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THE ERA DAVID HASKELL TERRY CARTE DONALD GEORGE Dont drop dropin dropin centre open seek an argument for keeping Newmarkets think of no more persuasive and reasonable approach than that taken by Dr John whose letter to the editor appears in this issue As one who was instrumental in starting the dropin centre Dr Denison is pleased with the projects success and candid about its shortcomings after less than two months of operation But he strikes the root of the controversy when he points out that the dropin centre has created a culture shock for many persons in Newmarket An occasional long haired dressed teenager on Main Street is one thing but putting large numbers of them under one roof on Street is quite another to the critics We are puzzled as to the basis of such criticism The dropin centre has not evolved into an opium den nor a cell for the ignition of violent revolution Despite its shortcomings it has fulfilled a dire need for the nonathletic teenagers of Newmarket it has provided a place to go to talk to listen to music to be together to converse on common problems To some people perhaps this isnt enough to justify its existence Its staff admits that more programs are needed and the centre be allowed to continue we would urge that attention be directed in this area Rut we I but believe Ihit objectors to the centre are reacting in very simplistic They see longhaired kids silling around they assume the young people are up to no good They ice a room thats not as as their own so they the kids of keeping a filthy place Could it be simply that the objections are not to the centre but to the nance speech and life style of its patrons If this is so then the blame cannot rest on the kids As Dr noted we are all in a sense parents of the younger generation If weve failed them we only their alienation by trying to suppress them with values they cannot accept We presume they can learn from us Hut perhaps we too can learn and grow through sincere efforts to understand and communicate with them The dropin centre can help in this area It should remain open Towards a prouder king The Provincial Government has in its hands a recommendation that a moratorium he placed on tax increases caused by residential property improvements And the government has also been urged to provide initiatives in assisting owners and tenants to improve their properties We hope the province will take immediate action on both these recommendations The recommendations were made by Matthew former Toronto Planning Commissioner in consultation with Department of Municipal Affairs officials In his report Mr hit the nail on the head regarding a longtime complaint from property owners when he said It is hard to encourage people to improve their property when they expect to be penalized for doing so The report continues The best way of counteracting this concern and providing clear encouragement to owners is to introduce an explicit exemption for improvements for a limited period of lime By taking immediate action on Mr reccommendations the Province would not only provide a spur for the lagging construction industry but would make the king much prouder of his castle THE Readers ERaT nil citizens or the winning two Awards in the ilian Weekly lie Is a must purl an award hi Itils category 1i ur speaks most highly of llio Id work the Era Is carrying I a 1 honorable mention for front it Important Scott Young When I was writing last week about the little filly foal that we had and lost I was thinking about a time on the day the filly was bom My wife and I and our small daughter were sitting out on he veranda that evening looking down the long eastward valley across farms and trees I was counting En my mind Do you know I said with a chuckle that we now have 10 animals in the family There was Big Tom the former police horse Tinker the mare Star the foal Lucifer and Chichi the cats four kittens of her most recent Inter and MacGregor the dog That makes 10 I said Our daughter piped up from where she was And one toad aid This was the first I had heard of the toad which she was fixing up with a home in a minnow bucket But anyway Okay and one toad I said inspecting the toad When seen one toad seen em all Not like the Whites And everybody laughed because what had happened to the Whites shouldnt happen to anybody Or should maybe You be the judge crossed by a black cat The Whites have a farm and a few hundred yards away is a pool where they swim One day the four of them they have two daughters and were sitting there when a little black cat minced out of the hushes The girls immediately called it and asked if they could keep it The father said they couldnt and he told me later that he had two reasons first they already had a cat and second he thought this little black one was about to have kittens any minute the little girls took some food hack for Cats arent so dumb After eating the food shrewdly watched where her benefactors went and followed them This meant that shortly thereafter kitten had to he carried back to the poo and many explanations made that she probably lived some- parent where nearby and would find her way back home here all right etc etc all the explanations that most parents are quite skilled at from long practice in similar situations her a good home Our friends then wont to bed thinking that the matter had been settled And it was until the following morning when their threeyearold daughter tan into their shouting I iddy Mummy Ill ickie back With her kittens They rushed into the little girls bedroom and there was the evidence Some time during the night nine divided that the farm whore she was might he okay for some cats hut she knew a better place She bad taken Crier By 111LL GAMBLE li id found bid found tin- litlle up into tin bed while ight there on the to got into the house a bedroom had climbed was still asleep and had produced four The Crisis Centre Ihr kids of were delighted The new when were licked hoy stood lung wash and Hut Blackie wouldnt be put off lha easily So the father responded to all the tions he was getting by driving Blackie to care for her new family and then made some coffee So now they have six cats and aim every conversation tiiev lake part in with Iriei and neighbors very quickly gels around to i or the other asking casually Say could possibly use a new kitten around your place the drug people ha Bill Smiley sugar and spice The but still wealthy flocked to the gieu lodge- and summer hotels St Andrews by the Sea Richelieu Jasper and waitress The moderately welltodo had a cottage perhaps a days travel from home with a back house an icebox with real ice in it coaloil lamps and a They lived quietly simply and went to bed with the whippoorwills in the park attended and watched parades In the evening they sat on the front jijreh gossip drinking lemonade and listening to the cries of their young playing run- sheeprun or redlight in the velvet dusk Things have changed The rich now fly to the Greek Islands or Japan or Rome where they can live exactly as they could at home hut with of whatever nationality assuring them that they are still the very rich The not- rich have deserted the big hotels and lodges most of which are on the of bankruptcy These places have in jje ration become a haven for convention- and clit tippet Die inhabitants have fled to Mexico Lily the where they can still escape the cittes a Mill il is now two or three or more hums of maniacal driving now hive iiidmir plumbing a refrigerator lights and everything from mime Home lie llui I articled one TV iliej seldom gel In lied Hie scene To And Hie they to Ill Hie left is a lie Tins lilanhrllihc rove ami cover two llioiMiiml miles Or lliev rent a on which is si ict Sllll it fill lVO Weeks Or llo they together anil in to a fishing lodge inix off the once reserved lor millionaires There are a lot of reasons foi the eh nig girl if Dr Denis Everybody lias a ear Highways are heller noils a faraway il and yon even get vacation mien ill ihe working picnicked And 1 in elm III The moderately welltodo still in many Its an excellent thing that when the Ontario Water Resources Commission elded to put a name on the f plant at the end of Ave they thought of Water Pollution Control Maul II they hadnt added that word water it could have caused a few upraised eyebrows for any visitors to the place in clouds of acrid both sides of the road stages of decompos through the grill and regulations it was mid still is be used solely for employees hut some sneaky the place for lis original purpose The gate Is wide open and the NO DUMPING made it possible for people with nothing I go almost anywhere The only people who are pom enough today not to travel are Hit young Mill bat stop belli With lillil they can the country on In nothing Im not knocking all litis I think why Hit el big trip for lb of Omaha has jus old friend and wit Europe And I mile trip to the lit an excellent set of buildings and wellkept grounds houses the York County Council offices but the Holland once oh eaters the gate After viewing the leading to the plant all con- mess leading Into the plan with pollution con- site this question must be trot ends raised This abandoned hat lite gravel road burled gar- winds Hi way through what dangerously close was the old garbage dump to vy rain tar Newmarket and it or general erosion must be sewage plant can and exterior is in bury arc also original the York count rysli their upper window he new area will also Included in plat he i thai place can be cleaned up or hurled before some pollution conscious Queens decides lo earn keep by visiting the place Hob Cunningham Great Lakes An yard will Theres something wrong somewhere and every one of those people has been telling how broke he is for years However mustnt he bitter because none of those people inn I ties re doing tieiil I should be envious 1 was a burned a card from my daughter Hie off two weeks ago to to Vancouver with a friend Her caul are jusl about to leave Cape ferry fur Seems a ein nitons mute lo Willi no money Well they may all Hunk I hoy re really eung Ihe world bill then me putty eXillie things right around here might slide out tonight to a tittle fresh vegetable road side stand four miles out of town pick up some and have a an he replies that he furnished best be patient confidant talk for How rent do von pity for the building Yon learn that York County Ho- jijlal donated the house until such time as the space is required for the centre for veiling liliig a l not a me of the Cut do that Aova Here there is no critic to frown no censor to intimidate And as the hours roll by- it begins to dawn on you that these young people know what they are talking about They have been there themselves yet show- no sign of that notorious smugness so familiar to reformed sinners This is because they do not con sider weakness a sin You can feel that they allergic to and know how to prevent it They are fresh from the physics labs and speak of amphetamines and hallucinogens as familiarly as their fathers spoke of ginfizzes and beerchaser More next week