out

TEENS HAD their say at recent junior
council meetings held at the regular
meetings of West Vancouver and North
Vancouver District.

“Mayors” and “‘aldermen”’ fron local
high schools were firm -n putting their
views across to the staff of the various
municipal departments responsible for
such issues as park use, recreation and
social planning.

West Vancouver Parks Director Kevin
Pike was disappointed that the junior
aldermen chose to cut funding for
maintenance of the flower beds in the
streets of West Van, but the students
decided that maintaining a lifeguard at
Eagle Harbour Beach and not reducing
West Vancouver Police Department
clerical staff were more important.

And if the junior council members had
their way, golfers at the Gleneagles golf
course would be facing fee increases to
help pay for other municipal programs.

in North Vancouver, major issues ad-
dressed by the junior council were

Reporter’s

! SPENT about 20 minutes at the April
22 council listening to the views of the
young adults who had just finished
representing their peers so ably at North
Vancouver District's Council table.
(came away convinced that the solu-
tion to many of the problems that they
barely had time to outline to counc#
tests in their own capable hands rather

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This week's question:

Are $8 tickez prices
discouraging you
from going to the
movies?

YES or NO, call

$80-KIDS

The news has sunk in
by now. Some theatre
tickets cost $8. Add that
to the cost of popcorn,
and an evening at the
cinema is not cheap
entertairiment.

Zap! wants to know:
have higher ticket prices
discouraged you from go-
ing to the movies as
often? What do you do
instead?

Cail in to the Zap!
hotline (980-KIDS) by
Monday morning to
register your opinion.

tecreational opportunities. the
establishments of a permanent youth
council and funding to help shelter
runaway teens.

According to North Vancouver District
social planner Rupert Downing, local
youth workers are alarmed at the increas-
ed number of runaways. and said that
one worker alone was dealing with 16
cases.

Concerns were also raised about mak-
ing youth programs and darices more ap-
pealing to young people and more
accessible,

Commented Ald. Zenna Pazdzierski of
Windsor Secondary, “Time limits on
recreation centre activities are inap-
propriate. Ten or 10:30 p.m. is too early
io finish an activity if it is to be the focus
of the evening.”

The junior council exercise was part
of last week's hocal Governmerit
Awarenesss Week, which also featured
events such as a day-long open house
at the North Vancouver City municipal
hall.

reflections

By Martin Millerchip
Contributing Writer

IN HIS other life, Junior
Mayor Clayton Jones is a
student at Handsworth Sec-
ondary School.

than the hands of politicians and ad-
ministrators who are trained to know
better.

See Jr. council page 49

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