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Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd 30 Queen St . N . Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- erlooOnt Telephone 7466364, All well and good except that major issues such as Quebec independence. unemployment. Can- adals economic independence and abortion were ignored or sidestepped. Some people were still trying to decipher his bland. evasive and incon- clusive answers even as his helicopter winged off into the sunset. It was hard to understand why the panel of three students was placed on the stage with Tru- deau since they were allowed no more questions or comments than students from the audience. He also shook% lot of hands and signed some autographs but he wasn't in any place long en- ough to hear the "people's" views. Even when talking with the highschool students, he always had the upper hand. Instead of allowing a full-scale debate with Trudeau. the organizers used the excuse that many students should be allowed to ask ques- tions and prevented most supplementary ques- tions and comments. And at the Valhalla Trudeau told the "people" how they were fine members of the Liberal party and good Loyal Canadians and how great mul- ticulturalism and Oktoberfest are. For which he received a great round of applause. Pierre Trudeau made what was labelled "a meet-the-people visit" to Kitchener last week. ICs interesting that this trip was planned so that he could meet as few people as possible. unless the few highschool students at Eastwood and the assortment of Liberals and other guests' at the Valhalla Inn could be labelled as representatives of "the people". In the end. it will come down to concern for the developer t as regards his making full use of the land) versus concern for the residents of Lakeshore. If council recognizes (and it seems to) that mistakes have been made concerning commercial convenience plazas. 'it should be willing to correct them in order to protect city residents. . Meet the people The problem with this approach is that the development agreement doesn't list specific con- trols (as would be in a bylaw) and its strength has never been tested in a court. This might make council leery of trying to force too much on the developer. Approval of all these plans is made necessary through the development agreement signed by the city and any builder. A revised site plan has already been approved by the architectur- al advisory committee of planhing board which reduces the proposed floor space to 10.000 square feet. ' _ Another is the landscaping plan and the city could, if it so desired. be sticky enough about the details that Sabem would be put in the posi- tion of having to negotiate before a permit was issued. Before receiving a building permitfthe devel- oper must submit several plans to city staff for approval. Two are the structural plan for the building and the drainage plan for the site. It is unlikely that the city could find any fault with these. They cannot do it themselves but there is still an avenue open to the city for stalling it and having successful negotiations with the de- veloper. 7 Now that the proposed commercial-convenh ence plaza bylaw has been deferred, Lakeshore residents are searching for another method of stopping the Tollgate plaza or at least limiting its size. Waterloo Chronicle, Thursday, March 30, 1972 [Caterina Chzoniclle ESTA BUSH ED 1854 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada one year $8, in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 What next for Tongate? E thtor Frank Gnldspmh Oscar Swartz. owner and manager, said the factory will employ about 65 work- crs ' The Waterloo ratepayers association. at a meeting held recently In the base- ment of the market build- mg. passed a resolution favoring reduction m salar- Mayor W.D. Brill an- nounced recently that Wa- terloo has acquired another industry. The Canadian Transformer Company has purchased the former Va- lentine-Martin Shoe Com- pany plant at the corner of Cedar and Queen Streets. 40 years ago The committee suggested service awards would be acceptable if the firemen's association accepted the 12 percent offer. 30 years ago Meanwhile the fire and light committee stuck to its offer of 12 percent across the board but the firemen are insisting on a $7-per-week increase with service awards or $8 with- out the awards. Representatives of the un- ion met with the board of works and appeared satis- fied on all points except the rates offered grader opera- tors and general laborers. The union is asking a $1.50 per hour and $1.15 per hour respectively while the com- mittee is offering $1.42 and $1.14. John Pannabaker question- ed whether there was a responsibility to take the service to the children and said he was against a great deal of modern "spoon- feeding". 20 years ago The Waterloo board of works committee and the civic employees union are only a minor point away in the settlement of their cur- rent dispute. She was commenting on the library's lack of ser- vice to public school child- ren because Waterloo had no bookmobile to visit the schools. Margaret Beckman, a member of the Waterloo library board, told the board it was criminal to deny children access to library service just because their parents weren't intel- ligent enough to bring them. " years ago He was no different from thousands of Canadian servicemen. who married lovely little English ducks on the strength of their big cattle ranch, or gold mine, back home. The girls came out expecting The Ponder- osa. and found they were the sole menial on 120 acres of cedar and rock. Or John- ny didn't happen to own that gold mine. He just worked in it. Well. Jeannie went to New Zealand with Andy. and I hope she slept well count- ing those non-existent sheep as they leaped over the shoe counter The chaps were not being dishonest. After all. if you said to an English girl. “The old man has 120 acres". it sounded as though there must be at least l0 servants. If he said, “I'm a gold miner", it sounded as though he had a gold mine The next New Zealanders I met were in training in England. They spoke Eng- Files of Yesteryear However, that's another story. Jeannie fell in love with a New Zealand airman. during the war. His name was Andy. Said he owned a sheep ranch. But I reckon he was a shoe clerk. a French teacher called Jeannie Cameron. I kissed her up in an apple tree one day. She was 26, and lonely. I was 19 - and 19. I Il,,;) Vt 2? . t, r- . Let's see. The first New Zealander I ever met was She wasn't a New Zea- lander then. She was a high school teacher. And I was a student. In fact. when the word got around that l was kissing my French teacher up in an apple tree. it very nearly ruined me with my 15-year-old girl friend. who thought teachers should be seen and heard, but not touched. ies of persons in the employ of the town council, the public utilities commission and the town school board. Those who spoke on the In prison camp. I knew an- other Newzie. He was a squadron leader. Every- body else thought he was around the bend. but I knew he was just another Newzle, He'd come to my room in barracks every so often and bellow. "Smiley. do you know where I can buy a truck In Canader"" His plan. after release. was not to go back to NP, by ship. with the others, but to head for Canada. and drive across the country by truck It's quite possible Freddy was sold and we formed a syndicate. then and there, to go to NZ. " ter the war and get rich in two years. The syndicate was rather shattered when Nick and Freddy were killed in one week, and I was shot down the next. Then I got to a squadron. Three of us in a tent. Two Canadians and a New Zea- lander. By this time I could talk New Zealand. Nick was an old guy, about 25. Good type. Earthy, practical, realistic. The other Canadian. Freddy. was 19, virginal idealistic. and credulous. I was sort of in between. Nick used to tell that boy stories that curdled his blood and even curled my hair slightly. He told us the biggest lies about the fish and the deer and the sheep and the women of New Zea- land that l blush. even now. to think of how I half be- lieved him. lish, but it was a little dif- ferent. Once I asked two of them what they were doing that evening, One replied, "We thett we'd week ecress a cepple o' peddocks anev a bayah." Much research divulged that this meant they thought they would walk across a couple of pad- docks (fields) and have a beer at the pub. .. matter felt that since both the workingman and his employers had received re- ductions. the civic officials should do the same. Town Bill Smiley “Well. to make a long story short. it was with a much lighter heart that I swung out into the balmy night to put the milk bottles out, Things didn't seem to be so bad after all And I was still chuckling so much that I suddenly realized that my head was high. my stride confident and the night sky down here is real- ly beautiful and God is up there v.r how had I forgot- ten? Just to be able to laugh again at something It really does do good like medicine 9T "As usually happens at times like these. minor problems seem major also and it seems impossible to hold your head up in a posi- tive manner. So this is where I was last night when the Statesman arrived from Bowmanville and I flipped it open to your column.... and read about 'men gll weather make mistak Well, I nearly died laugh- ing. And it felt so good to laugh... "Thank you. dear Bill Smiley, for your delightful column. Here I am, 7.000 miles from home and I felt that my little world was crumbling around me. We are gradually losing every- thing and at present may lose our house as we try to make a go of it in New Zea- land." This seems like a long preamble to something, and it is. Writing a column is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. Once in a while shouting into the void. you hear an echo. It warms the heart. Such is‘this. from Auckland, New Zealand. that he planned to drive it right across the Pacific. too, but I couldn't remem- ber a single truck dealer. so I don't know what happen- council members felt that the civic officials were very efficient and received low- er salaries .than officials in other towns in the province. Thank you. dear 8‘5le