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g When Region of Waterloo Swim Club 3 head coach Dean Boles and three members g of the ROW club attend a highly competiâ€" Z tive meet this week in Alabama, he‘ll have x a good indication as to how far his swimâ€" & mers have come, and how far they have to i go if they expect to compete in the 1996 Q Atlanta Olympics. # _ Boles will be taking freestyler Laura u Nicholls, Shawn Button and butterfly 9 swimmer Jennifer Button to the US Open 5 this week to face some of their stiffest comâ€" 26 ® e s a & f Ijetals 6 Pots mc 255 King Street North, Suite 301, Waterloo, Ontario N2J 4V2 rigcs leading into the (96) O!ym‘p?msA We want to establish some good times and use this meet as a measuring stick." "The level of the athletes at this meet will be phenomenal," said Boles, who added that swimmers competing in the meet have some of the top times in United States. 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Flower & Gift Shop Accompanying Boles to the Bulfalo meet will be four ROW swimmers, including Jennifer Button, Nicholls, Neil Baker and Doug Browne, along with assistant coach Dawn Button and Wilfrid Laurier Univerâ€" sity physio therapist Jamie Carlson. a 32â€"member “ Ontario team innc: dliew. to compete at the Buffalo Start Invitational Dec. 1417 C oaches Association, Boles, the president of the Ontario The meet will feature top clubs from Boles "TCoONtept Siskins will be in action this Saturday night when they travel to Kitchener to meet the Dutchmen in a 7:40 p.m. start. On Sunday Siskins will be at home to Owen Sound in a 7 p.m. game at Mutual Group Arena. Other Waterloo scorers were Jeff Collins, Terry Martin, Wes Snell, Dave Cousineau, Alan Fyfe and Ted Psutka. Joe Pikula picked up four assists while Brandon Dietrich had three assists. Brian Yundt and Brett Ritchie scored for Guelph. In Friday action against Cambridge Joe Pikula, Psutka, Louis Goulet, Tyler Rennette and Snell scored or Waterloo. "Ig" BALFIC (Russian) BIRCH Prethium Plywood __â€"_. (Continued from page 25) "A meet like this is teaching 16 to 18 yearâ€"old swimmers how to race. Some of these kids will fit into play for the 1996 Olympics as well as the 2000 Olympics." According to Boles, interest in senior swimming is slipping in Canada, and exposing them to highâ€"calibre meets is one way of keeping them interested. boost the programs in the provimé. ém- cially at the senior levels." "Anytime you get your kids on a provinâ€" cial tour team and then get to coach them as well as kids from other clubs, it means a lot to me. As president of the Ontario Swim Coaches Association, 1 have a vested interest in watching swimmers from other provincial clubs because we‘re trying to Groupmy northeastern United States and the provinâ€" cial tour team. Boles was selected to lead the swimmers based on a coaching point system and his performances at national competitions. %, 5 She also leared to change her communication style from yelling things like, "Stop all that noise!" to a firm but softly spoken "I need mouse voices, not dinosaur voices!" As school board budgets grow tighter and tighter, the day maym(befarofiwhcnthepamtingm:mwillmnm being a userâ€"pay program. If that happens, United Way funds will become the chief way to subsidize tuition in the program for those who cannot afford it. Meanwhile, planning has begun for the winterâ€"spring proâ€" grams, including a new edition called "For Single Parents Only". Like Lori Hallman, she avoids confrontations by giving her highâ€"spirited child a lot of choices. Instead of "Do you want your bath now"" (a question sure to get the answer ‘NO!‘), she says "Do you want a fiveâ€"minute bath or a 15â€"minute bath?" and tums on the timer accordingly. The basic order to have a bath is softened by the choice which gives the child some feelâ€" ing of control. "And when he does get mad about the bath, the anger is directed more at the timer than at me," she says. ecuascail Cb © . 1 "I used to be really frustrated by the end of the day, Now I see how normal a lot of what they do really is. I can also tell myself that dipping the crackers in the milk isn‘t the end of the world." decrease confrontations, rather than having it become just another punishment that caused more explosions. She came to the conclusion that spanking, the principal disâ€" ciplinary technique that she had been raised with, only made her highâ€"spirited son more angry and rebellious. She now chooses from a "toolbox" of more positive disciplinary tools. Lorrie Pelletier is a graduate of both the "preschooler" and "kids" programs and a regional home dayâ€"care provider, who regularly has five children in her home all day. Together with the other parents and instructor Bonnie Murâ€" doch, she was able to explore what triggered the violent outâ€" bursts and how to do preventive parenting. She learned how to use "time out" effectively both for herself and for her son to At her first class, Lori was asked to tell something about herself and her family and said, "I am the mother of a violent fourâ€"yearâ€"old." She was startled to have several other parents call out, "So am I!" For eight years, thisâ€"partnership in education has provided for parents an oldâ€"fashioned opportunity that has been lost in our modem urban society, namely the chance for parents to come together, share their parenting concems and leam from one another. It used to happen as neighbors shared chores like quilting and canning but families are more insular now. Although there is no tuition for the courses, even the cost of the textbook can be beyond some parents‘ means. Again, United Way funds fill the gap. Uni w." the ‘"Talking So Preschoolers..." ovugmssnioomnu and "Talking So Kids Will Lisâ€" ten" series. Theresa was able to pay what she could afford and the rest was covered by United Way. Kâ€"W COUNSELLING SERVICES "I started to be afraid of what I was liable to say or do to my children when I was so strung out," she admitted at one of the first classes of ‘"TPL". working regularly. Things should have been much better but for Theresa they weren‘t. With David working mostly out of town and coming home very late or only on weekends, Theresa was carrying most of the parenting burden singleâ€" handed and she was exhausted. Her need for support brought her to ‘‘Talking So Preschoolâ€" ers Will Listen", one of the parenting programs jointly funded by Kâ€"W Counselling Services, the Waterloo County Board of Education, the Waterloo Region Separate School Board and United Way. Theresa had three young children and a fourth on the way. After a long struggle with unemployment, her husband was United Way funding to Kâ€"W Counselling Services makes it possible to offer lowâ€"cost child care in all daytime courses of But for Theresa and other parâ€" ticipants like Lori Hallman, addiâ€" tional support is needed. "I wouldn‘t have been able to take the course if there hadn‘t been child care," Lori says.