The Times Advocate, 2006-03-15, Page 32
Exeter Times—Advocate
Wednesday, March 15„ 2006
VON offering bereavement pro
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — The VON Palliative Care
Volunteer Program is holding a series of
bereavement support groups starting
March 22 that will help children whose
families are going through a divorce or
death.
Bereavement consultant Kim Winbow
said the program, called Rainbows, is for
children in the kindergarten to Grade 8
age range, although she hopes to have a
group for high school students eventually.
She already does one on one sessions at
South Huron District High School.
Rainbows is a new program for VON
and is free for those interested. During
the sessions, which will run from 6-7 p.m.
at the Exeter Lions Youth Centre for 12
weeks, children will be divided into
groups according to age and grades.
Winbow said each child will receive a
journal to keep and most of the group
time will focus on having the children dis-
cuss their feelings.
There will be a new topic for each
week.
"It helps them to learn healthy coping
abilities while validating their loss and
being supported by their peers," Winbow
says of the program.
Winbow said people tend to think chil-
dren don't grieve during times like a
Co -chairperson of the School Council at McGillivray Central Doug
Richards speaks to a large crowd March 8 regarding the possible closure
of McGillivray Central School. (photo/Nina Van Lieshout)
Meeting to
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President of the Home and School
Julie Wright Bullock explained how
supportive the school community
has been of the school saying
they've helped raise $125,000 over
the years for many projects.
Former president of the Home
and School Linda Wasnidge agreed
saying, "the community has always
supported the school."
She also said a community like
this one is not likely to be found
elsewhere.
Wasnidge believes the reason for
declining enrolment is that no new
houses are being built and that
farm land is taking up a lot of the
area.
"The young people are leaving,"
said Wasnidge.
Don McCabb, an Ontario
Federation of Agriculture represen-
tative also spoke saying the com-
munity has their support, although
some in the crowd agreed with
Wasnidge, saying the farm land is a
big problem.
MPP of Lambton-Kent-Middlesex
Maria Van Bommel and Middlesex
County TVDSB trustee Jan Hunter
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could not attend the meeting but
sent letters.
Hunter explained there was no
motion at this time to close the
school and that a school is never
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Van Bommel said it will not be
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McGillivray if it comes to that and
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to be discussed to come to some
sort of compromise with the board.
"McGillivray is a good school and
the building is excellent," said
Richards.
UFIrCI PA LIT Y OF
Municipality
of
South Huron
NOTICE
SAFE DRINKING WATER
ACT, 2002
Ontario Regulation 170/03
The 2005 Annual report of
the Municipality of South
Huron Drinking Water
system may be viewed at
our web site:
www.town. southhuron. on. ca
at the Exeter Branch of the
Huron County Library or
you may obtain a copy from
Dawn Martene, Water Clerk,
at the Olde Town Hall
Municipal Office,
322 Main Street, Exeter.
m for children
divorce or death in the family, but that
isn't so. She said, like adults, children
need social support to help them through
tough times.
Winbow added that children sometimes
feel they are responsible for what has
happened in the family, but don't have
the abilities to express themselves verbal-
ly.
Through the journal, games and pic-
tures, participants in Rainbows will be
able to express their feelings. Winbow
says it is sometimes difficult to get chil-
dren to open up, but they will after they
feel they can trust the person they're talk-
ing to.
Winbow says children are much
smarter than people give them credit for
and they ask "great, honest" questions.
As a bereavement consultant, Winbow
says it's difficult for her to see children go
through emotional turmoil.
Once the initial 12 weeks of Rainbows
ends in June, Winbow says another ses-
sion will start in September. She said VON
wanted to get involved in the program
because it has been a success in Seaforth
at the Huron Hospice. Winbow received
training in July to run the program and
also trained three VON volunteers who
will help facilitate the groups.
While Rainbows is free, registration is
necessary and should be done by March
20. Call Winbow at 235-2510 for more
REGIONAL WRAP UP •
Goderich campaign
GODERICH — A volunteer at the Huron Society of
Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is taking on a $5,000
campaign, according to the Goderich Signal -Star.
Melissa Dean's campaign is benefiting both ani-
mals and children
If Dean reaches her goal she is planning to cut off
12 inches of her hair and donate it to Locks of
Love.
The money will be donated to the SPCA, support-
ing vet bills for medication, spaying and neutering
and food and general care.
Dean's campaign wraps up at the end of the
month.
Dramatic drop in
crimes, volunteers
AILSA CRAIG — Crimes are decreasing in Ailsa
Craig and area and so is the interest in becoming a
volunteer for Neighbourhood Watch, according to
The Parkhill Gazette.
Const. Doug Graham of the Middlesex OPP's com-
munity services suggests volunteers are becoming
harder to find because of the dramatic drop in prop-
erty crimes.
"Break and enters are way down," he adds.
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