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The crisis in childcare in Canada can no longer be ignored or attended to in a patchwork quilt manner. As teachers, we Can‘t ignore the crisis in childcare nBP i: ains â€"Alintind ; adsmntitiiinntlhitadiieb d 9h. d h aca 2 Your support throughout it all has made this possible, and has united everyone in the CF cause "Together for Life". This year, our tenth sale, brought in our highest ever contribution of over $13,000 bringing our grand total to over $56,000. The sale would have been a thing of the past this year without the commitment of the Waterloo Grand River Kinsmen Club. The family of Kin is no stranger to the CF cause; they are in fact celebrating their 25th anniversary of involvement with the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation across Canada. We are grateful for your loyalty to our family, our project and our cause. Burnelis say thanks for support McLean also suggests other levels of government or private enterprise could fill the gap if the feds cut passenger service. Perhaps this will happen. But let‘s not start preparing for that "worst" until every defense for continuing Via service has been made, and the battle lost. Rather, now is the time for every area politician, no matter what the level, to be fighting to keep the rail service active. It‘s time for every taxpaying train user to be petitioning the federal government to prevent the abandoning of the north line between Toronto and Sarnia. Quite simply, Via service is too vital to Kâ€"W to do anything else. For proof one need only visit the Kitchener station any day. It‘s busy, really busy. With casual travellers; with commuters, mornings and afternoons, with students, especially during the fall and winter months. Transport 2000, a lobby group, says statistics reveal ridership on the line has steadily increased; trains are often full to capacity, and frequently passengers must be turned away. About 1,500 passengers between Jan. 19 and Mar. 13 of this year, they estimate Consider the alternatives. More vehicles travelling back and forth on an already overcrowded Highway 401, a highway always under repair yet always needing more work. Without even considering the environmental impacts, this just doesn‘t make sense. Letters Kâ€"W can‘t afford to lose Via service Walter McLean is wrong. Now is not the time to be preparing for what he calls "the worst" â€" the loss of Via passenger service between Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo and Toronto. We can‘t afford to give up now PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 1989 (pinion Burnell Family Waterloo Grand River Kinsmen Club Garage Sale for Cystic Fibrosis Thanks WCWTA supports the expansion of nonâ€" profit childcare as studies have shown that this system uses fees and public funds entirely for the care of children. We are opposed to any federal or provincial laws or regulations that would improve public funding for profit childcare owners. Providers ro;'cl;;.lclt‘::ti";-mew ;;e ge‘nerally caring and dedicated people. However, in Clearly, along with the availability of childcare spaces, a publiclyâ€"funded proâ€" gram must be initiated similar to educaâ€" tion or health care. Children are no longer considered the sole responsibility of paâ€" rents whose income must provide for their needs. Society must share the responsibiliâ€" ty f'o: children along with parents. recognize the need for quality childcare and support the Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare in their lobby ‘89. The Waterloo County Women Teachers‘ Association (WCWTA) is a member of the Waterloo Region Coalition for Better Childcare and believes that quality childâ€" care is essential for every parent who requires this basic public service. There should be a variety of childcare arrangeâ€" ments â€" at work, in private homes, as well as in daycare centres and at various times of day. All children should have access to childcare services regardless of family ingome or parents‘ employment status. Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff Just close your eyes and imagine this scene. The sun shines down on a group of small children, running and tumbling on the soft green grass and playing and splashing in a bright plastic paddle pool full of cool, clear water. You sit and watch, a smile on your lips. relation to the service they provide, the recognition and remuneration they receive are disproportionately low. WCWTA beâ€" lieves that centres should employ graduâ€" ates from an early childhood education program. If the developmental needs of children are to be addressed then centres must reflect the best current knowledge about early childhood development. As requireâ€" ments for quality childcare go beyond a babysitting service, society must be preâ€" pared to pay adequately for trained personâ€" nel. Our most valued resource, the young children of Canada, must be given the proper share of our financial resources. Pauline B. Hodgkiss President Waterloo County Women Teacher‘s Association Water gets worse while politicians argue Now open your eyes and face reality. No happy children, no soft green grass, no cool, clear water. Instead we have only hard, dry, brown grass and sand where the water should be. Disheartened, you go indoors and turn on the tap for a drink of cold water. Your glass fills with a dirty, chlorinated liquid. This will be the reality here, in Waterloo Region, this summer. While committees and councils argue, make excuses and try to shift blame, our water just keeps getting worse. With modern technology in a region this size, it seems incren%fie that we cannot maintain a supply of fresh clean water. The time has come for those responâ€" sible to do their jobs properly or to give them to someone who can. Pauline Robinson Waterloo Letters welcome