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It was a 40,000 to one longshot, but a donor was found in the United States through the Red Cross unrelated bone marrow registry, and the surgery was done early spring at the Hospital for Sick Children. Told the operation would have a 90% success rate, ending monthly blood transfusions, gave new hope to the Turners. Joshua was diagâ€" nosed in August 1992 and a donor was found in December â€"â€" a nice Christmas present that year. ‘3.495 ‘8,995 Ils 8,395 m b 4 EL And, thanks to the diligence of a local service club, women coming out of Halton Women‘s Place are getting a second chance, without having to return to their abusive partners. Called the ‘Second Stage Housing Project,‘ the Rotary Club of Oakvilleâ€"Trafalgar provides funding and solicits Sheridan College interior design students to renâ€" ovate and decorate apartments made available for these women. So far, four women have been accommodated in apartments located in Burlington â€" generally, the rent is cheaper there than in Oakville, hence, no apartments for this project in town. The club achieves this with a $5,000 annual budget. atâ€"large. Speakers lamented the amount of violence in television proâ€" gramming while at the same heralding the new antiâ€"violence broadcast code announced by the Canadian Radioâ€" Television and Telecommunications Commission about a week before the November conference. Consultant Sandra Campbell, who researches an® provides educational services addressâ€" ing violence in children, said violent movies gives rise to a child‘s desire to have violent toys and videos, thanks to deregulation of children‘s television by the United States in 1983 â€" it had a direct influence in Canada. And, Dr. Ted Baehr, speaking to a Full Gospel Businessmen‘s breakfast on behalf of the Christian Film and Television Commission, said allowing television to ‘babysit‘ children expose,‘sht_hqpfiq excessive sex and violence. He said children see 400,000 sex acts and 200,000 acts of violence by age 17. His group is lobbying Hollywood to return family values into its movie. and television industry. n WANTED: BIG SISTERS A story on the plight of the Oakville Big Sisters may have sent more than one shockwave through town. Celebrating its 25th year in® town, the agency found itself dealing with an almost unmanageable caseload with 25 girls waiting for a Big Sister. The statistics of the agency‘s 45 Big and Little Sister matches plus the 25 girls on the waiting list showed 70% had a history of identified or suspected child abuse as follows: sexual, 25%; physical, 19%, emotional, 17%;, and neglect, 9%. The need for Big Sisters was never greater in Oakville. ‘THANKS BUT NO THANKS‘ Former federal Revenue Ministerâ€" Garth Turner proclaimed at a conferâ€" ence hosted by Child Find in September that private confidential government records would not be made available to assist in theâ€"search for parental abductors. He rejected any _ notion that income tax records could be used to locate warring spouses who have abducted their children â€" this despite Child Find‘s records showing 84% of all children gone missing are attributed to parental abduction in 1992. ‘"For one thing, the Income Tax Act prohibits this (dipping into confiâ€" dential files)," said Turner. "And for another, I don‘t think we should. We have to maintain the confidentiality and the integrity of personal governâ€" ment records. We just can‘t hand them / over to the police." Otherwise, he promised, the government is workâ€" ing "hand in glove" with the police in finding missing children.He unveiled a handâ€"hand computer capaâ€" ble of storing information on up to 100,000 missing children, including photographs. modems and phone/faxes, wet u office at home. It‘s called cocoonin and many companies, including th Oakville Beaver, became part of th trend. About 30%, or 3.8 millio adults workers, anybody from docto to lawyers, accountants, architect consultants and writers, work for home. What these people save in com muting becomes dollars in their ban accounts. Among those profiled b feature writer Barb Joy, a ‘cocooner for the Beaver, was freelance write Shelly Sanders Greer. 7 CLOSED CAPTIONING Television was a topic of note. Tw years ago, Glen Abbey resident Beverley Ostafichuk and Roy Chany launched Canada Caption Inc., wit the aim of raising enough charitabl dollars from sponsors to provid closed captioning for all Canadia television programs, thus making T equally accessible to the deaf an hardâ€"ofâ€"hearing. The project marrie the skills of Ostafichuk, who wa raised by a profoundly deaf mothe and became one of the first people i Canadian television broadcasting, an Chanyi, a corporate man looking for new and exciting challenge. P TV VIOLENCE 1 Violence on the tube was the subâ€" ject of the third annual Reaching for Change conference organized by the Halton Rape Crisis Centre and supâ€" ported by a number of likeâ€"minded community organizations in hopes of, bringing an end to violence in societyâ€" SECOND CHANCE Dec. 29, 199