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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 11 Feb 1971, p. 1

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| _ Summer _ € _ j _ Village :â€"â€" planned .* (t Â¥y. 2 The Waterloo County chapter of the organization will be sending 12 delegates this year. The first steps toward choosâ€" ing the 11â€"yearâ€"old children who will make up the three deleâ€" gations will be taken tonight at 7:30 p.m., when an informaâ€" tion night will be held at. Forâ€" est Heights collegiate cafetorâ€" ium in Kitchener. Children who are considerâ€" ing ‘applying, and their parâ€" ts, will be told about the fi‘ms of CISV, the procedure for selection, and about the villages themselves. In addiâ€" tion, the eight delegates who went to Sweden and Detroit last summer will ; give comâ€" mentaries on slides they took. Fred Veenhof of Kitchener is in charge of child selection. Applications will close on Feb. 25 and interviews will be conducted at Forest Hill public school on May 1, with the finals at the same school a week latâ€" er. PORCUPINE OR SKYROCKET?â€"Actually it‘s neither but is in fact a telephone cable known as a 2,700 pair exâ€" change cable, since it has 5.400 individual wires. (Two wires are required to make a voice circuit). More than 3,000 feet of this cable will be installed under Waterloo streets this year as part of the recabling necessary to establish Bell Canada‘s $4 million switching centre on Albert Street. This year‘s Waterloo village will be held at Conrad Grebel College at the University of Waterloo, from July 11 to Aug. 8. Invitations have gone out to Finland, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Norâ€" way, Spain, Sweden, England and the United States, and to another Canadian group, in Vancouver. Guatemala and Philadelphia groups have alâ€" ready accepted. abroad to International Vilâ€" lages. This year it will be to Guatemala, and to Washington and Cincinnati in the United States. _ be 11 years old between July 1, 1970 and June 30, 1971. A _ children‘s _ International Summer Village will again be .Id in Waterloo this summer, th children coming from All children applying must S z. RP ty 0C 7 C t & d . 35. *g¢p 4t The annual hockey contest beâ€" tween Waterloo police and fire departments gets a new twist this year when the longâ€"time opponents team up to challenge the National Hockey League Oldâ€"Timers. Constable Duane Talmage, genâ€" eral manager of the event, is exâ€" pecting a 2,000 turnout for the game at Waterloo Arena, March 12. Ian Young and Ian Scott, both University of Waterloo students, will man the Waterloo nets. Defencemen are Frank Mcâ€" Guire and Peter Speyer, both HOME NURSESâ€"Eleven persons, two of them men, have completed the home nursing course sponsored by the Waterâ€" loo branch of the Red Cross. Male graduates Clem Abbass and James Weber were absent from this elass where nurseâ€" instructor Mrs. Robert Jordan (extreme left) with the help of volunteer studentâ€"patient Mrs. Bhuvana Natarajan gives Police, firemen take on Oldâ€"Timers YA All proceeds go to the Canadian Save the Children Fund and the Muscular Dystrophy Association, pet charities respectively of the local police and firemen. Members of the Oldâ€"Timers and the clubs â€" with which they saw action are Ivan Walmsley and Ivan Irwin, (New York); Bob Goldham and Harry Watson (Toronto, Detroit and Chicago); Bob Robertson, (Detroit); Murray Henderson and Harry Pidherny (Boston); Wally Stanowski and Danny Lewicks, (Toronto and New York); Pete Conacher and Ike Hildibrant (New York and Chicago); Sid Smith, Ron Hurst and Jackie Hamilton, (Toronto); Cal Gardner (Toronto, Boston and New York); John McCormack (Toronto and Montreal) ; and Brian McFarlane of Hockey Night in Canada fame. Door prizes will be among atâ€" tractions of the night. Dolby has seen action with the Siskins and Woodstock Athletics, Miller and Scott with the Greenâ€" shirts, Hunter with the NHL Oldâ€" Timers and Bradford Seniors, and Cassidy with the Walkerton Capiâ€" tals. Firemen on the forward line are Doug Cassidy, Bill Hasse and Dave Small wood. Forwards include Bill Dwyer, John Dolby, Ken Miller, Bob Hunter, Jim Scott and Bill Morâ€" rison, all from the local police force. McGuire has seen action with the Waterloo Siskins and the Guelph Regals; Bettke with the Kitchener Greenshirts, Orth also with the Siskins and Speyer with the University of Torento and the Orillia Terriers. ~ policemen, and Grant Bettke and Bob Orth from the fire departâ€" ment. * (See Photo, Page 10) Ap P Week in retrospect Feb. 5. Freezing rain swept over the Twin Cities compounding the hazards created by last week‘s blizzards. Icy roads played havoc with traffic and were responsible for 23 Waterloo accidents. A sevenâ€"car pileâ€" up just north of Waterloo was also blamed on the weather. Feb. 9. Twin City post offices refused to accept mail for England, Scotland or Northern Ireland, where a postal strike is in effect. _ Feb. 8. Council‘s city development committee gave tentative apâ€" proval to a plan whereby the city would agree to buy the property at 357 Erb St. W., from a developer within five years. The agreement would permit Starâ€"Wol, a developer, to assemble properties for a resiâ€" dential and commercial development. About 80 homes in the MacDonald Place and John Street area were without electricity for five hours during the night Waterloo Ald. Herb Epp and Mayor McLennan of Kitchener conceded each other a draw in a game marking the opening of a chess circus sponsored by the Concordia Club and University of Waterloo chess clubs. Feb. 7. Waterloo Siskins tied 3â€"3 with Strathroy Rockets to win their second tie in a week in junior B hockey action . instruction on care of the bedâ€"ridden to Mrs. Jean Aldworth, Mrs. Carol Beaman, Mrs. David Brenneman, Judith Geh?, Mrs. Rita McNey, Mrs. Mabel Shantz, Mrs. David Underâ€" wood and Mrs. Barbara Vinnicombe. The graduates will receive their certificates at the annual meeting of the Red Cross, Feb. 16, at the Dominion Life building. Duane Talmage . . . general manager mg 2o s e e n s is C 0 n 9 7(3 ragayenLoo, ONTARIO. f _ THURSDAY ary 11,1971 < Douglas Cassidy . . . fireman player

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