ACTOR HAL B. Blackwater draws attention to the mask in the play No’Xya' (Our Footprints) performed in
North Vancouver recently. Hosted by the College Achievement & Support Propram at Capilano College, the

play was to raise awareness of native land claims.

Native rights issues
come to high school

THE NATIVE land rights con-
troversy appeared at Carson
Graham Secondary in North Van-
couver recently with the showing
of a play titled No’Xya’ (Our
Footprints).

Jointly put on by the Gitksan-
Wet’suwet’en Tribal Council,
Headlines Theatre and the College
Achievement & Support Program
at Capilano College, No’Xy2’ cen-
tres around ancestral land and the
struggle of natives for recognition.

For the College Achievement &
Support Program at the college —
CASP.-for short — the co-sponsor-
ship of the play was just one of
many events to raise awareness of
native culture and related issues,
said program coordinator Terry
Alder,

““CASP was started in 1985 to
provide support services that
enable native students to more
easily make the transition to col-
lege life,” she said.

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‘Wt has been a successful pro-
gram, contributing to the increase
in numbers of native students on
campus from mere handfuls to
over 100.”

Native students in the one-year
program go through a series of
special courses such as intensive
study skills and career planning in
the computer age.

CASP tries to help its 31 stu-
dents —- representing 16 bands
from all over the province — build
greater awareness of their own
culture and personal strengths as a
base for later success in the col-
lege. | .

“They have much to learn from
each other,’’ Alder said. ‘‘And to
contribute to the coliege.”’

Other CASP-sponsored events
to raise awareness of native culture
and issues include a Native
in early
December and a arts and crafts

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15 - Friday, November 20, 1987 - North Shore News

NV musician plays

NORTH VANCOUVER musician
Jim Woodyard will join children’s
performer Lynne Stones in a
children’s concert Nov. 21 at the
Ridge Theatre in Vancouver.
Producer of Stones’ Juno
Award-nominated album Bananas,
Woodyard accompanies the per-
former in her two afternoon shows
at the Arbutus Street theatre.
Stones did not win the Juno

award, but ‘‘! was just thrilled to
be nominated,’’ she said of the
album Bananas, which is the sub-
ject of her weekend concert.

Tickets to the 1:30 p.m. and
3:30 p.m. shows are available at
Kaboodies, Windmill Toys and
The Toybox, all children’s toy
stores in Vancouver.

The Ridge Theatre is at 3131
Arbutus St. Details: 738-5212.

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After 32 years, ] gave up
smoking — and it was the
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It took only three days
and a five-hour seminar with
the David Hanson Lifestyle
Training Stop Smoking Pro-
gram. It was a real picasure
giving up the. weed and such
an amazing experience to
boot that I can hardly con-
tain my enthusiasm for the
program.

Cigarettes used to be my
little white friends. Rollies,
they were, put together and
packed to perfection by
myself, They were ready to
serve me in times of stress or
boredom, on good days or
bad, and before, during and
after just about everything I
did. My life was a trail of
smoke and tobacco.

But it was a friendship
that was doomed and a rela-
tionship that was just not
working out anymore. They
took my money and returned
only congestion, bad breath,
smelly clothes, and a pretty
good line on some possible
illnesses,

But, oh, how to quit?

I don’t mind admitting
that I am a total coward.
The last effort 1 made to
quit was on Jan. 21, Cold
Turkey Day. I lasted about
a day and that day was
awful. Painful is the word I
feel compelled to use. And
the anticipation of facing
that raging craving, of
another effort to quit, had
been too much to even con-
sider.

Then I heard about
Lifestyle Training, thought
what the heck, and called up
Sherman Hechter, who
teaches the course in Van-
couver. One of the first
things I said to Hechter was
that I didn’t expect it to
work because I had abso-
lutely no willpower. He
laughed and assured me that
I would quit smoking and
would do it without ‘‘ner-
vousness, anxiety or weight
gain.”

“The program does not
depend on willpower or your
desire to stop smoking,”’ he
explained, ‘‘only your will-
ingness to participate in the
seminar.’’

Participation I could han-
die, especially since } could
be smoking while I par-
ticipated.

Hechter, who is 59, says

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he smoked three or four «500 for Hechter’s seminar.

packs a day for 40 years.
jronicaliy, he had been
employed by the heart asso-
ciation in Washington for
about half that time. He met
David Hanson of Seattle
about eight years ago, started
teaching the program and
gave up smoking, in that
order.

Hanson, who once weigh-
ed 320 pounds, had been
obese all his life. Typically,
he had tried everything to
lose weight and nothing
wotked. Hooked on diet pills
and still overweight, he
crushed a vertebrae and doc-

.tors told him he would have

to lose weight or he would
never walk again. So, he
created a weight loss pro-
gtam for himself. When the
program worked, he decided
to apply some of the priaci-
ples to smoking. Since then,
Hanson and Hechter have
shown more than 25,000
people how to stop smoking,
and thousands more how to
lose weight and keep it off.

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The philosophy is pretty
straightforward: smoking
and your weight, says
Hechter, is a habit well en-
trenched in the sub-
conscious. Using a_ self-
hypnosis tape (you are totally
in control), the subconscious
is reprogrammed to change
your habit.

The method is slightly dif-
ferent for the weight loss
program. And with smoking,
there is also a physical ad-
diction, but the tape triggers
the brain to produce endor-
phins and enkephlins, natural
pain killers, which mask the

_with drawal symptoms. °

So, one Saturday morning
I took myself and my little

white friends to the Sheraton

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The air was thick with smoke
and talk of other tried and
failed methods of quitting ~
hypnotherapy, accupuncture,
the woman in front of me
had tried them all. A few
people were there for a se-
cond time. Hechter offers a
100 per cent money back
guarantee, but first you have
to take the seminar a second
time.

He says he has a 98 per
cent success rate. Out of one
group, 95 per cent will
become non-smokers after
the first try. Of the remain-
ing five per cent, he ‘‘gets
half of those 6n the second
time around’ and the other
two per cent, well, I guess
they're lost.

The seminar was pretty
basic Before I went, well-
meaning friends had advised
me that I would no doubt
encounter electric shock,
horror movies, fainting and
throwing-up. None of this
happened.’

After handing us our tape
and sealed envelopes marked

‘Day #1, Day #2 and Day #3,
“Hechter answered questions,

gave a lesson in self-hypnosis
and some instruction, told
funny stories and encouraged
us all to smoke. We also
opened the envelope marked
Day #1 and began the process
of stopping smoking.

And believe me, by the
third day when | was actually
throwing my cigarettes away
if Hechter had been there |
might have kissed his hand, I
was so glad to see the ciga-
rettes go.

I suppose the first few days
of actually not smoking
would be the hardest. Look-
ing back, I remember those
days as relaxed and en-
joyable, and only once did }
have a very strong urge to
smoke; but | did not smoke,
which even at the time
amazed me. I felt no
withdrawal symptoms.

What does it take? Com-
mitment, I think. Commit-
ment to trying and to fol-
lowing the instructions to a
T.

It also takes $265, the price
of the seminar, which
depending on how much you
smoke, pays off pretty
quickly with money formerly
spent on cigarettes.

For more information on
the Lifestyle Training stop
smoking or weight loss pro-
grams, call 662-8233.

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