In
Knox
church
basement
SPEC
Youth
projects
to
unite
By
Yvonne
Whebell
Youth
groups
in
town
are
finally
getting
it
together.
People
from
the
coffee
house
met
with
youth
centre
planners
Oct.
1
and
decided
to
join
forces.
After
discussing
their
aims
and
some
of
the
difficulties
that
they
had
encountered
the
groups
decided
it
would
be
advantageous
to
pool
their
resources
and
work
together
as
one
city
youth
group.
"This
way
we
can
solve
many
of
our
problems
and
avoid
duplicating
our
activities,"
said
Steve
Morden,
a
member
of
the
youth
centre
planning
committee.
A
combination
coffee
housedrop-in
centre
is
now
scheduled
to
open
Sunday,
Oct.
18
in
the
basement
of
Knox
United
Church.
The
coffee
house
section
plans
to
mold
an
entertainment
night
from
9
p.m.
until
12:30
a.m.
every
Sunday
evening.
Local
folk
and
blues
singers
will
be
featured.
Youth
centre
organizers
hope
that
a
year-round
drop-in
centre
will
be
able
to
open
seven
days
a
week.
This
will
be
decided
at
a
meeting
themselves
and
the
Board
of
Directors
of
the
United
Church.
Also
planned
are
free
classes
three
times
a
week
in
advanced
art,
music
and
photography.
Advancec
guitar
lessons
would
be
taught
by
professionals,
and
contemporary
techniques
would
be
covered
m
the
photography
classes.
"We
want
to
make
sure
that
there
is
something
for
young
people
to
do
this
year,"
said
Dan
Herman,
co-ordinator
of
the
project.
Preparations
for
the
opening
of
the
centre
are
continuing.
On
Sunday,
October
4
over
40
volunteers
turned
up
to
help
paint
the
church
basement.
Other
redecorating
is
being
planned
and
entertainment
scheduled
for
coffee
house
shows.
The
youth
group
has
applied
for
a
loan
from
the
Receiving
Home
Society,
to
go
towards
the
operation
of
the
coffee
house
drop-in
centre.
"We
want
to
do
something
for
the
community,"
said
Herman.
"I
think
that
the
two
groups
getting
together
was
a
very
good
thing;
I
think
we're
going
to
get
a
lot
done,"
Both
youth
groups
have
been
active
in
Prince
George
for
quite
some
time.
seedlings
to
survive?
To
promote
Earth
Week,
the
Prince
George
Chapter
of
SPEC
will
be
planting
3,000
tree
seedlings.
In
a
telephone
interview,
Ddve
Fraser,
SPEC
spokesman,
was
asked
the
purpose
and
hopeful
results
of
the
planting
scheduled
for
Oct,
18.
The
obvious
purpose
is
to
promote
Earth
Week
(October
11-18)
Fraser
said
the
Forestry
Department
will
help
with
planting.
He
said
the
purpose
of
the
planting
was
"strictly
for
publicity,"
and
try
and
get
people
to
make
a
commitment
and
move."
Perhaps
people
will
sign
up
with
SPEC
and
possibly
donate
to
the
organization,"
said
Fraser
who
hopes
to
"quietly
build
an
organization"
because
he
feels
Prince
George
is
a
"conservative
town."
An
organization
like
SPEC
cannot
conquer
the
pollution
problem
by
itself
it
needs
people
to
back
it
up."
For
example,
SPEC
cannot
go
to
the
Pollution
Control
Board
and
ask
them
to
shut
down
the
pulp
and
paper
mills
,
.
.
"it
takes
time."
In
planting
the
tree
seedlings
people
would
be
doing
something
they
have
never
done
before.
Another
SPEC
member,
who
wished
to
remain
unidentified,
expressed
negative
feelings
about
the
project.
"It
was
the
only
thing
we
could
agree
upon,"
he
commented.
FRAP
for
Montreal?
MONTREAL
(CUP)
A
new
party,
the
Front
d'Action
Politique
(FRAP)
will
make
its
bid
to
unseat
the
ruling
Diapeau
regime
in
the
Montreal
city
elections
on
Oct.
25,
FRAP
was
formed
to
bring
power
into
the
hands
of
citizens
in
each
district,
and
away
from
what
FRAP
considers
to
be
a
dictatorship
in
city
hall.
The
party
grew
out
of
a
union
of
citizen's
committees
and
local
Comites
d'Action
Politique
(CAPS)
in
14
out
of
18
city
wards.
Michel
Cartier,
party
official
and
a
member
of
the
Ahuntsic
CAP,
said
that
FRAP
will
attempt
to
break
the
control
that
business
and
property-owners
now
exercise
over
regional
economic
and
political
decisions
and
over
local
school
boards.
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Industrious
locals
have
been
devoting
considerable
time
to
the
reconversion
of
Knox
United
Church
basement
into
the
new
youth
drop-in
centre.
The
centre
is
expected
to
serve
the
community
on
a
six-day
week
basis.
Brian
Dallamore
Photo
The
coffee
house
first
opened
in
the
spring
of
1966,
when
university
students
approached
Rev.
Ben
Taylor
about
starting
a
place
that
would
give
young
people
entertainment
and
a
place
to
go.
Rev.
Taylor
approached
the
Board
of
Directors
of
Knox
United
Church,
who
approved
the
plan,
and
the
coffee
house
became
a
reality.
It
has
continued
successfully
for
the
last
four
years.
Two
years
ago
a
committee
of
interested
people
decided
to
start
a
youth
centre
in
this
town.
They
found
a
suitable
location
in
the
basement
of
the
public
library
and
opened
a
drop-in
centre
that
was
run
entirely
by
young
people.
After
closing
for
the
winter,
it
re-opened
last
July
in
Spruceland
Elementary
School
with
more
facilities.
Taylor
feels
that
the
amalgamation
of
the
youth
group
"is
a
very
good
idea."
"The
young
people
have
a
lot
of
imagination
and
enthusiasm
and
the
church
should
be
right
with
them."
Anyone
interested
in
getting
involved
in
this
project,
or
in
the
planned
classes
is
asked
to
contact
Dan
Herman
(564-4804)
or
Kayo
Dockray
(964-4989).
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