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_ Downtowners further cause Lakeshore Village Assoc. The purpose of the Lakeshore Village Community Assoâ€" ciation is to create a sense of community by providing soâ€" cial and recreational activities for all residents of the area. year. The Social Whirl On December 16 the children had a Christmas Party at Sir Edgar Bauer School. About 250 children and their parâ€" ents enjoyed Miss Nancy and her puppets and welcomed Santa and his bag of goodies. Coming events The 100 girls, aged 4 to 14, who are participating in gymâ€" nastics will hold their annual gymnastics display on May 31 from 7â€"8 p.m. at Cedarbrae School. Come see what they can do. At that time the creative playground models will The Downtowners _ During the past two weeks the Waterloo Downtown Resiâ€" dents‘ Association has been busy campaigning for support in its endeavours to save the old treeâ€"lined streets. . The need to raise funds to support objectives gave rise to the distribution of a Tâ€"shirt for each contribution of three dollars. You‘ll be seeing them around town on small fry, students of all ages, and adults. Look for the white shirts with the bold S.0.S. â€" Save Our Streets â€" emblazoned on the front, with the navy insignia of a house, daisies at its doorâ€" step, under the spreading arms of a tree. The Association was founded three years ago with those ends and has continued to provide expanded activities each also be on display. HA'n'yone wishi:;g to contribute to our cause and have a Tâ€" shirt may do so by phoning 884â€"2812 or 576â€"0872 from 6: 00 to 9:00 p.m. 4 The highlight of the social season came on February 10 with the Valentines Dance at Cedar Grove Lodge. About 250 residents danced, ate, drank, and had a great time. t Recreation unlimited Lakeshore residents have been extremely active this winter in both team sports and small group hobby instrucâ€" tion sessions. Men‘s volleyball ends this week, but men‘s basketball succumbed to the N.H.L. hockey finals last week. Ladies® volleyball and mixed badminton will continue into May. This year we moved out from the schools into the homes to offer group instruction in macrame, crocheting, and acâ€" cordian. For a cost of 25 cents an evening, these classes and activities have provided valuable instruction and enjoyâ€" ment. These models were created by University of Waterloo Architecture students, and some of their best features will be used in the construction of a unique playground behind Teen girls benefited by forming their own unstructured volleyball night. Impossible skating conditions motivated the teen boys to organize a night of basketball. Lakeshore teens interested in either of these activities (which will conâ€" tinue for another month ) should call 884â€"8245. We have also been circulating a petition to be presented to Council at its meeting with the Albert St. residents. ugh our Block Representatives and added volunteers .:)ried to cover as much of Waterloo as possible in a fairâ€" y short time. Did we collect enough signatures to impress the Council that Waterloo residents do want to "be given adequate opportunities...to express their views on the fuâ€" ture of older neighbourhoods‘‘? _ If Council is unimpressed by signatures, we will have to _ Join us at the special meeting with Council April 18 toâ€" show our interest through other channels. night at 7:30 on the 2nd floor of the Marsland Centre when While we were circulating the petition, one thing became the current problem concerning Albert Street comes under very evident, the publicity about downtown Waterloo in â€" discussion. Lakesh tiviti LETTER TO THE EDITTOR .r Editor, ; the cattlemen say the boycott is going to hurt the consumer? Well I‘ve got news for them. The only reason there is a boycott is beâ€" cause we‘ve been conâ€" sistently â€" hurt for > some time now because of the high retail prices of beef and pork. ~ Is the farmer trying to tell us, the consumer, that we shouldn‘t complain because we have to pay $1.79 a pound for chops or $1.39 a pound for a small cut of roast beef? (Pork has since dropped someâ€" what, beef has not.) If that isn‘t out of line for the ordinary working man who is trying to feed his family decently and can‘t. then 1‘d like to know Continuing the boycott debate You say the price of beef is only going to go higher? Seems to me I heard that song before, in fact, I‘ve been humming it for some months. to me, if the farmer has been finally getting the half decent wage he says he has, then he‘ll take this temporary boycott with a grain of salt, withold his market sales until things pick up a bit and shouldn‘t lose too much at all. what is? You also say if the farmer is hit too hard the proâ€" duction of cattle will be smaller and we will suffer in five years time? Seems to me, if the farmer has And if he does withold cattle, like he has been, beats me how there can be a big price hike if there isn‘t a shortage and conâ€" Cedarbrae Public School.____â€"â€" We have received money from the School Board and a Winter Works Project grant for construction wages to add to Association funds. The playground is in the final planâ€" ning stages now, and work should begin by the first week in May. The playground should be ready for use by July. Any Lakeshore residents interested in volunteering their skills, please call Bob Gosselink at 884â€"8973. As our winter activities end, residents are swinging into Spring and Summer with jogging and tennis. Don‘t forget the Aroundâ€"Lakeshoreâ€"Afterâ€"Supperâ€"Club. Just start where you are with some neighbours and jog around the great circle (Glen Forestâ€"Cedarbraeâ€"Sprucehill). You other Waâ€" terloo residents should join usâ€"in your neighbourhogd or jog on up to Lakeshore to say hello. We‘ll be glad to see you. the last few weeks has really started people thinking and more consciously observing the area. People really saw those big old trees for the first time, they noticed the housâ€" es, and thought about the traffic problems. More people realize now what the problems involving the downtown area are, and that there are no easy soluâ€" tions. Have you seen the Albert Street signs? The brainâ€" child of Anne Roberts, the Albert Street Potter, they apâ€" peared on the weekend when the City staked their properâ€" ty needs. ‘"Keep Albert thin", ‘"This tree took 85 years to grow", and ‘"grass, not speed‘"‘ are some good samples. Watch the trees too, they will be wearing mourning bands. Anyone who attended the Council meeting of April 9 will appreciate the necessity for residents to keep informed of Council‘s proposals for change in neighbourhood planning, and to present a united front of protest, if need be, without delay. In the Union Street incident, residents protested a levy of $9 per foot for street widening compared to the $6 a foot charged to Westmount Road residents. Unfortunately their protest came too late, underlining the urgency of our soâ€" liciting your support for our Association. _ But those who are really getting into the swing are the golfers, preparing for our annual Lakeshore Golf Street Challenge Match. Each street will again send teams to the Elmira Golf Course on Saturday June 2 to do battle against the other streets for the coveted trophy (donated by the Bank of Montreal). This may be the year to dethrone the defending champs of Huntindon Crescent. Friday, June 8 finds Lakeshore at the annual Recreationâ€" al Pub Night from 9 to 1 at Cedargrove Lodge ($1.00 per couple). Here we receive our hard won trophies, such as the stuffed sock award for the best jogging street, we help boo the winning golf street, and we get ready to launch an allâ€"out offensive against the lawnmowing enthusiast on each street who always seems to mow at 6 a.m. Saturday morng ing. . This is our social and recreational year. We‘ll see you here again in a few weeks with news and ideas. For inforâ€" mation on recreational activities or pub night tickets, phone 884â€"8245, and ask for the Phantom Jogger. At 10:30 on Saturday May 12 at Sir Edgar Bauer School, the Association will hold its annual Safety Party for chilâ€" dren aged 4 to 7. A member of the Waterloo Regional Poâ€" lice Force will help us remind the children of summer play safety rules. Lakeshore parents are urged to come and bring the children. Free balloons and candy for all the kids‘! sumers â€" carefully control their buying. Come to think of it, I haven‘t seen many farmers crowding around the meat counter in the local superâ€" market lately. Are you getâ€" ting it somewhere else cheaper perhaps???? I haven‘t heard one farmer say he can‘t put meat on his own table for his family yet. But that‘s the way it‘s been with us city folk. And from what I‘ve seen around here, there isn‘t a whole lot of extra luxuries like the farm folk seem to think there is. Most of them haven‘t the pocketmoney to afford it after they‘ve done their grocery shopping. As far as liquor and other fancy things go,. I doubt that many more city folk MipH i than farm folk have a nip now and then. Seems I‘ve seen a lot of blue overalls in the country pubs as I‘ve passed them by. And â€" what‘s this cry about other countries havâ€" ing to pay way more for their foodstuffs than we Canadians? Hardly worth comparing is it? _ Unless of course you eat dinner in France and breakfast in Britain now and then. If I remember correctly, Europe imports a lot of the food. But if I put on my boots and jacket and start walking, I can be in the middle of some of the best farm and cattle counâ€" try I know of. And I haven‘t seen any airplanes or boats delivering to our supermarkets lately either. C y xC k Has the farmer ever R TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, ~ I would like to further the cause initiated by Patricia Young in a letter to the Ediâ€" tor on April 11. Although I think she is on the right track, her ideas for implementation are a bit unwieldy, for she proâ€" poses a number of public projects to give jobs to the unemployed and to mainâ€" tain our heritage, whereas Signs such as these made their appearance along Albert Street last week as residents prepared for their meeting with council tonight. The meeting will be held in Marsland Centre startâ€" ing at 7: 30. it would actually be more efficient to institute one grand work project to which all Canadians, employed contribute. Let all citizens give two or three years of hard laâ€" labour (labour, not cash; thought of directing some of his frustrations where they belong? Doesn‘t he realize that while he‘s holding back on his marketing, the Canadian government | is importing cattle from the U.S.A. Also there‘s the subject of expensive feed grain beâ€" ing shipped from the west. Most of it‘s government railway and they can‘t keep the cost down for our local farmer? The farmer can‘t live without the consumer and the consumer can t live withâ€" out the farmer, so I think And hasn‘t he heard about all the hogs that are exâ€" ported to countries such as Japan, seems they can afford them, which manâ€" ages to keep the prices right up on top here in Canada? what is the sacrifice in givâ€" Let‘s build a _ 30,000 foot tree unemployed, . would a public monument‘! It would symbolize Canada‘s deâ€" dication to its past, to its fight against pollution, and to its determination to esâ€" tablish a ‘"national idenâ€" ing away money? ) Let each person be drafted into this work program. (They will have to be conâ€" scripted, for there are alâ€" ways some selfâ€"interested people who do not see the necessity of â€" sacrificing themselves for the good of the whole. ) Let them be sent to, say, Saskatchewan to contriâ€" bute to the construction of a 30,000 feet high tree. What As 1 remember correctâ€" ly, the consumer was alâ€" ways expected to sympaâ€" thize with the farmer and his problems over the years, now it‘s our turn. And this turm is the last thing we ever wanted. It‘s not fun and games here in the city, like you might think. It‘s a serious situation and it‘s So how ‘bout it. _ Quit picking on us and let‘s do something to solve this or attempt to for all of us conâ€" cerned. tity." the name calling should stop soon and with a little intelligent thought from both sides, the blame should be put where it belongs. And if we don‘t know where that is, then it‘s about time we found out, Housewife & Mother Yours sincerely, David B. Suits