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The Acton Free Press Wednesday March Youth Services names board of directors BILL TOM newlyelected chairman of the Board of Directors of Halton Youth Services Network chats with Deb and Sue two young people from Acton who attended the annual meeting Listen to youth YSN speaker advises Milton resident BUI Tom has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors for Services Network Hallon Region Mr Tom is a vice principal at Georgetown High School He was viceprincipal at Milton High School for several years is a regionwide organ liation whose primary purposes are to provide a vehicle of communication for and among youth youth serving agencies and the public and to take pari In determining the needs of youth The annual meeting last week marked its entry into Ha second year of operations Other residents of the northern part of the region serving on member board are Irene Harrison of Milton and Ann Pickering Marilyn Searjennston and Pat Mason of Hills Calton vice of Baldwin School in Milton is a new member the board was well The constitution colli Youth Servicer Network t exactly reach out and grab like a Yamaha or a Kawasaki said community psychiatry consultant McLean in challenging members to find ways of reaching youth Good marketing technique is to look at the most resistant population Mr McLean said What will turn kids on will turn on kids in the middle Mr McLean a member of the faculty of psychiatry it and consultant it falgar Hospital as facilitator for the planning portion of annua meeting Mr McLean advised to listen to the ideas youth have for solving youth prob lems Get the experience and wisdom of adults pushed to the side for awhile and let the enthusiasm energy and miracleworking kids tike Given this kind of op portunity youth In the end of Hamilton ended up forming their own putting out a newspaper finding work for people and setting up training programs dents of Wesley House a Hamilton group home of which Mr McLean was onto director run the home Two hip- pen that theoretically are assumed to be impossible he said to the challenge adult members listened while young people in the audience brought cut their ideas for re idling tin youth kids on drugs Ihose there anil those he r und after sei Mil to tit late show Hie ide put forth i reeon mend for personal If vou put up posters In the ithool it aim st like to rip them down a student the were somel mis use to set fires in the ste is Tongue in cheek director Peter pie duly noted the need for flammable posters Kids to in ills to relax and have a good time so look it posters if the were put up in the malls mother com mooted whit i third advised Mr Gillespie to mix with Planners told Halton plan too restrictive proposed official plan is too rigid and exercises too much control over land In Nassagaweya regional planners were told during a meeting in Wednesday night Many of the approximately people complained that the plan was far too rcslric live for the rural resident and yet provided a large de gree of protection for the aggregate industry Maurice Newton wondered how there could every be any local autonomy He noted the area councils have the responsibility for zoning but the zoning restrictions must comply with the local official plan and the local official plan must comply with the re gional official plan Planning Director Ed Cum mlng noted the local planners and regional representatives had Input into the regional plan The thrust of the plan is to keep the rural areas rural and to urban One man received cheers from Ihe crowd when he said the province is on the verge of an employment crisis and to combat lhat people in agawcya would like the op portunity for some dcvclop- If you were to put overlays on map showing the restric tions of various government bodies you t hove one square foot of land that isn under controls What we have here Is uncontrolled reslric tlons he said Former Ontario Cabinet Minister John said the Niagara Escarpment Commission master plan would bring controls over land to a higher degree any plan ever before He said next to it the region plan the most Stringent control over private property He criticized the plan for saying what can t be done but not what can be done He said residential development hidden among the trees hurts no one anil is a benefit lo the township He objected the restrictions on development in the rural area of the region hat limit building to lots per year owns large tracts of land in Milton Councillor Brian Penman said the frustration expressed by others was be cause of the restneions implied in the plan It controls our lives our livelihoods and our property There Is too much govern men I around us each and every day and this plan do anything to tale it Penman said Planning Committee Chair mun Pat McLaughlin agreed with Penman but It was a fact of life and wasn t for onequarter of the board members to be youth under but of voting age The annual report notes the network completed Its objectives for 1977 It is publishing a monthly news letter has compiled a youth directory for the region sponsored a community forum regarding the re organization of children services and was mental In setting up a child s services steering com mlttce for the region held a conference on youth and the low and established liaison with many community groups A full lime Gillespie was ap pointed last June Closer look for Arts Council Hills Finance Administration Committee postponed detailed discussion of the needs of Hills Arts Council until after the committee gels a full report Town recreation director Glen Gray wrote a one page report about what municipal resources are available Councillors Miller and Peter Morris agreed the report did not tell them very much Morris said he was looking for what services are available and how much they would cost Town treasurer Hay King estimated the liability would be However King said he felt strongly the town should not include my outside groups lis liability Insurance The cost to Hills Arts Council would bo bet ween and 100 King said Current activities Include planning for a spring confer related to and employment working with student leaders in Burlington and assisting in the deve lopment of a handbook for student governments secondary schools The development of area subcommittees continues Milton Hills log behind Burlington and Oak vllle In this respect but the network hopes the more table regional representation on the new board will strengthen the local groups The new chairman Mr Tom said priorities for include expanding the membership of ex ponding In the north and developing a means of communication to bring an exchange of ideas between the adult and youth worlds YSN receives onethird of Us budget up to Jit from the province provided the amount is matched locally by cash or in kind services delegates told the regional community and social services committee last week they will be looking to the region for grants In future Burlington Regional Coun Don Carter told the membership he would sup port requests for financial assistance CHIMNEY CLEANING A AREA CODE I Call Collect Town and Country Chimney Service Ltd MISSISSAUOA NOW OPEN Chiropractic Clinic Dr R Tom Thompson In the BUILDING MakiSnaet North Acton 8533460 in imiimiiimniirrt youth local football games Organized activities arc available for those who want them What is needed is an unstructured place to was yet another com ment Rather than arrange things for people should make it known it was available to help people who had ideas of the own members were told If its pushed down their throats they don t want it young girt said while mother If you see everybody else having fun j in in young man lomplained his latent leadership sere not developed in school I is a he said Not once did a teacher come up to me to say my ideas were valuable to the community people in the audience activities suih s Hie conference on youth and the law lo be spread around the region citing transportation problems They do not want to be bused to activities in other arc is Ideas at meeting will be worked on at planning committees and local subcommittees Mr Gillespie said go lo go away Mrs White of North Burlington said people were frustrated because there had been so many years spent in the preparation of so many plans that people dldn know could and do Brian told the planners d have to for give residents for seeming sceptical After four years regional government is hit ting us where it hurls in Ihe pockclbooks Four years ago my taxes were MOO and now they art he said Gordon Sims drew laughter from Ihe crowd when he said he had acres of land lhat under the plan would be frozen as farmland I broken plow shares and mowers trying lo farm it Milton Equipment won t even rent me a post hole digger be cause they are afraid 1 break it You d do me a favor if you allowed some develop ment Great Fun For One For All BOWL for Pleaiurs BOWL or Health Acton Bowling Lanes SWEONHOME I Obex TOGO up a at 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