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Page ID SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday May IB 1 Playing pinhall with arcade craze Continued page ruling In February that permitted The Garage to operate In a com mere in zone Problems were arising with youngsters going to the arcade across the street instead of to Sunday School as their parents expected them to do How ever Pastor Cooper said the church decided against appealing the towns We arent giving up but resigning ourselves to what was not really prop erly in our domain of responsibility he said People arc free to do wrong We are la ling morality Pastor Cooper said he hasnt received any fur I her complaints from par ents about their children playing hookey from Sun day School since the con came up In Feb ruary The children have been made to see the inferior value of such an amusement place he said ADDICTED There a danger of psy etiological enslavement to video gomes Pastor Coo per sold but the point Is debatable Sgt be lieves young people can become addicted to the machines going on to criminal activities to sup port their habit Mr Edwards and Mrs Oram think otherwise Video games arc addictive as an ice cream cone on a summer day Mr Edward said Everybody has some thing that they like to do If you got enough willpower you can slop Mrs Oram said It up to the individual Georgetown District High School viceprincipal Bill Tom says arcades area t really to blame for young people who choose to spend all their free lime and money there The fact is that the Individual hasn t enough self discipline to put prior ities In his life Mr Tom said Therell always be these temptations in life The pool halt was always a temptation In my youth and the arcades ore a temptation for young people today He said school officials arc responsible for what happens on school prem ises and not for what happens In the community unless what Is taking place outside becomes a severe problem Society has to decide if arcades present too much temptation for the average student to counteract Mr Tom said PLAY HOOKEY Asked If the video games room within walking dis tance of has created problems among students GDHS principal Don said he couldn 1 draw any connection be tween students playing hookey and the arcade It isnt an Issue be cause nobody has really studied it as an Issue Mr Tom said He said two parents have complained to him about the amount of money their children spend in arcades but there have been no com plaints about skipping classes Acton High School prln Betty Moore sold she hasnt been approached by parents about students playing hookey being late for classes or not doing their homework because of the arcade she said However the case is different for Actons Mc Smith Middle School principal John Simpson He told The Her aid that BO per cent his students use the nearby video games room The Garage We are having prob lems with kids who are using the arcade ho said We have had some stud banned from It be cause of persistent late ness arriving from lunch Bylaws control a national fad Although often com pored them penny ar cades today the dark base ment poolrooms of day Well lit clean and strictly supervised they arent the dens of vice which parents and women feared back in the 1950s Yet today many por and women In part still fcor them The majority of coin droppers are mate and nearly all complaints about the vld game rooms come from parents In response to those complaints the town of Ha lion Kills passed number of bylaws that went Into effect three weeks ago Arcades must be In a commercial zone at least 000 metres from or school proper They must be well lit and clean with noise and loitering controlled Bylaw enforcement off icer Jack Lusty said more than four video game machines in one site requires an arcade licence He said the town also set a limit of 30 machines for any one site At a twoday municip al conference the past weekend in Colling wood Halton Hills Mayor Pete said the town of Orange vilte sugg limiting video game room hours of operation from 9am to4pm and that youth under lfi not be allowed in unless accom panied by an adult Although the resolution passed Mayor said he t support it You can pass all the bylaws you want to but In all fairness theyre only as good as the paper they re written on he said Orangevllle has had a terrible time with those video machines Mayor Pomerov said he opposed the resolution be cause putting an age re striction on clientele is against the newly passed federal charter of rights Arcades will be here for awhile he said Then they II quietly calm down and not be used much Its a fad He said he expects small stores in Halton Hills will put in video machines as supplement ary fund raisers until the video craze dies down Municipalities ore con cerned about the video game arcades that are springing up all over Controller Esther Shin said the psychologists would all have different opinions and Alderman Mike Foster said video games will soon pass from fashion Its a Tad It Isnt a national oris is he said Come to OXBOW o o s LEASING A CAR OH TRUCK GIVE US A TRY CLUE letter word for travel ANSWER R00S Travel Agency A IMIOKl IO N tv The Volvo Specialist Y Expert Repairs To All Imports fir Domestics CROSSWORD CORNER Crossword Puzzle Answer on Page C7 See the All New KC RYDERS TV DISTINCTIVE WEDDING INVITATIONS the HERALD audi til Your 1 Stop Store far Knitting and Crochet Supplies Rug Hooking Kilt Needlepoint and Supplies Street Grade are more often seen at the Arcade than Crude or students Money earned through babysitting or from doing chorea is spent on the machines along with Allowance money from parents Mr Simp son said Only In one cess was a youth caught Healing In order to money for the video games Mr Sim said Tackling problems blamed whether justly or unjustly on the arcades are not only parents and administrators but also arcade owners Halloo Hills has a un ique system of cooperat ion between arcade own era and parents and prin cipals Owners eager to have community approval for their business try to meet the requests of these two groups We do have parents more or less blaming us for their children spending too much money but I say its up to the parents to keep their own reins on their children Mrs Oram a mother of five said She said when parents ask her to keep their child out of her arcade she agrees to do so LUNCH HOUR If a child is there past the lunch hour hes put out Mr said firmly And the place Is usually cleared between lunch times In act wo parents honed me and asked me my cooperation I will back the parents up Mr Edwards said Smoking and swearing arent allowed In his llihmcnl he said Mrs Oram doesn have such rules at Games People Play but she operates her business on a system of respect giving it to omers and expecting It In I enjoy most of the kids that come In A lot of them tell mc their problems she said None of the school ad minlstrators had any complaints about men I Ion or cooperation difficulties with he arcade The owner of The Car- age has been most cooper ative us They get the kids out and coll us about once a month to see if there are any problems Mr Simpson said Bylaw enforcement off icer Jack Lusty called the owners very responsible people High in their praises parents and the schools appreciate the helping hand the arcade owners extend So for the blows are being borne on he chin Parents will let us know if thcings go beyond an acceptable limit WE ARE NOW LICENCED Lunclwon I ion our JOIN US FOR OUR PANCAKE BRUNCH Trm nam Glen mil Plan a trip to the relaxing of Glen this Victoria Day weekend Gift ideas to every member of your famil await you at the Glen Gift Come in and help us celebrate Sec the many unique and Hems attractively priced ind ideal for those special occasions in the Glen Gift iTRILl Telephone llwy Main SI Exclusively Canadian arts and crafts poller pointings candles lamps nil plaques fin rufk nils cards Jewellery and much more open am TUESDAY thru SATURDAY SUNDAYS dosed MONDAYS except on the IMORVAL 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