tues 7 00 M,ghty Mite, Ages 4 rind 5 Olyrnpinns Ages 6 12 Wed 630 800 Prayer Meeting Wed 7 00 WELCOME TO THE FRIENDLY CHURCH 5t. Gey, re's Church Anglican - Episcopal North and Nelson Streets Goderich Organist -Choirmaster: David Hamilton A.R.C.T. Trinity Sunday June 14th 8 30 n rn Holy Communion The Rev Douglas Pitts 9 30 n rn Holy Communion at Christ Church Port Albert The RPV Wilhnm Craven II 00 n m Mnrrlung Prayer anr! Sermon The Rev Douglas Pitts You ere nlwnys vielrome Free Methodist Church Goderich Lawn Bowling Clubhouse Picton Street West THE REVEREND ARTHUR SCOTT 524-8800 Sunday, June 14 9 45 u rn Children's Sunday School 1100 a rn Worship Service ALL ARE WELCOME COME WORSHIP WITH US Knox Presbyterian Church MINISTER THE REV. G.L. ROYAL M.A.,M• DIV., Lorne H. Dotterer, Director of Praise Sunday, June 14 •100 n rn Cnmrnunirnnt, CIn„ 11 00 a rn Outdoor Service 'ANNUAL OUTDOOR SERVICE' " Hirbour Pork Goderirh. ' Hot Dogs R Pnp PrnvidPd otherwise hnrlq own lunch Fitnr to Worship Depirt to Serve SEVEN DAY BIBLE READING SCHEDULE: WEDNESDAY • JAMES 4 1 7 HAI BF YF FRIEND OR 1OE° THURSDAY - JAMES 4 R 1 ) DRAWING NEAR TO GOD FRIDAY • JAMES 4 13 17 LIVING IN LIGHT OF ETERNITY SATURDAY - JAMES 51 6 MONEY TALKS SUNDAY - JAMES 5 7 17 BEHOLD THE JUDGE ,OR HERE COMES THE JIJUCyF.' MONDAY • JAMFS S11 16 DIVINE HEALING TUESDAY - JAMES 5 17 20 MAN OF PASSIONS MAN OF PRAYER id is rea est BY REV. MARK SCARR YOUTH PASTOR OE BETHEL PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY Jason was only 16 -years -old when his parents canoe home to find his lifeless body on the floor of his bedroom. There was a bullet wound in his head-. Nearby was a gun and a suicidal note. It read simply': Dear Mom and Dad, What a tine time for Inc to write you You just don't seem to understand I'm sorry. I'm scared! But I'd rather die than live like I ani. Jason What I just wrote was only hypothetical. I rnade it up. But please understand it real- ly does happen. SUICIDE .., next to .. alcohol it is America's second greatest teenage -killer, 'I'he National Institute of Mental Health states that 18 teenagers per day take their lives in the USA. Every 80 minutes another teenager takes the suicidal plunge. That means over 100 teenagers per week and approximately 6,500 lives per year are taken by suicide. Now multiply this by the amount. directly affected — family, friends, relatives, etc. Think about it. I realize that theses are Arnercian statistics, but really how different are they from ours'? We need to talk about -it! Every minute of the day, even as you read this article, someone will attempt to take his life. Thesuicide victim feels helpless and hopeless, having nowhere to turn. Not all are actual attempts. Many -of them are cries for help — please for atten- tion in despair. From 1950-1980 there has been a 278% increase, in teenage suicides. A high percentage of them -are male vic- tims. March, April and May are the most comrnon month. Why'? Many young people cannot accept the failure on graduation 'day. • There are accounts recorded of three and four year old children committing suicide. Some will say that the, problem is more severe than statistics show. One side of the suicidal victim wants to die; one side wants to live, but doesn't know how to ask for help, or is afraid to. Their cry is' "Somebody please help'me!" • Let me deal with some of the fatal fac- tors that can make our young people suicidal. • . An estimated, 1L6 million teenagers in the USA are sexually active. There are similar comparisons in Canada. A few schools have .even• begun dispensing birth control devices and establishing daycare facilities on the premises. It once'wtis only a College •problem but it now is in our er1c S S ge killer MINISTER'S STUDY grade schools. "Why not, everyone is do- ing it". Why not? God has instituted sex for the married couple ( Gen. 1:26,27 ). Many females have experienced guilt feelings after being involved that have contributed to their suicidal feelings. We must talk to our young people in the home about this problem. Alcohol ... teenage enemy number one. If it doesn't kill the alcoholic, the alcoholic may kill someone else. We often hear "if you drink don't drive." How about "don't drink, , period!" - 'Thousands of • teenage alcoholics walk the halls of our high schools today. The alcoholic literally com- mits a slow suicide. The body is damaged and years of life are reduced. • Drugs .., the average age to begin this habit nowadays is eleven years old. Why'? "Just to fit in." In 1980, 169 deaths were recorded due to cocaine, in 1985 there were 613. A large number of teenage suicides are drug related. Drugs have tripped too many of our kids and a high percentage of them stumble down the .dark alley of suicide.•• Rock "n" roll music ... the influence of the lyrics. In March, 1982, -a seventeen year old young man took his life while listening to Elton John's song "Somebody Saved My Life Tonite". October 1982, a nineteen year held young man took his life, while. listening to Ozzie Osborne's song "Suicide Solution". The philosophies and lifestyles of some of our rock stars does prOrnote. suicide: . • Dungeons and Dragons ... the complex role playing game that uses kids' imagina- tions and creativity. 'Sounds - harmless? The real problem is when the player iden- tifies himself excessively with the im- aginary character..Sometimes it leads. to unacceptable actions. The National Coali- tion on Television Violence I NCTV) has linked 29 suicides since 1979 to Dungeon and Dragons. This is an oppressive mind -- robbing game. Sounds harmless? Don't be fooled. • The homelife.... many teenagers live on- ly in a house but not a home. The average communication between parents and teenagers is fourteen minutes per .week. ABC's "Nightline" reports the•suicide at- tempt of a';teen who felt he could not choose between his divorced parents. We must open the doors of communication in the inister home. Talk to them and 'LISTEN. Kids don't want perfect parents -- just ones who will listen. Love there for who they are, (not for what you want them to be). • Severe pressures bombarding our teenagers today. Many times they don't know how to cope. We must listen and help them,Broken romance is high on the list of factors that prompt teenage suicide at- tempts. Sometimes when a loved one is lost we do not know how to deal with it. It's U.K. to be grieved and saddened, however, we must help them to go on living. We may not be able•to stop 'the pressures but we sure can help them deal with it. Parents, what can you do'.' Be aware. Know what is happening in your teenagers life. Let them know that you care about them. Get involved in their lives and do things together. Don't rust show them love, tell them that you love them! It is a "show and tell" philosophy. Keep the channels of communication open. Make you_ self always available to them. 'Listen- as a friend even if it means late nights occa- sionally. Most of all, we must work together to make the "family" a fancily again. Remember, their cry is "please understand me." Parents, it's up to you. What can you wstrch'for in a potential suicidal victim? Nu une is inunune to it. Suicide usually happens with warning signals. We must be aware of them to help prevent it. The moment a person talks about it be sure to open up and hear what they are saying inside. Often they will be excessively withdrawn, breaking the ties of corrimunication. Perhaps they will show extreme moodiness ( not just your normal teenage blues) or even deep depression. Some react through outright aggression • lashing out and becoming violently destructive. Often there will be a threat Or even a note. Get to know .their 'friends and one another in your. family. Be. sensitive to . their inner hurts and'be ready to become 'a sounding board. Suicide is not the answer. Your problerns are only temporary. They may seen like a storm now, but it will pass. There is hope. There are people who care. Your life is too valuable and meaningful to take it away. God created you in His image (Gen. 1-27 I ,4" and knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb I Jer. 1:51. ,You are "Fearfully and wonderfully made" ( Pslm. 139:14). God makes no mistakesAnd he certainly, has a plan and purpose for your li£e. Hecares for you rri`ore than you do for - yourself. Suicide is not the answer. Why • not Jesus instead. Father Hardy transferred BY YVETTE ZANDBERGEN Father Joseph Hardy, who has spent three years in Goderich, will be leaving St. Peter's Catholic Church -June 29 for Sacred Heart parish in Sarnia. Father Hardy was born in Chicago and at- tended school in England and high school in London, Ontario, He is a graduate of St: Peter's Seminary and the University of Western Ontario and was ordained in.1965. Previously, Father Hardy was stationed in Strathroy, London' and Clinton and has been in and out of London. '• He said he. has enjoyed Goderich and is sorry to leave. St. Peter's has been a very active parish, he said, with three Sunday masses attracting as.many as 700 to 800 peo- ple, adding that there has been many other activities including Knights of Columbus, CWI., Advanced Education Program and Renew. Father Hardy's use of visual aids during sermons is to make parishoners learn. "I start off with something they know and use it as an object to teach," he said, adding that he uses various aids citing talking scales, a baseball cap and weights as examples. "People remember 10 per cent of what you say and with visual aids, this goes up to 25 per cent," he said. Father Terry McNamara, the' current -Father Hardy priest in Bothwell and originally from Ot- tawa Valley, will be taking over at St. . Peter's Church. He was ordained• in 1975. 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Lieutenant Valerie. James of the Salva- tion Army will also be leaving Gode.rtch to assist in Trenton on June 29. Lieut. James was horn in Lindsay and became involved with the Salvation Army in high school. She attended Salvation Army's Training College in 1983 and was commissioned in 1985. She has been in Goderich, for two years. • SUPERIOR MEMORIALS ESTABLISHED OVER 60 YEARS Clinton Area MICHAEL FALCONER 153 HIGH STREET, CLINTON 482-94,41 Goderich• Area ROBERT McCALLUM 11 CAMBRIA ROAD, GODERICH 524-7345 STAG & DOE Debbie Allen and Darrel Poulton Friday, June 12th 8 pndlim GODERICH $290 perperson Lunch Provided