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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 20 Nov 1974, p. 8

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8 © Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, November 20, 1974 Reâ€"elect DON MESTON FOR MAYOR ©@ Planning for now and the future KOCH EDDIE H. 7 years impartial Igadership Representation for all the people Coâ€"operation at all levels for the, good of Waterloo & Region IN KITCHENER For ALDERMAN ACTION FACTS LEGISLATION COURTESY Less salt for regional roads _ Waterioo Region could have good news for motorists concerned about the effects of road salt on their cars. Regional road crews will experiment this winter with a saltâ€"sand mixture in place of pure salt. They also will test a new electronic device which regulates the apâ€" plication of salt. Both programs were apâ€" proved Thursday by regionâ€" al council. The saltâ€"sand mixture, which has been used by the ministry of transportation and â€" communications for roads in â€" nonâ€"residential areas, could. save the Reâ€" gion a considerable amount of money if it proves successâ€" LITTLE THEATRE \__"CINDERELLA" SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd 1:30 AND 3 :30 P.M. Not SHARP RETORTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd 7:30 P.M. «@"* Not of ARGUMENTS Not EXCESSIVE ADMINISTRATION A Christmas Show for Children at Victoria Park Pavillion Kitchener presents TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: SCRIBE BOOKSTORES Westmount Place, Waterlao Market Square, Kitchener INFORMATION : 743 2584 Not of DELAY and Added to that is the fact that council approved a reâ€" gional roads network which will add 144 miles to the Reâ€" gion‘s present 271 miles. In a further .effo,rt to imâ€" prove wiuter maintenance ful. Using pure salt costs aâ€" bout $3.13 a mile. The mixâ€" ture will cost about $1 less Only about 290 pounds of salt will be applied to each twoâ€"lane mile of road when using the mixture, compared to 500 pounds when pure sait is used. A stockpile of about 700 toms of the mixture will be kept at MHeidelberg for use in the northern sections of the Region. ‘ While the savings in actuâ€" al> salt are obvious, they could be offset by added costs of. mixing plus spring cleanup work to remove the accumulated sand. The saving will be further eroded by inflation, which has driven the cost of salt up about 63 cents a hundred weight from 50 cents last year. â€" aer *3 , Recycling big at MacGregor Phenomenology.:â€" Week at WLU wel TTVE, hacssel bntutnd. â€"stabed WFRRE study the possibility of more â€"detailed weather reporting and may divide the Region into weather zones. A tachograph to plot veâ€" hicle speed, idle time, stop time and how often the plow Although Kâ€"W Conscience Club has folded, an elemenâ€" tary school recycling club is still going strong and plans on expanding its collections to other schools. The â€" MacGregor * Conâ€" science Club, which was started two years ago at MacGregor senior public school, Central Street, Waâ€" terloo, and which worked with the parent club, is still active, said Scott McRae, ‘one of the organizers. Mr. McRae, a former MacGregâ€" or school teacher, is now teaching at Sunnyside seâ€" nior public school, Kitchenâ€" er, but keeps in close conâ€" tact with the MacGregor Conscience Club. Wilfrid Laurier Univerâ€" sity, which houses the cenâ€" tre for advanced research in phenomenology. _ will hear talks by three outâ€" standing academi¢s in the field during its Penomenâ€" ology Week, beginning toâ€" morrow. There are about 25 stuâ€" dents, ranging in age from 12 to 14, and a few teachers involved in the recycling of paper and tins, he said. The group had collected glass, but discontinued it prior to the closing down of the Kâ€"W Conscience club. â€" The students bring the Sponsored â€" by the philâ€" osophy â€" department, the event will hear lectures by Professor Alexandreâ€" Metâ€" raux of Heidleberg Uniâ€" versity; Professor Paul Ricoeur of the Universities of Paris and Chicago; and Professor Jose Huertasâ€" Jourda, who heads the Canadian centre at WLU. Phenomenology d eals with the way things can be known in a strict and scienâ€" tific way without recourse to measurement or a mathâ€" Let Municipal Expemience and Knowledge Make Local and Regional Government Work for You PROVEN ABILITY | KOMINEK, Ru VOTE FOR EXPERIENCE WATERLOO ALDERMA N and blade is in contact with the road has been installed in â€" one truck plow to aid in perâ€" formance reporting for fuâ€" ture winter maintenance planning, according to a reâ€" port from the regional enâ€" gineering department. paper and tins they have collected from their homes and neighbors to school for sorting and processing. And on Halloween night, they collected garbage instead of candy and are in the proâ€" cess of making contracts with people for monthly collections. A large bin for paper has been set up behind the school and anyone with paper for recycling can deposit it there. Tins should be taken into the school where a group will process them, Mr. McRae said. The refuse is taken to a salvage plant in the Twinâ€"@# Cities that buys paper and tin, he aaded. * ‘"‘We are trying to get other schools â€"involved in collecting garbage and ou purpose is to make ttg schools depots for recyclin garbage." The students feel they can do little about air or water pollution, but feel this is something they can do, he ematic language. It has influenced the development of philosophy and the sciâ€" ences of man, including such fields as religious studies, psychiatry, psyâ€" chology, sociology and culâ€" tural history: Its founder was Edmund Husserl, who died in 1938. The phenomenology co lection at WLU, which wn. be discussed Nov. 26. houses many documents including the notes of Winthrop Bell, the only Canadian to study under Husserl. Professor Ricoeur, who speaks Nov. 28, is one of the world‘s foremost interâ€" preters and translators of Husserl‘s philosophy _ as well as being a recognized philosopher in his own right. Professor Metraux, now a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York is the author of numerous paâ€" pers in the field and is a student of Max Scheler and translator of the works of M. Merleauâ€"Ponty in Gerâ€" many. EJ

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