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; _ Page 10â€" Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, June 1, 1977 16 King St,St. Jacobs 664â€"2083 Furniture Limited handcrafted Double Commode from centuryâ€"old pine . . . VOTE JUNE 9th ° \YM eWE GOCRETQ NHOm .. 19.99 u““s is mainly to Weed eSALAD SETS in WOOD 21.95 out potential sex offenders," said Constable Roland Pike. o Along with Terry Baker, 3 SCH EN DEL STGMl ION”_EEDRY the conSti'ible li)s as:igned roâ€" 120 KING STREET. SOUTH, WATERLOO â€" sasâ€"1160 ;a,tnhé Block Parent P FICE FURNITURE » STATIONERY » ART SUPPLIES e GIFTS "We don‘t actually go Open Daily to 5:45 p.m. Thursday & Friday till 9:00 p.m. into the home. So far, we Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. St. Michael‘s Church, University Avenue West, (opposite WLU) EDDINGS â€" All Saints, Holy Savior and St. Columba Anglican Churches â€" Mount Zion Lutheran Church PLACE eCANDLE HOLDERS IN GLASS, BRASS OR WOOD . . . . . 9.95 eICE BUCKETS from .. 18.95 eSALAD SETS in WOOD 21.95 Add an extra touch of charm to your special day! Visit Schendel‘s soon and see our beautiful selecâ€" invitations. iImprinted table decoâ€" rations. Guest books. Here are some special gift ideas. eREVERSIBLE FONDUE and STEAK BOARDS . ... .. 8.75 eCUT GLASS VASES You are invited to come with your friends to meet the Waterioo North Candidates and to discuss the issues with them. Subjects for discussion will include:â€" National Unity â€" Land Use â€" Guaran}eed Annual Income â€" Taxing Churches and Voluntary Agencies â€" Matching Provincial Grants for Voluntary Agencies â€" Foreign Student Differential Fees â€" and others ...... Please bring your QUESTIONS! ~~~ have only had to turn down All Candidates Night ate incident. A few mothers had heard of a Block Parâ€" ent program functioning in the United States and deâ€" The idea spread to Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterloo in 1976 and advanced with such leaps and bounds, nationâ€" ally that the Canada Safeâ€" ty Council devised a model program and began handâ€" ing out the conspicuous red and white signs. The Block Parent Proâ€" gram is a coâ€"operative proâ€" gram run with volunteer parents, or anyone 16 or older, police and elemenâ€" tary schools. Its purpose is to offer protection to school children while at the same time discouragâ€" ing troublemakers. Block Parent program moves into the Waterloo Region When an eightâ€"yearâ€"olid school boy «was molested and murdered in London, Ontario in 1968, his parents and friends did not sit back come to implement the plan in their area. Anyone who wants to become a Block Parent is first ‘""screened‘"‘ by the Waterloo Regional Police Department. Sunday June 5th DATE By Marg Russell â€" Emmanuel, First and Parkminster United Churches. â€" Knox Presbyterian Church Sponsors Waterloo Churches ers to devise as many ways as possible to familiarize Education for the proâ€" gram begins in the schools through the various school school mdmasm‘:.ith the plmwl M‘ uals to the teachers. It‘s then up to the teachâ€" children with the Block Parent sign so they will come to recognize it as meaning there is â€"someone in that home who is willing and able to help them if they are lost, sick, hurt, being bullied or approachâ€" ed by a stranger. a very few parents wish ing to become actively inâ€" Parent chairman visits the Teachers emphasize that parents displaying the sign in their home are not to be looked upon as a source of food, drink or washroom facilities. Each parent places the sign in her window only when she is available to offer assistance. It must be removed when she is out shopping, resting or in the backyard as children are taught to expect instant help wherever they see a sign. _ â€" Should a molested child appear at a parent‘s home, the parent‘s first step is to attempt to obtain a deâ€" scription of the stranger or his car, then to immediâ€" ately call the police. If a child reports other children fighting or harassâ€" ing him, the. parent atâ€" tempts to break up the 1 LCnuren Mennonite Church Advance Polls June 4th and 6th TIME 8 p.m. fight, then notifies the poâ€" lice while offering protecâ€" _ tion to the child. _ . ~ Parents are cautioned against offering first aid or attempting to find parents of lost children. Again this is a role for the police. "A report form is attach ed to the back of each sign,"‘ says Barbara Neufeld of Waâ€" terloo associate coâ€"ordinator of the program in the Waterâ€" at a parent‘s home, the parent is expected to comâ€" plete this form and send it in to us. Last year, 16 kids used the program when it was just a pilot project. Usâ€" ually it‘s because the kids are being bullied by older students." But the program does not just involve young children. *‘‘We had a university stuâ€" dent whose car broke down come to a home,""‘ she said. ‘‘And an old man got lost one day. Last winter during a bad snow storm, a girl was lost, saw one of the signs and came to that home for assistance." Mrs. Neufeld is quick to point out that statistics alone do not evaluate the success of the program. _ â€" ‘"If nothing else, those signs act as a deterrent to troublemakers," she said. ‘‘London is proof of this. Incidents are now moving out and away from the Block _ Parent protected neighborhoods in that city." Constable Pike agrees. ‘‘Child molesting never has â€" St. Agnes, St. Louis and St. Michael‘s Roman Catholic Churches Mary Jane Mewhinney â€" N.D.P. Herb Epp â€" Liberal Bob Gramlow â€" Conservative PARTICIPANTS ° are prevented just by ‘"I think it was a big boon to some groups who don‘t know where to start," she said, ‘"and I hope it leads to an annual conference." Parents are probably an excellent deterrent. It‘s like a cop on the street â€" no one knows how many incidents been a great problem in Waâ€" last March with four schools in Forest Heights in Kitch ener. Separate and public Village, Sandowne and Levâ€" ington areas in Waterloo. ‘‘Right now, we have apâ€" proximately 500 families involved in Waterloo alone,"‘ said Mrs. Neufeld. ‘"To be effective, every third home in a city block should have a Block Parent. This way, we can offer a 24â€"hour serâ€" vice." The program has spread right across Canada. Last week, Ontario held its first provincial conference in London with nine Waterloo members attending. ‘‘We had 300 people there,"‘ said Mrs. Neufeld. ‘"Our goal is to work toâ€" wards a national committee with an advisory council offering a general format for groups to follow."‘ major problem at this time. Individual groups start up, but with no plan to follow, it‘s all trialâ€"andâ€"error, she its