That -- in essence -- is what the Corporation of St. George is doing in its effort to acquire youthful input on the town's proposed revitalisation plan.

Last week, a Town Hall meeting that was specifically designed to canvass the opinions of St. George's younger citizens attracted an unprecedented audience of zero.

Tomorrow, however, the Corporation will go directly to the source by taking its information-gathering bandwagon to a local secondary school.

"We have a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, April 19 at 1.30 p.m. with the students of St. George's Secondary School,'' town planner Mr. Stanley Kennedy said in a Letter to the Editor of The Royal Gazette . "I would be happy if your reporter would attend.'' Meanwhile, Mr. Kennedy took the opportunity of the letter to "correct'' a report in The Gazette five days ago that the doors to last Thursday's meeting were locked on a reporter's arrival and Mr. Kennedy was nowhere to be seen.

"I had taken advantage of the absence of an audience to attend another matter,'' Mr. Kennedy explained. "While the reporter might not have seen me, I was nonetheless present in St. George's for the meeting.'' The Gazette reported on Friday that St. George mayor the Wor. Henry Hayward had arrived some 15 minutes after the scheduled 7 p.m. starting time to find only three curious adults outside the locked building -- one of which was the Gazette reporter.