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I read your editorial "Car- ing is a good Sign". concern- ing the Albert Street resi- dents. with mixed feelings. 4 Waterloo Chmnido. WM, Mud: to. "" LEIIERS TO THE EDITOR Yes, the people involved are showing an interest. caring about Waterloo as too few of us do. There was an effort made to start a citi- zens' group for downtown Waterloo residents late last summer - there were ten responses. You at the Chronicle offered to print comments from readers on downtown redevelop- ment - I haven't seen a column yet. Hardly any- one has paid attention to the Urban Renewal Commit- tee. although it advertised for briefs. For people like John, Bill and Mary the blood transfusion service is more than one of the biggest most efficient blood programs in the world. Dear Editor. The highest standards of testing, research storage are maintained. Many vitally useful blood components are produced: Cryoprecipitate rich in the clotting factor required for treating haemophiliacs; Gamma Globulin a plasma fraction containing antibodies which combat many infectious diseases; and Platelets - used extensively in the fight against leukemia. It's a lifeline and as more and more blood is needed each year, a lifeline that must grew. The Waterloo Red Cross is one of the 28 agencies helped by Federated Appeal. So this month support your local Red Cross by giving generously to the Federated Appeal campaign. Give as insurance for tomorrow for yourself, your family or a friend. The Canadian Red Cross blood transfusion service is the largest and costliest Red Cross Service. It has 16 blood depots from coast to coast. Founded'26 years ago, it provides hospi- tals throughout Canada with all the blood and blood products they need. It collects nearly a million units of whole blood annually. Who are they? People who received blood and because they did were restored to life and health. Last year alone more than a quarter of a million Canadians shared the same experi- ence. They received the gift of life - human blood. And all because someone else took half an hour of their time to give. They even took a closer look at Red Cross and the blood transfusion service and here's what they discovered: - Someday" when you need the service you will be glad you gave. For John Matthews, William Scott and Mary Russell the experience was a dramatic one. They realized the generosity of a person they will never know restored them to health or even saved their lives. They understood what it means to have to depend on other people. Apathy will destroy Wa- terloo. Those of us who chose to live in Waterloo because it seemed to offer a less extroverted style than Kitchener, with lower taxes and fewer restric- tions. were mistaken. We were only buying a bit of time. Big business is not apathe- tic. After Albert Street is widened and its neigh- borhood aura damaged the next step will be Hi-Rises ringing Waterloo Park, John Matthews, William Scott, Mary Rus- sell... Some members of own cil applaud this progress. I t doesn 't hurt to give "Apathy will destroy city" Last week I read in the Chronicle and the K-W Ree- ord about plans to widen Albert Street this spring, specifically along the sec- tion south of Bricker Street. I am much concerned about the ecological im- pactofsuchaproposal. I Dear Sir. Although I do not live on Albert Street. I frequently use it, and over the past eight years have traveled it countless times by ciir and on foot on the way to " terloo Square. They want us to march to a quicker tempo. dash in our cars to a concrete park- ing lot instead of walk through our neighborhood to a park, They see Water- loo as a budding New York City, forgetting New York is now bankrupt and destroy- " such a change is neces- sary because of traffic congestion. I am not aware of it as a driver. In any case. whatever added con- Your editorial is wrong in saying Albert Street resi- dents are concerned "be- fore they really have a Should preserve social cohesion It's the little things in life, the almost daily irri- tants, that keep me in such a flaming rage that I can almost hear my great-uncle, Mountain Jack Thomson. the wildest-tempered man in the entire Ottawa Valley about ninety years ago. whisper. "That's my boy. One of the old stock. Give ‘em hell. William." Most of the major disas- ters of life I can accept with a certain equanimity. I have ridden. or flown. into the valley of death, and come out with nothing twitching except my sphinc- ter muscles. venience I would gain as a driver would be more than lost by the damage done to one of Waterioo's most distinctive streets and I, along with the residents on that street and the citizens of Waterloo in general, would be the worse off for it. problem". The problem has been around for quite a while. and the question is will council really listen, as you so optimistically suggest. to the citizens who have chosen a downtown residential life style: will they really listen when the engineers. the planners and the developers are also talking? _-e I am thinking not only of the adverse effect of such an intrusion on the fine old homes and its de- vastation of the lovely mature trees which now line Albert Street. but. be- yond that. of its likely so- cial impact on the neigh- borhood adjoining the street. No, council counts on our apathy. It is unfortunate A neighborhood such as exists around this section Bill Smiley Nri)hiij' An explanatory meeting with affected residents, a little flowering crab apple on every third lot. a little tax bill for paving and side- w a lk "improvements". and we will never miss the Waterloo we once cherish- ed. Rosemary Rowe George Street that we are aroused by stakes in our lawns and the fall of the Great Sycamore on Albert Street. I have landed an aircraft with a fused bomb dang- ling from one wing, climb- ed out to face the fire truck and the ambulance, and managed a quiet, "You're making a lot of noise with those sirens, chaps. Hard on the nerves, you know," before fainting. Undue disruption. even in the name of progress, can disturb what must be regarded as a living, and thereby fragile thing, trans- forming not only its physi- cal appearance in an ad- verse way. but also its Im- derlying social cohesion. of Albert Street. with resi- dents oi various ages. class- es and backgrounds woven together into a real com- munity, with all the tangi- ble human benefits which a true community can pro- vide. deserves to be con- sidered as a primary asset of our city. When I was shot down and crashed in a plowed field in Holland, my first thought was, "Dammit, I won't be able to keep that date with Tita tonighL" Tita was in Antwerp, several hundred miles away. A logical and calm conclusion. I very much question the priorities of planning which would subordinate Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N. Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- erloo Ont. Telephone 7416334. "ts ‘Ihat was in war-time. of course, and a man had to keep a stiff upper, not to mention nether lip. But life since has brought the same sort of thing. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. somebody said. Oh, yes, it hath. Try this. the value of such a resi- dential community to mere traffic convenience. When I was beaten up for an attempted escape, I didn't rail against anyone, including the heaters. I lay there quietly in the boxcar, hands and feet wir- ed together, licked my wounds and said to myself, "Serves you right, you nit, for trying to be a hero. You weren't cut out." When our train rode thmugh the German night and right into a major bombing raid. on Leipzig. I looked down on my grovelling. screaming. pray- ing, calling-for-mother fel- low prisoners. and thought coolly. "There, but for the grace of God and the fact that I can't get out of this luggage rack twhere I was resting! would be I. .. Sedate, poised. Paralyzed.' Tell your wife you'll be home for dinner at six. Arrive home at 3 a.m. with a couple of cronies you've invited for a late Things that raise my blood pressure In Canada:. one year $8: in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Yours sincerely, David A.. Davies 205 Sunview St. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ESTABLISHED 1854 Wendy Herman, editor Waterloo A woman scorned. com- pared to a woman waiting, is like a Boy, Scout troop compared to a panzer divi- sion. snack. "Nah, she won 't mind. Come on, what‘re you, scared of your wlfe?" What I can't cope with is the daily degradations. The insults to intelligence. The utter stupidity of bu- reaucrats and the malicious heckling of inanimate ob- jects. I'm afraid I lose ev- ery vestige of coolth, sang- froid. poise. reason. Item. They (meaning the mindless burea’yt are re-numbering he addresses in town. We were 303 and now we're 613 or 631 or something. I don't even know where I live any more. , Of all the flaming. ridicu- lous. useless. idiotic. moronic. expensive. . o . . Steady. old Man. Remem- ber the blood pressure. Item, As though it knew exactly what I was writing about, my typewriter just broke a ribbon. And I just broke my typewriter. After using the name of the Lord, the typewriter com- patty, and various other deities in vain, I beat the thing with my bare hands. All I got was ink up to my wrists, and a laconic, snide remark from my wife in the next mom that she'd already had her hair curled, thank you. Item. They're cutting down the trees. The stupid bureaucrats. May they mast in eternal flames. And why are they cutting down the trees? So they can widen the roads for more stinking. rotten cars.