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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JUNE 12,2002 PAGE 5 Correction A photo cutline which appeared in the June 7 edition of This Week contained contained incorrect information. Alexandra Weckcs does not have leukemia. This Week regrets the error. In a Friday, June 7 story, 'He was the best,' Housing Minister Chris Hodgson and Natural Resources Minister Jerry Ouellette were omitted as Ontario cabinet cabinet ministers in attendance at the funeral of Durham Regional Police Association president Terry Ryan. This Week regrets the error. A.J. GROEN/ Statesman photo Teens, from left, Breatuie Rcmdell, Kerra Gardner and Krista Klawitter have started a suicide awareness awareness program at Courtice Secondary School. Courtice students start yellow ribbon campaign COURTICE from page I discriminate," she said. "It picks the person with the highest grades in class or the person who is failing." After her friend took his life, Ms. Gardner says she was shocked and depressed. At first she tried to deny her pain, but it eventually gripped her so tightly, she had to see a counsellor. Though she says she never felt suicidal herself, it was then she decided to learn about suicide and do her best to help people deal with their own pain. "Most kids will not come out and say 'I'm suicidal'," she said. Through the assemblies, assemblies, she showed the students students another way to let people people know they need help: with a yellow ribbon. The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Suicide Prevention Program offers offers support, knowledge, and online counselling. It also offers offers teenagers a way to open up communication with a yellow ribbon card. When someone feels she really needs to talk about her troubles, troubles, she hands someone her card and says, "I'd like to cash in my yellow ribbon." ■ After asking permission from the school, Ms. Gardner phoned the international foundation of the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program and asked if she could run her own yellow ribbon campaign. | She ordered more than f ,000 of the cards, along with ' posters and other items pointing out suicide is not the answer. Then, Ms. Gardner, an OAC student with high academics and captain of many teams, ran four different different assemblies, one for each grade with the exception of Grade 12 and OAC which were combined, and told them the impact her friend's death had on her. "I decided it was something something I didn't see coming at all. I always thought there Was a stereotype behind suicidal suicidal people, but that wasn't this person at all," said Ms. Gardner. • When her friend died, she took another look at suicide and decided the biggest cure for it was talking, not only about feelings of depression, GRAND OPENING SPECIAL EVENT mmm &mm mm SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH 8:30 PM JUBILEE PAVILION Oshawa 55 Lakeview Park Ave. By the lake at Simcoe St. South but signs as well. Signs include include new addictions, branching off from friends, giving items away, and saying saying things such as life isn't worth living. "Whether they're joking or not, if they said it, it's gone through their head," she said. "It's not something you joke about; it's something you say to test the water with to see what the reaction is." Since the assemblies, students students have been using the yellow ribbons and counsellors counsellors at Courtice have been seeing more youths with problems or worried that a friend may need help. She added suicide awareness should also start at home. The assemblies were so successful, a Harm Reduction Reduction or Suicide Committee will be set up at the school to continue the awareness program program in the future. Anyone who is thinking about suicide, feeling depressed, depressed, or would like more information about the yellow ribbon program can contact www.yellowribbon.org or phone l-800-SUICIDE. 'püte ÇecveUentf' & SfiecùsUtcf, & atcctA outed, (HOfie Your Graduation Headquarters in k Recieve FREE custom photo candle with purchase! Engravable Grad Frames from $Q99 14K Genuine Diamond Studs ,'Jf- and Solitaire Pendent QCITIZEN The way the world tells time w 1 ESQ • . 10K Grad Charms Varieties to choose from trom$'JJJ00 Sterling Silver from Lockets from Canada's top selling watch $£C00 UkJ I lifetime warranty Limited Edition Collectibles God Bless you Graduate f 50°° The Grandest Graduate $3g99 $2 J99 and much, much more...! 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