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ifttkblbjlfflgjjgjfe- st stouffville mmssmsbsssbs s no reason for comments about youth t here is plenty to do for a teenagers in whitchurchstoufiville why just look around you there are plenty of orga nized activities and sports teens are always saying there is nothing to do it is hard to believe these were comments made in open council last week more study is required in assessing the need for a youth cenfere they said sixteen cars with tires slashed in four locations is not reason enough one hundred teens ready to do battle in a local park is not reasorienough girls assaulted in the park is hot reason enough crimes committed by young people even on school property is not reason enough teenagers killed in traffic accidents is not reason enough there is no excuse for councils comments politicians ignoring youth of stouffville local politicians are ignoring a cry for help from whitchurch- stouffville teenagers thats what it sounded like in council chambers last week any way officials want to see a copy of the survey sent to area students in grades 710 before they make any decisions about whether the town needs a youth centre they want to tour other facilities that apparently offer the very activities that teens are screaming for they want more behindthescenes study the town needs a youth centre wake up guys the young people in this commu nity have spoken they collectively told your staff in a questionnaire that they want and need a place to go a place for youth survey results prove that at least 727 teenagers desperately want something to do that will keep them and their friends off the street the youth of this town are crying out for your support and all you can say is you want more information ward 6 councillor ken prentice told officials he visited the barn a dropin centre for teens run by the stouffville pentecostal church but most teens just wouldnt feel comfortable going there its not theirs its not public property because it belongs to the church its not something they created and its not intended to serve the mass general public great as it is for some this just isnt the place for a public youth centre prentice also chuckled that adults are also invited to the bam and isnt that just jimdandy but thats exactly what the youths dont want more adults around to organize their time they can get that at home or in their hockey baseball ballet figure skating soc cer or singing clubs lets give them a building that is all theirs a place they can go and do their own thing orjust do nothing there would be some sort of supervision of course theyre not asking for a newly- constructed building but a place thats perhaps not used to its full potential now i dont know how long ago it was that council members were teens but for me its been just more than a decade there cant be that much thats changed since then i grew up in a smaller town than stouf fville and it is frustrating and iso lating with nothing to do you always wish you lived where the action is and you walk around feeling bored and wonder why you have to live in deadsville stouffville doesnt have a theatre or an arcade or a mall with a food court so everyone can meet theres nowhere teens can go and just be together the youth in this town deserve some recognition and if any are reading this you should let your local council know it i guess council figures teens arent old enough to vote yet stouffville tribune publisher editorinchief editor patricia pappas jo ann stevenson andrew mair advertising director business manager promotionsdistribution mgr operations manager debra weller vivian oneil jennifer hutt pam nichols staff reporters tracy kibble jute caspersen roger belgravo photographers sjoerd witieveen steve somerville real estate joan marshman classified doreen deacon debbie amundson uxbrkjge retail sales joan marshman doreen deacon heather hill gibson uxbridge dlstribii- tlonaitene maddock canadian publications mail sales product agreement 439010 published every wednesday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p 1m3 tel 2942200 the stouffville tribune published every wednesday at 6244 main st stouffville is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes aaxplckerlng news advertiser aurora banner barrfe advance brampton guardian burlington post colllngwood connection etoblcoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week undsay this week markham economist sun midland express milton canadian champion mlsslssauga news newmarket era banner north york mirror northumberland news oakvllie beaver orlilla today oshawa- whltby this week peterborough this week richmond hiiithomhluvaughan liberal scarbor ough mirror and uxbridge tribune national sales representative metroland corporate sales 4931300 6402100 6405477 fax the name game can be confusing way back when i married the old man women were merrily casting the family name into the bin and taking on that of their spouse with- outso much as a word to their ther apist having a doublebarrelled moniker meant you were posh rather than assertive those of the upper classes often tended to have names like fotheringtonsmythe or in the case of one girl at the secre tarial school for young ladies i had the misfortune to attend tweedie- williams chloe tweediewilliams was not married her mother did not get hold of her surname and attach it to that of mr williams or mr tweed- ie the tweediewilliams were pretty upmarket probably rolling in inheritances and much posher than my family admittedly not a diffi cult achievement my name may not have been kates corne ters in fact i got married and swapped it for another ten letter word and my maternal granny also had ten letters in her family name im delighted that i was born too soon to consider spurning my hus bands name or attaching it to mine which would have saddled me with kate macalaster- gilderdale imagine having to spell that lot out every time you left a message for someone and imagine filling out forms for everything from a drivers licence to a passport its hard enough to find an official form which has sibmaoaj impressive but it was long ten let- 6 enough of those little boxes to accommodate stouffville ontario without the added trauma of a 21 character surname it seems to me that the best way to overcome the question of family names is to marry somebody with the same one this would have been tricky for me of course but it might have gone a long way towards solving the problem of overpopulation one friend of mine actually did manage to fall in love with and marry a young woman whose fami ly name matched his own and whose name will you use after youre married i inquired wittily well be the robertsonrobert sons of course he said one cant help wondering what will happen when all this equality hits the next generation but at least ill have a legitimate excuse for saying im terribly sorry ive completely 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