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The glove is being handed to you, council. Pick it up and get in the game Where are our present municipal leaders? Committees to "Save Health Care in our Region", are proposed and popping up everyâ€" whgre. The problem is that the more diffuse the focus and the more scattered we are as a voice, the less likely we will be to irchestrate and effect a powerful political charge. We need strong, effective, LOCAL leadership on this issue. It doesn t make much sense for the City of Waterloo to spend countless hours and tax dollars to attract new business to this community, if we are crippled in our capacity to manage our existing health care It seems to me that the people of our community have amply demonstrated a willingness to get in the game and, furthermore, that they will back up a leader on the issue of preserving health care in qur region. From dentuists‘ office to dry cleaners, petitions are everywhere. Last Sunday night alone, hundreds filled the streets of Kitchener in a candlelight march to protest the closure of St. Mary‘s. The only mumicipal politician on the walk was exâ€"Kitchener Mayor, Dom Cardillo ‘ fiht’ e * _ P Lisa O‘Connell The vast bulk of the project is to be borne by government. Metro Toronto Council is expected to raise their portion of the lunding, roughly $304 million, by raising taxes and floating a municipal bond issue. The provincial government is expected to )me up with the remaining $511 million You read might, $511 million â€" a half a BILLION dollars. 1 thought a lot about the Sheppard Subway this week. It always seemed to pop into my consciousness the same time 1 was thinkâ€" ing about the potential closing of St. Mary‘s, one of the only two acute : "W THUE care hospitals we have in Kâ€"W. Waterloo Town Square 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Waterloo, Ontario NJ 1p2 After 12 years, 10 fierce debates and intense backâ€"room lobby: ing by North York Mayor Mel Lastman, Metro Toronto Council approved the $875â€"million, 6.4â€"kilometre subway line on September 25. It ended, what had been, a long, controversial For anyone out there who think that tough, political fighting y\cldshukormpmaall.lhantvowords(oryou. Sheppard Subway. Looking for a leader Orr us ENCE Tim Gardner Pete Cudhez (Sp. Ed.) Melodee Martinuk (Supervisor) Shannon Blacker Lynn Mitchell Bill Karges The province collects $38.2 million mental levy on liquor, wine and beer Pedalling the Recycle: As an average citizen who does what he can withâ€"the blue box, I‘d like to see a simple statement showing what recycling costs are locally and provincially That would include the job titles and costs for all bureauâ€" crats right down to the senior consultant in charge of discardâ€" ed toothpicks. (That‘s an important task since poor disposal of toothpicks can spread the dreaded Dutch elm disease ) Let‘s have the numbers on costs because in recent weeks there‘ve been charges that Queen‘s Park is doing a con job on municipal taxpayers. emergecs mnrssemome I wish they‘d ask how his hunt for the knife From most of his photos, it‘s like a twoâ€"horse â€" putt, putt, putt, one after another. Question Mark: O.J. Simpson is front and m centre again and I do wish they‘d ask him that big question. Remember how when he was acquitted last year, he vowed to pursue "the real killers" relentlessly? On second thought, lets go totus porcus (that‘s "whole hog" in Latin). Forget the shovâ€" els; lets outfit ‘em all with tablespoons. The digging would be done by men wieldâ€" ing shovels (or Irish banjos, as they were once called in the construction trade). Just think how many you‘d need. It‘s the right approach, but it‘s far too timid. The best way is to forbid the use of technoloâ€" gy. For example, if you‘re excavating for a new building, there‘d be no power shovels, frontâ€" end loaders and so on. The banks do well in bad times; in good times they do much better. Yes sir, the record profits have topped $1 billion in some cases. But I don‘t understand banks: why do they chain down a pen that doesn‘t write? Job Lot: Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall has an NDP backâ€" ground and maybe that explains her penchant for fantasy. In any case, she recently mused that one way to provide jobs is to cut the work week to 32 hours and give more people employment. "Imn Let‘s see the numbers on recyc the closure of St. Mary‘s Hospital.. ( (..N} JP W /A226 C P ‘%% 0CR dip e ‘i@@ $ \ / i9 4 20y Cie theMonkeys, «L ‘ Public Opinion; Nine out of ten people oppose the closure of St. Mary‘s Hospital. Sharon Walter Jerry Fischer Rick Campbell Andrew Pearen Heather Mitchel] 4 miltion a year in an environâ€" and beer bottles sold at LCBO lor the knileâ€"slayers is going a twoâ€"horsepower outboard i tes The Fairway Group Sdncipuon ral 240 Holiday Inn Dr., Unit F $45 yearly in mwunxh : Cambridge, On. fl)g ‘sye:iy ou f N3C 3X4 +GSTI. The views of our columnists are their own and do not necessarily "P'? the views of the newspaper. % don: Waterloo Chroniflc is published every Wednesday by The Waterloo Chronicle is â€" a division of Southam Inc. ONce over |JGHTY PP AMENDE P mc d Â¥x> 10| U lr t Waviy lmw“'*l e t Anyhow, I don‘t want to knock drinking, It can do more K you than eating. After all, how many times have you sough advice from the kid tending the salad bar? Pass the Trivia: 1 used to fancy that locally 1 was one of th best when it came to trivia. For example, I was proud of know ing that Wilma Flintstone‘s maiden name was Slaghoopic. But recently I fanned on Betty Rubble‘s maiden name. Wha was it? It was McBricker, natch. But quick now, what is aull union leader Buzz Hargrove‘s real first name? Why it‘s Basil, d course, And a pound of feathers still weighs more than a poud d gold. Feathers are weighed in avoirdupois (16 ounces p4 pound); gold is weighed in troy (12 ounces per pound). _ h Let‘s remember that Ludwig staned it all m with his wedding, To mark the occasion, tht royal family invited the populace to a hore race on the meadow. To everyone‘s delight, free beer and snacks were provided. '5 lsupposcngRidnrdmigiumforlhcsmb sausage, as long as Kitchener taxpayers picked up the tab. _| stores. That‘s a dime a bottle, but that revenue goes into t general coffers. Meanwhile, it costs Ontario cities and towns $27 5 millia â€" or l3.6ccms:boul¢-wcollea.mcyckordisposcd‘ LCBO glass. It means that a drinker pays twice â€" once & purchaser paying an environmental levy and then as a tm payer paying for the bottle disposal The answer is plain: the $38.2 million at liquor stores should be divvied up bet» cities and towns. There are a lot more questions about r cling,. As one, why don‘t they honor recyc cfions?Wlmhcmlorecycling,youJ can‘t beat TV soap operas and what they doing with plots. Royal Flush: We‘re on the eve of KWs beer bash and given King Richard‘s pench for dressing up, do you really think hell c tume himself as King Ludwig | and Oktoberfest‘s biggest hit? o RZ Metro Days of Protest. 1 I wish O‘Connell had c more specifically how her achieved. On October 2 opportunity to: carry thi Park by joining the hunds will travel to Toronto a this message from our _ Lisa O‘Connell‘s opir For St. Mary‘s", did an e on the issues. MPP Way: that our community sh the provincial governm O‘Connell has clearly co by explaining that while the need for restructurin underâ€"funding of health She concludes "we need protest cuts t elected a oneâ€"seat legist residents of PEI would in their historic legislatt Of course, the Tories gested this change wit they would benefit fror province that lose the m the riding redistribution result in a reduction . Queen‘s Park from 13 campaigned on a pron 99. Even though he number of federal seats just sounded more im would bring the numb worth noting that if oth followed this example 1LETTER Day of Prote provincial riding Act. The name, whil least an accurate refle The initial relief at t forthrightness soon 1 one stops to conside legislation and the ne have on the province. The bill now before It‘s â€" somewhat therefore, to learn tha est brainchild is cal tection". 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