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10 As recently as five years ago, people said it doesn‘t happen in Halton. Recent experiences tell otherwise â€" the violent deaths of several young women and wives, increasing numbers of sexual assaults including situaâ€" tions long considered "safe" such as GO trains, and increasing numbers of assaulted women in Halton face violence daily, that wife assault and sexual assault does happen in the community, Health professionals are treating an increasing numâ€" ber of women who are survivors of wife assault or sexâ€" ual assault. The needs of these women present specific challenges to health professionals in family practice and in emergency rooms. A conference entitled "Sexual and Wife Assault Conference for Health Professionals" will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 27th. 3 f . 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FLANNELETTE Solids and/or Prints THURSDAY SATURDAY THE OAKVILLE BEAVE Parenting expert named editor of Today‘s Parent By BARB JOY Oakville Beaver Staff Today‘s Parent is Anne Day‘s new baby. i2 Â¥ 3 In November, the 41â€"yearâ€"old Oakville mother of two embarked on her new career as managing ediâ€" tor of the allâ€"Canadian parenting publication at the same time that she was finishing up a couple of projects with the Halton Board of Education and the Women‘s Information and Support Centre of Halton. It was a hectic time but it didn‘t diminish the excitement that comes from starting a new and satisfying job, one that Day views as the culâ€" mination of 12 years of volunteer work. "All those years, I felt 1 was working toward it even though I didn‘t know what the goal was," Said Day. / 489 «rue 4 Working out of her home except for a weekly trip to Toronto, Day‘s duties include checking facts and mistakes in articles and working as one of a team that includes illustraâ€" tors and an editorâ€"inâ€"chief. "Someone else does the producâ€" tion work; I‘m involved in the conâ€" tent as well as replying to readers who write in," she said. Because the magazine has already planned all this year‘s nine issues aimed at mothers with chilâ€" dren from one to eight, Day finds she is now reading about summer holidays in the articles she is curâ€" rently editing for the May issue. When it was known by "wordâ€" ofâ€"mouth" that Today‘s Parent was looking for an editor, Day‘s name was submitted by one of the many volunteer organizations she has been involved with. Although she Anne Day took up her new post as managing editor of the allâ€"Canadian publication, Today‘s Parent, in November. One of her jobs is to check for mistakes in people‘s literary efforts but she‘ll also be doing some public speaking on parenting. Day considers her prestigious job the culâ€" mination of her years of volunteer work in the community. (Photo by Peter McCusker) WORKS FROM HOME 1 3.33 m # OURREG 1. 44 m STdidill} ; began volunteering with no thought that it would eventually lead to a paid position, the experience she gained in the 15 years she worked for others made her a likely candiâ€" date for her new position. In 1977, Day took on her first volunteer job as a probation officer but her largest roles involved chilâ€" dren, teens, parenting and abused women. In 1980, she was one of five founders of the Oakville Parentâ€"Child Centre, a centre where young mothers "could get together and learn more about how to raise their children," she said. Three coâ€"founders dropped out, leaving herself and a friend, Jill Snidal, to carry on. Under their leadership, the centre grew from 25 mothers meeting once a week to a sixâ€"day week of varied programs that attracted 375 mothers and their 500 children when Day left it in 1989. After coâ€"founding the Oakville centre, Day went on to open another in Georgetown. From these beginâ€" nings, the Oakville resident "grew" into other volunteer positions, such as president of the Canadian Association of Toy Libraries and Parentâ€"Child Centres for which she edited a 12â€"page newsletter. She was also involved in the publication called Haltâ€"Onâ€"Abuse when presiâ€" dent of Halton Women‘s Place, a hostel in Milton for battered women and their children. In the early 1980s, she wrote a parenting colâ€" umn for the Oakville Beaver. TEAM COâ€"ORDINATOR Concerned about the plight of teen mothers, Day instituted special programs for them at both parentâ€" child centres. Until 1991, she spent three years as coâ€"ordinator of a Halton Board of Education initiaâ€" tive called TEAM (Teen Education And Motherhood), a program enabling teenaged mothers to comâ€" plete their high school credits. _ For her volunteering contribuâ€" tions in the many organizations she CENTRE FLOURISHED A Ceaeb pgS G YPSYWEF\RE ?s o. L\w\oos Sunday, January 10th 2:00 p.m. Oakville Centre Reservation Call 842â€"2555 or Ticketmaster 870â€"8000 xro.}ixor\ oY mus'w Rr‘ormci in Blac\& __Ln\'g‘ E\ gor & Sccr\L {M‘AS_S either founded or furthered, Day received a provincial volunteer award in April, 1991. But she clearâ€" ly stated that she‘s the winner in more ways than one because each of her positions gave her new skills and allowed her to explore her own interests, at the same time permitâ€" ting her to discover what she didn‘t want to do. PUBLIC SPEAKING Although her journalistic skills were limited to newsletters and the Beaver column, she readily admitâ€" ted that her ability to speak on parâ€" enting matters was probably one of the reasons she got the job with Today‘s Parent. Public speaking is included in her job description. As managing editor, Day will be able to have some of her own parâ€" enting philosophies reflected in the magazine‘s pages. Paramount among them is her own discovery that parenting isn‘t easy, contrary to pulpy family sitcoms on television. She has not lost the ability to identify with the plight of a g:ung parent. After all, that‘s why she and Snidal started the Oakville Parentâ€" Child Centre in the first place. "There are so many parenting books out now â€" some of them conflicting â€" so how do you know what‘s the best thing to do?" she wondered at the same time that she offered a solution. "I think you have to give parents options rather than saying this is the way to do it. After all, you don‘t know what the cirâ€" cumstances are. They vary from child to child." While raising her two daughters, now 14 and 8, she discovered that parenting is made easier by a sense of humor, an ability to relax with children and an understanding of what is normal at any given age. Other mothers, such as those who gather at parentâ€"child centres, can give insight into these areas. __And so can magazines. In a way, Day has substituted one sharing device for another. PARENTING OPTIONS r 1| |tan anualr Lkk! )9