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By Dalondo MoultrieThe Herald-Zeitung

It happens everywhere and to all different types of people, even here and even to our neighbors.

There is help for victims of sexual assault and rep-resentatives of the Crisis Center of Comal County want everyone to know how to spot it and ways to prevent it.

“It’s happening in front of us (in Comal County),” said Stacy Hill, CCCC ex-ecutive director. “It’s hap-pening here.”

April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Crisis Center workers spent the month educating people about sexual assault and bringing together people and entities to help eradi-cate it.

According to informa-tion on the crisis center’s website: Sexual Assault is an act that stems from ag-gression, rage entitlement and the determination to exercise power and sexual control over someone else. Sexual Assault happens to anyone, regardless of age, race, class, sexual orienta-tion, or gender.

Raising awareness means educating people. That’s what she and mem-bers of her staff always do and put a heightened fo-cus on doing during the month of April, Hill said.

She said they spent time in the community, spear-heading some events, and participating in gatherings of large numbers of peo-ple to let people of Comal County know that the cri-sis center is here and avail-able.

Maybe knowing there is a place to get help, like the CCCC, will help people come forward more often to report sexual assault, Hill said.

“What’s really sad with sexual assault is a lot of people are afraid to report

it because of the stigma that is still associated with it,” she said. “There are a lot of misconceptions about sex-ual assault like that it’s a stranger that jumps out of a bush. No. That’s not how it happens.”

Briana Saltis, Crisis Cen-ter of Comal County pro-gram director, said 90 per-cent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by someone known to the victim.

She said the center had helped about 40 people who needed sexual assault forensic exams between August and the end of March.

Saltis said awareness and information are not just for victims but also for the people who help them. This month, CCCC pro-vided its volunteers with sexual assault training for the first time.

Saltis said the training provides volunteers a 30-hour classroom certifica-tion and allows them the ability to respond and as-sist victims of alleged sex-ual assault.

“This will allow volun-teers to be able to go out to a sexual assault call when the police or hospital calls the center, and the volun-teer can offer services, sup-port, and sit in the forensic exam with the victim,” she said. “During the training, we went over a lot of differ-ent topics regarding sex-ual assault. They learned about rape culture and victim blaming, different types of emotional effects that victims go through, responses to sexual assault,

Seoul: N. Korea fails in missile test-fire near its capital

By Robin BlackburnThe Herald-Zeitung

There’s some new life along the Old Channel of the Comal River, now that volunteers helped put in some native plants to help prevent soil erosion.

Mark Enders, watershed program manager for the city of New Braunfels, said the project is part of the Ed-wards Aquifer Habitat Con-servation Plan. On Thursday, volunteers from the Gua-dalupe-Blanco River Au-thority and the Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Tex-as gathered at a stretch of the Old Channel near the Landa Golf Course Clubhouse to put some native plants along the banks. Enders said the city purchased about half of the plants through the Habitat Conservation Plan and the Lindheimer Chapter donat-ed the other half, or about 75 plants.

“It’s a good collaborative event,” Enders said. “And we’re happy to have the help.”

The Habitat Conservation

Photos by LAURA McKENZIE | Herald-ZeitungVolunteer Carrie Kasnicka plants a mountain laurel near the banks of the old channel of the Comal River on Friday.

PLANTING THE FUTURE

Native river

GBRA Deputy General Manager Darrell Nichols waters newly planted native plants while volunteering on Friday

Conservation groups plant indigenous vegetation to protect river bank

Local crisis center offers victims help

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By Foster Klug and Kim Tong-HyungAssociated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)

— A North Korean mid-range

ballistic missile apparently

failed shortly after launch Sat-

urday, South Korea and the United States said, the second such test-fire flop in recent weeks but a clear message of defiance as a U.S. supercarrier conducts drills in nearby wa-ters.

North Korean ballistic mis-sile tests are banned by the United Nations because they’re seen as part of the North’s push for a nuclear-tipped mis-sile that can strike the U.S. mainland. The latest test came

as U.S. officials pivoted from a hard line to diplomacy at the U.N. in an effort to address what may be Washington’s most pressing foreign policy challenge.

President Donald Trump

said on Twitter, “North Korea disrespected the wishes of Chi-na & its highly respected Presi-dent when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today.

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As sexual assault awareness month comes to an end, victims still suffer

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laws and reporting op-tions, sexual assault forensic examinations, and compassion when serving these victims and survivors.”

Volunteers are avail-able during the center’s hours of operation, which means always.

“These people are giving their time out of the kindness of their hearts to be able to

support these victims

during their time in

crisis,” Saltis said. “We

respond to calls from

all of Comal County

and sometimes other

counties when need-

ed.”

Information about

the CCCC and what it

does to help fight sexu-

al assault can be found

on the center’s Face-

book page or its web

site, www.ccccnbtx.

org.

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Plan, or HCP, has been in the works for about two years, Enders said. Other steps taken to protect and preserve the Old Chan-nel include the removal of non-native aquatic vege-tation and the construc-tion of walls to prevent bank erosion. The project is meant to improve the habitat of the endangered Fountain Darter, a fish found in the Comal Springs and San Marcos Springs aquatic ecosystems.

Deedy Wright of the Lindheimer Chapter said the Native Plant Society was happy to help. She said the plants the chapter do-nated were left over from the native plant sale at Folk Fest a few weeks ago.

“We just sent Mark a list and asked, ‘What do you want?’” Wright said.

Among the plants that have found new homes along the Old Channel are some native garlic, skullcap and Eve’s Necklace.

The bank stabilization project along the Old Channel included the re-moval of non-native plants and trees, Enders said. Ac-cording to the HCP, native species are to be planted along the banks of the Old Channel for 2 miles below the bank stabilization site.

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ABOVE: Lee Gudgell, right, and Wilbert Freeman work on planting native plants near the clubhouse at the Landa Park Golf Course at Comal Springs on Friday. BELOW RIGHT: Volunteer Kylie Gudgell digs a hole for a turk’s cap plant on Friday. BELOW LEFT: Celeste Hernandez holds a sage plant on Friday as volunteers work to prevent riverbank erosion by planting native plants. BOTTOM LEFT: Kelsey Krueger, watershed inspector for the City of New Braunfels, carries native plants along the old channel of the Comal River on Friday.