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Kitchener-Waterloo Figute Skating Club held its annual club competition Saturday. The W mete Linda Fitzmioe. ate-juvenile ledies'; and Cheryl Sunkiewiecz. novice ladies'; left to right in the front row. Also. Jean-Ohmic Lepechauron. novice mons'; Lisa Robinson. intermediate ladies'; Dianne Cohen juniot ladies'; Dinah Ellisat.‘ juvenile ledies’; and John Fishhein. juveniIe mens' in the second row.» by Mary Stuns" ' Representatives of Water- loo Region and Wellington county social agencies found little to rejoice about and much to criticize Mon- day when James Taylor. minister of community and social services. lower- ed the boom on their 1976-77 budgets. - Bus fares increased Mr. Tayiks message was not an easy one to swallow for the more than too social administrators who attended the meeting at the Adult Recreation Centre in Waterloo. As of March 1. Twin City bus fares will be increased. Adult fares will be inereas- ed by IO cents to 35 cents and students and senior citizens will pay 15 cents. instead of no cents. Basically. what he said was this. All spending for the 197677 fiscal year relat- ing to general welfare as- sistance. municipal wel- Frequency of service will be cut on all routes in June, but none will be eliminated before October at the ear- liest. and only if a survey shows that patronage is low. Service will be cut to 40 minutes between 6 p m and ll p m. on all routes but the main line - a». Wpru' Ma2 e ' . LNLG, Cwii Fr L"W' . er; \~L .- rq _ _ 'Ah's6 .‘ -~..~ 'Te .--'. al", V - = .1 M Q. " c. H ' M 't Jr?.,'. I ,aar%'t _ .3 . 4. . (tr,' a- ' ' 'tr'"" I", F f) ”7-1.," 1‘. , FliFi'7 _ 3‘P7ét.» , . 'taiie 'a , ft; '"'d'ir, " "_Ces' 7 - F ,,.. I, a [ " P ..5 _ _ ‘U l"‘"r ', y 'e T .' I y ' M "M, . " " 1 3 P- TTW"," " ' . "m.' t "i'?? ar , ' ‘ 'as it. ’9 " c"N, i 4 5M - . ' ..‘-_r W. It " " i" T ".' T h' "q'td 't tr, “W H, .e ..,1 a .. _ _ L'fc. .s",. 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"We are facing the most severe. unsolvable prob lems we have ever faced since the 5.5 percent limit was announced. During 1975. we already had a deficit of 5.5 percent or MUM said Wilson Hamburger. director of Childrens' Aid for Waterloo Region. Mr, Hunsburger said it is costing more money each year to arrange for child care since the supply of foster parents is on the wane, He also questioned why salaries for his staff had been frozen at 5.5 percent when other ministries were allowing higher salary trt- creases WM. PM "$1970" 'rh, ii_",,svrsi'cv. ', _ m ..,.'; " a F tir _ _ _ __ r' _ m " ' . w,"' t. ' st H I 'iepjiijii' " thifi, " "it' FQtiAV: Y.'jisitii, ._ ie. " ma 5» _ " A. Sfp. 't.. '4' . & I I ts ' 'Cf ur _ pu. - t , > ‘ ww A il r ' t . " . 3 EE'] IT.' .‘L. Y 5ci,'"tl, ' /ife3hf Pm ' ,' ,4 ., C,' m a can - ' T.at in» ,,,£;~:- Mr: Taylor replied that his ministry had received only an 8 percent Midget increase from the cabinet. J"rhis will mean that some areas will have to operate at less than8pereent." Art Pope. regional social services administrator. predicted services such as the Victorian Order of Nurses NON) could fail by the wayside if the prov- ince followed through with its tight money policies. “It doesn't mean ending the homemaker service. We just cannot build the double digit "tnf1atimt into our bud- gets. That would‘ feed in- flation ...You reach a point where your borrowing the VON and the home- makers' service just ' be able to continue. And it's going to cost more to keep people in hospital than to pay for ttomemakersl ser- vice." hesau Mr. Taylor disagreed violently with Mr. Pope‘s predictions. Education freeze A temporary freeze on all purchasing and hiring has been imposed by the Waterloo Countv Board of Education. effective im- mediately. Board chair- man Doreen Thomas ex- plains the freeze in the "F'aiecatimt" editorial on Page 4 this week. as abilities are overt-d." some concern about rai- hesaid. \ dential areas located in the . mutational-23 agricultural zone. a change Kim Mitchell of Bluevale Collegiate takes aim for the pool during a race at the Twin City High School Swim Meet Wednesday at University of vam- loo. The Bluevale team captured first place in the meet. Amended by-law tot dogs Approved a dc "tir-taw.' Ctarteittt "ttdttn'ttbhtkttaritite," Aid. 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