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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Pete on May 25, 2012, 06:46:22 PM
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I know a bit about this story as the meeting was videoed and put on YouTube and I watched most of it at the time.
The crux of the story is that at a DCC meeting, a petition against the closure of youth clubs, of 16,000+ names, submitted by 16 year old Greg Roberts was more or less rejected out of hand by councillor Barry Lewis who said the “deceiving” petition bore “all the hallmarks of militant Labour scaremongering”
So all the time and effort spent on this petition was disregarded by this snotty councillor who also used the opportunity to slag off the local Labour Party. No mention of young people - just party politics again.
With youth unemployment at a massive level the youth get sh*t on again.
I wonder how long it will be before Lewis and his bunch of holier-than-thou followers are complaining about young folks hanging around street corners using anti-social behaviour.
What a creep.
http://bit.ly/JQNwVY (http://bit.ly/JQNwVY)
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Isn't DCC's handling of that petition to be looked at by a Scrutiny Committee? Quite right too!
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Yeah, it's all in the link. I should've mentioned it but I was so incensed I left my thinking-head off. Sorry.
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Yeah, it's all in the link. I should've mentioned it but I was so incensed I left my thinking-head off. Sorry.
S'OK, I just hope it's not a DCC whitewash.
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CC - If you're so sure of your facts, why not put them on here?
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Under the current electoral divisions Lewis has zero chance of re-election. UnfortunTely the boundary changes give him (if selected) Ashover and Wingerworth so not so clear cut.
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So you keep claiming but why in a thread about something totally different?
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Anyone got access to a hard copy of the DT? I'm pretty sure this is not the version of the story they printed.
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Anyone got access to a hard copy of the DT? I'm pretty sure this is not the version of the story they printed.
It's not, when the DT went to print the decision to refer it to a Scrutiny Panel hadn't happened. It reads, "Members will decide tomorrow to decide whether to initiate the review, which is recomnded for approval."
Otherwise it's pretty much the same, just a change to past tense in a sentence or two.
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Great news on the Chesterfield Post website - apparently the council have decided not to implement current plans that would have decimated the Youth Service.
Although it is not clear exactly what will happen, it's deffo going in the right direction. Fingers crossed it's not some ruse by the DCC to slide something past the electorate.
http://bit.ly/JKACtf (http://bit.ly/JKACtf)
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Just thinking what 'I' did as a child, played in the park at the back of the house or went fishing in the Rec, went to chapel twice on Sundays, tin can lurky, hide and seek, hopscotch, spinning top, hoola hoop, snowball fights, roller skates, bike, on dark nights we played board games with friends or listened to music. Didn't have any youth clubs back then --- didn't get into trouble either!
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Just thinking what 'I' did as a child, played in the park at the back of the house or went fishing in the Rec, went to chapel twice on Sundays, tin can lurky, hide and seek, hopscotch, spinning top, hoola hoop, snowball fights, roller skates, bike, on dark nights we played board games with friends or listened to music. Didn't have any youth clubs back then --- didn't get into trouble either!
What about 'knock & run'?!
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Nope Alsatian - some of the lads did though, I went scrumping though :-[ and WHY do farmers leave nettles round the trees ouch!! ;D
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Just thinking what 'I' did as a child, played in the park at the back of the house or went fishing in the Rec, went to chapel twice on Sundays, tin can lurky, hide and seek, hopscotch, spinning top, hoola hoop, snowball fights, roller skates, bike, on dark nights we played board games with friends or listened to music. Didn't have any youth clubs back then --- didn't get into trouble either!
As someone who is a vaguely youngish person I can say some of those activities go off the list as you hit teenager years;
Either because they're not activities seen as acceptable within your age group, which most people will avoid for fear of bullying (which is, from my experience dealt with abysmally in schools (an entirely different can of worms))
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Because people see a group of teenagers out and about and think they're trying to cause trouble. Which is discouraging; I personally didn't like it when I was just walking to the shop with a group of friends a few years back only to be glared at by adults/elderly people who were passing by. It really does not make me feel more inclined to be more involved with society. I won't say that this is the attitude of all people, but it has been a common one that I have personally encountered.
Then again, I might just have been unlucky :P
I could ramble on about a few more examples but I would probably make bugger all sense!
Replying more to the main post, I know more than one person who would be in a far worse position today than they would be if the youth clubs didn't exist. I haven't been to them myself, but would have been extremely saddened to see them go.
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After leaving school, me and my mates used to hang around Bolsover Town Centre every night/evening.
But there were a couple of youth clubs available a couple of times a week we used to attend.
One at school, Moorfield Hall, and one at Hill Top church. Drugs weren't a big problem in them days 1983.
Trouble nowadays thouigh, you need a CRB to do this kind of work/help.
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I think back then in my teens there was a youth club at St. Johns was it whittington or newbold? I think it's still going?
Back in my teens I was part of a small group of lads and lasses but also spent time with my close friend, we walked a lot back then and chatted. Boring I suppose to some, it wasn't unusual for us to walk to Ashover rock on sunday mornings from Tupton. Bad weather saw us indoors with our music and scrabble/ probably boring to most y/p these days, but not much TV (we did watch TOTP's) no computers or games consoles.