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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 10 Dec 1986, p. 1

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Chronicle Staff Brighton public school will be kept open and Erbsville school will close if Waterloo county board of education trustees adopt recommendations proposed by its school accommodation review committee. In a written report committee members suggest Brighton school be retained as a regular day school and its catchment area be expanded to boost enrolment. ‘‘The population of Brighton school will undergo significant growth as a consequence of an increased catchment area,"‘ said the report. Other reasons cited for keeping the Uptown Waterioo facility open include the fact that the school is in ‘"acceptable"‘ physical condition, and that the continued existence of the school is ‘‘*central to the success of the City of Waterloo‘s residential uptown development program .‘ 131st Year No. 49 Brighton was first proposed for closure in 1984, but a decision was deferred by the board for two years because of pressure from the City of Review committee say$S ~Task force asked keep Brighton open to revise report But report urges Erbsville closing Wednesday, December 10, 1986 Erbsville was recommmended for closure by the committee because of construction of the new Beechwood West public school. According to the report the Waterloo board assured the province that the fourâ€"room Erbsville school would be closed if funding were approved for a new westâ€"side Waterloo and parents. This May board officials again suggested that Brighton be closed because its enrolment had dropped to below 50 per cent of its effective capacity of 229 students. The school‘s enrolment has declined from 134 students in 1981 to 101 last September. It is predicted that in 1990 the school‘s student population will stand at 104. The committee suggested that the future of the Erbsville facility and site be reviewed by the board‘s facilities committee. They estimate the board would save approximately $75,000 annually by closing Erbsville. Closing Brighton would save the board $77,900 annually, the report said. Mark Bryson Chronicle Staff Just over a year ago, Christine Scott would awaken from a peaceful sleep in suburbia and ready herself for another day in the big city. The early hour itself never seemed to be a problem. But the thought of that timeâ€"consuming and miserable drive along the Don Valley Parkway to her Bloor Street office was something she could never get used to. Also lurking in the back of her mind, making things worse, was the knowledge that in 10, 12, maybe 14 hours, she would have to make the same tedious journey home. She was spending at least three hours a day in her car commuting to work. Avoiding that daily grind, says the 32â€"yearâ€"old The people side to ‘Manufacturing‘ a company move The Waterioo Farmer‘s Market is one of the more enjoyable discovâ€" eries Peter and Sandra Noble have made since moving to Waterioo with Manuftacturers Life. There are still moments though, when the young couple miss "their city"‘. SPECIAL REPORT M&yoonphoto Waterloo‘s Student Housing task force is back in business. The steering committee reunion was called for Monday night by city council after examination of the task force‘s supposed findl report. However instead of adopting a recommendation by the city‘s technical coâ€"ordinating committee that would have eliminated two of the 21 recommendations in the report, aldermen instructed task force chairman Brian Turnbull to reâ€"assemble his group and come back with a revised edition. The major area of concern was a recommendation that student housing projects receive special grants from the city. TCC also disagreed with a cityâ€"sponsored contest for homeowner/landowner and tenants. TCC further suggests that only "qualified‘" support be given to a recommendation calling for city endsorsement of a standardized lease agreement between students and landlords. The TCC concerns are the city‘s formal response to the year long factâ€"finding mission which tabled its results in September. A further task force recommendation calling for a permanent, nineâ€"member committee composed of students, landlords, residents and city staff, was also given qualified support. Ald. Lynne Woolstencroft felt a Waterioo politician should also sit on the comâ€" mittee. The committee also calls for the $30,000 expenditure to examine zoning issues that relate to student housing. Council will consider the report again on Jan. 26. The Manufacturers had a difficult go of it convincing employees to move away from Toronto and relocate in Waterloo. Many employees made it clear from the start that they wanted no part of ‘‘I‘m one of these people who believes I‘ll enjoy wherever I live. It‘s not the city that you live in, it‘s the people you meet. Every city I‘ve lived in has had things I miss and things I don‘t miss. That will probably always be the case for me," said Scott, director of marketing plans at Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. career woman, is the best thing about working in Waterloo. Other than that, a city is a city is a city, she claims. And she should knowâ€"starting in Kington 10 years ago, Scott has shuffled to Toronto, Ottawa, Regina, Edmonton, back to Toronto and now to Waterloo. Scott is one of 170 Manufacturers employees who pulled up their Toronto stakes recently and volunteered to move here to staff the company‘s Canadian division headquarters on Westmount Road. The bulk of the Torontoâ€"toâ€"Waterloo switch occurred in the summer of 1985, nearly a year after the Manufacturers announced that it had purâ€" chased Dominion Life Assurance Co. for approxiâ€" mately $157 million from the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. of Fort Wayne, Ind. = The news that followed eventually overshadowed the purchase. (Continued on page 5)

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