A $5,000 donation from the
West Vancouver Kiwanis
Club has set the wheels in
motion to upgrade West
Vancouver’s YMCA _ In-
glewood Youth Centre
drop-in facility.

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

West Vancouver municipality,
the YMCA and local service clubs
have combined energies to fund
the project.

Said West Vancouver — social
planner Marilyn Middlemass,
“The Yo is incorporating its own
fundraising effort for the centre as
well — I dike to see those kinds of
conneciions made in) the com-
munity. They've been extremely
supportive of Chris (youthworker
Chris Fuoco) and his program.”

A community fundraising cam-
paign is under way to secure
$45,000, and the municipality is
prepared to pitch in an additional
$45,000.

improvements to the drop-in
facility, operated as Friday's for
the past four years, would include
interior renovations and the pur-
chase of new equipment.

The centre is now available for
teen use three evenings per week,
but the improved drop-in centre
would operate Tuesday through
Saturday for just over 38 hours a
week.

The facility would require one
full-time centre coordinator and
one half-time supervisor.

The centre is envisioned as a
place to play games, sports, par-
ticipate in counselling, plan
outings or just plain hang out.

The objectives, according to a
West Vancouver social planning
report, are:
°To provide a safe, clean,
welcoming environment for West

WV groups comb

LARRY COLES, chairman of the West Vancouver Kiwanis Club youth committee (right) hands over $5,000 to Nancy Forrest (centre),
executive director of the West Vancouver YMCA, and West Vancouver outreach youth worker Chris Fuoco (left). The money will heip

Pay for improvements to the Inglewood youth drop-in centre.

Vancouver teens (ages 12 to 19) as
an alternative to hanging our on
the streets or clsewhere...’’;

*To provide a variety of experi-
ences aimed at promoting self-
esteem and positive values;

*To promote a sense of belong-
ing and ownership by enabling

teens to take responsibility for
decisions made in erecrating the
centre,

Meanwhile, West Vancouver
council is considering the funding
for two full-time youth workers to
supervise the operation of the In-
glewood centre and a second teen

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