A28 - Wednesday, April 4, 1984 - North Shore News

LYNN VALLEY YOUTHS

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It’s tough to change an image

SHRUGGING OFF an old image is often a losing
battle. No matter what you do — or don’t do —
people still manage to attach a tiine-worn label.

By LOUISE TURNER

Kiya, a grade 11 student at
Argyle Secondary in Lynn
Valley, thinks the picture
some people have about
Lynn Valley youth is too
black and white.

‘““Maybe 10 years ago it
was bad,”’ says Kiya. He feels
the situation m Lynn Valley
has much improved since
then, however.

A fnend of Kiya’s, Mike
(not his real name), has lived
in a oumber of communities
and when he compares some
of them to Lynn Valley,
home looks lke a garden
party.

‘“*No community 145
perfect,’ Mike says, ‘‘you
always have some squeaky
wheels,"’ but he feels the area
ts more family onmented than
some.

But, Mike says, when some

people see a teenager in a
jean jacket, a ‘Mac’ or
Daytons. (boots), they still
assume he’s knee-deep in
trouble.

“‘Ht all bowls down to your
appearance." he conctudes.

Kiya, Mike and ther
frends used to meet regularly
at one or two of the
restaurants in the area A pic-
ture that appeared recently in
the North Shore News of a
group of them outside one of
these establishments, umpled
they were ‘‘waiting around
for something to happen "’

Mike who was not tn the
picture, spoke generally of
the practice. ‘“‘l may be
waiting,”’ he said, ‘*but [I’m
waiting to talk to my
fnends."'

Kiya adds that the picture
caused him some problems
because certain people were
quick to jump to conclusions

The two concur that the
reason a lot of time 1s spent
having coffee in restaurants,
is that there are ao limited
number of diversions in 1 ynn
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Winter Club, orf going
skating at Karen Magnussen
Arena are about the extent of
the local socal attracuions

they say
They point to other com-
munities having clubs) or

places for younger people to
go. but feel that Lynn Valley
is somehow lacking. Occa-
sionally a group of them will
go to the Paradise Club, a
place similar to the Soft Rock

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group together to watch
videos or just talk. But
they've got to travel to Van-
couver to enjoy them.
Interested in sports, Kiyva’s
eyes light up at the thought of
having a place to play basket-

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ball on a casual basis While
they haven’t actually ap-
proached their school or the
school board to see about
gelling the use of a gym and
some equipment, they feel
they would be turned down
by way of its being too costly

“One thing | hate,’’ Kiva

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admits, ‘“‘is just standing
around doing nothing.’’
When it comes right down to
it, he’d rather stay at home
than spend time sifting
around 1n a restaurant

**But,’” he adds, ‘‘vou can
only watch so much
television.’

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