NGRTH SHORE TEENS
Teaching sharpens leadership s

THE leadership potential of North Shore teens
can be developed and utilized in teaching recre-
ation skills to elementary school children.

Dawn Stratton; 17, and
Stewart Brears, 16, both
students at Argyle Secondary
School were members of the
North Shore YMCA's
Leadership Development

Program.

The program is designed
for youth 12-18 in grades 7-
12 who would fike to
develop skills in teaching,
communication, working

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with groups and building on
the recreation skills they
already have. The program
then encourages the partici-
pants to put the skills learn-
ed to work through instruc-
ting or assisting with activi-
ties the YMCA offers for
young children: basketball,
gymnastics, racquetball,

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dance, camping and crafts.

Stewart Brears, in his
third year of the Leadership
Program is currently
assisting with a basketball
course for third and fourth
graders.

“IT am developing my
leadership skills and at the
same time having fun and

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meeting new friends,"’ says
Brears of the program, ‘‘we
also go on a lot of outtrips
to different places.’’

Dawn Stratton teaches
two gymnastics classes at
Frorame Elementary School
on Friday afternoon.

Both Brears and Stratton
worked for the YMCA last

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summer as counsellors for
the summer daycamp pro-
gram. Each week they were
responsible for a group of
about eight children.

For information about the
Leadership Development
Program offered in both
North and West Vancouver,
contact 926- 5541.° ~

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