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Mazda‘s Highest Award of Excellence! The staff and management of Waterloo Mazda are very proud to have been named a recipient of the Mazda Circle of excellenceâ€"Award for 1985. This award is really a result of our comâ€" mitment to our customers. It is given out as an indication that a dealership has met the high standard of operation that Mazda views as important in the indusâ€" try. Things like completing service trainâ€" ing programs, having a well stocked parts inventory, even location of the dealership to make it easy for customâ€" ers to get to. And of course, the award is based on the performance of our staft. At Waterioo Mazda, all sales repâ€" resentatives have earned their Master Sales status and are fully qualified to serve your every need, answer your every question. Deb Sharp Mark Bryson Chronicle Staff > Approximately one of every six to 10 males has been sexually assaulted at some point in his life, says the coâ€"ordinator of a new selfâ€"help support group beginning in early March for adult men who were sexually abused as children. Deb Sharp of Community Justice Initiatives, a Kitchener organization providing a variety of guided selfâ€"help groups for different age groups and varying victimization experiences, says dealing with a sexual assault can be more difficult for a man than a woman because of social standards that continue to exist. "It‘s still not acceptable for males to express anguish or hurt. If we know a male has been sexually abused, he becomes vuinerâ€" able," said Sharp. With his feelings bottled up inside himself, the male is left with a number of questions he must ask himself. There is the obvious question of why it happened. Many men may tend to believe it is something they may have initiated and therefore blame themselves. Besides guilt and the obvious lack of self esteem, the man may also have to worry if he enjoyed the assault. The whole process, says Sharp, is going from victim to survivor. The group is designed to provide support and a context for men to discuss these experiences which, even though they occurred many years ago, can still have impact in the Group formed to help men deal with trauma of sexual assault WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. DO MAZD/ present. Groups of no more than 10 will discuss how the experience or experiences has affected their sexual identity and their dealings with women, especially if the assault was carried out by one. Sharp says the meetings will be informal, with each man telling of their experience, how it affected their teen years and how it is affecting them now. "We‘ll be helping them put the experience into perspective and hopefully turn it into something positive. A lot of men feel they are alone. What the group does is show them they‘re not," said Sharp. "We want members to help each other." And that‘s exactly what self help groups are all about, says Sharp, people sharing experiâ€" ences and feelings, according to their personal pace and need. The success of the groups lies in two principles; a person who has dealt with a problem can often be helpful in a supporting role and secondly, when one individual helps another, they both benefit. Like most others groups run by Community Justices Initiatives, it will be coâ€"lead by a maleâ€"female team of trained volunteers who have backgrounds in family and group work. The sexual abuse program will receive referrals from private individuals and agenâ€" cies, such as the courts, police, therapists and family and children‘s services. NATERLOO M e} 1986 â€" PAGE 5 p â€"<