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Information published by Waterloo Regional Police showed a high incidence of wife beating cccurs eacg year during July, usually the small hours of Saturday mornings. Waterloo was third in number of police cases of this type with six per cent of the total â€" beâ€" hind Kitchener and Camâ€" bridge who had 88.9 per cent between them. {(Continued from page 5) parks were not likely to be Park. used by the public: A survey Information published by showed that in one park iff Waterloo Regional Police another city the dogs and showed a high incidence of children switched sandâ€" wife beating cccurs each boxes with disastrous reâ€" Rats were reported in the vicinity of Heasley Park and blamed on the tall grass growing in a driedâ€"up creek bed running through the park. City officials said the rodents were more likely muskrats. What was orâ€" iginally believed to be slugâ€" gish maintenance in what one local reisdent called the ‘"‘oversized drainage ditch" turned out to be an engineerâ€" ing strategy to alleviate sprâ€" ing runoff. â€" Thirteen families in the area of Alexandra Public School in Waterloo‘s downâ€" town core were faced with the prospect that the school would no longer be able to accommodate their kinderâ€" gartenâ€"aged children. Resiâ€" dents became concerned that closing of the kinderâ€" garten would lead eventualâ€" ly to the closing of the entire school. Carlane Gall/22, of Waâ€" terloo was runnerâ€"up in the Miss Nude World contest. The Kuntz family home on King St. beside the Labatt‘s brewery was designated as a historic site by Waterloo council. The city posted *‘*Stoop and Scoop®‘ signs in all of its parks to warn dog owners that they were expected to clean up the act for their pets if they were promenadâ€" ing on the city‘s property. Ald. Mary Jane Mewhinney had been pressing for some sort of formal attitude toâ€" wards the problem. Hoâ€" wever, Community Services Director Ken Pflug found that dog comfort stations in Song recital opens winter concert series Soprano Margaret Elligâ€" sen and pianist Kenneth Hull perform a song recital at the Conrad Grebel Colâ€" lege chapel on the Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo campus Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1979 at 12:30 noon. The recital. which initiates CGC‘s winter series of Wednesday nodn hour recitals, will inâ€" clude songs by Franz Schuâ€" bert. the Hermit Songs of Samuel Barber. and a group of spirituals. August Elligsen was born in Stratford. Ontario, and has studied voice with Gordon Scott in Stratford, Victor Martens in Waterloo. Alvin Reimer and Linda Vaughn in London. and Theo Lindenâ€" baum of the Detmold Acaâ€" demy in Germany. This past summer she was a student of Adele Addison at the Aspen Summer Festival in Colorado, She is a recipient of numerous first prizes in national, provincial, and reâ€" {;‘(,)nal competitions, has given many recitals in Kâ€"W area,. and has performed with the London Symphony ~‘ *1078 * The vear The region reacted to an alleged polio epidemic and 3,000 Kâ€"W area residents flooded the Waterloo Re" gional Health Unit for polio innoculations. The scare raised the question of whether or not citizens were receiving regular booster The city‘s 35â€"foot building height policy for apartment construction in the downâ€" town area was called unreaâ€" listic, uneconomical and riâ€" diculous, but it still stood in the way of a proposed 11â€" storey senior citizen housing complex in the Lodge, Marâ€" shall and Regina St. sector. John Albrecht, the deâ€" veloper had spent five years and $140,000 asserpbling the land for the project only to find himself caught between the old and the new zoning by laws for the céntral resiâ€" dential district. The new, proposed byâ€"law 78â€"153 was circulated among landowners in the central residential district of Waâ€" terloo to give them an opâ€" portunity to comment on the three zones it would create. Boarding houses and other small _ commercial enâ€" terprises were to be allowed in what had previously been a general residential zone. Apartments, however, would be restricted to three storeys under the city‘s planning policy for the core area. The city‘s smoking byâ€"law came in and the Region‘s Enerâ€"action Community Conservation Centre in Kitchener closed at the end of its federal funding allocaâ€" tion. Lack of funding was also the reason for disconâ€" tinuation of the Region‘s Tape distress centre crisis line. The 24â€"hour service had been operating since the summer of 1977 on comâ€" September Orchestra, the London Sinâ€" fonia, the Kâ€"W Symphony Orchestra, and the Stratford Ensemble. Hull is a member of the music â€" department _ of Conrad Grebel College. where he teaches piano. ® comeâ€" from <private en deavors.. ~,, " ie sick ie ihlrker." The nuch publicized Conâ€"â€" â€"As a parting:â€"move estaga Mall opened in stages â€" beconting a candidate for because of delays resulting â€" Waterloo couneil,; Waterloo from a provinceâ€"wide carâ€" County Board of Education The three Waterloo riding federal candidates were asked to guess the approxâ€" imate date of a federal elecâ€" tion and two picked the sprâ€" ing of ‘79. NDP candidate Mike Makarchuk predicted a leadership convention in February, Liberal candidate Frank Epp saw strong adâ€" vantages to a fall election and PC candidate Rich Hobâ€" son was sure. Pierre Truâ€" deau would lead the Liâ€" berals into a spring election. Ald. Charlie Voelker conâ€" vinced fellow members of Waterloo council of the fuâ€" ture benefits of trips to Roâ€" chester, N.Y. to study resiâ€" dential development there. The American subdivisions, designed to cut housing costs by eliminating sideâ€" walks, some lighting and other building frills were to be viewed by the politicians as a possible model for planâ€" ning here. _‘ â€" dential development ‘there. _ The Federated Appeal The American subdivisions, _ began its first ever fall camâ€" designed to cut housing paign in what was a concertâ€" costs by eliminating sideâ€" ed appeal for 1979 pledges. walks, some lighting and _ Waterloo Ald. Brian Turnâ€" other building frills were to bull announced his reâ€" be viewed by the politicians . tirement from both municiâ€" as a possible model for planâ€" Pal and regional politics in ning here. _‘ ‘ order to start a barter sysâ€" Waterloo Mayor Marjorie tem of finance across the Carroll called the Kitchener country. The company‘s idea of forming a mini reâ€" bead office and computers gion to replace the current Would be located on King St. | structure "downright silly," _ in Waterloo. and suggested that anyone (Continued on page 8): &# 0 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 9 0 o 9# 0 # 0 o0 0 o o 0 0 0 & 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0o 0 8 0o 0 o 0 0 0 8 6 Over 4 / UU”U more toart extro prizes WO" ie voor +4 1m m:lll‘M-" A gr vA tD h# 6L » New Y * Your regular Wintario ticket number gives you thousands of chances to win in this First Special Draw of 1979. It‘s good for all regular taxâ€"free prizes PLUS THEREE SPECIAL BONUS DRAWS featuring one draw for $£50,000, one for $20,000 and one for $10,000. Bonus Draw! 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