Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), December 5, 1984, p. 11

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PRAISED FOR POSTERS PROSE A childrens play with a difference SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday Decembers ISM Standing ovation for Journey from AMU BROWN Herald Special Last Tuesday night In Milton an enthusiastic audience of nearly 300 gave a standing ovation to the cast of the enter tabling and delightful play Journey from AMU Using music and humour the energetic cast of three Lindsay Cable Paul Punyl and Maureen Rooncy play a wide assortment of colourful characters in this appealing talc The play unfolds when princess Mcrlana from he planet AMU All Mixed Up comes o earth to find out about touch Using her magic powers finds herself in a variety of different situations In which she learns touch cm be pleasant caring and feel good or It can be unpleasant confusing and feci bad asks children in the audience Tor advice in each of he different situations and children learn along with There were over winners In the Remembrance Day poster contest recently by the Royal Canadian Legion In Georgetown Among the winners collecting their certificate of achievement were front left clockwise Andrea Schneider Julie Holme Michelle Green IS Darlene Johnson and Glen Caldwell The award were given out Thursday night In the Legion halt from Homby coll led some successes at the All American Open and Open and Junior Shows held In Louisville Kentucky recently In he largestever edition of a special Jersey Jug Futurity Class a Hornby entry finished a strong fourth Rock Ella Amelia from Rock Ella Jersey Farm Ltd Hornby received recognition as the highest placing animal owned by a junior exhibitor Marvin Ella In this head class Mcrlana personal safety rules such as 1 shopping centre alone Always tell someone where you re going If someone grabs you yell as loud as you Trust your reelings The play is sponsored by the Metropolitan Chalrmans Special Committee on Child Abuse and Is part of a preventive education project to be Introduced In Both Lynn Clark of Georgetown Block Parents executive and Janet Still of George town s Your Children thought he ploy was super Both would like to see the play in Georgetown schools The program is already In use In over schools In Toronto and over children kindergarten to grade VI have seen the play Catherine Stewart a member of the special committee coauthored the play with Marsha Barber and David Craig She said Die committee knew that a lot of children were suffering and they wanted to find a way of helping these children at an early ly abused she said are abused before the age of seven and according to the Report pu Wished by the Federal Government one out of two women and one out or three men will have been sexually abused by the time they reach adulthood Children are not safe Ms Stewart concluded We have failed them In the past and we must start children We cannot let this Injustice con tinue To this end the Special Committee has Imple mented the preventive education project

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