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Unfortunately, many live with the negative effects of bullying in all strata of our population and all sectors of society. In our schools, workplaces, and homes, as well as online and in many other situations, people can be subjected to the debilitating effects of the bullying.

Creating safe and secure communities where everyone can live without fear is essential to developing a stronger, healthier, more vibrant and productive society. We must face this challenge together, and I commend the RNC Association on their efforts in combating and raising awareness on this issue. Only by working together can we eradicate this unacceptable behaviour.

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It brings me great pleasure to present to members of our community the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Association’s 20th Annual Community Guide. On the 20th Anniversary of this Community Guide, I’d like to thank the many sponsors and supporters of the RNCA who have allowed us the opportunity to spread awareness of important issues across the province. It is only with your continued assistance that we are able to draw attention to, and hopefully deter, some of these problems.

This year’s Guide focuses on the distressing issue of Bullying Awareness. Bullying is a prevalent and diverse form of violence that can take many different forms - physical, emotional, and/or verbal. It can also occur in many different environments, but is characteristically associated with schools. While bullying can often be thought of as being a “normal” part of growing up, that simply is not the truth. Violence of any type should never be tolerated.

Through programs and presentations organized by the RNC, the police force of this province is continuing to work to eliminate bullying. One such program is “STRIVE”, which was developed in response to requests to have officers attend schools to speak to students on the problem of bullying. This program has grown into a multifaceted and interactive series that can be delivered to students in Newfoundland and Labrador from grades Kindergarten to grade nine. This program demonstrates how the members of this police force are committed to finding a solution to bullying.

The RNCA is very proud to be able to bring some light to these serious issues and make this province a better place for its residents. Thank you again for your support.

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RNCA 20th Annual Community Guide BULLYING AWARENESS

Message from the Premier ...... 1 RNCA Executive Members ...... 7 Message from the RNCA President ...... 3 Message from the Publisher ...... 9

Bullying Awareness

How Safe is Your School? ...... 15 Teaching Children the Skill of Confidence ...... 47 What Can I Do if I Want to Say No to Peer Pressure 17 Addressing Cyber-Bullying ...... 49 What Can I Do if I Want To Be More Assertive? . . . .19 How to Pick a Good Self-Defense Program ...... 51 Safe & Caring Schools ...... 21 Speaking Up About Putdowns ...... 53 Suicide & Bullying ...... 23 Bullying in Schools – Seven Solutions for Parents . .57 Lady Gaga and Ellen DeGeneres Against Bullying . .25 Record Keeping and Bullying ...... 61 Bullying is Wrong and Hurtful ...... 27 What Every Kid Needs to Know About Bullying . . . . .61 Are Canadians Too Nice to Bully? ...... 29 By Not Speaking Up, Am I Accepting Bullying? . . . .63 Bullying in Sports ...... 35 Fighting Bullying with Babies ...... 65 What if MY Child is the Bully? ...... 37 HOPE – a Kids Help Phone Tip Sheet ...... 71 Acting Friendly or Truly Being Your Friend? How to Tell the Difference ...... 39 Where to find more information on Bullying ...... 112 Bullying – What Do Kids Say? ...... 43 Facing Bullying with Confidence ...... 45 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX ...... 111

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Ten things you can do about youth violence:

1. Tell someone. If you are the victim or you've witnessed violence tell someone you trust, such as a friend, parent, teacher, coach, brother/sister, or a neighbour.

2. Take all violence and abuse seriously. Remember, violence and abuse is against the law.

3. Take a stand. If you witness any form of violence or abuse stand up, step in, or shout out that the violence has to stop.

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Tell them that blaming the abusive behaviour on drugs, drinking and someone else are just excuses. • Offer to go with them to a counsellor.

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An effective way for parents to contribute to child and youth safety is through participation on their school development and/or safe and caring schools committee. This would be the place to evaluate how well your child’s school is creating and maintaining a safe and caring environment. What is your school doing well? What could use improvement? The answers to these and the following questions will help your safe school committee focus on the most important issues.

• To what extent do students, teachers, administrators, support staff, parents and visitors feel welcome, cared about and a part of life at your school? • What are the behavioural expectations for students? For adults, staff, volunteers? Are these expectations displayed? • Is the environment accepting of diversity? In other words, is it safe for people to be themselves, regardless of gender, race, language, degree of affluence or sexual orientation? • How does your school demonstrate respect for diversity? • What incidents of bullying have occurred in the past year? Two years? How were these incidents recorded and addressed? What follow-up took place? • To what extent is awareness of bullying being taught to students? In what subject areas? • How does your school teach social skills related to preventing bullying or intervening when bullying occurs? • What opportunities does your school provide for staff, students, parents, and other members of the community to get together to discuss initiatives and responses to bullying? Are these effective? • What is your school’s policy and process for intervening if there is a bullying incident? In what ways, and how quickly, have parents and students been informed and involved?

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Be clear about what you want • Know what you want to say and practise it. • Make your request short. (“That is mine. I want you to give it back”) Be a Broken Record • A broken record repeats the same thing over and over. Know what you want to say and stick to it: “That is my pencil and I want it back”. • It is possible to respond kindly first before repeating the statement: “I am sorry you have no pencil but that is my pencil and I want it back”. (A possible broken record response to being teased: - “I am sorry, I didn’t hear you.”)

Say No • If you are not sure if you want to do something, you can say “I don’t know. I need more time or more information.” • If you know your answer is no, then say ‘no’. Try not to be indecisive. Try not to be persuaded to do what you don’t want to do. • You can offer an alternative: “No, I don’t want to go to the party. Let’s go to a movie instead.”

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Other stars like Jim Carrey have stated that “bullying is an old and antiquated way of thinking” with no place in a modern society. He’s also said that “anyone who bullies anybody for any reason is no friend of his.” Carrey, having recently filmed a movie in which he played a convict who finds his samesex soul mate in jail, is said to be appalled by the growing trend of bullying gay teenagers. A lot of people have thought that bullying is just a part of life, that it’s something to endure and get through on According to Queen Latifah, parents are urged to be your way to adulthood. And the sad reality is that many responsible and to look for “unhappy” signs in their have experienced bullying, or they will be bullied at child as well as address issues, such as bullying, with some point in their lives. This status quo has ruled for a the other child’s parents in order to find a solution. long time, but things are finally beginning to change. Latifah has said that she experienced bullying at school – for being different – and that it took her years to learn Bullying can take many forms, and they’re all damaging. that being different was not necessarily a bad thing. Confidence and self-esteem are always affected and if children, teenagers and young adults feel too lost or In Justin Bieber’s opinion, there’s “nothing cool about low, they often take their own lives. These bullying being a bully” and Daniel Radcliffe, who starred in all deaths can be the result of anything from cyber-bullying those Harry Potter movies, states, “we have a to being called bad names on the playground. responsibility to be better to each other,” a sentiment echoed by many other celebrities around the world. Recently, more and more celebrities have started anti- bullying campaigns or are promoting media events And if you’re a YouTube regular, look up any number of meant to bring forward the causes and consequences of celebrities who are working toward the common goal of bullying, as well as to show that there is help out there addressing bullying. To name a few, Leona Lewis, Girls for those who feel targeted. There’s universal recognition Aloud, Beth Ditto, Ronan Keating, Shayne Ward and that bullying has to be stopped and that action must be Sean Kingston, got together to film a selection of special taken around the world. Celebrities like Lady Gaga, anti-bullying messages. Ellen DeGeneres, Justin Bieber, Alesha Dixon, Pixie Lott and Twiggy have spoken out and are taking part in various anti-bullying activities, such as marches or media campaigns.

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Being safe in relationships is a fundamental human physical or mental violence, injury or abuse" at the right. Every child and youth has the right to be safe hands of their peers. For every one child concerned and free from involvement in bullying. Children in all about being sexually abused by adults, there are three three roles with respect to bullying – those who are children concerned about being beaten up by peers bullied, those who bully others, and those who know (Finkelhor, Assdigan, & Dziuba-Leatherman, 1995). it is going on can be negatively affected. Negative effects include a lack of confidence in oneself and in Protection Starts with the Adults in Children's Lives others, which hurts relationships across the lifespan, thereby increasing risk for mental disorder, poor The responsibility to protect children from all forms of academic and vocational achievement, and abuse, including bullying, is the responsibility of criminality. parents, teachers, and other adults in the community who are in contact with children and youth. Children's Rights At home, parents are responsible for their children's Canada has signed the United Nations Convention safety and well-being. Adults in school, on sports on the Rights of the Child. In Article 29, the teams, and in community activities are all responsible Convention specifies that education shall be directed for the safety and well-being of children and youth in to: their care.

The preparation of the child for responsible life in a Bullying is an issue of the human rights of safety and free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, inclusion. Many children endure bullying on a daily tolerance, equality of the sexes, and friendship basis. This type of abuse is a violation of human among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious rights. All children involved in bullying require groups and persons of indigenous origin. support to promote healthy development, positive relationships, and to protect their welfare. As a society, therefore, we must educate children to ensure they develop positive attitudes and behaviours In extending her patronage to PREVNet, Her and avoid using their power to bully or harass others. Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s Governor General wrote that “Finding ways The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also of predicting and preventing the development of addresses the rights of children who are at the these relationship problems is a necessity. Bullying is receiving end of bullying and harassment. Article 19 not only about threats and intimidation, it is foremost of the Convention states: about contempt and injustice.”

Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, By promoting healthy relationships, we can prevent administrative, social and educational measures to bullying and support children and youth in protect the child from all forms of physical or mental developing social skills, understanding and respect, violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent social responsibility, and citizenship. PREVNet treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including recognizes these attributes as the foundation for a sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal cohesive, productive, and peaceful society. guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child. “Let’s all rise up for a world where respect is valued above all else.” Traditionally, concerns about child abuse have focused on abuse from an adult to a child. Research -Her Excellency The Right Honourable, Michaëlle on bullying shows that we also need to protect Jean, PREVNet’s Patron children and youth who experience "forms of

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Myth: Bullying does not cause any serious harm. youth who bully others in childhood will continue to use their power negatively through adolescence and Fact: Bullying is associated with a range of physical into adulthood. The nature of bullying changes as and mental health problems, as well as suicide, children mature. From early adolescence, new forms educational problems, antisocial problems, and of aggression, carried out from a position of power, relationship problems. emerge. With developing thinking and social skills, children become aware of others’ vulnerabilities and For example: of their own power relative to others. Bullying then diversifies into more sophisticated forms of verbal, * Victimized children are more likely to report social, homophobic, and sexually- and racially-based headaches and stomach aches than non-victimized aggression. Over time, these new forms of aggression children (Due et al., 2005; Williams, et al., 1996). are carried forward into different relationships and Children who both bully and are victimized may be at environments. The destructive lessons learned in greatest risk for physical health problems. childhood about the use of power may translate into * Victimized children are more likely to report sexual harassment in the workplace, dating violence, anxiety and depressive symptoms than children marital abuse, child abuse, and elder abuse. uninvolved in bullying (Due et al, 2005; Kaltiala- Heino et al, 1999). Of greatest concern is the fact that Solution: Early identification and intervention of psychiatric problems associated with involvement in bullying will prevent patterns of aggressive interactions bullying tend to persist into later life (Kumpulainen & from forming. Adults must be aware that bullying Rasanen, 2000). changes with age and may become more difficult to * A high risk of suicidal ideation (having thoughts of detect. suicide) is found among children who are bullied, who bully others, and who are involved in both roles Myth: Only a small number of children have problems (Kaltiala-Heinoet al., 1999). with bullying. * Both victimized children and children who bully are at risk for poor school functioning, in terms of poor Fact: Approximately 12% of girls and 18% of boys attitudes towards school, low grades, and absenteeism reported bullying others at least twice in previous (Rigby, 2003; Tremblay, 1999). months, whereas 15% of girls and 18% of boys * 20-25% of frequently victimized children report reported being victimized at least twice over the same bullying as the reason for missing school (Rigby, 2003). time period (Craig & Harel, 2004) These figures suggest * Youth who bully others are more likely to use that in a classroom of 35 students, between 4 and 6 alcohol and drugs (Pepler et al., 2002), and are at risk children are bullying and/or are being bullied. Many for later criminality. For example, 60% of boys who more children observe bullying and know that it is bully others in elementary school had criminal records going on. At some point, the majority of children will by age 24 (Olweus, 1991). engage in some form of bullying and experience some form of victimization. A small minority of children will Solution: It is essential to identify children at risk for have frequent, long-lasting, serious, and pervasive bullying and/or victimization and to provide support involvement in bullying and/or victimization (Craig & for their development in order to prevent the negative Pepler, 2003). consequences associated with this type of disrespectful peer relationship. Solution: To ensure that children have healthy and productive relationships, it is important to include all Myth: Children grow out of bullying. children, regardless of their involvement in bullying, in bullying prevention programs. This means that Fact: Without intervention, a significant proportion of programs and strategies must address the needs and

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...continued provide the necessary support for children who are it is incredibly difficult for children who are being victimized, children who bully others, and children victimized to remove themselves from this destructive who watch bullying occur. relationship. They make numerous attempts to make the bullying stop on their own but these efforts are Myth: Canadians are “too nice” to bully. usually unsuccessful and may make the bullying worse. Adult intervention is required to correct the Fact: On the recent World Health Organization power imbalance. Children and parents may have to (WHO) Health Behaviours in School-aged Children report the bullying to more than one person before the (HSBC) survey, Canada ranked a dismal 26th and 27th behaviour will stop. We do know that victimized out of 35 countries on measures of bullying and children who told an adult about being bullied victimization, respectively (Craig & Harel, 2004). reported being less victimized the following year Moreover, our position on the international stage has compared to children who did not report being bullied slipped relative to other countries. On the 1993/1994 (Yuile, Pepler, & Craig, 2004). When no one talks survey, Canada’s ranking on the prevalence of bullying about bullying, children who bully feel they can carry and victimization was relatively higher than in the on without consequences. Secrecy empowers children 2001/2002 survey (King et al., 1996); however, the who bully. prevalence of bullying and victimization among Canadian students has remained relatively stable. The Solution: Children need to be encouraged to report drop in Canada’s relative ranking in spite of stable bullying and be given multiple strategies to make these rates, suggests that other countries have been reports. Adults must convey the message that they preventing bullying problems more effectively than want to know about children’s experiences and that it Canada. The high proportions of Canadian students is their job to make the bullying stop. who report bullying or being bullied confirm that this represents an important social problem for Canada. Myth: Children who are victimized need to stand up and One of the reasons that Canada is ranked so poorly fight back. compared to other countries is our lack of a national campaign to address bullying problems. Fact: Encouraging children who are victimized to fight back may, in fact, makes the bullying interaction Solution: PREVNet (Promoting Relationships and worse. We know that when children use aggressive Eliminating Violence) is a Networks Centre of strategies to manage bullying situations, they tend to Excellence – New Initiative. Launched in 2006, our experience prolonged and more severe bullying vision is to stop bullying in Canada and to promote interactions as a result (Mahady Wilton, Craig, & safe and healthy relationships for all Canadian children Pepler, 2000). and youth. Led by scientific co-investigators, Dr. Debra Pepler of York University and Dr. Wendy Craig of Solution: Children should be encouraged to be Queen’s University, this national network is the first of assertive, not aggressive, and to inform a trusted adult its kind in Canada and provides an unprecedented about what has happened to them. opportunity for social innovation and social-cultural change. Myth: Bullying is a school problem.

Myth: Reporting bullying will only make the problem Fact: Bullying occurs wherever children gather to live, worse. learn, or play. As such, the majority of bullying tends to occur in the classroom, on the school playground, Fact: Given the power imbalance that exists between and on the school bus where children are most often the child who bullies and the child who is victimized, together. Although bullying tends to occur in school,

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...continued we know that bullying is a community problem, not power than the other”. In a romantic relationship, just a school problem. As the primary institution in there is often an imbalance of power due to biological, children’s lives, schools can play a leadership role in cultural, psychological and economic factors. It is addressing bullying problems. clear that parents have greater power due to the child’s immaturity, vulnerability, and dependence on the Solution: Adults are essential for children and youth’s caregiver. In relationships between adult children and healthy relationships. All adults are responsible for their elderly parents, the balance of power becomes creating positive environments, promoting healthy reversed as the caregiving role is reversed. Between relationships, and ending violence in the lives of siblings or cousins, it is often, but not always, the older children and youth. They are role models and must child who has greater power because of greater size lead by example and refrain from using their power and maturity. aggressively. Adults must look for, listen, and respond * “Repeated aggression”. Aggression can take many to bullying. Adults can organize social activities in forms, but the common denominator is disrespect of ways that protect and support children’s relationships another human being’s rights to physical and and stop bullying. psychological safety and sense of dignity. Within families, there is a universal expectation that those Myth: Bullying does not occur within the family or the with greater power assume responsibility to safeguard family home. the well being of more vulnerable family members. When there is a repeated pattern of the violation of Fact: Unfortunately, bullying does occur within this responsibility, either by neglect or by acts that families. Bullying is defined as a relationship problem cause distress, we use the term “abuse”. When in which there is repeated aggression by a person with children and youth bully their peers, they violate the greater power directed at a person with lesser power. rights of the other; however they are not in the same Repeated aggression within family relationships is position of responsibility for safeguarding the well- most commonly called “abuse” or “family violence”, being of the other, due to their own immaturity. Thus, and within peer relationships it is called “bullying” or bullying can be seen as a signal that the child or youth “harassment”. The family is the first context in which needs support in learning about relationship values children learn about relationships, and lessons learned and skills. in the family provide the foundation for future relationships. Research shows that there is a Solution: It is critically important that children developmental connection between experiencing or experience secure and healthy relationships in the witnessing abuse in the family, and experiencing or family. It is imperative that we teach our children that perpetuating bullying and abuse in future relationships in which there is a power imbalance are relationships. If we look closely at the elements of the precisely the relationships in which the person with definition of bullying, we can clearly see the overlap more power has the responsibility to safeguard the and subtle distinction between bullying and abuse, well being of the more vulnerable person. Through with abuse being a form of bullying that implies a modeling respectful relationships and taking violation of adult responsibility. responsibility for the well being of those who are * “Occurs in the context of a relationship”. Abuse dependent and vulnerable, both within and beyond can also occur in romantic relationships between the family, adults can help to promote healthy couples (spousal abuse, woman abuse), parents and relationships and prevent bullying and abuse. children, (child abuse, elder abuse) and in other relationships in the extended family (grandparents, in- laws, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). Bullying can occur within sibling relationships and between cousins. * “When one person in the relationship has greater extracted from: www.prevnet.ca/bullying www.rnca.ca 33 Like an orange, your eyes can look and feel great on the outside.

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Bullying in schools, families, and other groups Clear rules means being very specific – No affects the physical and emotional safety of Putdowns, No Name-Calling, No Pushing, No everyone in the group. Adults can help children stay Hitting. Bullying in schools and other groups often safe by teaching children skills to deal with bullying. escalates quickly without clear rules and consistent In addition, children using bullying behavior need adult follow-through on those rules. support in learning different ways of interacting with other children. It is important that kids see that everyone--especially the adults around them--are following the same One parent emailed us the following question; our rules. Consistent consequences need to be thought answer follows. through ahead of time to make sure that they are reasonable and will be upheld by all the adults QUESTION: What if my child is the bully? responsible for supervision. Sometimes he calls other kids names and pushes them around to get what he wants. The bottom line is that the child needs to be stopped from continuing the bullying behavior quickly, ANSWER: Children who bully in this way need safer clearly and directly. If this doesn't work, there might tools for getting what they want, better skills for be further consequences like sitting down for a few handling the disappointment of NOT always getting minutes instead of playing, having to do something what they want, clear boundaries about what the inside away from other kids for a little while, or rules are for behavior, and consistently enforced losing some privilege like watching television or consequences for breaking those rules. playing on the computer.

Safer tools can mean learning to ask instead of grab Bullying in schools and other groups can improve and learning to look for ways in which everyone can when adults support all of the children – children get at least some of what they want. using bullying behavior as well as those being bullied – in learning more effective skills for staying Skills for handling disappointment can mean safe, for being powerful, and for getting what they learning how to think first and calm down when you want. Getting support for stopping bullying are upset, learning to wait your turn, and finding behavior sooner rather than later can make a big other things to do when you cannot do what you difference. Teachers, counselors, parenting classes, want right away. and friends can all be valuable resources.

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We hear many sad stories about young people who to lower your boundaries and do what they want can were confused by others who pretended to be friendly break your heart. in order to get their way, but whose actual intent was to get something from them or even to cause them Both children and adults need to know that someone harm. Here are typical examples: who smiles at you, says kind things to you, does nice things for you, and seems funny might be enjoyable to One kindergarten teacher said, "A few of my students be with, but that this friendly behavior by itself does are so charismatic that all the other kids want to be not make this person a trustworthy friend. friends with them. Sometimes they will try to control other children by saying that they will only be their At the same time, having misunderstandings and friend if they agree not to play with crossing boundaries are normal anyone else. I tell my students that communication problems in real friends don’t try to stop you important relationships. Also, from having other friends." sometimes people change and friendships that worked for a while One mother said, "My seven-year- stop working. old daughter got into big trouble because a girl she really liked The reality is that some mistakes trashed the school bathroom by are probably unavoidable. You throwing paper towels into the have to be willing to take some toilets and sinks. This girl said that, risks in order to get to know since my daughter was her friend, someone well enough to decide my daughter had to blame another whether or not to keep this person one of their classmates for making as a friend. this mess." So, how do you tell the difference One father said, "My ten-year-old between someone who is behaving son keeps getting tricked into in a way that is likable and doing another kid’s homework someone who is going to be a because he wants so much to be good bet as a friend? accepted by him." Friends are precious! You have to judge by what a person One middle school boy said, does not just part of the time, but "Some girls in our school go along with sex because all of the time, and not just with you, but with they want to be popular. I feel bad because some guys everyone, in order to figure out whether or not tell these girls how much they care about them and someone is going to be a friend you can count on. then make horrible jokes about what sluts they are behind their backs." Here are six questions that you can ask yourself- and teach kids to ask themselves - to help decide whether One teacher of a developmentally delayed teen said, or not someone is being a good friend. "Kids in his neighborhood pretended to be his friends and then persuaded him to steal my cell phone 1) Does this person do things that are important to both because they told him they needed the money." of you?

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...Continued you, but getting mad and saying you are a bad friend Suppose that you decide that someone you often enjoy if you want to do something else? is also often not acting like a good friend. Depending on the situation, here are some choices for what you 2) Does this person encourage you to do things that can do: are in your best interests? Or, does this person try to use your feelings of 1) Speak up about the problem in a clear respectful friendship to pressure you into wasting your time or way. People often don’t see the impact of their money, breaking rules, getting into trouble, doing behavior on others unless it’s pointed out to them. You something dangerous, or hurting someone else? can’t know what will happen unless you let this person know that this behavior is not okay with you. 3) Does this person speak and act respectfully towards you no matter who else is around? 2) Become unavailable. You can decide to spend your Or, does this person sometimes make unkind jokes attention and time with someone else. Many shy or ignore you in order to be popular with others? people do not act that friendly at first, but, once you get past the surface, can be interesting and fun. 4) Does this person try to tell the truth, apologize for mistakes, and keep commitments most of the 3) Pick and choose. Many people are great to be with time? at some times and best to avoid at other times. You can Or, does this person blame others for his or her decide when to hang out with someone and when not mistakes, lie, and break promises over and over? to.

5) Does this person treat others with kindness and 4) End the friendship. Sometimes the only way to end respect? a friendship is to tell yourself that the friendship is over. Or, is this person cruel to some people – or nice to Usually just being unavailable works, especially if their faces and mean behind their backs? Remember you’ve tried to solve the problem and that didn’t work. that what someone does to someone else, sooner or But once in a while, you might need to say something later, this person is very likely to do to you. like, “I really appreciate the fun times we’ve had, but I’ve decided that it won’t work for me to stay friends 6) Is this person willing to work problems out? with you. I wish you very well and hope for the best for Or, does this person ignore problems and then you, but won’t be spending time with you any more.” explode or act ready to give up on the friendship as soon as something goes wrong? Strong, true friendships make life rich and joyful. They give lasting memories, provide strength and comfort The bottom line is that we all deserve to have during difficult times, and help both friends to grow healthy relationships in our lives and that healthy and to have fun. They deserve time, attention, and relationships take work. No matter how friendly effort. But, that effort should help everyone grow someone acts and no matter how much we might stronger and closer. We can help young people build like to be with this person, we need to decide strong, meaningful friendships by making healthy whether this person is behaving in a way that is that decisions about who our own friends are and by is going to make our lives better or worse. encouraging them to choose -- and to tend -- their own friendships kindly and thoughtfully.

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

Sometimes we ask children during a workshop, Most of them nod their heads. “What’s bullying?” Hands shoot into the air and the answers pour out of our students. Because adults have “How did you feel?” we ask. Again, our young and more official words for the same behavior, I have put wise Kidpower experts raise their hands and say: these in parentheses next to the explanations of our Kidpower experts: • “Sad.”

• “When another kid tries to hurt or scare you.” • “I thought there must be something wrong with (Physical bullying; intimidation) me.”

• “When someone says bad stuff about you behind • “Scared and wanting to hide.” your back.” (Relational bullying) • “Embarrassed and like I never wanted to go back.” • “When someone calls you names or makes fun of you.” (Emotional abuse) • “Mad and like I wanted to get back at them.”

• “When kids leave you out.” (Shunning) • “As if I was the only person in the world that this was happening to.” • “When kids gang up on you and try to make you give them your money or your stuff.” (Extortion) • “Guilty because I was glad it wasn’t happening to me.” • “When someone copies you in a way that makes you look dumb.” (Mimicking) • “Worried because I was afraid it would happen to me.” • “When other people say or do things to bother you over and over on purpose.” (Harassment) • “Ashamed because I didn’t know what to do to stop it.” • “When someone tries to make you do something that will get you into trouble.” (Coercion) • “Frustrated.”

• “When someone tries to use their power to make • “Lonely.” you feel bad.” (Bullying) • “Like I wanted to throw up or disappear.” We then ask our students, “Have you ever been bullied or seen someone else being bullied?”

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

Here are some skills to help children and teens deal 6. Speaking up for inclusion. with bullying. Shunning is a serious form of bullying. Exclusion should be clearly against school and youth group 1. Walking with awareness, calm, and confidence. rules. Kids can practice persisting in asking to join a People of any age are less likely to be bothered if they game. They can also practice taking quick, confident seem aware, calm, and confident. Practice holding action when they notice another being left out. your body tall but not tense, looking around with a relaxed face as if the world around you is interesting, 7. Getting help - and persisting. and walking confidently. Children are still learning social skills. Without calm, consistent adult guidance, they will hurt each other. 2. Feeling one way and acting another. Teach kids to get help from adults if they are unable to It's normal to feel scared or angry when people are stop a problem. Because adults so often say, "Solve it bullying, but showing fear, anger, or aggression makes yourself," coach kids to practice saying, calmly and bullying problems bigger. Help kids imagine that they confidently, "I tried to solve it myself. The problem is are feeling mad, sad, or scared while they practice getting worse. Please help." moving with awareness and confidence so those feelings do not show. 8. Using physical self-defense as a last resort. Children need to know when they have the right to 3. Leaving in a powerful, positive way. hurt someone to stop that person from hurting them. At The best self-defense tactic is called "target denial," Kidpower, we teach that physical skills are a last resort which means "don't be there." Help children practice - when you are about to be harmed and you cannot using their awareness to notice possible problems leave or get help. Talk with your kids about when it is early and then calmly, confidently move out of reach and is not okay to hit or to kick another kid. If you give before the problems grow. kids permission to use physical bully skills, be sure to teach them age-appropriate skills that are unlikely to 4. Setting a boundary. cause serious injury, such as a single soccer kick to the Teach children to put their hands up in front of them shin. and say in a clear, calm, firm voice, "Stop!" Coach children to hold their bodies tall, look directly at the problem with a calm face, and use a clear voice that is not whiney or aggressive.

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Sometimes people ask me, “Why do you keep saying About Love and Showing Love in Healthy Ways are also that Kidpower teaches confidence? I think of confidence skills that we can learn, but that’s a different article.) as meaning that you believe in yourself, and that’s a feeling or a belief, not a skill that is taught!” The same thing is true with Confidence. You can learn how to Show Confidence and decide to use this skill no matter The reality is that confidence can be many things – a how you feel inside. By doing so, you are more likely to feeling, an attitude, a belief, a decision, and a set of have experiences that will lead to your feeling more skills that can be learned. confidence. Acting with a lack of Confidence is likely to cause you to doubt yourself even more and to cause others The feeling of confidence comes from believing that we to treat you with less interest and respect, which often are powerful, valuable, and competent. Some lucky leads to your having experiences that can increase your people seem to feel confident just naturally most of the feelings of doubting yourself, creating a downward spiral time. However, in working with thousands of students leading to loss of feeling confident. from all walks of life, we have found that people of all ages and abilities can learn to develop the skill of Often, developing the skill of Confidence is connected to Showing Confidence, no matter how they feel inside. the skill of Persistence, which means not giving up, even in the face of obstacles, and to the skill of Asking for Help, We tell our students that, “People will listen to you even when you feel embarrassed or shy. Overcoming better and bother you less if you Act Aware, Calm, and feelings of insecurity and self-doubt is hard work. We Confident.” We then coach our students to practice believe that everyone deserves to have the help they need sitting, talking, and walking while they Act Aware, Calm, in learning to Show Confidence as well as to solve and Confident by: problems. This is why we have our students practice the skill of Being Persistent in Asking for Help, while the • Making their bodies tall and open with their shoulders instructor pretends to be someone who is busy, intrusive, down, their backs straight, and their heads up or impatient. We also teach our students that, if one person doesn’t help, it's their job to keep asking different people • Using a “soft eye” as they look around rather than until they get the help they need. glaring at someone or acting timid Learning and deciding to Show Confidence is not a new • Keeping a peaceful look on their faces and calm idea. In the 1951 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar strong body language Hammerstein, The King and I, the governess Anna sings the song below to the children in her care. I know that this • Using a “regular voice” loud enough to be heard play caused a lot of controversy because of the many easily historic inaccuracies about the people of Thailand. However, these lyrics were not the problem. I wanted to • Speaking up about what they do and don’t want using share this for those of you who might not know it, because clear polite words humming this song in my head has helped me at times in my own life when it was really important to face something • Staying centered while the teacher pretends to be that scared me. Actually, when we Show Confidence even someone acting rude or scary though we feel frightened or nervous, we are not “making believe” we are brave, we are being brave! People can also learn the skills necessary to protect themselves from most experiences that can damage their feelings of confidence, to deal with problems in a While shivering in my shoes way that develops their feelings of confidence, and to I strike a careless pose create experiences that will build their feelings of And whistle a happy tune confidence. And no one ever knows I'm afraid. One of my favorite insights from Stephen R. Covey’s wise Make believe you're brave book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is that love And the trick will take you far. is not just a feeling; loving someone is actually a decision. You may be as brave You can show love to another person if you have decided As you make believe you are to love that person, even when you don’t feel love towards You may be as brave that person at that moment. By doing so, you can often As you make believe you are create the conditions that will lead more feelings of love between you and this person. 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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

Educate Yourself Be Involved Cyberbullying.org is an outstanding website full of Spend time with young people so that you know what they information for both youth and adults, including help for are doing. the technologically challenged. Be Careful Discuss the Issue Unless this is within a secure system of people who know Ask children and youth what they already know about each other, such as a school, do not allow your children to cyber-bullying. You might be amazed at how much they post personal information or photos in an on-line friend’s can tell you. Ask if this has ever happened to them or community or chat group. anyone they know. Make sure that the young people in your life know that: Give consequences If your child cyber-bullies, have the child apologize and • Cyber-bullying means using computers, cell phones, and make amends. Give an appropriate related consequence, other technology to hurt, scare, or embarrass other people. depending on what happened. Cyber-bullying gets people in serious trouble at school and also with the law. In a growing number of places, certain Provide Help forms of cyber-bullying are illegal. If your child is hurt by cyber-bullying, give the child emotional support by saying, “I am so sorry this is • Being mean is being mean, no matter how you do it. happening to you and so proud of you for having the Don’t ask if it’s funny. Ask if it will make someone unhappy. courage to tell me. This is not your fault and we are going to do what we can to make it stop.” Ask for help from • Even if you think someone was mean to you, being school authorities, your Internet provider or cell phone mean back is not a safe way to handle the problem. company, and, if necessary, the police. Instead, get help from an adult you trust. Practice • Have the courage to speak up if you notice anyone Use ideas from Speaking Up About Putdowns on Pg. 105- cyber-bullying. Say that this is wrong and that you are not 107 to define what cyber-bullying might look like, how to going to keep it a secret. speak up, what a negative reaction might be, and what an effective response could be. Let children make up their • Never post anything on the Internet or send something own story to use for the practice. Switch roles with them. electronically that you don’t want the world to see. For example, a friend might say, “I can’t stand Roger. Look, I got a photo of him going to the bathroom on the field trip. • If you get an upsetting message or see something that is Let’s see how many people we can send this to.” attacking you: Do not reply. Do not delete. Save the message, print it if you can and get help from an adult you One way to speak up could be: “That’s cyber-bullying. It’s trust. If one adult does not help you, keep asking until you wrong.” get the help you need. A common negative reaction to this boundary is, “But you Be Clear About the Rules have to admit that it would be funny.” The use of computers for anything except schoolwork is a privilege. The use of cell phones for anything except for An effective response might be, “Even though Roger is not emergencies and communication with parents is also a my favorite person, I don’t think it is funny to embarrass privilege. These privileges will be lost if they are used for people. Besides, it is illegal.” unsafe or hurtful purposes. You expect your children to stay in charge of what they say and do, to tell you about problems, and to get your agreement in advance about any changes.

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

The quality of the program and approach of the instructor 2. Is the teacher clear, respectful, in charge, enthusiastic, will make a huge difference in the results of any kind of and able to adapt? training. Self-defense is no exception. Done well, self- defense workshops can be exciting, empowering, and You and the children and teens in your life deserve to have useful. Done poorly, they can be boring, discouraging, and teachers who are helpful rather than discouraging. Good destructive. If training is about self-defense or any other teachers do not make negative remarks about their important life skills, the potential benefits are real and so students or anyone else and do not allow others to do so, are the potential dangers. It is worth taking the time to even as a joke. make a thoughtful decision. Look for teachers who know how to be both firm and Here are some questions to consider when evaluating a respectful when they set boundaries with students who are self-defense program: doing things that detract from the class.

1. Is the content positive, accurate, comprehensive, and The best teachers will change what they do to meet the appropriate for the ages and life situations of the needs of their students rather than having a standard, students? canned approach. Role-plays to demonstrate or practice skills should be described in terms of situations that The best programs will teach a range of personal safety students are likely to encounter. The way something is skills for being aware, taking charge of the space around presented should be in terms that are meaningful to a you, getting help, setting boundaries with people you student. Instead of telling a blind student to look at a know, de-escalating conflict, and staying calm and making potential attacker, for example, a teacher who knows how choices instead of just getting upset when you have a to adapt will say something like, "Turn your face towards problem. Physical self-defense skills will be taught in a the person so that he knows you know he's there." context of having done everything possible to get out of a situation safely without fighting first. Good teachers will listen to your concerns with appreciation for your having the courage to raise them Look for programs that focus on the skills to learn rather rather than with defensiveness. When possible, they will than on reasons why we have to learn these skills. Realize change what they do to make the class work better for you. that children can become traumatized by scary stories At the very least, they will explain their reasons for what about bad things that happened to other children. Children they do and why they cannot accommodate your wishes. learn best if their teacher has a calm, matter-of-fact approach which makes it clear that they can keep 3. Is the approach more action-oriented or talking- themselves safe most of the time by learning how to do a oriented? few easy things. In general, people remember more about what they have Look for programs that are based on research from a wide seen than what they have been told. People are more likely variety of fields including mental health, education, crime to be able to do what they have practiced themselves than prevention, law enforcement, and martial arts. what they have been shown to do or told to do.

Look for endorsements from real people and credible Look for programs that involve showing more than organizations. explaining and that provide lots of opportunity for learning by doing. Look for programs that are willing to give credit for what they have learned from others rather than saying that they 4. Is the learning success-based? have invented "the best and only way to learning true self defense." It can be destructive to students' emotional and physical safety if they feel as if they are failing when they are trying Be wary of programs that give simplistic, absolute answers to learn self-protection skills. Success-based learning such as, "If you wear a pony tail, you are very likely to be means that students are guided through what they need to assaulted" or "If you train with us, you will never have to be learn in a highly positive way. Practices go step by step afraid again." starting with where each student actually is. Success is

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...Continued defined as progress for each individual student rather than being stopped by feelings of confusion or fear. It can be as perfection according to some standard of the teacher. hard to stay clear about what your needs are or what the Students are coached as they do the practices so that they needs of your children are when you are bombarded by can do them correctly as much as possible. They are given often conflicting advice from experts. If something feedback about how to improve in a context that someone does seems wrong to you, even if you can't communicates, "mistakes are part of learning." justify your feeling logically, walk away rather than staying in a potentially bad situation. Keep looking until you find 5. Is the approach more focused on traditional martial the type of program that answers to your satisfaction the arts or on practical self-defense? kinds of questions described above.

Martial arts programs, like other activities involving Whether you are looking for a self-defense class or any interactive movement such as sports and dance, can be other important training, pay attention to uncomfortable wonderful for building confidence, character, and physical feelings you have about someone's approach, no matter condition. However, for teaching personal safety skills, the how highly-recommended the person is and no matter approach of most martial arts is like long-term preventative how much you like the teacher as a person. Often very health care. Practical self-defense is like emergency well meaning, knowledgeable people try to teach through medicine which teaches in a few hours skills which are talking about what can go wrong rather than through very focused on preventing abduction, assault, and abuse helping their students practice how to do things effectively. from strangers, bullies, and people we know. Remember that what programs actually do is more important than what their literature or representatives say The most important skill in choosing a good self-defense they are going to do. program is being able to act on your intuition without Speaking Up About Putdowns

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

When someone is saying something that is hurtful or rude, Common putdowns include laughing, making rude speaking up takes courage. Speaking up takes the skills of gestures or sounds, mimicking, and saying insulting things knowing the words to say and how to deal with negative to make someone feel embarrassed, uncomfortable, or reactions. Finally, speaking up takes wisdom, because ashamed. Putdowns also include making negative remarks there are times when speaking up is a mistake. If a about someone behind her or his back for the purpose of dangerous person is insulting you or others when there is getting others to think less of this person. This is different no adult around who can help you to stay safe, the best than speaking up about a problem to get help, because the plan is to leave. purpose is not to find a solution, but to be hurtful to this person. What is a Putdown? A putdown is an insulting remark that "puts down" another Ways to Speak Up person. Whether a putdown is directed at themselves or at In Kidpower, depending on the nature of the putdown and someone else, young people and adults need to the ages of our students, responses that we might have understand that stopping putdowns with their family, young people practice include: friends, colleagues, and classmates is like stopping pollution or littering. It might not always be possible, but • "That’s not funny. Please stop.” it is important to try when we can. If we get mad and start • "That’s a mean thing to say. I don't like it." insulting the person who is making the putdown remarks, • "That’s not cool.” this is like adding to the pollution. Instead, we can learn to • "What purpose does it serve to say that? It sounds speak up in ways that are polite and clear. like an insult."

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• "That's disrespectful. Please stop." Possible Response: You are changing the subject. You can • "That's prejudice. That's not acceptable to me." complain about what I did later, but right now I want you • "That's a mean thing to do. Stop or I'll leave." to stop saying mean things. • "That's bullying. We promised not to do that and I want to keep our promises." The Threatening Reaction: I'll make you sorry that you said • "That's dishonorable. You are a better person than that. that. Possible Response: Stop or I'll leave. Stop or I'll tell. (Or just leaving and getting help without saying anything further to We also help young people come up with "I" statements this person.) such as, "I feel sad when you say unkind things about people. Please stop." The Denial Reaction: I never said that. That's not what I meant. Dealing with Defensive Reactions Possible Response: (If there is any possibility that you are wrong) If that is true, then I apologize for believing that you Most people don't like being told what to do, which is why would say something so awful.(If this is something that we prepare our students to persist in speaking up. happens repeatedly) I have a different memory about this Common defensive reactions and possible responses than you do. So, does this mean that you agree that that include: would be an awful thing to say?

The Sense of Humor Reaction: Can't you take a joke? As soon as they can understand these ideas, young people Possible Response: That was unkind. Being hurtful to delight in recognizing defensive reactions. After overcoming people is not funny to me. some initial resistance sometimes, they are usually relieved when they have the chance to practice the words to say out The Belittling Reaction: You’re overreacting. You're loud to speak up and to persist. oversensitive. Possible Response: Perhaps. All the same, I feel Walking Our Talk uncomfortable when you make comments like that. Let's talk about something else instead. Like me, you might recognize yourself as well as other people in some of defensive reactions described above. The Innocent Reaction: But he/she is not even here. So what Respectful communication takes hard work from everyone does it matter? involved. If we want to stop young people from using Possible Response: It makes people think less of her/him. putdowns, we adults must stop making putdowns ourselves. Being mean behind someone's back does not make it less Especially because it is hard, it is important to show children mean. that we can listen respectfully when someone feels insulted by our actions or words. We don't have to agree, but we do The Being Factual Reaction: I was just stating my honest need to show that we are willing to understand other points opinion. It's a free country. of view. Possible Response: If someone used words like that about you, my honest opinion is that you would feel attacked. No matter what our intentions were, if someone was insulted or hurt by something we said or did, we can say, "I The Being Helpful Reaction: I was just trying to be helpful. am sorry for saying this in a way that was hurtful." If we were Can't you handle the truth? wrong, we can say, "I was wrong. That was a dumb thing for Possible Response: When you put down something that a me to say. I am sorry." If we were expressing a valid concern, person cannot change, it is not helpful. When you use rude we can say, "I did not mean to hurt your feelings, but I do words to tell me you don't like something that I might or need to tell you about this problem. Is there a way that I can might not decide to change, that is not helpful. say it that you will not find insulting?" Seeing adults do this is tremendously educational for their children. The Blaming Reaction: It's your fault. I had to say this because you made me mad. Adults can tell children as soon as they are old enough to Possible Response: If you say rude things, this is your understand, "None of us are perfect and all of us make responsibility. It is not anyone's fault but your own. You mistakes. When someone does not like something that you can explain why you are unhappy another time. say or do, it can feel upsetting. Instead of saying something back right away, you can learn to get centered and to listen. The Changing the Subject Reaction: You are really wrong Try to ask questions until you can understand why the other because you ______(a completely unrelated person is unhappy with you. Even if you don't agree, you complaint.) can say that you are sorry for hurting someone's feelings." www.rnca.ca 55 BURNT ISLANDS, NfLD. (709) 698-3341-3342 (709) 955-2300

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director

Kidpower hears countless stories from upset parents whose happening. It looked/sounded like it might be unpleasant children from toddlers to teenagers have been victimized for you. Can you tell me more about it?" by harassment and bullying at school. School is a big part of our kids’ lives but it’s usually parents who make the If you act upset your child is likely to get upset too. She decisions about how and where their children get an might want to protect you and herself from your reaction education. This means that most young people have no by not telling you about problems in the future or by choice about where they go to school. denying that anything is wrong. The older your child is, the more important it is that she’s able to feel some control As parents, we expect schools to provide an environment about any follow-up actions you might take with the that is emotionally and physically safe for our children. It’s school. normal to feel terrified and enraged about any kind of threat to our children’s well being, especially in a place In addition, if you act upset when you’re approaching where they have to be. school officials or the parents of children who are bothering your child, they’re likely to become defensive. Schools are often doing a valiant job of trying to meet an Nowadays, school administrators are often fearful of overwhelming array of conflicting demands. But when lawsuits, both from the parents of the child who was your own child is being bullied, it is normal for protective victimized and from the parents of the child who was parents to want to fix the problem immediately – and accused of causing the problem. This is a real fear because maybe to punish the people who caused your child to be a lawsuit can seriously drain a school’s already limited hurt, embarrassed or scared. resources.

When possible, try to notice problems when they are At the same time, most school administrators truly want to small. Pay attention to changes in your child’s behavior. address problems that affect the wellbeing of their Encourage children to tell you about what happens at students. They’re far more likely to respond positively to school. Listen calmly without lecturing. Volunteer even a parents who are approaching them in a calm and couple of hours a week in the classroom or school yard so respectful way. However, no matter how good a job you that you can both help out and stay aware of potential do, some people will react badly when they’re first told problems at school. about a problem. Don't let that stop you – stay calm and be persistent about explaining what the issue is and what If your child has a bullying problem at school, here are you want to see happen. seven practical People Safety solutions that can help parents to be effective in taking charge. 2. Get Your Facts Right Instead of jumping to conclusions or making assumptions, 1. Stop Yourself from Knee-Jerk Reactions take time to get the whole story. Ask questions of your child If your child tells you about being bullied at school, this is in a calm, reassuring way and listen to the answers. Ask an important opportunity for you to model for your child questions of other people who might be involved, making how to be powerful and respectful in solving problems. As it clear that your goal is to understand and figure out how hard as it is likely to be, your first job is to calm down. Take to address the problem rather than to get even with a big breath and say, in a quiet and matter-of-fact voice, anybody. “I’m so glad you’re telling me this. I’m sorry this happened to you – please tell me more about exactly what happened Once you understand the situation, it works best to look for so we can figure out what to do. You deserve to feel safe solutions, not for blame. Try to assume that overwhelmed and comfortable at school.” teachers and school administrators deserve support and acknowledgment for what they’re doing right as well as to If your child didn’t tell you but you found out some other be told what’s wrong. Try to assume that children behave way, say calmly, "I saw this happen/heard about this in hurtful ways do so because they don’t have a better way

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By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Executive Director ...Continued of meeting their needs or because they have problems in 5. Prevent Future Problems their own lives. You also want to prevent future problems. All children deserve to be in an environment that is emotionally and Be your child’s advocate, but accept the possibility that physically safe. Dealing with ongoing harassment is like your child might have partially provoked or escalated the living with pollution – eventually, coping with the constant bullying. You might say, “It’s not your fault when someone assault can undermine your child’s health. hurts or makes fun of you, but I am wondering if you can Concerned parents can help schools find and implement think of another way you might have handled this age-appropriate programs that create a culture of respect, problem?” caring, and safety between young people rather than of competition, harassment, and disregard. 3. Pinpoint the Cause Is the problem caused because the school needs more 6. Get Help for Your Child resources in order to supervise children properly during Finally, you want to get help for your child and for yourself recess and lunch, or before and after school? Does your to deal with the feelings that result from having had an child need to learn skills for self-protection and boundary- upsetting experience. Sometimes bullying can remind you setting by making and practicing a plan with you or by about bad experiences in your own past. Parents often taking a class such as Kidpower? Does the school need have to deal with guilt for not preventing the problem, and help formulating a clear policy that makes behavior that sometimes struggle with rage. threatens, hurts, scares, or embarrasses others against the rules? Does the child who harmed your child need help Getting help might mean talking issues over with other too? supportive adults who can listen to you and your child with perspective and compassion. Getting help might mean 4. Protect Your Child going to a therapist or talking with counselors provided by Your highest priority is, of course, to protect your child as the school or by other agencies. best you can. Try to step back for perspective and keep the big picture in mind as well as the immediate problem. 7. Make this into a Learning Experience What protecting your child means will vary depending on As parents, it’s normal to want to protect our children from the ability of the school to resolve the problem, the nature all harm. If we monitor their lives so closely that they never of the problem, and on the specific needs of your child. fall, never fail, and never get hurt or sad, then we’d be depriving our children of having the room to grow. Through a programs such as Kidpower, make sure your child has the chance to practice skills in order to walk Upsetting experiences don’t have to lead to long-term away from people who being rude or threatening, to damage if children are listened to respectfully, if the protect himself or herself emotionally and physically, and problem is resolved, and if their feelings are supported. to ask for help sooner rather than later. Young people can take charge of their safety by learning skills for preventing and stopping harassment themselves, In some cases, protecting your child might mean that her by setting boundaries, avoiding people whose behavior is teacher and school principal, the parents of the other child, problematic, and getting help when they need it. and you all work on a plan together to stop the problem. In other cases, the best solution for your child might be to Note: This article is an excerpt from The KIDPOWER Book change schools. for Caring Adults: Personal Safety, Self-Protection, Confidence, and Advocacy for Young People, which In extreme cases, you might want to explore legal action. includes step-by-step explanations of how to practice the Different countries and states have different laws about skills mentioned as well as over 100 pages about the children’s rights. If need be, explore the resources available underlying issues that need to be addressed, stories, and in your community. how to use People Safety skills to prevent and stop most bullying. www.rnca.ca 59  

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One of the primary tasks for dealing with bullying is Content should include: recording the “who, what, where, when and why” of the • information on the bullying incident and the dates in situation. Keeping and reporting data is a powerful tool for question students, their parents and the schools. • the names of the persons involved, e.g., the bully, bystanders or witnesses When a child is targeted by a bully, parents need to • the child’s account of what happened document this and develop a record (or history) of what is happening to their child. This record is useful when talking Also include: with school educators, law enforcement personnel, or • all communications with professionals (teachers, other individuals who may need to assist parents in administrators, school nurse, etc.) intervening against bullying. • the dates of all communications • the summary of the event(s) As record keeping varies greatly from school to school, • the responses of the professional(s) parents should also ask if the school nurse (when there is • any actions taken one) is charged with keeping records of incidents and the • copies of reports filed by the school according to the level of information, medical or otherwise, recorded. school district’s or board’s policy

Parents should also do their best to keep track of events so The above may be paper or electronic format, but always that emotions alone don’t drive the discussion. Parents include photos, emails, a recording of the child talking often think they will remember vividly all the details about the bullying if there is one, screenshots of online pertaining to the bullying events but it’s easier to keep a content, health care records, or pictures taken of the child concise, accurate timeline when events occur than try to after a bullying incident to show physical evidence recreate them later. Keeping records as you go also points indicating bullying. to an escalation of bullying behaviours, either in frequency or duration. This is also an excellent way to document how Information is key – remember, if it’s not in writing, it the child’s emotional and physical states are being affected. does not exist. Your records should be based on facts and actual events and should not contain your opinions or personal statements. © 2010 Fenety Marketing Services What Every Kid Needs to Know About Bullying

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Victims typically do nothing to defend themselves and can You can also help your children to: be passive, anxious, insecure and lacking in social skills. They usually don’t believe that adults can help so they • Be assertive, and to respond in the best way possible to rarely report being bullied. Sometimes, they carry weapons bullying behaviour for protection. • Be a friend and to look out for others by supporting other students who may be bullied As to bullies at school, they’re often victims at home. • Tell an adult when they witness or know of a student Usually strong, confident and with dominating being verbally or physically bullied personalities, they like making others suffer and blame • Deprive bullies of the satisfaction of seeing their hurt those victims for provoking the attack. They have good reaction, by not openly reacting to their insults communication skills and can usually talk their way out of • Not be a bully, and to address their behaviour if it’s trouble. deemed to be cruel or hurtful to others • Amend bullying behaviour by seeking counseling This behaviour is accepted when witnesses don’t speak up, • Feel good about themselves and have good self-esteem, but this cannot be ignored anymore. People who see as bullies prefer easy targets bullying need to step up and address this serious issue. Effects of bullying can lead to serious and long term Teachers have observed that when a child says that they problems, such as isolation, depression, low self-esteem, feel verbally abused, even if a child is exaggerating, there poor academic performance, shyness, threatened or is always some truth to it, as everyone is constantly looking attempted suicide attempts, and retaliatory violence. for security. Adults must always listen to the child and look into the matter. Children have to know that they have the Many experts agree that to curb bullying, a whole school right to be who they are and they don’t have to tolerate approach needs to be implemented, as one or two people anyone insulting them, verbally or physically abusing taking action probably won’t have much of an effect. them, or threatening them in any way. And always, there Everyone must work at stopping a bully. But how can you must be intervention with the bully because if action isn’t get support to even get started? taken, then the bully will never have a chance to change his or her behaviour. Getting the community and the school involved is a good way to raise awareness and get the process rolling. When In the long run, no one can afford to ignore bullying surveying teachers and students about the level of bullying behaviour. The future of bullies and victims can very well activity and victim behaviours at schools, participants are depend on what is done – or not done – today. often shocked at the overt and not so visible actions of bullies and victims. This serves as an excellent call to Silence is acceptance. © 2010 Fenety Marketing Services www.rnca.ca 63 For Delicious Chinese Food & Canadian Dishes

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Imagine there was a cure for meanness. Well, maybe Roots of Empathy was founded in 1996 by Mary there is. Gordon, an educator who had built Canada’s largest network of school-based parenting and family-literacy Lately, the issue of bullying has been in the news, centers after having worked with neglectful and sparked by the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a gay college abusive parents. Gordon had found many of them to student who was a victim of cyber-bullying, and by a be lacking in empathy for their children. They hadn’t widely circulated New York Times article that focused developed the skill because they hadn’t experienced on “mean girl” bullying in kindergarten. The federal or witnessed it sufficiently themselves. She envisioned government has identified bullying as a national Roots as a seriously proactive parent education problem. In August, it organized the first-ever program – one that would begin when the mothers- “Bullying Prevention Summit,” and it is now rolling out and fathers-to-be were in kindergarten. an anti-bullying campaign aimed at 5- to 8-year old children. This past month the Department of Education Since then, Roots has worked with more than 12,600 released a guidance letter to schools, colleges and classes across Canada, and in recent years, the universities to take bullying seriously, or face potential program has expanded to the Isle of Man, the United legal consequences. Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States, where it currently operates in Seattle. Researchers have found The typical institutional response to bullying is to get that the program increases kindness and acceptance tough. In the Tyler Clementi case, prosecutors are of others and decreases negative aggression. considering bringing hate-crime charges. But programs like the one I want to discuss today show the potential Here’s how it works: Roots arranges monthly class of augmenting our innate impulses to care for one visits by a mother and her baby (who must be between another instead of just falling back on punishment as two and four months old at the beginning of the school a deterrent. And what’s the secret formula? A baby. year). Each month, for nine months, a trained instructor guides a classroom using a standard We know that humans are hardwired to be aggressive curriculum that involves three 40-minute visits – a pre- and selfish. But a growing body of research is visit, a baby visit, and a post-visit. The program runs demonstrating that there is also a biological basis for from kindergarten to seventh grade. During the baby human compassion. Brain scans reveal that when we visits, the children sit around the baby and mother contemplate violence done to others we activate the (sometimes it’s a father) on a green blanket (which same regions in our brains that fire up when mothers represents new life and nature) and they try to gaze at their children, suggesting that caring for understand the baby’s feelings. The instructor helps by strangers may be instinctual. When we help others, labeling them. “It’s a launch pad for them to areas of the brain associated with pleasure also light understand their own feelings and the feelings of up. Research by Felix Warneken and Michael others,” explains Gordon. “It carries over to the rest of Tomasello indicates that toddlers as young as 18 class.” months behave altruistically. I have visited several public schools in low-income More important, we are beginning to understand how neighborhoods in Toronto to observe Roots of to nurture this biological potential. It seems that it’s not Empathy’s work. What I find most fascinating is how only possible to make people kinder, it’s possible to do the baby actually changes the children’s behavior. it systematically at scale – at least with school children. Teachers have confirmed my impressions: tough kids That’s what one organization based in Toronto called smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. In a Roots of Empathy has done. seventh grade class, I found 12-year-olds unabashedly singing nursery rhymes. Continued... www.rnca.ca 65 Used Cars & Body Work

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By David Bornstein

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The baby seems to act like a heart-softening magnet. triumphs – even something as small as picking up a No one fully understands why. Kimberly Schonert- rattle for the first time — the children will often cheer. Reichl, an applied developmental psychologist who is Ervin Staub, professor emeritus of psychology at the a professor at the University of British Columbia, has University of Massachusetts, has studied altruism in evaluated Roots of Empathy in four studies. “Do kids children and found that the best way to create a caring become more empathic and understanding? Do they climate is to engage children collectively in an activity become less aggressive and kinder to each other? The that benefits another human being. In Roots, children answer is yes and yes,” she explained. “The question are enlisted in each class to do something to care for is why.” the baby, whether it is to sing a song, speak in a gentle voice, or make a “wishing tree.” C. Sue Carter, a neurobiologist based at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted pioneering The results can be dramatic. In a study of first- to third- research into the effects of oxytocin, a hormone that grade classrooms, Schonert-Reichl focused on the has been linked with caring and trusting behavior, subset of kids who exhibited “proactive aggression” – suspects that biology is playing a role in the program’s the deliberate and cold-blooded aggression of bullies impact. “This may be an oxytocin story,” Carter told who prey on vulnerable kids. Of those who me. “I believe that being around the baby is somehow participated in the Roots program, 88 percent putting the children in a biologically different place. decreased this form of behavior over the school year, We don’t know what that place is because we haven’t while in the control group, only 9 percent did, and measured it. However, if it works here as it does in many actually increased it. Schonert-Reichl has other animals, we would guess that exposure to an reproduced these findings with fourth to seventh grade infant would create a physiological state in which the children in a randomized controlled trial. She also children would be more social.” found that Roots produced significant drops in “relational aggression” – things like gossiping, To parent well, you must try to imagine what your excluding others, and backstabbing. Research also baby is experiencing. So the kids do a lot of found a sharp increase in children’s parenting “perspective taking.” When the baby is too small to knowledge. raise its own head, for example, the instructor asks the children to lay their heads on the blanket and look “Empathy can’t be taught, but it can be caught,” around from there. Perspective taking is the cognitive Gordon often says – and not just by children. dimension of empathy – and like any skill it takes “Programmatically my biggest surprise was that not practice to master. (Cable news hosts, take note.) only did empathy increase in children, but it increased in their teachers,” she added. “And that, to me, was Children learn strategies for comforting a crying baby. glorious, because teachers hold such sway over They learn that one must never shake a baby. They children.” discover that everyone comes into the world with a different temperament, including themselves and their When the program was implemented on a large scale classmates. They see how hard it can be to be a parent, across the province of Manitoba – it’s now in 300 which helps them empathize with their own mothers classrooms there — it achieved an “effect size” that and fathers. And they marvel at how capacity Rob Santos, the scientific director of Healthy Child develops. Each month, the baby does something that Manitoba, said translates to reducing the proportion of it couldn’t do during its last visit: roll over, crawl, sit students who get into fights from 15 percent to 8 up, maybe even begin walking. Witnessing the baby’s percent, close to a 50 percent reduction. “For a

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As originally published in The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2010

By David Bornstein

...Continued program that costs only hundreds of dollars per child, decided to sing a song he’d written himself about the cost-benefit of preventing later problems that cost mothers. thousands of dollars per child, is obvious,” said Santos. Follow up studies have found that outcomes are “He was overweight and nerdy looking. His social maintained or enhanced three years after the program skills were not very good,” Gordon recalled. “And he ends. “When you’ve got emotion and cognition sang his song. The risk he took. My breath was in my

Bullying Now Campaign- The problem of bullying has attracted federal attention. Above, an excerpt from a cartoon in the US government’s bullying prevention guide for children.

To see the entire cartoon, visit: http://dowser.org/fighting-bullying-with-babies happening at the same time, that’s deep learning,” fist, hoping that no one would humiliate him. And no explains Gordon. “That’s learning that will last.” one did. Not one youngster smirked.

It’s hard to envision what a kinder and gentler world, When he finished, they clapped. And I’m sure they all or school, would truly look like. But Gordon told me knew that they were holding back. But, oh my God, I a story about a seventh grade student in a tough school was blown away. I couldn’t say anything.” in Toronto that offered a glimpse. He was an effeminate boy from an immigrant background who She added: “When they talk about protecting kids in was always the butt of jokes. “Anytime he spoke, you’d schools, they talk about gun shields, cameras, lights, hear snickers in the background,” she recalled. but never about the internal environment. But safe is Towards the end of the year, the children in Roots are not about the rules – it’s about how the youngsters feel asked to write a poem or a song for the baby. Kids inside.” often work in groups and come up with raps. This boy

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St. John’s ... Children are always happy to receive treat bags from the Pumpkin Patrol!

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JAMES G. WALSH, B.A., B.Ed., LL.B. Bus: (709) 754-1666 Fax: (709) 754-0106 www.rnca.ca 90 Detective Sergeant Thomas Fraize Scholarship The annual Detective Sergeant Thomas Fraize Scholarship is presented by Tim Buckle to Chris Doyle and to Stephanie Gibbons.

This scholarship is awarded by the RNCA to dependents of RNCA members, past or present, who are graduating from Grade 12 and will be attending post secondary school. Chris is the son of Cst. Pat Doyle and Stephanie is the daughter of Sgt. Albert Gibbons. Congratulations to you both and we wish you all the best in your future endeavors!

From left to right: Cst. Pat Doyle, Chris Doyle and Tim Buckle, RNCA President.

From left to right: Cst. Albert Gibbons, Stephanie Gibbons and Tim Buckle, RNCA President. www.rnca.ca 91 Bay St. George Youth HUMBER VALLEY Assessment Center Brenda Y. McCarthy 1 Church Street PO Box 355, Stephenville, NL A2N 2Z5 General Manager Deer Lake, NL A8A 1C9 709-643-5050 [email protected] Tel (709) 635-5149 Fax 709-643-5757 www.humbervalleycu.ca Fax (709) 635-3889

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The Crime Stoppers Police Officers of the Year Award Luncheon is an annually held event that recognizes members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. This award is given to members who have exhibited outstanding qualities “above and beyond the call of duty.” Sgt. Pat Roche was named this year’s Police Officer of the Year, while Cst. Scott Mosher and Cst. Andrew Warren were also nominated for this prestigious award.

Honourable Felix Collins, Cst. Scott Mosher, Sgt. Pat Roche, Cst. Andrew Warren, and Chief R.J. Johnston at the 2010 Police Officers of the Year Luncheon. (Photo courtesy of Tom Earles)

Please call Crime Stoppers at any time at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Remember, your call is anonymous. www.rnca.ca 93 PARSoNS HARBoUR VIEW CABINS & RESTAURANT PO Box 12 Rocky Harbour, NL, Canada, A0K 4NO Phone: (709) 458-2544 Email: [email protected] / Fax: (709) 458-3344 102 Kenmount Road, St. John’s, NL A1B 3R2 Tel: 709.722.9330 Toll Free: 1.866.512.5800 Fax: 709.722.9231 www.staygrosmorne.com Email: [email protected] Online Reservations www.ramadastjohns.com

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The last Sunday in September of every year has been officially proclaimed as Newfoundland and Labrador Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Day. For more information about NLPPOMA please visit their website at www.policeandpeaceofficers.ca.

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RNC Officers march in the National Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Service held in Ottawa. This service honours fellow officers who have given their lives in the line of duty and serves as a reminder to all Canadians of the sacrifice our members are prepared to make.

www.rnca.ca 97 Professional Listings

AHM fABRICAToRS CUMMINS EASTERN CANADA LP HAYNES GENERAL SToRE LTD 59 RIVERSIDE DRIVE 122 CLYDE AVE PO BOX 23 CORNER BROOK MT PEARL NAIN (709) 639-8208 (709) 747-0176 (709) 922-2822

AIR- TITE SHEET METAL LTD. DoMINIoN RECYCLING LTD HISCoCK fINANCIAL SERVICES 138 GROVES RD 377 EMPIRE AVE 2C-14 FORBES ST ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S (709) 726-7007 (709) 753-6158 (709) 747-4737

AVALoN RECYCLING SVC LTD DR JoHN HAGGIE HoUSEHoLD MoVERS & SHIPPERS 61 JAMES LANE PO BOX 63 19 CLYDE AVE ST JOHN’S APPLETON MT PEARL (709) 368-0416 (709) 679-5514 (709) 747-4222

BILL’S CYCLE & SPoRT LTD DR RANDY foLLETT JfT ENTERPRISES 115 LONGS HILL 1 LOGY BAY RD BOX 55, 140 MAIN ST ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S LONG HARBOUR (709) 753-6410 (709) 579-4350 (709) 228-2041

BoWRINGER ENGINEERING LTD ELECTRo SHIELD ELECTRoSTATIC KERR CoNTRoLS 422 LOGY BAY ROAD PAINTING 44 BROOK ST ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S CORNER BROOK (709) 738-2086 (709) 739-4950 (709) 634-5323

CABoT PEST CoNTRoL LTD EXCEL ELECTRICAL LTD LABRADoR MoToRS LTD 17 PIPPY PLACE, ST JOHN’S 43 SAGONA AV, UNIT #1 2 TENTH ST email: [email protected] MT PEARL HAPPY VALLEY G BAY (709) 753-7378 OR 1-877-753-7378 (709) 747-2256 (709) 896-2452

CHARLIE’S f J WADDEN & SoNS LAYDEN JoHN TRUCKING LTD BOX 929 51 GLENCO DR PO BOX 100 WABUSH MT PEARL PETTY HARBOUR (709) 282-3261 (709) 364-1444 (709) 745-5692

CLoDE SoUND METAL & WooD WoRKS fAHEY’S fUNERAL HoME LUSH’S CoTTAGES SCHOOL RD GENERAL DELIVERY 116 VETERANS DR PORT BLANDFORD FERMEUSE CORMACK (709) 543-2121 (709) 363-2231 (709) 635-7253

CMH CoNSTRUCTIoN LTD GANDER Do ALL SERVICES LTD M & M PRE PAK SALES LTD 161 GLENCOE DRIVE 19 WILCOCKSON CRES 26 AUSTIN ST MOUNT PEARL GANDER ST JOHN’S (709) 747-6161 (709) 651-2713 (709) 753-9280

CooRDINATES CAPITAL CoRP GLENDALE GARDENS MAJoRS VARIETY 140 WATER ST STE 704 16 GLENDALE AVE BOX 129 ST JOHN’S MOUNT PEARL PARSONS POND (709) 758-1700 (709) 368-5106 (709) 243-2838

CRoSBIE JoB INSURANCE LTD GooSE BAY PAINTERS NAIN fIRE 1 CROSBIE PLACE, SUITE 202 BOX 429 STN B DEPARTMENT ST JOHN’S HAPPY VALLEY G BAY NAIN (709) 726-5414 (709) 896-2338 (709) 922-2951

www.rnca.ca 98 Awards of Excellence

The RNCA Awards of Excellence is designed to recognize members of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who have exhibited outstanding qualities when performing their duties and those that go “above and beyond the call of duty.” Three awards were presented at the 2010 Annual RNCA Christmas Dinner and Awards Gala.

Cst. Ken Jackson was the award recipient in the category “Leadership.” This category recognizes any officer who distinguishes her/himself by superior accomplishments or continuing long-term involvement using leadership skills that encompass but are not limited to problem solving, planning, organizational, communication, positive role model, and/or administrative which make a significant contribution within the RNC.

Cst. Monica Murphy was the award recipient in the category “Outstanding Performance.” This category recognizes any officer who distinguishes her/himself through superior attention to duty or outstanding investigative effort that leads to the identification, location, or arrest, or a major criminal or criminal activity. May also be awarded to an officer, who distinguishes themselves by working on a major issue with significant implications for change. This could include administrative projects such as internal reviews, leading teams organizing major events and conferences, organizational change projects, task forces or public inquiry support.

Cst. Doug Day was the award recipient in the category “Officer of the Year.” This category recognizes any officer who has a history in excellence in all four areas of Leadership, Community Service, Mentoring and Excellence in Performance.

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NETUKULIMK fISHERIES LTD PoMERoY’S CoNVENIENCE TIMEMASTERS INC MAIN ST PO BOX 717 33 KENMOUNT RD CONNE RIVER GOULDS ST JOHN’S (709) 882-3500 (709) 368-6018 (709) 754-3654

NEVILLE fRAMING & ART GALLERY PoSEIDoN MARINE CoNSULTANTS TRINITY HISToRICAL SoCIETY 78 PRESCOTT ST 391 STAVANGER DR PO BOX 8 ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S TRINITY TB (709) 753-2914 (709) 739-4321 (709) 464-3599

NEWfoUNDLAND DESIGN PoWER’S TIRE & GLASS SUPPLIES TRoPHY & SILK SCREENING & CLB ASSoCIATES LTD 14 MAPLE VALLEY RD offICE SUPPLIES 280 TORBAY RD., ST JOHN’S CORNER BROOK 100 BROADWAY, CORNER BROOK (709) 726-4490 (709) 634-9838 (709) 639-7442

NoRD MARINE SERVICES RALIN WINDoWS & DooRS INC URBAN fLooRING CoNTRACToR LTD 42 DUNDEE AVE 131 ROE AVE, GANDER 47 POUCH COVE RD MT PEARL (709) 256-8810 BAULINE (709) 747-7733 [email protected] (709) 335-2988

NoRTHERN HoMECARE SVC RIffLIN’ HITCH LoDGE VICKERS INSURANCE AGENCY LTD 20 TUCKER’S LN 19 HIGHLAND AVE BOX 370, STATION B ST ANTHONY CORNER BROOK HAPPY VALLEY GOOSE BAY (709) 454-0019 (709) 634-2000 (709) 896-2985 oLD MILL RIVERSEA MoTEL VIKING LoUNGE PO BOX 777 RPO CENTENNIAL SQ 34 MAIN RD MAIN ST MOUNT PEARL POLLARDS POINT PORT AU PORT EAST (709) 368-1334 (709) 482-2300 (709) 648-9348 oRKIN/PCo SVC SHEILA’S RESTAURANT WADE ATLANTIC LTD PO BOX 8424 STN A PO BOX 637 430 WATER ST ST JOHN’S GAMBO ST JOHN’S (709) 722-1844 (709) 674-4994 (709) 722-8772

PARSoNS & SoNS TRANSPoRTATIoN ST JoHN’S NATIVE fRIENDSHIP WALSH’S SToRE BOX 19005 STN SEAL COVE CENTRE ASSN 170 ST CLARE AVE CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH 716 WATER STREET, ST JOHN’S ST JOHN’S (709) 744-3300 (709) 726-5970 OR (709) 726-5902 (709) 579-1025

PENNEY’S ENTERPRISE SUMMERVILLE fISHERIES LTD BOX 10 PO BOX 39 Thank You PORT HOPE SIMPSON SUMMERVILLE (709) 960-0222 (709) 545-2132 For PENNEY’S PITSToP TANKER INN Your Support PO BOX 38 BOX 130 PORT HOPE SIMPSON ARNOLDS COVE (709) 960-0499 (709) 463-2313

PIZZA DELIGHT TERRA NoVA MoToRS LTD MILLBROOK MALL (709)634-8100 595 KENMOUNT RD 24 MURPHYS SQUARE (709)634-8038 ST JOHN’S Proud to support the RNCA! (709) 364-4130

www.rnca.ca 100 Annual Charity Benefit Hockey Game

Our 16th Annual Benefit Hockey Game, featuring the Newfoundland & Labrador Celebrity All-Stars versus the Newfoundland & Labrador Police All-Stars, was a huge success and a great night of family entertainment!

The game was held at Mile One Stadium in St. John’s on March 31/11 and raised over $15,000.00 in proceeds raised to support our Police Curling Association’s many activities in the area, including generous contributions to Special olympics Newfoundland and Labrador and the Tourette Syndrome foundation of Canada. (Photos courtesy of Bruce Tobin)

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A & M AUToMoTIVE BAY SIDE AUTo SALES CARNELL’S fUNERAL HoME LEWISPORTE (709) 535-8677 MOUNT PEARL (709) 368-4935 ST JOHN’S (709) 722-2730

A & R SERVICES LTD BAYSIDE KITCHEN & PARLoUR CENTRAL AUTo DIESEL CLINIC PORTUGAL COVE/ ST PHILLIPS (709) 895-3996 MARYSTOWN (709) 279-5000 GRAND FALLS WINDSOR (709) 489-8884

ABC SIDING & WINDoWS INC BAYSTEEL INC CENTRAL REHAB INC ST JOHN’S (709) 579-8288 HOLYROOD (709) 229-7016 (709) 834-7390

A+ AUTo CENTRE 2007 LTD BENNETT’S CoNST & SUPPLIES LTD CENTRAL SALVAGE ST JOHN’S (709) 722-1315 GRAND BANK (709) 832-2800 BISHOP FALLS (709) 258-6841

ABADoRN INTERIoR DESIGNING BENoIT BRoS CoNTRACTING LTD CLARENVILLE DENTURE CLINIC ST. JOHN’S (709) 743-7227 MT PEARL (709) 364-9141 CLARENVILLE (709) 466-7194

A-CAM PLUMBING & HEATING LTD BERNARD RoBERTS CLASSIC WooDWoRK LTD BENOITS COVE (709) 632-6894 MARYSTOWN PARADISE (709) 368-1480

ACQUAINT CoNTRACTING SVC INC BLACK & MACDoNALD CLEARVIEW fARMS ST JOHN’S (709) 747-8400 MT PEARL (709) 747-1406 LETHBRIDGE (709) 467-5566

ADVANCED THERAPY & CoNSULT. SVC LTD BLANCHARD’S WooDWoRKING CoNRAD fITZGERALD ACADEMY ST JOHN’S (709) 579-1737 BISHOPS FALLS (709) 258-2077 ENGLISH HARBOUR WEST (709) 888-3426

AGL ENTERPRISES BLUEBIRD INVESTMENTS LTD CoPPER KETTLE LoUNGE SEAL COVE FB (709) 531-2231 GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR (709) 489-5403 NORTHERN BAY (709) 584-3829

ALL CARE HoME SUPPoRT LTD BMo NESBITT BURNS CoRMACK fARMERS MARKET NEW HARBOUR T B (709) 582-2050 CORNER BROOK (709) 637-6590 CORNER BROOK (709) 635-2319

ALLIANCE SECURITY SYSTEMS BoARDWALK CAfE CRAWfoRD & CoMPANY CARBONEAR (709) 754-7702 STEPHENVILLE (709) 643-8550 ST JOHN’S (709) 753-6351

APPRAISAL AffILIATES INC BoYD & BUNGAY CoNSTRUCTIoN CREWE’S GARAGE CORNER BROOK (709) 639-8949 KIPPENS (709) 643-9896 BONAVISTA (709) 468-1580

ARLENE’S PET GRooMING BREWERY LANE CRoNINS SENIoR GUEST HoME ST JOHN’S (709) 726-8671 MOUNT PEARL (709) 745-1140 CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH (709) 834-9639

ARoMA’S PLUS BAKERY & EATERY BURGEo ACADEMY D & M MAINTENANCE LTD CORNER BROOK (709) 632-2255 BURGEO (709) 886-2590 LABRADOR CITY (709) 944-5365

ARTLIN SAfETY & INDUSTRIAL BUTLER’S BYE THE SEA B & B D J CLEANERS GRAND FALLS (709) 489-9502 BONAVISTA (709) 468-2445 PETERVIEW (709) 257-2676

ATLANTIC HoSE AND fITTINGS CANoN RICHARDS MEMoRIAL ACADEMY DEAN’S GREEN HoUSE LTD ST JOHN’S (709) 738-4490 FLOWERS COVE (709) 456-2010 BOTWOOD (709) 257-4657

AUTo CoNNECT CAPE ToWN CoNVENIENCE DIoCESE of WESTERN NL CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH (709) 682-7561 POUCH COVE (709) 335-7957 CORNER BROOK (709) 639-8712

AVALoN MoToRSPoRTS INC CARDIoLoGY CoNSULTANTS DISCoVERIES UNLIMITED INC ST JOHN’S (709) 747-1080 ST JOHN’S (709) 726-5311 TORBAY (709) 437-5028

BAY of ISLANDS ELECTRICAL LTD CARIBoU LANES DoCKSIDE MoTEL CORNER BROOK (709) 785-2611 CLARENVILLE (709) 466-7751 ST BARBE (709) 877-2444 www.rnca.ca 102 The Rusty Cup Charity Hockey Game

The Rusty Cup Charity Hockey Game is an annual event held in Corner Brook, between RNC members and local teachers. This year’s game was a tremendous success with proceeds of over eight thousand dollars raised. These proceeds will go towards the Holly O’Brien Scholarship Fund. Thank You For Your Support !

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DoMINo PIZZA HoUSE GANDER AVIATIoN J & G CoLLIER STEPHENVILLE (709) 643-2742 GANDER (709) 256-4620 ST ALBANS (709) 538-3181

DoWNEY’S PHoToGRAPHY & CUSToM fRAMING GEoRGEToWN PUB J & J PAVING MOUNT PEARL (709) 747-6453 ST JOHN’S (709) 754-6151 HARRY’S HARBOUR (709) 785-5978

DR EDMUND CoLLINS GGD ELECTRICAL INC (709) 685-8015 J PAUL SNoW, CA GANDER (709) 256-7852 ST JOHN’S [email protected] CORNER BROOK (709) 634-2199

DR K T JIM GIBSoN’S fAMILY RESTAURANT J HACKETT fISHERIES LTD GRAND FALLS WINSOR (709) 489-1200 GRAND FALLS WINDSOR (709) 489-3664 HALFWAY POINT (709) 789-2283

DR SANDRA J TAYLoR oPToMETRIST GoSSE’S CARPET CTR JC VARIETY SToRE MOUNT PEARL (709) 364-1000 GANDER (709) 256-2071 PORT HOPE SIMPSON (709) 960-0415

DR THoMAS MCGARRY GRAND BANK AUTo INC KEITH GREEN LTD TREPASSEY (709) 438-2828 FORTUNE (709) 832-1684 GOOBIES (709) 542-3426

E A BUTLER ALL GRADE SCHooL GRoS MoRNE RV & CAMPGRoUND KEVIN SIMMS SALES ASSoC SUTToN GRP MCKAYS (709) 645-2330 ROCKY HARBOUR (709) 458-3133 HUMBER REALTY, ST ANTHONY 454-1156

EAST CoAST PoWER ToYS & AUTo HAMILToN SoUND CREDIT UNIoN KP’S fIBERGLASS & MARINE LTD BLAKETOWN (709) 759-2532 CARMANVILLE (709) 534-2224 BURIN BAY ARM (709) 891-2229

EDWARD CoLLINS CoNTRACTING LTD HAMILToN’S GRoCERY KRoWN PRoPERTY MANAGEMENT JERSEYSIDE (709) 227-5509 PARADISE (709) 773-1469 ST JOHN’S (709) 754-7116

EMERALD SoD PRoDUCERS INC HAMPToN ARCHITECT INC LABRADoR INN ST SHOTTS (709) 438-2306 ST JOHN’S (709) 739-7906 HAPPY VALLEY G BAY (709) 896-3351

ENVIRoMED DETECTIoN SERVICES HANCoCK’S WooDWoRKS LABRADoR INVESTMENTS ST JOHN’S (709) 368-9000 FORTEAU (709) 931-2620 HAPPY VALLEY GOOSE BAY (709) 896-2486

EXECUTIVE TAXI LTD HIGHLIGHT RESTAURANT LABRADoR USED CARS ST JOHN’S (709) 726-4393 GANDER (709) 256-3347 LABRADOR CITY (709) 944-3456

EXPLoITS VALLEY CoMMUNITY CoALITIoN HoGAN’S CABINS LARKHALL ACADEMY GRAND FALLS (709) 489-8133 NORTHERN BAY (709) 598-2506 ST JOHN’S (709) 722-7012

EXPLoITS VALLEY DENTAL offICE HoLDEN’S TRANSPoRT LTD LEASIDE MANoR SUITES & APTS GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR (709) 489-3660 ST JOHN’S (709) 368-3539 ST JOHN’S (709) 722-0387

foGo ISLAND CENTRAL ACADEMY HoLY CRoSS ALL GRADE SCHooL LESTER fARMS INC FOGO (709) 266-2414 DANIELS HARBOUR (709) 898-2413 ST JOHN’S (709) 368-2458

fooD CHoPPER DISCoUNT GRoCERY HoLY fAMILY ELEMENTARY SCHooL LEWISPoRTE AUTo SUPPLIES LTD FORTEAU (709) 931-2743 CHAPEL ARM (709) 592-2341 LEWISPORTE (709) 535-6881

foWLoW’S SToRE HUMBER CoMMUNITY YMCA LITTLE PEoPLE’S WoRKSHoP LTD BUCHANS (709) 672-3981 CORNER BROOK (709) 639-9676 ST JOHN’S (709) 739-5496

fRED CoLE IGLUTEK CoMPUTERS INC LIVING PLANET CASUALS PASADENA (709) 686-2336 HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY (709) 896-3772 197 WATER ST (709) 754-9300

fURNITURE MEDIC ISLES fUNERAL HoME LTD LUCKY STRIKE fAMILY RESTAURANT PARADISE (709) 746-8782 TWILLINGATE (709) 884-2759 BUCHANS (709) 672-2105 www.rnca.ca 104 Booster Boxes

MAC MIX CoNCRETE LTD oCEANVIEW GUEST HoME (709) 834-2532 R & L CoNTRACTING CONCEPTION BAY (709) 682-5797 62 MIDDLEBIGHT RD, KELLIGREWS MOBILE (709) 334-2334

MADoRE’S AUTo BoDY oUR LADY of GRACE PARISH RANDoM DISTRIBUToRS LTD STEPHENVILLE (709) 643-4110 BIRD COVE (709) 247-2206 CLARENVILLE (709) 466-2786

MARK 1 SALES LTD PAINT SHoP REDWooD CoNSTRUCTIoN LTD PORTUGAL COVE/ST PHILLIPS (709) 895-3215 GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR (709) 489-7711 MOUNT PEARL (709) 745-7888

MARYSToWN AUTo GLASS & GRAPHIX PAPER TRACE LTD REGULAR’S SToRE MARYSTOWN (709) 279-5100 ST JOHN’S (709) 745-7108 MINGS BIGHT (709) 254-6326

MEADoW CREEK RETIREMENT CENTRE PARSoNS PoND MEDICAL CLINIC RESoURCE DEVELoPMENT ASSoCIATES PARADISE (709) 782-4242 PARSONS POND (709) 243-2593 ST JOHN’S (709) 576-0933

METRo HEATING AND AIR CoNDITIoNING PATEY & SoNS RIGHT START CHILD CARE CTR ST JOHN’S (709) 685-0962 RIVER OF PONDS (709) 225-5112 CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH (709) 834-2114

MIKAN INC PEACE CoVE INN RITEWAY CoNSTRUCTIoN LIMITED MT PEARL (709) 364-6619 PORT REXTON (709) 464-3738 L’ANSE AU LOUP (709) 927-5553

MILLER’S SUPERMARKET PENINSULA PHARMACY RoBERT CANNoN oPERATING NL KoIN KING FOGO (709) 266-2407 ST BERNARDS (709) 461-2121 BISHOP’S FALLS (709) 258-6662

MoP CHoP PENTECoSTAL TABERNACLE RoBERT DoYLE THEATRE PHARMACY NEW HARBOUR TB (709) 582-3737 PORT DE GRAVE (709) 786-6481 ST JOHN’S (709) 726-0197

MURPHY CENTRE PERMA REfRIGERATIoN LTD RoBERTS BARBERING/STYLING LTD ST JOHN’S (709) 579-6606 WABUSH (709) 282-5088 MOUNT PEARL (709) 368-9276

NEWfoUNDLAND HARDWooDS PIKE’S PRo HARDWARE RoGERS, BUSSEY LAW offICE CLARENVILLE (709) 466-7941 BLAKETOWN (709) 759-2900 GANDER (709) 256-7164

NEWfoUNDLAND HVAC PLATINUM BUILDERS RoSE ANNE’S HAIR DESIGNS ST JOHN’S (709) 738-7700 GLENWOOD (709) 679-5565 LABRADOR CITY (709) 944-5004

NEWLAB oXYGEN LTD PMC INC RoWE BRoTHERS CARPET Co MOUNT PEARL (709) 364-4818 CORNER BROOK (709) 634-2800 CORNER BROOK (709) 639-1458

NEWSULT LTD PoINT LEAMINGToN ACADEMY RUSSELL’S RADIAToR & BRAKE SHoP ST JOHN’S (709) 739-4036 POINT LEAMINGTON (709) 484-3432 STEPHENVILLE (709) 643-2752

NoEL MoToRS & TRANSIT LTD PoRT HoPE HARDWARE & SUPPLIES SCooP AND SAVE (fooDS) CARBONEAR (709) 596-5193 PORT HOPE SIMPSON (709) 960-0405 GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR (709) 489-9768

NoLAN INSTRUMENTATIoN SVCS LTD PRECIoUS TIMES CHILDRENS CTR SCoTT’S TAXI ST JOHN’S (709) 722-9324 PARADISE (709) 728-4177 PORT AUX BASQUES (709) 695-9700

NoRTHERN GULf TRANSPoRT PRETZEL MAKER SHARPE MUSIC LABRADOR CITY (709) 944-1243 CORNER BROOK (709) 634-1926 CORNER BROOK (709) 634-0680

NU QUEST DISTRIBUTIoN INC PRICE CHoPPER SHIRLEY’S HAVEN MT PEARL (709) 745-8884 LEWISPORTE (709) 535-8535 CATALINA (709) 469-3160

oAKE’S TRUCKING LTD QUALITY CABINETRY LTD SMITH’S AMBULANCE SERVICES WINDSOR (709) 489-3975 CORNER BROOK (709) 634-0600 MARKLAND (709) 759-2065 www.rnca.ca 105 Booster Boxes

SoUTHERN CoNSTRUCTIoN 1981 LTD THE DIESEL DoCToR VILLA NoVA JUNIoR HIGH SCHooL TREPASSEY (709) 438-2040 POUCH COVE (709) 335-2778 MANUELS (709) 834-3916

SoUTHERN SHoRE foLK ARTS CNCL THE GENERAL INC W J THoRNE SURVEYS LTD FERRYLAND (709) 432-2052 ST JOHN’S (709) 364-1515 BLAKETOWN (709) 759-2392

SPoRTS CLUB THE JAMES J HICKEY MEMoRIAL W M WELDING LTD ST JOHN’S (709) 754-2332 fUNERAL HoME, HOLYROOD (709) 834-3051 ST JOHN’S (709) 728-8040

ST ANTHoNY BASIN RESoURCES INC THIS THAT N fABRICS WALSH’S AUToMoTIVE ST ANTHONY (709) 454-3484 SPRINGDALE (709) 673-3311 MT PEARL (709) 368-6300

ST GABRIEL’S ALL GRADES SCHooL TNT offICE GRoUP LTD WARR’S PHARMACY LTD ST BRENDANS (709) 669-3331 ST JOHN’S (709) 576-5559 HAPPY VALLEY, GOOSE BAY (709) 896-2963

ST MICHEALS PARISH ToTAL CARE NURSING IN THE HoME WEST 96 BELL ISLAND (709) 488-2525 CLARENVILLE (709) 466-5505 CORNER BROOK (709) 639-8499

ST PETER’S PARISH ToWN of CoME BY CHANCE WEST CoAST offICE PRoDUCTS MOUNT PEARL (709) 364-8606 COME BY CHANCE (709) 542-3240 CORNER BROOK (709) 639-1813

STACEY AGENCIES ToWN of LEWIN’S CoVE WESTERN SIGNS LTD MOUNT PEARL (709) 364-7885 LEWIN’S COVE (709) 894-4777 DEER LAKE (709) 635-3137

STAGG & TEMPLEMAN CoNSTR LTD ToWN of WooDSToCK WESTERN STAR & STERLING TRUCKS WABUSH (709) 282-3553 WOODSTOCK (709) 251-3176 GRAND FALLS WINDSOR (709) 489-5558

STARBoARD WooDCRAfT LTD TRANS CANADA ULTRAMAR WESToWER CoMMUNICATIoNS DOYLES (709) 955-2826 GANDER (709) 256-8678 ST JOHN’S (709) 579-6378

STEEL MoUNTAIN ULTRAMAR TRICCo ELECTRIC WooDfoRD TRAINING CTR INC ST GEORGES (709) 647-3926 ST JOHN’S (709) 726-8991 STN KELLIGREWS/CBS (709) 834-7000

STEERS INSURANCE TRICoN PHARMACY WooDLAND NURSERIES LTD LABRADOR CITY (709) 944-7317 OLD PERLICAN (709) 587-2500 ST JOHN’S (709) 368-0472

STELLA BURRY CoMMUNITY SERVICES TRIPLE A GIfT SHoP WooDWARDS oIL LTD ST JOHN’S (709) 738-7805 TRITON (709) 263-2332 MAKKOVIK (709) 923-2117

STEPPING SToNES INC TRIPLE G fARM ZACHARY’S CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH (709) 744-3555 MUSGRAVETOWN (709) 467-5624 ST JOHN’S (709) 579-8050

STRICKLAND’S AUTo AND GAS LTD TURK’S GUT HERITAGE HoUSE CHURCHILL FALLS (709) 925-3233 BRIGUS (709) 528-1310 Thank You

SUPERIoR AUTo WoRKS LIMITED TWIN RINKS For ROCKY HARBOUR (709) 458-2948 ST JOHN’S (709) 579-9681 Your Support T & T HoLDINGS LTD UPPER GULLIES ELEMENTARY PORT AUX CHOIX (709) 861-3444 UPPER GULLIES (709) 744-3141

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LEE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ...... 66 ATLANTIC INSURANCE CO LIMITED ...... 14 FRITO LAY CANADA ...... 72 PENNECON LTD...... 38 ATLANTIC MINERAL ...... 64 G & R HOLDINGS LIMITED ...... 62 PHOTO TEC SERVICES INC...... 48 ATLANTIC RECREATION LTD...... 90 GANDER AUTO DEALER ASSOC...... 30 PILLAR TO POST HOME INSPECTION ...... 86 AVALON BOOKKEEPING SERVICES LIMITED ...... 54 GARDNER EQUIPMENT RENTALS ...... 64 PLANNED PARENTHOOD NFLD ...... 4 AVALON COAL, SALT & OIL CO...... 72 GSC CRANE OPERATIONS ...... 42 PRESENTATION SISTERS ...... 58 AVALON MALL ...... 26 H. BURTON ELECTRICAL LTD...... 70 PUDDISTER TRADING CO. 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JOHN’S ...... 94 BARRETT`S FUNERAL HOMES LTD...... 24 HICKMAN MOTORS LTD...... 22 RBC ROYAL BANK ...... 78 BARRY, WALSH & ASSOC...... 90 HINDY’S PHARMACY ...... 88 RELIABLE AMBULANCE SERVICES LTD...... 60 BARRYS SEAFOOD ...... 10 HODGE BROS LTD...... 84 RENAISSANCE HAIR CLINIC ...... 74 BAY ST GEORGE YOUTH ASSESSMENT CENTRE ...... 92 HOI PUN RESTAURANT ...... 64 ROADSIDE RECREATION LTD ...... 78 BENNETT RESTAURANTS ...... 60 HOLLOWAY`S FUNERAL HOME LTD...... 76 ROBERT R REGULAR LAW OFFICE ...... 86 BENSON & MYLES ...... 4 HON. SIOBHAN COADY M. P...... 66 ROEBOTHAN, MCKAY, & MARSHALL ...... 18 BETTERCARE HOME CARE ...... 90 HORIZON DEVELOPMENT ...... 88 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 45 ...... 60 BISHOP’S PAVING ...... 92 HOSKINS FUNERAL HOME ...... 60 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 51 ...... 40 BREAD & CHEESE INN ...... 8 HUMBER VALLEY CREDIT UNION LIMITED ...... 92 RTK CONSTRUCTION ...... 86 BRENDAN O’CONNELL WOODWORKING LTD...... 70 HUMBER VETERINARY CLINIC ...... 58 RUSSEL METALS INC...... 88 BRISTOW MOYSE LAWYERS ...... 58 IAN BRIDGER LTD...... 78 RUSSELL’S EXCAVATING LTD ...... 92 BROWNE’S AUTO SUPPLIES LTD ...... 96 INSURANCE BROKERS ASSOC. OF RUTTER INC...... 66 BRUCE`S RECREATION ...... 50 NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ...... 62 SACRED HEART PARISH ...... 52 BRUSH & TROWEL LTD...... 8 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SAGA ENTERPRISES INC...... 36 BUDGELL’S CONSTRUCTION ...... 90 PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES LOCAL 1984 ...... 64 SALVAGE BAY MOTEL ...... 8 C & W OFFSHORE ...... 50 IRIS KIRBY HOUSE ...... 74 SAM ROBERTS CEMENT FINISHING LTD...... 58 C AND N AUTO BODY LTD...... 66 J R AUTO CLINIC ...... 88 SAUNDERS BATH & KITCHEN ...... 82 C R J AUTOMOTIVE LTD...... 54 JAMES COFFEY MD (DERMATOLOGIST) ...... 90 SCALE SHOP LTD...... 80 CADCO DESIGNS LTD ...... 86 JAMES G CRAWFORD LTD...... 88 SCAMPER`S SNACK BAR ...... 52 CAL LEGROW INSURANCE LTD...... 84 JAMES R EALES EQUIPMENT RENTALS LTD ...... 70 SEA BASE LTD...... 4 CAMERON CANADA ...... cover JIM PENNEY FORD ...... 70 SEARS CANADA INC...... 76 CAN DO SHEET METAL ...... 56 JIM’S CARPENTRY & UPHOLSTERY LTD ...... 64 SHEPPARD`S VARIETY ...... 80 CANADIAN HARD OF HEARING ASSN. JOAN ANDREWS DENTURE CLINIC ...... 82 SHERATON HOTEL NEWFOUNDLAND ...... 36 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR ...... 18 JOHNSON INC...... 40 SHOPPERS CHOICE PHARMACY LTD...... 52 CANADIAN TIRE ...... 80 JUNGLE JIM`S ...... 62 SIMMONS TIRE & SERVICE CENTER LTD ...... 84 CAN-AM PLATFORMS & CONSTR LTD ...... 94 KARWOOD REALTY ...... 28 SINGLE PARENT ASSOC. OF NFLD...... 60 CANDUIT ELECTRIC ...... 70 KEEP COOL REFRIG. & AIR COND...... 86 SIR ADMIRAL JOHN’S ADVENTURE ...... 60 CAPITAL CRANE LIMITED ...... 32 KEITH PENNEY & ASSOCIATES ...... 48 SMITH`S FURNITURE & APPLIANCES ...... 60 CAPITAL PHARMACHOICE ...... 78 KEITH’S PLUMBING ...... 94 SPRINGDALE RETIREMENT CTR ...... 44 CAR - FIX BALL HOLDINGS INC...... 72 KELLOWAY CONSTRUCTION LTD...... 74 ST JOHN’S INT’L WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL ...... 2 CARE GIVERS INC...... 42 KENMOUNT AUTO CTR ...... 92 ST. JOHN`S DOCKYARD LTD...... 34 CAROL AUTOMOBILE ...... 10 KENT 56 ST. JOHN`S VETERINARY HOSPITAL ...... 62 CBS GLASS ...... 54 KING`S TRANSPORT CO. LTD...... 90 STEERS GROUP LTD...... 44 CBS PLUMBING & HEATING LTD...... 56 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ...... 70 STEPHENVILLE AIRPORT ...... 10 CENTRAL CONVENIENCE ...... 46 KUSCO TILING LTD...... 68 STEPHENVILLE DEVELOPMENTS LTD...... 72 CENTRAL DAIRIES ...... 64 LAB FISHERMEN`S UNION SHRIMP COMPANY LIMITED ...... 74 CENTRAL REGIONAL INTEGRATED HEALTH AUTHORITY ...... 76 LABRADOR GRENFELL HEALTH ...... 74 STETSON LOUNGE ...... 68 CHARRO BENTEAU PHOTOGRAPHY / ATLANTIC HORIZON IMAGING ...... 94 LABRADOR REWINDING INC...... 62 STEVE`S AUTOMOTIVE ...... 74 CHESTER DAWE LTD...... 6 LABRADOR SCHOOL BOARD ...... 56 STRUCTURAL DESIGN INC...... 68 CIRCLE K ...... 10 LACEY`S USED CARS ...... 62 SUNRISE DAIRY LTD...... 86 CITY SAND & GRAVEL LTD ...... 56 LAURA’S LIGHTING & DECOR ...... 10 SUPER 8 ...... 76 CITY WIDE TAXI ...... 70 LEGROW’S TRAVEL AGENCY LTD...... 52 SUPERIOR WOODWORKING ...... 10 COATES MANUFACTURING LTD...... 54 LEWISPORTE PHARMACHOICE ...... 68 SWISS CHALET ...... 10 COLDWELL BANKER PROCO...... 48 LOTTIE`S PLACE ...... 58 SYKES ...... 96 COMFORT HOME CARE ...... 54 M & M ENGINEERING LTD...... 88 TERRY WALSH CONTRACTING ...... 80 COMMONWEALTH PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC ...... 66 M & M OFFSHORE LTD...... 50 THE CORNER STORE ...... 82 COMPUSULT ...... 58 M.E.R. SALES & SERVICE LTD ...... 94 THE K - BAR ...... 60 CONCRETE PRODUCTS ...... 62 MAGIC WOK EATERY ...... 74 THE MATTRESS STORE ...... 92 CORE ENGINEERING ...... 80 MARINE ATLANTIC INC...... 82 THE NEW MOON RESTAURANT ...... 32 CORNER BROOK AUTOMOTIVE LTD ...... 78 MARITIME PAPER PRODUCTS LTD...... 30 THE OUTPORT RESTAURANT ...... 74 COTTLE`S ISLAND LUMBER CO. LTD...... 88 MARK`S WORK WEARHOUSE ...... 88 THE RUG ROOM INC ...... 84 COUGAR ENGINEERING ...... 34 MARSHALL INDUSTRIES LTD...... 38 TIM HORTONS ADVERTISING & PROMOTION FUND (CANADA) INC...... 20 COUGAR HELICOPTERS INC...... 64 MAXIMUM HOME SUPPORT SERVICES INC ...... 10 TIRE MART ...... 82 COUNTRY TRAILER SALES (1999) LTD ...... 78 MC LOUGHLAN SUPPLIES LTD...... 66 TITAN CONSTRUCTION ...... 8 COX & PALMER ...... 28 MCINNES COOPER ...... 84 TOROMONT CAT ...... 12 CREDIT COUNSELLING OF NEWFOUNDLAND MEMORIAL DOMINION ...... 12 TOTAL ENERGY CONTROL ...... 86 AND LABRADOR CREDIT & DEBT SOLUTIONS ...... 72 MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ENFORCEMENT & PATROL ...... 32 TOWN OF CROW HEAD ...... 78 CROMBIE REIT ( VALLEY MALL ) ...... 82 MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND ...... 68 TOWN OF GANDER ...... 96 CROSS TOWN SERVICE ...... 12 MERLIN SECURITY ...... 12 TOWN OF GRAND FALLS WINDSOR ...... 10 CURTIS DAWE ...... 56 METAL WORLD INC...... 26 TRANSPORT & ALLIED WORKERS TEAMSTERS LOCAL 855 ...... 8 CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD ATLANTIC ...... 54 METRO GENERAL INSURANCE CORP ...... 20 TRAVEL CUTS ...... 30 D & K COMPUTERS ...... 76 MISTER T`S RITE STOP- ESSO ...... 66 TRAVELLERS INN ...... 52 D R L- L R COACHLINES ...... 76 MODERN PAVING LTD...... 84 TRC HYDRAULICS INC ...... 90 D W I SERVICES LTD ...... 56 MOUNT PEARL SCHOOL OF MARTIAL ARTS ...... 6 ULTRAMAR LTD...... 46 DENTAL SUPPLIES LTD...... 82 MOUNT PEYTON HOTEL ...... 50 UNION BAR & BILLIARDS ...... 48 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ...... 22 MR. JEFFREY D. FOLLETT, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ...... 92 UNION STATION ...... 56 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ...... 30 MUNICIPAL CONSTRUCTION LTD...... 50 UNITED SAIL WORKS LTD...... 58 DESIGN MANAGEMENT GROUP LTD...... 80 MY REC ROOM ...... 94 UNITED STEELWORKERS LOCAL 5795 ...... 42 DETROIT DIESEL ALLISON ...... 24 N D DOBBIN LTD...... 12 UNIVERSAL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES INC ...... 54 DISCOVERY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ...... 76 NAIN SAFE HOUSE ...... 84 V O C M CARES FOUNDATION ...... 2 DODGE CITY / ROYAL GARAGE ...... 58 NASKAUPI WOODWORKERS INC ...... 96 VALUE MOVERS ...... 8 DOF SUBSEA CANADA CORP ...... 2 NAV CANADA ...... 4 VILLA NOVA PHARMACY ...... 50 DOLLAR PLUS LTD...... 62 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR ASSOCIATION OF OPTOMETRISTS ...... 34 VIRGINIA PARK PHARMACY ...... 72 DR. BRENDAN LEWIS ...... 46 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR NURSES UNION ...... 50 VITALITY PRODUCTS INC...... 68 DR. D. F. CRAIG DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY ...... 52 NEWFOUNDLAND HARD ROK INC ...... 52 DR. LARRY JACKMAN ...... 88 NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR LIQUOR CORP...... cover WABUSH MINES ...... 82 DR. LUC BOULAY ...... 66 NEWFOUNDLAND POWER ...... 36 WAL - MART CARBONEAR ...... 60 DR. MICHAEL BENSE ...... 8 NEWTRANS EQUIPMENT CARRIERS ...... 54 WAL - MART ST. JOHN’S ...... 28 DR. P. COLLINGWOOD ...... 54 NFLD & LABRADOR FILM DEV CORP ...... 42 WAL- MART CLARENVILLE ...... 66 EAGLE CONSTRUCTION LTD...... 72 NFLD KUBOTA ...... 96 WAL- MART GRAND FALLS- WINDSOR ...... 8 EASSON’S TRANSPORT LTD ...... 78 NFLD. & LAB. TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ...... 16 WAL MART MARYSTOWN ...... 64 EASTERN EDGE CREDIT UNION LTD...... 90 NIGHTINGALE MANOR ...... 96 WALMART (LAB CITY) ...... 74 EASTERN REGION BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ...... 76 NOBLE LIMOUSINE SVC ...... 92 WATERWORKS SUPPLIES A DIV. OF EMCO ...... 84 EASTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT ...... 26 NOELS FARM ...... 54 WATSON PETROLEUM SERVICES ...... 70 EASTERN SHEET METAL WORKS LTD...... 52 NORTH ATLANTIC REFINING ...... cover WAYNE`S WORLD PUB & EATERY ...... 64 ECONOMY INSULATORS LTD ...... 48 NORTH WEST TAXI LTD...... 74 WAYPOINTS ...... 38 EMBERLEY’S TRANSPORT LTD...... 48 NORTIP DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ...... 52 WEDGWOOD INSURANCE LTD...... cover EREAUT’S HOME HEAT SALES SERVICE LTD ...... 72 NORTRAX CANADA INC ...... 46 WELDCAN INC ...... 90 ERIC KING FISHERIES LTD...... 56 NOTUS ELECTRONICS ...... 62 WESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT ...... 58 EXPLOITS MOTEL ...... 92 O` FLAHERTY`S IRISH PUB & EATERY ...... 12 WISEMAN`S SALES & SERVICE LTD. YAMAHA DEALER ...... 82 F I CANADA ...... 68 OCEANEERING CANADA LTD ...... 68 X - IT CORPORATE ...... 92 FACILITIES DESIGN GROUP INC...... 48 O’KEEFE ROOFING INC ...... 90 ZIGGY PEELGOODS FRENCH FRIES ...... 78 FAIRWAY INSURANCE SERVICE INC...... 48 OPERATING ENGINEERS COLLEGE ...... 72

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