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has offered the n the Third sallery in on all Custom 1184 5591 745 $ 74 "" that while their street is zoned for singleâ€"family residences, it backs on to Lester Street, where nearly all typed of residential houses. te e 3 Batavia resident Helen Reesor is concerned that the balance between families and students in the area is being upset by the recent and upcoming construction of large rooming houses. On top of the obvious problems of loud music, allâ€"night parties and messy properties, Reesor is concerned about the effect monâ€" ster homes have on the drainage behind her side of Batavia After a rainstorm, the rear yards along the west side of Batavia Place pool up with water that drains from Lester Street, espeâ€" clally from small properties dominated by large rooming houses and their parking lots. : "The rooming house owners should not be able to build a conâ€" adoju:fihckhueunfllthmoflpvbhnmdundup," Reesor The staff report offered no solutions for the drainage problem, however Engineering staff has been directed to assess the situaâ€" tion and report back on August 16. Reesor and her neighbors would like to see council impose an interim control bylaw to freeze development on Lester Street. However, the City‘s solicitor has informed staff that guch a move could be contested because an interim control bylaw has been used on the street within the past three years, and the Planning Act requires three years between such applications. FRurthermore, it would be difficult as this stage to stop any developer who has already applied for a permit. ’z l $3 99 City vows A "plain written" sexual assault brochure, to be distrib uted this week, will provide crisis information to area Produced by Core Literacy of Waterloo Region, with coâ€" what sexual assault is, as well as where help is available. ‘Wum-fl:nmmmhm community, I that a lot of them were written at a level 1 know (literacy) learners wouldn‘t be able to access," Help for women with poor literacy skills Core Literacy brochure explains sexual assault in plain and simple terms INTRODUCTORY PRICE § l ;Assorted Varieties Soft Drinks case of 24 x 355 mL tins. â€"P. . & Regular retail price $4.99 Our Compliments are here. A new line of premium quality grocery items with prices that mean real value. It took a bit of time and some hard wo_tk, but we think you‘ll really enjoy them. In fact, we‘ll give you your money back , if you aren‘t.completely satisfied.Prices in effect until Sunday, Jul; 11/93. Introducing Our Compliments. (Continued from page 1) Net unit cost 4.1¢ per 100 mL we‘ve talked about sexual assault." Because there is a strong correlation between low literacy and low income, Ramsay said, many women living below the poverty line can not access available services, simply because they don‘t know those services exist. "To get to almost any service, you have to read about it in said Core Literacy‘s Anne Ramsay, who initiated the producâ€" . the phonebook or on a brochure," Ramsay said. "So when tion of the brochure two months ago. you‘re in crisis, you may not report (a sexual assault) "A lot of times, our female learners have talked about â€" because you don‘t know where to go. So, there certainly was mnhdhflnpfiâ€"utmdm&n,cu- a need to have something plain written that could reach inly, I‘ve come across people who‘ve talked about childhood _ women that weren‘t being reached." abuse of whatever kind. And in one group that I facilitate, _ Ramsay added that while many sexual assault crisis orgaâ€" we‘ve had more than one session on sex education where . nizations, such as Anselma House, the Family Crisis Shelâ€" we‘ve talked about sexual assault." ter, and the Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Sexual Support Centre, Because there is a strong correlation between low literacy have distributed their own brochures throughout the region, and low income, Ramsay said, many women living below the there was no brochure which gave a listing of all sexual Recent taste panels preferred to taste of Our Compliments cola to the national brands. We chink they‘d also prefer our prices. A-uv.qau‘nnba.%dm"f?&m 49¢ Net unit cost 6.5¢ per 100 mL WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1993 â€" PAGE 3 A $2,000 grant from the Ontario Women‘s Directorate for * (Continued on page 9) Natasha Lane take a soda break together at the 26th annual Kâ€"W Multicultural Festival at Victoria Park Sunday. The festival featured music, gifts and a plethora of food from around the globe. Sisters Sophia and