6 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday, October 7,1985
   A knife-wielding female robber made off with $50 from the Sunnyside Grocery at 892 Central Avenue at 3 p.m. on Aug. 23.
  She came into the store, wandered around as though she was shopping and then asked to use the telephone.
   The female left the store and returned when there were no customers. This time she went up to the counter and asked for a package of Player’s Light cigarettes.
   The sales clerk turned around to get the package, and when she faced the counter again, the female suspect was holding a knife and demanded $70. The clerk replied that she didn’t have that much and the robber said she wanted $50.
  After the money was handed over, the robber ran across Highway 97 and down the alley between Hub City Motors and the Mohawk Central Station.
   The suspect is a white female, between 16 and 22 years old and with an attractive, round face. She is five feet, four inches tall, with a medium build and weighs about 135 pounds. Her hair is shoulder-length and dirty-blonde colored.
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  She wore tight-fitting blue jeans, a waist-length denim jacket and carried a long-strapped black bag over her left shoulder.
  The knife was about five inches long with a triangular blade.
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 If the publicity sparks your memory about the suspect or if have any information on the crime, Crime Stoppers wants you to call 564-TIPS.
 The telephone is answered by police officers who give tipsters individual identification numbers allowing them to remain anonymous.
  Once police get the information, they ask the tipster to call back in one week, giving RCMP time to follow up on the tip.
  If the information was useful to the investigation, the caller is asked to call back
 after the Crime Stoppers board of directors meets to decide how much the cash reward will be.
   The maximum Crime Stoppers reward is $1,000.
   During the final call, the caller will find out the amount of the reward and arrangements will be made to meet a board member in a public place. The reward is given to the caller when he identifies himself by using the identification number.
An arrest must be made before a reward is paid, said a Crime Stoppers spokesman. ★ ★ ★
   The third in a continuing series of crime re-enactments produced locally by Crime Stoppers will be shown on CKPG (Channel 2, Cable 3) today.
   The clips will be played nightly shortly before 6 p.m. and again after 11 p.m. until Friday and then again from Oct. 14 to Oct. 18.
   Organizers of the Prince George Crime Stoppers program hope the publicity will encourage the public to give anonymous information to RCMP that will help solve the crime.
Armed robbery at grocery store
 These actors are re-enacting an armed robbery at the Sunnyside Grocery at 892 Central Ave. on Aug. 23. The robber escaped with $50 and police have no suspects.
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Art therapy gains acceptance in B.C.
  VICTORIA (CP) - Samantha couldn’t understand why she was dissatisfied with her lire, or why she was angry at her husband.
   Much of the time she was socially withdrawn and guarded in her relationships.
   Unable to explain her feelings,
 Samantha sought help from art therapist Kathleen Lightman.
    Through drawing a series of self-images, Samantha relived the experience of being molested as a child, and learned to direct her anger at the person who had sexually abused her.
   "One of the advantages of art therapy is you can murder on paper," says Lightman. “It is not healthy to harbor feelings of hate and anger."
   Samantha’s first paintings of herself were small, dark and stiff.
   “They were also marked by vague and undefined boundaries because she had been invaded as a child,” says Lightman, 37, whose supervision of Samantha’s therapy was part of her year as an art therapist intern.
   By the end of therapy, Lightman says, Samantha had become more open and trusting.
   “Samantha’s case is a good example of how using images or symbols — a visual language rather than a verbal one — can lead to healing,” Lightman says.
    Art therapy, viewed as an esoteric activity of unknown value 15 years ago, has come into its own, says Kay Collis, who pioneered the practice in British Columbia.
    Collis, director of the art therapy program at the Victoria Mental Health Centre, says she is receiving more and more referrals from psychiatrists, psychologists and others in the mental health field.
   She says art therapy is a marriage of art and psychology, which “melds the two in a very exciting way.”
   “Art is a very powerful form of communication and it can be used to heal and release pain.”
   Collis was present at the founding of the American Art Therapy Association in Louisville, Ky., in 1969, and registered with the association in 1973.
   Because she was the only registered art therapist in British Columbia from 1973 to 1978, the provincial Health Ministry gave her a mandate to do in-service mental health training.
   Peter Schieldrop, a psychiatrist at the Victoria Mental Health Centre, says art therapy is particular-
 ly usefUl for those who find it difficult to talk about their problems.
   “It can also be very effective for those who use words as barriers,” 11 he says.
   Collis savs there are about 45 c professional members of the B.C. . Art Therapy Association, and in ” Greater Victoria, about 10 people ; are doing internships at an accepted agency or hospital.
   “Before their intern year, they must have completed their master's level of training through graduate level courses available at -all three B.C. universities and clin- r ical courses provided through mental health centres,” Collis says.
   She says the use of art therapy t-varies from case to case.
   “In many cases, a disturbed in- j dividual’s painting can become a window through which his submerged thoughts and feelings can be seen.
  “Many can relive traumatic experiences, view them from a new perspective and lead more in- i tegrated lives after the therapy.” a
   Collis says others, such as those ^ who suffer from psychotic illnesses, must be encouraged to fo- b cus on external reality rather than , retreat into their inner worlds.
Four charged with murder
 BURNABY, B.C. (CP) - Four 0 people have been charged with sec- . < ond-degree murder in the death of an Iranian man who sought refuge in Canada in 1983.
 The body of Behrad Balazadeh,
 22, was found in blackberry bushes in this Vancouver suburb Sept. 11.
 Sharon Kay Braker, 28, Diane ' Surinder Mangat, 23, James Gerald Porter, 28, and Dennis Joseph " Martel, 28, have been remanded to ' today on the charge.
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