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the dramatic rise in the fear of crime. "We‘ve done a survey and it certainly shows, among seniors in particular, that a lot of them feel crime is going up exponentially," she said. "But what‘s going up exponentially is the fear of crime." munity Safety and Crime Prevention Council‘s recent report on crime prevention will have a chance to see and discuss the report next Tuesday. The chairwoman of CSCPC, Waterloo Coun. Joan McKinnon, said the CSCPC would be holding one of its seven planned pubâ€" lic meetings seeking input for its recentlyâ€"released report in Waterloo next Tuesday. The meeting will be held at Elizabeth Ziegler Public School on Moore Street South from 7 â€" 9 p.m. The 34 members of CSCPC released their report at a Region of Waterloo council meeting this past Thursday. The CSCPCs eight action teams have been coming forward with suggestions on how to best tackle crime prevention in the Region of Waterâ€" loo for the past 13 months. The CSCPC report contains 50 recommendations on how the community may try and improve local crime prevention. Howâ€" ever McKinnon said what the CSCPC is seeking now is public input to see if the CSCPC is on the right track. As for crime in the Region of Waterloo, McKinnon said in recent years it has actually gone down. According to the report, the total number of crimes reported in the region dropped from 40,643 in 1992 to 35,711 in 1995. Jeremy Noble, Maja Gavrilovic, Laila Mnyusiwalla, Emersonâ€" Myles Chapelle, Jamie Bacchus, and Ken Milmine. Wendy Helmling, William "Evy" Desmond, Jennifer Noah Local students honored by Kâ€" W Optimist Club At a youth appreciation reception last night, 17 local students were honored by the Optimist Club of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo for Among those recognized were Waterloo students Dillon Ranâ€" som and Heidi Weber. Ransom, a 16â€"yearâ€"old Grade 11 student at Bluevale collegiate institute was honored for his work with the Afterschool Antics program run through the Waterloo YMCA. Weber, 22, a fourthâ€"year student at Wilfrid Laurier University, was honared for her work with the Leisure Support program operated by the City of Kitchener‘s park and recreation department. Other award recipients were Daniela Danciu, Jennifer Hall, A new $300,000 fire education centre will be the next addiâ€" tion to the Children‘s Safety Village at Waterloo regional police headquarters on Maple Grove Road. The centre will be a place where children and adults learn how to protect themselves from fires, recognizing fire hazards and fire prevention. It will feature a handsâ€"on approach to learn ing, allowing children to experience a practical demonstration as well as classroom training Statistics show that 66 per cent of fatalities resulting from accidental fires in the last 10 years involved children. Construction of the new facility will begin next spring vWamloorsndcnammndmanwbovkmCam However McKinnon said part of the problem in the region is Crime Prevention Council holds _ Waterloo meeting KEWS BDIiS ES1T Fire education centre snsmturscak Wilnevmrrnonaex ns crasssiczn MECmiiiiin Nee ie + vard site, having St. Mary‘s take over administration of Grand River Hospital‘s Freeport Health Centre and thus exclusive Anne Wein, the coordinator of 9 the Save Our Hospital campaign &)‘ and an emergency room recepâ€" tionist at St. Mary‘s, said Monday she doesn‘t understand why the restructuring the region‘s hospitals doesn‘t just let the region‘s four health care centres formed by the boards of St. Mary‘s and Grand River Hospital in September. It originally was looking into the feasiâ€" bility of closing St. Mary‘s Queen‘s Bouleâ€" continue to concentrate in the areas of health care they do best. _ The feasibility task force was originally The coordinator of a campaign to save St. Mary‘s General Hospital‘s Queen‘s Boulevard site believes the group looking into hospital restructuring in the Region of Waterloo should consider one more Lobbyist calls for one more hospital option “\\;l:zzcan’t we let each hospital do what it does best, rather than close hospitals?" joined the task force Oct. 31. The revamped group released three new options for hospital restructuring in the region last Thursday, two of which sull call for the closure of St. Mary‘s Queen‘s Bouleâ€" vard site The task force was investigating the posâ€" sibility of closing St. Mary‘s as a way of coping with an 18 per cent reduction in provincial funding to hospitals in Ontano by 1998â€"99 Cambridge Memonal Hospital officially longâ€"«erm care for people in Kitchenerâ€" "All the new facilines that we have â€" tw Waterioo and having Grand River take _ new departments and updated equipmen over exclusive acute care for people in _ and what not that we have at ¢ Mar Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo at Grand Rivers â€" why would you destroy thet and have Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Health Centre everything over at Kâ€"W)" Weir asked 3 s "Kâ€"W has their own expertise y can‘t we let each hospital ,,.;,. [."},".".~",. t it m M rather than â€" «o@stewajus ulc sone T % 2. m Tss of the other services betier â€" ANNE WEIN "Why can‘t we let each hospital do wha it does best, rather than close hospitais" Wein asked David Graham the chairman of the board of St Mary‘s General Hospital and one of the coâ€"chairmen of the task force â€"____ Kivers Kitchener Water Health Centre currently excris in gytieccs ogy, pediatncs and obstetrcs dialvses and neo natal care while St Marys excels in surgery emergency care palliative care anc nuclear medicine Kitchenerâ€"Water Wein said just look (Continued on page 5 he nerâ€" Wa