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The Children‘s International Summer Villages will hold their annual dinner and dance at Bingeman Park Lodge on Friday, March 2. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Contact 576â€"0842 (Kâ€"W area) or 658â€"9574 (Cambridge area>). The 1979 "Election of Officers" for the Waterloo Regional Block Parent Central Committee will take place on March 28th. 79 at 7:30 pm. The General Meeting will be held at Conestoga College at the Doon Campus Attending this event will be 132 School Chairman plus a special guest speaker â€" Sgt. Hallman on Project Identification. Also. a special reminder to come out to the Waterloo Reâ€" gional Police Association for our Block Parent Fashion Show on March 7th, 79 at 730 pm. Tickets are still availaâ€" ble through the Area Coâ€"ordinators or call the Bureau at 885â€" &Em’l’vhâ€"ehcoet is $2.50 person and for school age children and Senior Citizens a special price of $1.00 per person The Waterloo Fire Department answered two more alarms in ‘78 than in ©77 but damage this past year was estimated at $265,634 more. Quoting statistics from the ‘78 annual report, Deâ€" puty Chief Waurechen attributed the dollar difference to the rising cost ofâ€"labor and building materials. He said the figure was still nothing to be alarmed about. "Anything under a half a million dollars in a city this size is not bad,"‘ he said: Damage last year totalled $489,668. A statistical breakdown shows that 57 fires in dwellings or apartâ€" ments resulted in $366. 162 damage; 15 industrial fires resulted in $6,000; three office or mercantile fires reâ€"_ sulted in $800 damage; two fires at UW resulted in $87.270 damage;, two vacant buildings, $550 damage; four miscellaneous (garbage, grass fires etc.) resultâ€" ed in $10,210 and no alarm fires resulted in $18,676 damage. During a recent "danceâ€"aâ€"thon‘‘ organized during the winter carnival by the university‘s student union, students collected pledges amounting to $1902. Twelve couples danced an average of 15 hours. Kâ€"W Services for the Physically Disabled will finalâ€" ly be able to hire another much needed staff member thanks to the efforts of WLU students. To Student chairman, Paul Gagnon, presented the cheque to two disabled members of the organization during the Ricochet Club‘s annual Valentine Wheelâ€" chair Dance held on Feb. 14 at Zion United Church, Kitchener. The club is one of many of the agency‘s social programs. Colin O‘Brian, board chairman, thanked ‘the stuâ€" dents and outlined the aims and needs of the agency which is dependent on private donations and a Feâ€" derated Appeal Grant. : _ ‘"The money will be used to hire an extraâ€"staff member. This has been made necessary by the recent growth we are experiencing as the demand for our services increases,"" he said. The University of Waterloo has announced a new fellowship, the Carl A. Pollock Postâ€"Graduate Fellowâ€" ship. in memory of its former chancellor. the late Carl A. Pollock. Mr. Pollock. former Canadian industrialist and one of the founders of UW, died last August. The Carl A. Pollock fellowship will be in the amount of $7.000 a year and will be open to any graduate from UW‘s undergraduate engineering program intending to pursue postâ€"graduate studies at Waterloo. Initially. the fellowship will be for one year of postâ€"graduate study: it may be renewed for a further oneâ€"year period. Normal teaching or research fellowships may be held in conjunction with it. Other bursaries or schoâ€" larships may also be held in conjunction with it proâ€" vided they do not exceed $2,000 in total. Dr. B.C. Matthews, UW president. said the univerâ€" sity intends to establish an endowment fund of $150.000 to support the awarding of two fellowships each year in perpetuity. Contributions may be made by cheque, payable to the University of Waterloo with an indication that they are for the Carl A. Pollock Fellowship Fund. Contributions should be forwarded to W.K. Randell, Financial, Services Office. Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario. N2L 3G1. (An ofâ€" ficial receipt. for income tax purposes, will be providâ€" International Summer Village annual dinner and dance Fire damage up in ‘78 announces new fellowship â€" at a glance Block Parent‘s annual general meeting Students raise ‘1902 ~â€"â€"â€"Fitness fever hits _ over 300 Waterlooites _ ‘‘Good health is much like a breath of air â€" little appreâ€" ciated for its dear value until found to be in short supply.y‘ es *z So it is written in a Fitâ€" ness Ontario brochure and Waterlooites seem to be takâ€" ing it to heart. Chery! Archiâ€" bald, a fitness asgessor with Donald Irish of Waterloo has his blood pressure and respiratory function checked by Coleen Spence, a fitness tester at the Waterloo ‘Y‘. The ‘Y‘ is takâ€" ing the overflow of people wanting fitness tests during the Fitness Van‘s visit to the city. Exhaling for all he‘s worth, Donald Irish takes the aerobic capacity test during a fitness test at the Waterloo Y‘ . the Fitness Van Team glre- sently stationeéd at the Waâ€" terloo Family ‘Y*, said that four kinesiology students had to be hired to help hanâ€" dle the volume of reop’le taking part in the fitness testing this week. . _ . â€"**We‘ve had an unusually good .response here," said " Waterige Chronicle, Wednesday, February 21, 1970 â€" Page 3 < . â€" Ms. Archibald, who travels with the van on its rounds from Oakville, the Niagara Peninsula,. Simcoe â€"and Orangeville.. ‘"Normally we put through 100 people a week but there are 200 going is a lotg' waiting list." The Waterloo ‘Y" is hanâ€" A fitness assessor with the Fitness Van Team working at the Waterloo ‘Y*, takes a body fat analyâ€" sis test on one of 200 people who will take part in the testing before Friday. week and there Sempvahs in total, make pp the Fitness rio istry of Culture Recreaâ€" tion. Visiting major centres in the province, a team of skilled assessors take parâ€" ticipants through a variety of, tests to determine their level of physical fitness. dling the overflow which is estimated at between 60 and For the purposes of the program, physical fitness has been defined as ‘"the ability to function daily with vigor, alterness, without undue fatigue and having sufficient energy to enjoy leisureâ€"time pursuits to their fullest potential."‘ The‘key components of physical fitness induces carâ€" dioâ€"respiratory fitness, body weight and composition, flexibility and muscular strength and endurance. The Fitness Van tests each inâ€" dividual on these comâ€" ponents and based on the reâ€" sults, gives out an inâ€" dividualized exercise preâ€" scription. Coleen Spence and Judy Anderson, fitness testers at the Waterloo.‘Y‘â€" and assesâ€" sors with the mobile van, agree that the age and sex of people participating in the fitness testing varies conâ€" siderably. ‘‘"In general there are usually more men than women involved in these tests,""‘ said Ms. Spence. **Women seem to be happier with their own judgement whereas men have to be told." The van will remain in Waterloo until Friday and testing will continue at the ‘Y* until the overflow has been accommodated. By special arrangement fitness testing is available at the ‘YÂ¥* at anytime. It is free to all health club members, $5 for members and $20 for nonâ€"members. _