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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 4 Feb 1971, p. 3

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Ald. Bob Henry agreed the proâ€" posed building would neither change nor enhance _ Weber Street. j University bans outside gangs . He said there was no alternaâ€" tive to this type of development unless a land assembly proposal sas presented. The property ownâ€" Finvolved had failed to get this ype of development. ~ Ald. Charles Voelker suggestâ€" A letter from senior planner Don Scott had drawn council‘s attenâ€" tion to the strip development takâ€" ing place on Weber Street. Nonâ€"student gangs have been banned from the University of Waterloo campus. Dr. B.C. Matthews saidâ€"~ last week that violent incidents related to the presence of nonâ€"student gangs on the campus have caused grave concern for the safety of students and other members of the university. A. proposal to allow a Lobsterâ€" hutch restaurant to locate at Lexâ€" ington and Weber Streets was stalled in council this week when Ald. Herb Epp suggested the outâ€" let would be more in accord with city‘s plans if it were in a plaza. He said such gangs will be exâ€" cluded from the campus in future and that the security department was taking the necessary steps to see the ruling was enforced. Membership is open to the wife of any member of the Waterâ€" loo council of the Knights of Coâ€" lumbus, in good standing, or the widow of a deceased member who was in good standing. Sn § Auxiliary _ attracts 75 Meetings are held every third Monday of the month in the counâ€" cil chambers, 106 University Ave. E., at 8: 30 p.m. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Feb. 15. WRAPPED FOR WARMTHâ€"Even a building needs some extra insulation in the kind of weather which the Twin Cities have been experiencing lately. The $4.25 million Bell Canada dialâ€"switching centre under construction on Albert Street was particularly vulâ€" nerable but Monteithâ€"McGrath workers seem to have got around the problem by adâ€" ding swathes of material to the freshlyâ€"poured concrete columns. * â€" About 75 women attended the lrst regular monthly meeting of e Columbus Ladies of Waterloo, held in the Council Chambers, 106 iversity Ave., East. ’)fficers elected are: president, ean Davis; viceâ€"president, Rose Ropchan; secretary, Lyn Gerâ€" mann; treasurer, Daisy Dietrich ; lucheon convener, Janet Ertel; membership _ convener, _ Rita Diemert. Restaurant permit is delayed M U . of W. to offer credit â€" course over Channel 19 Donald Gordon, a professor of political science at the Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo, will be offerâ€" ing Ontario‘s first television course for university credit. The course, Arts 100;: Comâ€" munication, has been offered successfully on the University of Waterloo campus for the past three years. It is being offered over Channel 19 in coâ€"operation with the Ontario Educational Communications Authority. Arranged in seven sections, the course will deal with how reality is communicated and what reality actually is. Students xill be studying the senses and eories about the human brain, and will also study language and its uses in communication. _ In other business council aâ€" greed to pay $21,488.90 from the 1970 surplus toward the Kâ€"W Hosâ€" Prof. Gordon, who has had exâ€" tensive television experience, is preparing 30 scripts which will be taped in color and offered as a course beginning on Sept. 15 over Channel 19. Each tape will be run twice weekly. ‘‘We are expecting from 100 to 150 onâ€"campus students to enrol in the course and about 250 to 300 nonâ€"resident students during the first year,"‘ said Prof. Gorâ€" don. ‘"Everyone who takes the course at the university will take it via television, even fullâ€"time Waterloo students, so everyone, on campus or off, will have an equal opportunity .‘‘ ed development controls in the area had long since got out of hand. ‘"Other than a church and a pub lic school we have everything else on Weber Street." The matter was deferred for two weeks to permit aldermen to familiarize themSelves with the proposal. â€" ‘We will limit each group to 25 students," said Prof. Gorâ€" don, ‘"so in an area like Toronto, we might have five or six groups operating."‘ Each group will meet with Prof. Gordon at least once during the year. Each participant will receive 12 tape cassettes which give the titles of each section and sugâ€" gestions for library research. Groups will meet every month with a graduate student, each group to be determined by its geographical location . Notes will appear on the scereen Mr. Schaefer reported a proâ€" posal $1,035,000 retirement of capâ€" ital debt for 1971, when he presâ€" ented his fiveâ€"year capital works ‘forecast to council this week. Prof. Gordon‘s background was an excellent preparation for his present task. He has been asâ€" sociated with the CBC in Engâ€" land as a European correspondâ€" ent, has been an assistant editor on the Financial .Post and a writer for the Canadian Press. He has various publications to his credit in many Canadian jourâ€" nals and magazines and has also worked for the Columbia Broadâ€" casting System. Budget to be set April 17 for Waterloo as the program is in progress, but students will be discouraged from writing them down. Inâ€" stead, they will receive mimeoâ€" graphed copies of the notes each week. "In this way, students will listen and watch. Ideas are often missed while a student is scribblâ€" ing in his notebook." In answer to a question from Ald. Herb Epp, council was told there would be no conflict of auâ€" thority between city police and security forces at the University of Waterloo. 4 7 Tastâ€" : u.. D y WBc, MUeD " 37 Comnqne n 9 DCmE t "‘ "OMe mru s sub e Aepiamenien B toveets s o0 i3090 D Hernt m metillic s siho i CE es | PM ue c hk nrnls t e t ie ced aete rhliine t / B 2 l o ie C Aageas . o k t t e &R e Lo Th ns io y ao, o o « » Niameiie. ". s F #p s Sn t in 74 S * m ds T ahn Je sgal t %. n ‘ d * T + o t en s Jt it ds fu & +Â¥ d 6 i Prs: % t l ga l . L te t ino Chronicle, Thursday, February 4, 1971 $ x A is ic 01 0t 000 ues on un 69 *4 * w e 6 it i. e Pes 3 & ; iz c ': } % i & f .ngs y I 4 U 4 o C Ald. Rudy Komiek was appointâ€" ed acting mayor in the absence of Mayor Meston. Among his books are Langâ€" uage, Logic and the Mass Media (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966) and The New Literacy Taxpayers will learn the worst, or the best, following this year‘s budget meeting set for April 17. pital addition. The sum is Watâ€" erloo‘s share of a deficiency arâ€" ising from the sale of debenturâ€" es toward the building. Grant requests for the coming year will be considered at a specâ€" ial meeting following the regular council meeting of April 12. City treasurer Don Schaefer said any changes in the structure of government grants should be known to council by April 17. . He pointed out that although the principal debt is not increasâ€" ing, the population is, which means a decrease in the debt per capita. ‘We‘re quite pleased about this," said Mr. Schaefer. THE BIG DIG«â€"Scenes like this around Waterloo last week were mute testimony to the tasks which had to be tackled when the blizzard finally abated. Residents were left to dig their way out of, or into, the 10â€"inch snowfall that drifted into headâ€"high banks in unprotected places. overcrowded. He ‘said senior citizens who use space there as a dropâ€"in centre were asking for larger facilities for this purpose. The pavilion in the park was built at the turn of the century and was incapable of filling the board‘s needs any longer. The board didn‘t have a garage or storage area for its equipment. The city works department‘s no money on : ter receiyed more scrutiny . s Finance chairman Ald. Robert Cruise, a member of the planning board, said he was not prepared to recommend approval of the proâ€" ject. He asked board chairman Ronald Wagner to outline the proâ€" posals to council. s Mr. Wagner said the present Alâ€" were only taken care of when all other maintenance was completed. Mr. Wagner was evasive about detailed plans for the buildings. Under prodding from aldermen he agreed the board wasn‘t thinkâ€" ing of putting all the buildings in the same place. He declined to reveal what site, if any, the board had in mind or the expenditure per facility. The buildings would be a packâ€" ageâ€"type structure of about 77,000 square feet. Architect‘s fees were not included in the estimates ‘"as it would be a waste of money to get architect‘s plans for this type week‘s council Replying to a question from Ald. Roy Bauman, he said he had no idea what extra operating costs would be â€"involved if the project was approved. Ald. Harold Wagner pointed out that the city‘s works department, now on Peppler Street, may be reâ€" located. In that event he suggested all city garage services be conâ€" solidated into one building. City engineer D‘Arcy Dutton explained that the relocation of the city‘s maintenance services hadn‘t been discussed in detail but the industrial area hadâ€"been considerâ€" ed as a convenient location. . Ald. Robert Henry reminded counci}k that the board‘s existing building in Waterloo Park was condemned years ago. He noted that the board‘s proâ€" posal was nothing new but has been appearing in its budgets for some years. He also reminded aldermen w “l(’d in parks plans Mm that relocation of the works ‘deâ€" mngs md eremiowe in ons | ns on mt ind mm un mt street widening; $200,000 for outâ€" fall truck sewers; $100,000 for a secondary clarifier at the sewage â€"treatment plant, and $50,000 for acquisition of land downtown for parking. . > Other items are $42,000 for ice equipment and $13,000 for an ice machine for Waterioo Arena, and ~ _ $40,000 for the city‘s share of land acquired by the Grand River Conâ€" "Ancluded â€" is $100,000 . tor . the is $100,000 for the water department of the public The Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo minor track and field association and the Waterloo branch of the Royal Canadian Legion are sponsoring a track and field clinic at the University of Waterloo sports complex this Sunday. servation Authority for dams. â€"Agreed to reâ€"hire Neil Wickâ€" son for summer employment in the engineering department and to employ two civil engineering stuâ€" dents from the University of Waterloo for the summer. Council this week : â€"â€"Authorized Gord Lemon of the city engineering staff to atâ€" tend a traffic seminar sponsored by the Ontario Good Roads Asâ€" sociation, March 7â€"10. â€"Appointed John Boehmer to the community services board and John Goldsworthy to the pubâ€" lic library board. ~ â€"Agreed to endorse the procâ€" lamation of March 7â€"13 as Kiwanâ€" is Golden Anniversary Week. The event marks the 50th anâ€" niversary of the Kâ€"W Kiwanis Club. as council‘s representative on the snowmobile committee and agreed to ask Pollution Probe, the community services board, police and any recognized snowâ€" mobile club to make appointâ€" ments to the committee. â€"Agreed to sell property on Durward Place to Waterioo Metro Construction Ltd. for $2,â€" Council briefs Clinic planned Other items in the This covers work recommendedâ€": * â€"Named Ald. Roy Bauman ie ~* "fk M it

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