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v,':,,;',',",')' 13?;an bows to taGh,r"kti, bid _ ii; ”65min municipal Uain, .Week in retrospect ' Waterloo Cllltoron:iireti, "L,,, City Treasurer Don Schaefer told council Waterloo will be eligible for $34,000 in provincial grants if the city operates a program employing those on welfare or unemployed. March It. Waterloo midgets advanced to the All-Ontario Minor Hockey Association AA semi-finals against Leamington following a 4-3 victory over Simcoe in Simcoe. March 15. Police Chief Harold Basse reported an unprecedented 23 percent increase in crime in Waterloo last year. The chief said drug ab- use and the presence of undesirable aliens were responsible for the up- surge Ceremonies at Sunnyside Home marked the opening of a Twin City Week of Concern for senior citizens. The changes coincide with the consolidation of Kitchener, Waterloo and Bridgeport mail services in Kitchener under that city's postmaster, CR. O'Brien. All out-of-town mail collected in Waterloo and Bridgeport is ‘being sorted at the Arden depot March It. Waterloo residents awoke to another round of plugged drive- ways and slushy roads following an overnight 4.5-inch snowfall. ed or COD items or articles too large to go through a can- celling machine are postmarked Kitchener-Waterloo. The excep- tions mentioned and mail pro- cessed by meter machines at Waterloo business premises will continue to have the Waterloo postmark. As of March 15, letters mailed in Water_lqo_, other than register- Noticed a new postmark on your local mail this week? THEY’RE PREPARED-Edith Gubler and Marlene Gregory, Grade 7 students at Mac Gregor school, are shown artificial respiration techniques by John Braaksma, a St. John Ambulance staff officer. Mr. Braaksma, whose wife teaches physical education and health to MacGregor students, is using a Resusci-Ann doll for the demonstration. Waterioo'so-ittttprttr-. The Man: nil Iii! I 'all/tttttttlt,":',',',"",',',':', 'tetreett, I” a and its musty 'ttree-d an. mum: W“ toretaist'ttaitiat6-tttist itiesrritttinatetiermtiut aregioaattr-tekseemato ".t"r?tettestttaistiqt_ Invention. ”humanism Mtretie.atAttairaMtrtisterDar Waterloo would hue thee toetBale_dtotttesewiattet, Walkman-aim! inmfor halgovem- -itaattmeiltteaddnettqroatger. metttrMtemoftttiaareareveap Teatotteaelectedttyametttod edthisweek. deviedhyttteprovike. Waterloo postmark disappearing 3Q f; ' a; About 20 sorting clerks at the Waterloo post office have been transferred to Kitchener, as has Alfred Rose who has been act- ing postmaster since Charles Foster, Waterloo's last post- master was transferred to Chatham last year. Wicket clerks continue to work in the Waterloo office which is now managed by Harold Tis- hart. a former supervisor in Kit- chener. 4 in Kitchener. Local mail is being sorted at the Gaukel Street office in Kitchener for shuttle to carriers in Waterloo and Bridgeport. The latter got door- to-door delivery this week for the first time in 119 years. _ Public relations officials at the CARNIVAL CRAFTS-The craft counter was a big attraction when St. Agnes parish held a carnival recently. Items offered ranged from the practical to the decorative and were made by Catholic women's league members over several months. Games galore, bake sales, bingo and a food bar drew hundreds of parishioners to the two-day event. Kitchener post office denied this week that the changes had been delayed for some weeks because of opposition from Water- loo firms concerned lest they lose the Waterloo postmark. Rumors to this effect circulated in recent weeks. eitiesiattHerttrttr,arttiettrrttthe Wanna-Gaunt... 'reiatttt_tesNrmhlrgtetett ltmlykpwnum ttartruM.atadtietrtbtitwttB. Ut-tte-ut-ttto become-hemlhudm‘e ”pinata than! pupa-L id Although there will still be some opposition to the plan, the general feeling appears to be that regional government is inevitable, the proposals were less reaction- ary than some had feared, and the time was now ripe for getting on with the job. Depending, therefore, on the severity of the reaction, the amount the plan is allowed to be altered and the time needed to pass covering legislation, re- gional government could go into effect Jan. I, 1972. ghortixjini ‘ "ititiruiiiirii"piiitroa _ V ___ F- Is to correct them, but he still wanted to get the local reaction. He asked that any comments reach him by June, thereby open- ingthegatetoathirdroundot briefs-on the proposals. Apparently neither Dr. Fyfe nor Darcy McKeough, Mr. Bales' predecessor and chief instigator of the study, were in the audience. Mr. Bales told the Jocal offic- ials be was familiar with the Waterloo Count): system and its A two-tier regional government ---ttttt no date for its ittatitutittet-- was presented to a packed audi- torium of Waterloo County at- ficials by the new minister of Municipal Affairs, Dalton Bales, at Kitchener-Waterloo collegiate Tuesday night. The pmpoaahr--basiea0y Plan B in the report of Dr. Stewart Fyfe on regional government-- held ttsurprises, The reaction was therefore mild, unlike in Sudbury the previous evening, where a regional plan proposal was greeted with booing. balm lath-ml: mum. Ajubihnglayorm.m iqaeamdtiottirthotsttemtsote, 2-tier plan OK ,rttkttt-iiiiut-i "i-ttVU". .tttygtie_.htMitios WWW --The Township of, Wilmot, including New Hamburg and Baden. expanded east to include a small piece of Waterloo Town- ship west of Rummelhiirt Road. -The Township of Wellesley, in. cluding the Village of Wellesley, --The Township of Woolwich- Waterloo, including all of Wool.. wich, the Town of Elmira, and that part of Waterloo Township east of the Grand River and Corporation land assembly. -The City of Gait and the Towns of Preston and Hespeler. plus that part of Waterloo Township east of the Grand River and south of Waterloo Road 14 and Bever- ly Township to a line' near the Village of Sheffield. -The Township of North Dumfries, made up of that part system of a regional government following the boundaries of Waterloo County plus a part of Beverly Township in neighboring Wentworth County, composed of seven area municipalities which, in turn, generally follow existing municipal lines. They would be: --'rtte City of Kitchener, includ- ing the present municipality plus Bridgeport and the land he tween Kitchener and the Grand River. -The City of Waterloo, ex- panded east to the Grand River, west to Waterloo Township Road 16 (RummeIhart Road), and north to woolwich Township 'eallmtettotth.ttiame, and In alpine-uh Thy 'mttiM'thareedr-itttaatr. I: W di-tttRt-t tutttteministertditattarirtitr ate Mu workman final“ 4CmstiooodemNg"t m"mh-ulyptw." "rm 1?'ultTfi 1 m " The plan calls for a two-tier WATERLOO, ONTARIO THURSDAY, MARCH 18, I971 (Continued on Page 2) k ii'i'ie"ii1iil:,,Citii'i?2,