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Volunteer canvassers are still needed if you can donate three hours of your time for an evening or two. Please call $45â€"5571. This canvas is incorporating a variety of methods including a mail campaign. An analysis of last year‘s campaign shows this to be effective in north Oakville. No matter how United Way Reachesâ€"Out to you, we count on you to respond. If by chance you are not conâ€" tacted by our volunteers, please call the United Way office 845â€"5571. We will be happy to arrange to pickâ€" up a donation. nited Way of Oakville is, once again, doing a | | residential canvas. Chairman Glen Yates is leadâ€" ing a team of 400 canvassers. The plan this year is to canvas for the week of Sept. 26th, primarily in the area of southeast Oakville and some areas in centre and southwest Oakville. Leave your lights on for residential canvass Blaney, McMurtry Stapells, Toronto, Barrs. Soletrs. CanAmera Foods Coutts Crane Ingram, Toronto, Barrs, Soletrs Lush, Bowker, Aird, Oakville, Barrs. Soletrs. Christopher Invidiata, Re/Max Aboutowne Realty Corp Korrieâ€"Sue Marshall, Re/Max Aboutowne Realty Corp. MceMillan Binch, Toronto, Barrs. Soletrs. Re/Max Aboutowne Realty Corp. SHL Systemhouse Inc. and the following Hole Sponsors for their support SmithKline Beecham Pharma Inc. for their sponsorship of the Dennis Walters Golf Show Chaps Restaurants, Oakville sponsor of the tickets Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. for their sponsorship of the Challenger Proâ€"Am "United Way Day" held Sept 5 at the Bell Canadian Open The year that... Sept. 23rd â€" Halton Multiple Sclerosis Society presents a "Live and Silent Auction and Monte Carlo Night" at Central Park Senior‘s Recreation Centre, 2285 New Street, Burlington. Buffet at 6:30 p.m., live auction at 7:30 p.m. $20 per person. For tickets or info, call Mary at 681â€"8770. Sept. 24th â€" Cate: Youth Aiding Youth are holding a free training session (ages 16 to 20). Topics include: social skills, selfâ€"esteem, communication skills, the effects of separaâ€" tion and divorce on children, sexual abuse, behavior management, and child developâ€" ment. Call to register 634â€"6123. Sept. 25th â€" United Way Launch/Bathtub Race Parade of Mascots followed by corporate and high school teams racing tubs between Trafalgar and Navy Streets in downtown Oakville. Sept. 26th â€" Coffee at the GO United Way volunteers will be serving coffee and handing out copies of the Financial Post to communiters from between 6:30 and 9 a.m. Sept. 28th â€" Women‘s Information Support Centre of Halton presents "Celebrating Anger" with Angela Jackson, author and professional speaker on anger management, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Oakvilleâ€" Trafalgar High School, 1460 Devon Road. Tickets $10 or $5 for students. Call §47â€"5520 for information and tickets. Oct. 2nd â€" Chaps Dorval presents their Annual Charity Car Rally proceeds to United Way of Oakville. Registration at $30 per person (children under 12 free) includes coffee and donuts in the morning, full dinner buffet, awards, prizes, and much more. Register at Chaps Dorval. § Oct. 18th â€" Product Fair, Come and view the latest technology in assistive devices from a variety of health care vendors. Time 7:15 p.m. at St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School, 1550 Nottinghill Gate. For information, call Barbara Dutton 336â€"2715. Campaign launch Y}))) United Way wishes to thank of Oakville Canada got its own 3 flag Appleby College, 540 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville Coming... Ap, «People Panting Entertainment begins at 12:30 pm Bathtub Race at 1:00 pm Sunday, September 25 «Moaning Groaning w it t e P Door Prize: Sheridan College Tuition (one year, full time) «Passion Perspiration $5.00 Barbecue Awards Presentation Entertainment :00 â€" 6:00 pm Sullivan ' Show Beatles first sang on the THE OAKVILLE BEAVER V television Along with child victims of sexual abuse, HSAP offers a nonâ€"offenc ing parent support group and programs for adult sexual abuse survivor adolescent survivors, and adolescent offenders. The length of time that individuals spend at HSAP varies, but can as long as two years. Currently, the youngest children attending HS are eight years old, but the program has seen children as young as six i the past. * What might life for sexually abused children be like without theray or intervention? In all likelihood, they would not learn to respect ther selves and would have low selfâ€"esteem. When older, these same childr may have difficulty developing relationships. Worst of all, the cycle abuse could be repeated. "Children are shown effective and healthy coping skills, such exploring positive options and not denying their emotions," Bosse said. The coâ€"leaders have found art therapy to be especially beneficial. "It is often difficult for children to express their emotions verbally, b many can do so through their artwork," Bosse explained. Each therapy session lasts two hours, and discussions are balanc with other methods of dealing with the issue, such as watching films writing in a journal. "At first, they tend to feel that they are the only one who has abused," Bosse said. "However, they soon begin to realize that if it h happened to others, maybe it isn‘t their fault after all." While feeling safe is essential to the learning process, many childre find it difficult initially to trust others, Bosse said. She explained that vi tims eventually find relief when they discover that others in their therar group are in a similar situation. Sexual abuse â€" which encompasses anything from fondling to inte course â€" happens in every walk of life and has no social or econom boundaries, Bosse and Sheepway said. They explained that sexual abu concerns power and control, not sex. Many offenders have, themselve been abused as children. At the beginning of their therapy with HSAP, children decorate paj links which are then joined together to form a chain. Representing unity of trust and honesty within each HSAP group, these chains are centrepieces around which group members sit during their sessions. ‘"We assist victims in the healing process by raising their selfâ€"estee; and helping them to get on with their lives," Sheepway said. \ Sheepway and Bosse teach sexually abused children to accept acknowledge their feelings, and provide the survival skills necessary them to lead normal lives. Children often come to HSAP harboring feeli:lgs of guilt and sham low in selfâ€"esteem, and many feel responsible for the abuse that h befallen them. By PENNY MARCUS Special to the Beaver helping children who are survivors of sexual abuse. Early chil hood educators by profession, these two volunteers lead grot therapy sessions for the Halton Sexual Abuse Program (HSAP). F or the past nine years, Judie Sheepway and Irma Bosse have Judie Sheepway (left) and Irma Bosse hold a paper chain, each li represents a sexual abuse survivor in the therapy session. Helping survivors of sexual abuse Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau first became This moving tradition continues Sunday September 25th 1:00 p.m. Downtown Oakville ... there was a United Way Bathtub Race in Oakville Join us! _Reddy would like to welcome Ian Martin Associates to Oakville. An Open House to view their reno: vations to the old Granary will be held on Sunday, October 16 from 1:00â€"5:00p.m. (105 Robinson St.) * ’ Demonstrations by local artisans Suggested gift $5.00 per person m All proceeds to the United Way of Oakville September 21, 1