The Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-11-13, Page 11MPP Thompson wears green
to celebrate 4-H 100th
Huron -Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson
joined members of the PC Caucus in
showing their support for 4-H Canada's
100th anniversary by wearing green in
the legislature.
"I'm proud to wear green today to
show my support for Ontario's 4-H Pro-
gram and the countless volunteers
across the province that makes the
organization so great," said Thompson.
"The program does an amazing job
teaching the 4-H Members of Huron -
Bruce, and across the province, valua-
ble life skills like public speaking, deci-
sion making, and how to be a valued
member of the community."
Thompson joined 4-H at age 11, and
remained involved in the organization
for many years. She is a past Chair of
the Ontario 4-H Foundation, and has
coordinated many provincial 4-H Lead-
ership Camps.
Nov 6 was the organization's annual
'wear green for 4-H day,' which raises
support and awareness for the
program.
"The timing is perfect given all of the
4-H competitions held this past week at
the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and I
congratulate all 4-H Members for
'learning to do by doing' and participat-
ing beyond the club and county level,"
she said. "I've seen firsthand the posi-
tive effect 4-H can have on the lives of
our youth. And, I want to wish 4-H con-
tinued success in its next 100 years."
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Huron -Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson joined the Ontario PC Caucus in wearing green, including members who are
proud 4-11 alumni on Nov. 6, 2013.
Women's House making people aware of Woman Abuse Prevention Month
Garit Reid
QMI Agency
Abuse in any form is a scary and unset-
tling subject no matter who it is directed at.
That's why Women's House Serving Grey
and Bruce (WHSBG) want to make as many
people aware of violence against women
during this November's Woman Abuse Pre-
vention Month.
Executive director of WHSBG Casey
Weichert knows the importance of making
people realize violence against women isn't
okay.
"Woman Abuse Prevention Month is to
make women aware of available services in
their communities, educate the community
about the issue of violence against women
and the high costs associated with violence
against women," said Weichert. "Abuse
against women affects everyone not just the
families involved. These costs can be seen
in healthcare, courts
and the justice sys-
tem, mental health,
addictions and
many other social
service agencies
that respond to vio-
lence against
women.
Weichert, along
with Lana Sander-
son-Neeb, shelter
manager, have
organized a lot of
events in partner-
ship with some of
the other organiza-
tions in Grey -Bruce
this month.
Including collab-
oration with The
Women's Centre to
bring The Sister-
hood of the Travel-
ling Shoes exhibit
backto Owen Sound
on Nov 25. It will be
exhibited at The
Men's Program.
They described the exhibit as a powerful display of shoes repre-
senting all the women who have lost their lives to intimate violence
in Ontario. The list of women was started when the Dec. 6, 1989
massacre in Montreal took the lives of 14 women students at L'Ecole
Polytechnique. Each year the list grows as more women and chil-
dren succumb to death at the hands of the woman's intimate part-
ner. Last year there were 468 pairs of shoes in the exhibit said
Weichert.
WHSBG is also in collaboration with The Women Centre this
month as they are introducing two new awareness campaigns:
Shine the Light on Woman Abuse and Wrapped In Courage.
"We are asking businesses, home owners, municipalities and
service clubs to decorate the outside of their home or business with
purple lights, streamers, ribbons, etc. "Why purple? Itis a symbol of
courage, survival and honour and has come to symbolize the fight
to end woman abuse," said Weichert. "The goals of the campaigns
are to raise awareness of men's violence against women abuse. Eve-
ryone needs to take a stand to end violence againstwomen. To show
support people can buy their Wrapped in Courage Purple Scarf at
Nine Waves in Lucknow and Kincardine, sister on Huron in South-
ampton, Temptations Gifts and Home Decor in Hanover, TNA
Clothing in Paisley, The Scrapbook Shop in Mildmay, Belle of the
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Weichert said that this is not just an issue
woman need to know about, but men and
children need to be educated in order to
prevent abuse.
"Violence against women is a men's
issue. Only men can truly stop violence
against women. Men need to take a stand
and speak out against women abuse," said
Weichert. "Children need to be protected
and aware of the issue because statistics
show the effects ofwitnessing their mothers
violence is as traumatic as being abused
themselves. Boys often learn that violence is
the answer to solving problems and girls
often grow up to accept abuse by others and
it all culminates to a cycle of abuse that con-
tinues into yet another generation"
WHSBG provides many services to help
women who are being abused which can be
found at whsbg.on.ca as well as a 24/7 -sup-
port line, which can be reached at 519-396-
9655, toll free -1-800-265-3026 or a 24-hour
sexual assault services line at 1-866-578-
5566.
Weichert also said they couldn't do any of
this work without donations and the great
people who volunteer.
"The Women's House is a non-profit
organization funded by the Ontario Minis-
try of Community and Social Services. How-
ever, in order to continue to operate all of
our services we will need to fundraise
$144,000 this year. We need the support of
the Grey -Bruce community to do this," said
Weichert. "Women and children are count-
ing on us as they flee from abusive situa-
tions in their own homes and look for safe
shelter and counselling services. Without
the support of our donors and volunteers,
we could not provide the level of
services needed."
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