tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-369248952011-12-31T21:34:12.201-06:00A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone HoedelSimone Hoedelhttps://profiles.google.com/112830021308219133914noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36924895.post-1165808034420947312006-12-10T21:31:00.000-06:002006-12-10T21:33:54.426-06:00

by Simone Hoedel, published Winter 2004Collins Okeny is resting with his family in his Yorkton home, relaxed and at ease. Although he now works as a blaster at Leon's Manufacturing Company in Yorkton, he reflects that only a few years ago, he and his family had escaped a harrowing ordeal in their native Sudan.He and his family have come a long way since leaving Sudan in 1998. A member of the

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By SIMONE HOEDEL (published in the Voice, Fall 1993)It's Thanksgiving on the downtown east side in Vancouver. On this sunny day, street people are lined up on Cordova Street around the block outside the Union Gospel Mission, near Oppenheimer Park.They're here for the food: a hot turkey dinner with dressing, mashed potatoes, carrots, gravy, pumpkin pie and coffee.But first, each group of one

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By Simone Hoedel (published in the Prairie Messenger Oct. 23, 1995)REGINA--When Dominican Sisters Juliana and Elizabeth Barilla were growing up in the '20s and '30s on a farm north of Grayson, Sask., they spoke their parents' native Hungarian language. In fact, they were forbidden to speak English at home.Many years later they were grateful for it. Last year they were approached by Sister

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by Simone Hoedel(published November 1994 in the Prairie Dog)Five years ago they were pumped up to believe they were the ultimate in health care."Now," says nursing home worker Charlene Crosby, "they're throwing us out the window."Crosby, a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), is one of almost 60 CUPE members at Santa Maria Nursing Home in southwest Regina affected by layoffs which went into effect Oct

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By SIMONE HOEDELpublished in Fall/Winter 1993An Indo-Canadian woman rises to her feet in the Langara faculty lounge to tell a group of approximately 30 South Asian women how her husband refuses to acknowledge her child simply because she is a girl.The woman is emotional as she tells her listeners about the humiliation she now faces as a wife and mother.'We used to be an example of a model

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By SIMONE HOEDEL(published July 1996 in BC Catholic)People spill out of the packed St. Paul's Church on East Cordova Street and file around the corner into the basement lunchroom of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement. There the sisters and Franciscan monks in their brown habits and Knights of Columbus in full regalia chat with families, children, elderly people and the poor of Vancouver's

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by Simone Hoedel Video piece which aired September 29, 1997, for Plugged In Vancouver, on Rogers Cable Simone Hoedel (Voiceover):Most of these houses in Vancouver's West End were built during Vancouver's first boom-time, between 1888 and 1912. The block was named Mole Hill in honour of the site's first residents, Henry and Elizabeth Mole.Linda Diano lives in one of these homes and spoke on behalf

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Interview by Simone Hoedel (from the Prairie Messenger, Sept. 11, 1995)In an interview last year with Archbishop Exner, Simone Hoedel asked for his views on the problem of sexual abuse within the church and societyExner: For two years I was a member of a committee that produced two reports, the first called From Pain to Hope and the second called Breach of Trust, Breach of Faith. The second

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by Simone Hoedel(written and published October, 1993 in the Voice newspaper)East Timor has been called Indonesia's killing fields.International human rights organizations have reported that since Indonesia's invasion of the small island just off Australia's north coast in 1975, more than 200,000 people have been killed in a brutal campaign of oppression and counterinsurgency. Li-Lien Gibbons of

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by Simone HoedelVideo piece which aired May 26, 1997, for Plugged In Vancouver, on Rogers Cable Voiceover (Simone Hoedel)Herbs may be the medicine of the twenty-first century. More and more people are using herbs to boost their health. But Health Canada wants to regulate herbs, restricting some herbs from sale, and reclassifying many as drugs. And that has herbalists fighting mad. Elaine Stevens,

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