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Show of support by council for weather office Chronicle Staft Waterioo city council has joined the move ment to keep the Wa terloo Wellington Airâ€" port weather office Arguing the office is ‘‘extremely impor tant" to the Region and that its closure could seriously hamper the city‘s ability to attract new industry, Mayor Marjorie Carrol\ asked Zoning hassles plague northland industrial park Chronicle Staff Disagreements over zoning could delay de velopment of the Wa terloo northland indusâ€" trial park. The problem in volves a sevenâ€"hectare strip of land bordering the 200â€"hectare indusâ€" trial park at King Street and Northfield Drive. The city‘s planâ€" ning department and the property owners, Regional Shopping Centre Limited, want the land zoned for comâ€" mercial â€" development. Waterloo‘s business deâ€" velopment director and two neighbouring resiâ€" dents demand that it be zoned industrial. The city owns nearly 50 acres of land in the industrial park while the remainder is priâ€" vately owned. Plans for the extension of sewers and services has been approved up to the site. Waterloo engineerâ€" ing chief Jim Willis Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff The battle against child abuse must be fought st the community level as well as by the individual if there is to be any chance of success, says a recent study from Wilfrid Laurier University. **Child maltreatment isn‘t just a matter of quality of parenting, it‘s a matter of quality of life in general ... it is not just an individual problem but a community problem â€" if you eliminate economic disparity and the disparity in community resources, you will go a long way to eliminating the problem,""‘ concluded Glen Snider, who along with fellow WLU facuity of social work graduate student Arni Skoretz compiled the extensive examinaâ€" tion of child abuse in Waterloo Region. Must address community problems to help solve regional child abuse Based on records of Waterloo Region‘s Family and Children‘s Services from 1980 to 1982, the study was designed to investigate whether "quality of life indicaâ€" tors" such as income and unemployment could be used to accurately predict where child abuse is likely to occur. Also discussed were what factors determined whether a child is taken into care and what could be done to reduce the incidence of child abuse in the society. Of the 2,014 cases dealt with by FCS in the threeâ€"year period, 549 involved child abuse. When statistics were broken down according to municipality, the investigaâ€" council Monday to "strongly support"‘ an airport commission bid to keep the weather office open. Environment Canada announced last month that because of budgeâ€" tary cutbacks, the weather office would be closed March 31, Carroll added the government‘s decision to close the weather told members of the city‘s business develâ€" opment committee Tuesday that plans to extend servicing to cityâ€"owned lands in the park have been held up because Regional Shopping Centres reâ€" fuses to grant an easeâ€" ment across their propâ€" erty. They‘re using it as a ‘"bargaining point," to get the commercial zoning for the sevenâ€" acre parcel,. said Willis. Planning director Tom Slomke defends the commercial use of the parcel by arguing there is a shortage of highway commercial lands in the city. "In terms of longâ€"term planning strategy it is very desirable. If you don‘t allow room for them, these uses will want to locate on Weber Street where they‘li be across from residential developâ€" (Continued on page 4) tors found marked variations in average rates of abuse, from 4.5 incidents/1,000 families in Waterloo, to 6.9 in Kitchener and 8.7 in Cambridge. In all three cities core areas showed significantly higher levels of abuse than inâ€"suburban or rural areas. For example, the rate of child maltreatment for downâ€" town Kitchener, at 46.4/1,000 families, was more than five times greater than the average rate for the entire region. When it comes to matching the availâ€" ability of community resources such as churches, recreational facilities, schools and parks with "highâ€"risk populations"‘, Waterloo again has had the greatest success, 98 per cent, while Kitchener has been 60 per cent effective. Snider noted that while Cambridge had the largest number of resources per capita, the city was least successful, 43 per cent, when it came to locating them in areas where needed most. According to Snider, study results clearâ€" ly demonstrate that economic stress is the ‘"most significant common denominator‘‘ in child abuse. * ‘‘Toleration of poverty is proving very costly to our society," said the report. ‘*Poverty is the fertile soil which reaps the harvest of child maltreatment." Other notable variables include the percentage of singleâ€"parent families, a lack of community resources and high office at a time when expansion of the air port is under discusâ€" sion ‘‘just doesn‘t make sense." "It‘s a case of one arm not knowing what the other is doing." said Carroli The city‘s policy for selecting consultants is being reviewed at the request of Aid. Brian Turnbull. Turnbull asked for the study because of ‘‘complaints from some consultants about getting on the city‘s list ... there‘s a feeling out there among consulâ€" tants that it is hard to get on the city‘s list and we should notallow that feeling to exist."‘ Mayor Marjorie Car roll defended the city‘s selection policy saying it is ‘"as open as you will find anywhere. Anyone who wishes to be on the list, can be."‘ A comprehensive study of Maple Hill Creek has been underâ€" taken by consultant James F. MacLaren Limited and a final report is expected to be completed by Noâ€" vember, city aldermen learned Monday. The $10,000 study was commissioned by the city in an effort to find a solution to creek flooding occurring in the area of Culpepper Drive. Last year street resiâ€" dents appeared before council asking that the creek be completely enclosed because it represented a hazard to the lives of their children. the Nipten Walerce 2:'...» w: :Md‘q leuag#s . 0‘! be open tor hbusingesa within the neat two Pat Arbuckile Chronicle Staft When the Hote! Waterloo reopens next week, there may be a few new faces, but otherwise, much will be the same. Bob and Ed Chadder, owners of the hotel at King and Erb Streets, have announced plans to reopen Ivy‘s Restauâ€" rant, the Hero and Taps pubs by as early as Aug. "The Chadders will be in the background as operations go,"‘ explained Peg Wilton, spokesâ€" man for the Chadders. The Hotel Waterioo, known for the past five years as the Waterloo House, closed in early June when its tenants Kerry Long and Stan Huston declared bankruptcy after failing to renegotiate a lease on the property. As a result, about 50 waitresses, kitchen and hotel staff were out of work. The Chadders, owners of the hotel since 1935, subsequently announced plans to Peter Cadman, former general manager of Houligans in Kitchener and Waterioo, has been hired as general manager to handle the actual dayâ€"toâ€"day operations of the restaurant and lounges. ,‘..“.... ..‘ New touches, old flavor when Hotel Waterloo opens Pot Arpuchis phuts "If you have families under sustained economic stress, with poor social supports and no political voice, then you have a high probability of increased child abuse," said Snider. rates of geographic mobility in a neighâ€" bourhood. He added that quality of life indicators are good predictors of child abuse, that can be easily compiled and used by the different levels of government as a social planning tool. ‘"It provides the first practicable predictive tool which can be used on a large scale to identify highâ€"risk populations for child abuse." Key to the prevention of child abuse, said the study‘s authors, is a change in social attitudes towards the problem leading to the provision of more adequate community resources in highâ€"risk neighâ€" borhoods. â€" "Somehow we have deceived ourselves that the answer to the problem is to develop more programs and therapies for individuals, but we can‘t soive it until we address the community problems," said Snider. _ ‘"We have to be willing to invest in the community, rather than just apply band aid solutions after the fact," he said. When providing social supports, agenâ€" cies and governments in Waterloo Region have been "very good" in helping families small children, but have "largely operate the business themselves. Since the hotel closed, the Chadders have been busy with interior cleanâ€"up. They originally hoped to reoperf the hotel in late June but, said Wilton, once they got into the books and finances, they found they couldn‘t because the former owners took it into debt more than they expected."‘ Cadman said that a few minor renovations have been planned. Changes include the inâ€" stallation of a sound system and dance floor in Taps, modernization of the kitchen and the renaming of the Hero, to be called Ivy‘s Lounge. Ivy‘s Restaurant will be basically the same with an upgraded menu. -"“-'i"il(c’eâ€" \menu will still be featuring salads, sandwiches and crepes,"" he said "but with a few additions .‘ â€" The ownérs are also planning to renovate the Loo, a basement pub popular among University students in the ‘60s and ‘70s, and turn it into a games room, he added. he said. "â€"ééavniifi'is'currenlly hiring both management and service staff in preparation for the opening. Approximately 40 to 50 people will be employed, m&i'ed" parents, especially single parents, with teenagers, Snider said. Recommendations offered in the report to assist the development of a child abuse prevention strategy for the Region inâ€" clude: _ **"These are the forgotten half of the child abuse problem .‘ L1 e e altering funding priorities of the Genâ€" eral Welfare Authority and Family Benefit Assistance to more realistically reflect needs of highâ€"risk populations, especially single parents with toddlers and teenâ€" agers. e establishment of an onâ€"site community development project in at least one highâ€"risk neighborhood in each municipalâ€" ity to lobby for community resources, work to involve neighbourhood members in the political process and encourage establishment of internal voluntary helpâ€" ing networks. The study, which has been eight mont{ls in the preparation and is due to be officially released next week, will be distributed to agencies and governing bodies in the Region. e completion of an attitudinal survey to ascertain who is using area community reâ€" sources. e completion of a survey examining existing community resources in highâ€"risk areas. &