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Only four per cent
goes to Smithrite

LEN REMPEL of
Smitherite Disposal has
a message for North
Vancouver City
residents: Don’t blame
the company for an 11
per cent increase in gar-
bage disposal rates.

The increase was approved
by North Van City council

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Monday and was reported in
Wednesday's News.

That article correctly
reported that the contract for
garbage disposal between the
city and Smithrite allows for
the increase but did not make
clear that the full [1 per cent
will not go to the company.

The increase Smithrite will
receive for its contract work

with the city 1s only four per
cent, with the rest of the in-
crease going to pay for in-
creasé costs of dealing with
North Shore garbage

The four per cent increase
inthe pnce paid Smithrite for
its garbage pick up service is
an annual increase based on a
percentage of the increase in
the cost of living.

AS5 - Sunday, March 11, 1984 - North Shore News

LOWER LONSDALE

Dealing with

street kids

THERE ARE as many as 100 kids on the Lower
Lonsdale streets on any given night, hanging out
and, in the words of community worker Ira Ap-
plebaum, looking for ways to ‘‘shake up the dead

time.’

By MARK HAMILTON

For the past two and a hatf
months there’s been someone
else on those streets — a
single streetworker trying to
deal with the kids.

Applebaum, who works
out of Queen Mary Com-
munity School, ts reluctant to
talk about too many details
of that work. The street-
worker, he says, is still in the
process of making contact
with youths on the street and
earning their trust.

There is, too, a tinge of
fear on the streets, stemming
from an incident two weeks
ago when two police officers
were attacked while in-
vestigating a report of
vandalism.

But Applebaum does talk
about what’s behind the pro-
gram and what he hopes to
accomplish.

‘One of the things we are
hoping to do is offer some
positive leisure activities (for
the kids),’’ Applebaum says.
**We want to develop, along
with other services, more op-
portunities for kids in this
neighborhood. And we want
to establish the value of the
need for this service on a con-
tinuing, full-time, permanent
basis.’’

Applebaum, drawing on
his seven years as a street-
worker in Vancouver’s east
end, traces the problems
related to youths wandering
the street to two factors —
boredom and the desire to ex-
plore beyond the groups and
institutions that served them
in childhood.

Boredom, he says, is
**dead time’’. Anything that
changes that is ‘‘shaking up
the dead time’’.

The problem, he says, is a
number of youths are shak-
ing up thei dead time with
drugs, alcohol and things like
vandalism.

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What’s needed in the place
of those temptations are
positive leisure activities that
provide an outlet for energy
and an oppor-unity for ,the
kids to learn abut
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‘*You want,”’ he says, ‘‘to
be able to offer the kids
significant engagements.’’

The lone streetworker is
supported by an advisory
board that includes everyone
from parents to police, to
provide a back-up service.

‘““We’ve tried to. get
representatives of every ser-
vice that deals with youth,’’
says Applebaum, who adds
that one goal of the commit-
tee is to change institutional
attitudes about youth and
youth’s attitudes about in-
stitutions such as the police.

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