Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
TRAINING: Event is
part of Child Abuse
Prevention Month
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allows adults to understand
how to nurture safe and
appropriate relationships with
young people, and recognize
when there are problems.
“Kids need to see us
setting clear boundaries
and respecting boundar-
ies,” Davis-Martin told The
Nugget. “And they need to
see us advocating for them.”
Today, it is recognized that
it is important that children
be empowered to say “no”
if they are uncomfortable,
that they not be expected to
implicitly obey anything an
adult tells them.
“One adult should never
have unlimited power or say
over a child,” Davis-Martin
said. “We don’t say ‘do what-
ever the adult says’… it’s
about making good choices.”
Interactions between
adults and children should
always be “interrupt-
able and observable,” says
Davis-Martin.
“It creates a safer culture
WRECk: Sisters
man was among
the injured in crash
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Jeep Cherokee. The Jeep and
Toyota came to rest in the
eastbound lanes of Highway
126.
The driver of the Ford,
Tyler J. Myers, age 22, of
Corvallis, was taken by air
ambulance to St. Charles
Bend with life-threatening
injuries. The driver of the
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for our children.”
She notes that the lan-
guage around child sexual
abuse has changed.
“We don’t use that term
‘good touch/bad touch’ any-
more,” she said. “Because
‘bad touch’ can feel good and
that is really confusing for
kids.”
It all comes back to set-
ting boundaries, empowering
children and having adults
respect those boundaries. If
a child does not want to be
hugged or kissed, any adult
should respect that — even
grandma. It really applies
to everyone, adults or chil-
dren, Davis-Martin observes.
Everyone should have the
right to set boundaries, and
people should not simply
assume that they can invade a
person’s personal space.
“This whole idea of ask-
ing before we touch is a
wonderful thing,” she said.
“We teach our children to
ask — and expect to be
asked.”
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Toyota, Jacquelyn A. Ekern,
age 49, of Redmond, was
taken by ground ambulance
to St. Charles Redmond with
non-life-threatening inju-
ries. The driver of the Jeep,
Hayden Jones, age 20, of
Sisters, was taken by ground
ambulance to St. Charles
Bend with serious injuries.
Highway 126 was closed
for about an hour and a half
before one lane was opened.
OSP was assisted by the
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office, Cloverdale and Sisters
fire departments.
Paw
Prints
Jodi Schneider McNamee
Columnist
Do animals
have souls?
For eons, men and women
have pondered the question:
Do animals have souls?
According to the
Merriam-Webster diction-
ary, one of the definitions
of “soul” is: The ability of a
person to feel kindness and
sympathy for others. And:
A person’s deeply felt moral
and emotional nature.
Any dog or cat pet par-
ent will tell you that animals
have a sixth sense when
it comes to understanding
human emotional needs. For
instance, when you are feel-
ing down, an animal can
often act as a better confidant
than another human.
Animals possess a sense
of fairness; they can dis-
tinguish between right and
wrong, they are capable of
fidelity, altruism, and even
self-sacrifice.
Did you know that animals
are aware of death? They
have a sense of their own
mortality, and grieve at the
loss of companions, whether
another animal or a human.
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of how dogs have sacrificed
their lives to help humans.
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years old now. And from the
age of seven weeks when
we brought him home, he
has been described as an old
soul. He reads people. He
reads me daily in my life. He
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over the years as both a crisis
response canine and a therapy
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the amazing ability to find
the most stressed out person
in a room and sit with them.”
Sisters resident Sana
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a Visit:
“When you get very still
and quiet, witnessing those
moments we call life, you
can surely notice a vibration
or sense of presence from
those no longer here. The
body disintegrates, but the
essence of that which has
once touched our hearts reso-
nates eternally. Most people
who have outlived a beloved
pet can attest to this depth of
soul connection.”
Longtime dog owner
Helen Schmidling, former
education editor for Banfield
Pet Hospital:
“I do believe animals have
souls – different from our
souls – but nonetheless. For
what is a soul? It’s an imma-
terial part of a being, that life
and spirit that inhabits our
physical body. And once one
has departed? It’s still a spirit,
a connection, a memory. We
have established a deep and
rich relationship with ani-
mals, inviting them into our
homes as family members.
When they pass on, a part
of them remains connected
to us, and that connection is
purely spiritual.”
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for indisputable evidence of
how courageous dogs can
be, take a look at the team of
golden retrievers who arrived
in Newtown, Connecticut to
help comfort the victims after
the Sandy Hook shooting.
Or the Japanese akita who
jumped into freezing waters
to save his suicidal owner.
Cats have also been
known to go above and
beyond for their humans —
such as Tara, a normally mel-
low family cat that saved her
four-year-old family member
Jeremy from a scary, unpro-
voked dog attack.
In 1986, when a 5-year-
old boy fell into a gorilla
enclosure and lost conscious-
ness, Jambo, a gorilla, stood
guard over the boy while he
was unconscious, placing
himself between the boy and
other gorillas until the boy
was rescued.
For centuries, humans
have imagined they are the
only animals with morals.
But humans are not alone in
the moral arena, a new breed
of behavior experts say.
“Dogs are thinking ani-
mals,” said animal behavior-
ist Marc Bekoff, professor
emeritus at the University
of Colorado, Boulder. “They
seek the outcomes they want.
They avoid the ones they
don’t. They solve problems.
They have expectations.
They have hopes.”
So, do animals have souls?
Let’s see what a few
animal lovers from Sisters
Country say:
Sue Dolezal, airport
controller for Sister Eagle
Airport:
“Our dog Henry is 12
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