---------------------------------------------------—— The Basilica Recreation Centre - Before and After also starting up its school band program, so the Rec Centre band never got beyond its first year. About this time, Ready hired Joe Basha to show movies on Sunday afternoons during the cold winter months. Despite the fact that the Rec Centre was owned and operated by Roman Catholic Parish, Ready, who taught at Queen Charlotte High School and had coached at Prince of Wales College, certainly did all he could to welcome youth from various religious backgrounds throughout the city and beyond. The Rec Centre dances always drew very large crowds on the weekends, so Ready hired Charlottetown policeman Stirling "Shorty" Williams to assist with security and crowd control on the weekends. Shorty Williams was much respected and admired by many of the youth. Because of the positive influence he had on these young people, several later decided to become police officers. Ready saw the importance of having junior youth groups that could organize and plan their own activities and entertainment as a means of personal development. As a result, between 1965 and 1975 some of the youth groups that were created included the YAC Club, the YAK Club, CLUB 22 and The CLAN. YAC-YAK Club (1965-1972) In 1965, Joe Basha was working full-time with Airways at the Charlottetown Airport and he also was working part-time as a supervisor at the Rec Centre when he decided to establish a youth group called the Young Active Christian Club, or YAC Club. Joe served as the YAC Club's advisor, and within two years, Basha had become Spy Ready's unofficial director of junior youth programming at the Rec Centre. Joe and his YAC Club organized everything from dances to winter carnivals and from cemetery clean-ups to youth retreats. They organized corn boils at Brackley and bean suppers at the Rec Centre. The YAC Club was the longest serving of the youth groups. By 1970 the YAC Club's name would change to the YAK Club, however the club's main objective remained the same. The YAC-YAK Club's membership usually changed each year so Basha would always arrange for an annual club photo. Each year there were usually a couple of club members missing when 49