Rubber body illusion Break dancing comes alive at St Francis By TIMBERS Herald Break dancing has spread from the back streets of New York to the classrooms at St Francis ate school They meet after school in an empty classroom about eight In number looking like the junior members of the cast from Fame They wear combat fat painters hats and hockey sweaters They come armed with a ghetto blaster a full arsenal of funk music HerbieHan cock Michael Jackson Run DMC and Grand Master Flash They do the worm the backwards moon walk the spin the shuffle the wave the wall and the gum boll Nap Benito is the main man Age grade seven Nap brought break dancing to St Francis He knows the latest moves he learns them from his cousins in Hamilton Nap is the best dancer and the leader Break dancing is a combination of acrobat les and ballet Benito explains to an enquiring reporter It started In New York where the gang have break ing contests instead of is Is a complete Individ fighting tiprovhed Fourteen yearold Geoff Tyler la perhaps the king of break dan in Georgetown He dances with the seven Hon grabbing form of personal expression Basically you move to the music That might Involve moving your body In a rigid robot School of the Arts ing performed his spec laity recently a local fashion snow I Break dancing is mode up of every form or dance he explains You can use mod made of rubber It can be throwing yourself to the floor spinning around like a op all the while kicking your legs out like mad Russian 11 can be as Tyler any em dance ballet the you want it to be martial arts and mime There Is no or like the illusion that wrong way Tyler it creates that your says are differ body is rubber The cntslyles steps look Incredibly to make Ids of moves complicated until you smooth and fast learn them and realize MUST RAT they You pretty well have What break dancing to be a first rate ham to Breakdancing by Geoffrey Tyler the fashions In downtown Georgetown Mr Tyler provided several Interest to the fashion show to money for the Georgetown and District Memorial Hospital really get into it Tyler admits At school dances some of the guys start break dancing and nut a big ring forms around them Tyler Some peo ple think it stupid but who cares Others can see the Illusion it cre ates and they like It Rob at 13 the oldest member of the St Francis club knows whereof Tyler speaks He admits to having been the point of ridi cule for his latest pas A lot of people wilt make fun of you he says They think its strange that you like dancing or that you must be hooked on funk music That doesn I bug me though Grade six pupil Scan takes a point of view It s like exercise and it fun he says SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday April It Chant offers region chance for sharing waste site findings ByANIPEDERIAN Herald staff An offer to collaborate with the Ontario Waste Management Corpora tian was suspiciously sniffed at by regional councillors last week Both the region and the Ontario Waste Man Corporation are Independently eye ing the same sites for their wastes As Donald Chant cor Duration president not last Wednesday they share a common Inter est In two Milton sites although their site bou and uses are different Noting that the requir cd testing will cost St million Chant offer to share leal data collected by the Ontario Waste Man Corporation with the region free We have to do our testing regardless he told councillors You re looking for the same features as we are so it s not surprising that we end up with the same sites The Ontario Waste Management Corpora tion la looking for a safe site for Ontario has wastes whereas the region is looking for a landfill site for its ever accumulating gar Donald Chant Wed like to estab lish formal ties of com munlcatlon with the re- flon doubling up on sites we have common Interest in Chant said If the region wished we re prepared to pay for what we need and It may reduce the cost to the region terms of the studies required All findings 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