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Weekend park 'rave' sparks council worry
Cayuga drag stip in running for electronic music fest
By Kate Barlow The Hamilton Spectator CAYUGA
A rave -- or electronic music festival -- could be coming to CAyuga International Dragway Park next weekend.
Ryan Kruger, of Destiny Productions of Toronto, Canada's oldest rave prouction company, confirmed Saturday that the local home of drag racing is in the running to host a three-day music and dance fest.
World Electronic Music Festival 2001, to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday will feature electronic music headliners such as Nostrum and John the Dentist.
Kruger denies the event is a "rave."
It's a world electronic music festival. They're lumping us in with raves. There's been a misunderstanding and hysteria," said Kruger - a.k.a. DJ OS/2.
He said the park is one of three venues being considered.
"We've never committed to going there, and we've never committed to not going there."
According to destiny's Web site, the venue is a campground and special events park with room for dancing, parking, swimming and test and RV space.
Kruger won't release the exact location until Wednesday to "add tothe mystery."
But authorities say that's simply to thwart attempts to stop the rave -- which is exactly what Haldimand County Council is hoping to do. After learning of the possibility late lsat week, members of council, county lawyers and bylaw officials have been scrambling to find a way to stop what they consider an unlawful, unlicensed event that could spell trouble for area residents and those attending the event.
"Our priority is the saftey and welfare of our citizens and the young people," said Mayor Lorraine Bergstrand, who intends to call a special meeting of council to discuss the issue.
A group of concerned residents living near the dragway park have also arranged a meeting for 7 p.m. Wednesday, at the hall beside the first station in Kohler.
In recent years, raves have raised some spectres that dogged youth in the '60s and struck terror in the hearts of parents and local authorities concerned about the potentially lethal cocktail of teens, drugs alcohol and loud music.
Today's raves, which feature loud music and "designer drugs," are often held in abandoned buildings, homes , after-hours clubs or feilds.
On Friday, the OPP's Haldimand-Norfolk detachment issued a news release warning of the dangers of bush parties and raves.
"Often these raves lack appropriate security and emergency mesaures because profit is the main concern," said Sergeant Rob Bermuhler.
"Young people often find themselves in situations that are totally out of control with drugs."
Kruger calls the authorities' attitudes discrimation.
"At the end of the day all (these events) are concerts with a different type of music ... there are no more drugs at these than at a nightclub or high school dance. "Drugs are everywhere."
But locally, large gatherings of yound people with access to drugs and alcohol have spelled disaster. On July 6, a 21-year-old Ancaster man was beaten and stabbed during a bush bash on Indiana Road, near Canfeild, which was attended by hundreds of Hamilton-area teens. Two days later, a Brampton teen collapsed in Toronto during a rave after taking what is thought to be ecstacy. The teen died later in hospital.
Neil Armstrong, the dragay park's general manager, sas Destiny Productions has agreed to rent 40 hectares to the right of the drag strip from Friday to Sunday, and completely set up the event, hiring their own security and police.
Armstrong expects the park to make up to $80,000 on the deal.
You may contact Kate Barlow by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at 905-526-3408
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