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9 | W aterloo C hronicle | T hursday,June 13,2019 w aterloochronicle.ca LOOK ING AHEAD TRANSPORTATION MASTER PLAN We're updating the city's transportation master plan And we need your help! The City of Waterloo is reviewing and updating the community's transportation plan. The study will provide an up to date strategy for moving people and goods around the city now and into the future. With Waterloo changing and growing, the transportation system needs to adapt to who we are today and where we want to be in 25 years. Specific objectives of this study will be to: • Develop a guiding transportation policy document • Provide more travel options • Describe how to develop a community that is less reliant on cars for travel • Describe how the city can leverage recent investments in light rail transit (ION) and active transportation to encourage citizens to walk, cycle and use transit more Your input is important to us! Engaging the community is a major component of this study. Individuals, organizations and groups are welcome to share their views through any of the following channels: Engagewr.ca/waterloo (our online public engagement and information platform) Pop-up consultation events E-mail: WaterlooTMP@ptsl.com Public information centres Stakeholder outreach meetings If you or your agency or group are interested in participating in this study or if you'd like to be added to the contact list to receive updates and further information, contact either: Chris Hodgson, P. Eng. Senior Project Engineer City of Waterloo Transportation Services Waterloo Service Center 265 Lexington Court Waterloo, ON N2J 4A8 Tel: 519-747-8791 Fax: 519-886-5788 Christopher.Hodgson@waterloo.ca Gene Chartier, P.Eng. Vice President Paradigm Transportation Solutions Limited 5A - 150 Pinebush Road Cambridge, ON N1R 8J8 Tel: 519-896-3163 Fax: 855-764-7349 gchartier@ptsl.com Check engagewr.ca/waterloo for more information and project updates. I love reading old news- papers. Since this week marks my 13-year anniversary writing a weekly column for this newspaper, I thought I'd dig even further into Water- loo Chronicle history. I recently reread an 83- year-old copy of the Chron- icle, published July 2, 1936, which I picked up a few years back at Market Road Antiques. One story begins with the headline "Children Re- joice School is Out," and continues: "School is over for the year, and it wasn't over any too soon for the thousands of Twin City children who dashed out of their 15 school yards last Friday." For some present-day context, there are well over 100 schools in the Region of Waterloo. Another headline reads: "Farmers Must Have Rain at Once or 1936 Potato Crop Will Be Failure." The ac- companying article says that, given the summer's lack of sufficient rainfall, the region's soil was "prac- tically dust." The article continues: "Strawberries are nearing the end of their season ... and becoming smaller and less bright through lack of rainfall. The berries sold at two boxes for 25 cents on Tuesday morning, many of the berries being small with a few large ones." Nowadays, a quart of Ontario-grown strawber- ries costs about $4 at the St. Jacobs Farmers' Market. In world news, I was in- trigued by the story: "Grief at Death of Wife at 100 Causes Death of Man, 100: Warsaw, June 29 - Jacob Altschuler, 100 years old, died today in the Township of Grzybow, half an hour after his wife, Hinda, also 100, had died. Doctors attri- buted the man's death to grief over the loss of his wife." One local headline in the old Chronicle really caught my eye: "Wife-Beat- er Gets Lashes." The story reports that Albert "Frenchy" Salmen was sentenced by Magis- trate Watt to 30 days impris- onment and "a good old- fashioned flogging" in the Waterloo County Court. The article, both in sub- ject matter and verbiage, is another illustration of how much has changed over the years. The world keeps changing, social norms evolve, language adapts, and local newspapers like the Chronicle become his- torical documents that track this progression. In the nearly 700 col- umns and articles I've writ- ten for this newspaper, I have covered a wide range of topics, including schools, local farming, death and dying, and is- sues of domestic violence. I took over this space 13 years ago from then re- gional councillor Sean Strickland. In his final arti- cle, Strickland wrote how his column never became a task to write, but rather something he looked for- ward to every week. I feel the same way. I like to think that, someday de- cades in the future, some- one will pick up a "vintage" copy of the Waterloo Chronicle and marvel at the way things were way back when Marshall Ward wrote a column for it. Marshall Ward is a freelance writer and artist. Email is welcome at mar- shall_ward@hotmail.com. OLD NEWSPAPERS OFFER WINDOW TO THE PAST A July 2, 1936 edition of the Waterloo Chronicle. Marshall Ward/Photo OPINION MARSHALL WARD DIGS INTO WATERLOO CHRONICLE HISTORY MARSHALL WARD Column SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AT WATERLOOCHRONICLE.CA