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L ltiect . "~ s oC fagrk n RATZâ€"BECHTEL FUNERAL HOME & CHAPEL Convenient Porking, entering Wellington or King Street mgregnpreart,thcgtre 5 music in our province than in many nations. . This is what Ontario is doing to help you get involved in it. An artist residing in your community working with senior citizens and children A beautiful low cost print by an awardâ€" winning Ontario artist in your living room. Impossible dreams? Not at all. Through the Ontario Arts Council, all these dreams could come true, no matter where you live in the province. For the Ontario Arts Council‘s purpose is to make sure that all the people of our province share in Ontario‘s cultural rches. Over 500 Ontamo arts attractions are ready, willing and abte to visit your comâ€" 621 KING WEST â€" 745â€"9495 * When Habitat. the Un by Leonard Gertier, a proâ€" ban Affairs (MSUA). > m and so forth) organized conference on fessor in University of The hbope for the book. a wide variety of human settiements, opens in _ Waterioo‘s School of Urâ€" â€" whichhasn‘tevenbeenstartâ€" Canadian urban problems: Vancouver in June of 1976. _ ban and Regional Planning. ed yet is that it willnotonly â€" Whiat‘s making. our cities one of the most significant and Dr. Ron Crewley of contribute to the success of ETOW* How fast they contributions to its success the federal government‘s Habitat. but that it will also . £rOWing? Which & are may be a book coâ€"authored _ Ministry of State for Urâ€" contribute. in years to ‘~ growing fastest?> Why? A come. to a better life for What are the benefits from * _ m millions of Canadians living _ growth? What are the disâ€" City growth subject of professor‘s book _ Government of Ontario ~ _ William Davis, Premier munity. They‘re described in a colourful Ontario Arts Council catalogue entitled "ONTOUR". And. through the Touring Arts Fund, the Ontario Arts Council can help sponsors with the‘fees for touring groups in visiting your community. Outstanding creative artists want to visit the classrooms of the province, so that all Ontario youngsters may be exposed to the creating of painting, pottery, composing. photography, playwriting, sculpting, weavâ€" ing, poetry, puppetry, ceramics and many other art forms. This program is described in a bookletcalled "Creative Artists in Schools". More than 100 musical, theatrical, dance and crafts groups are available to Ontamno elementary and secondary schools. The repertory is presented in the brochure "artslist". â€" For free copies of the Ontario Arts Council bookilets and catalogues, write to: â€" Ontamo Arts Council Suite 500 151 Bloor Street, West Toronto. Ontario MSS 116 Ministry of Colleges and Universities James Auld, Minister years as director general of research for MSUA . During the past few years. he notes. MSUA has had searchers from a variety of disciplines (engineers. tives, and professor Gertier recently received . a m.manflmm MSUA to help rwrite the costs of preparing and writing it. litical _ scientists, _ soci The book‘s working title is senior reâ€" . The pulling together of findings is the first part of the task. _ The Gertlerâ€" Crowley team will also be translating the findings in such a way that they can be used by nonâ€"experts â€" by political leaders, adminisâ€" trators, community groups, teachers, the media and the public in general. What are the benefits from growth? What are the disâ€" advantages?® How are citâ€" ies governed? How are they financed* What are the inner city problems? duced a harvest of results," he says. ‘"and our job will be to pull these results togethâ€" er integrating. interpreting gaps in information or analysis we will initiate new ‘‘Finally," says Gertler. ‘"we will try to show the policy implications: what policies wilh produce suchâ€" andâ€"such a result and what ones won t." * He says MSUA hopes too that by making information more readily available and more understandable a conâ€" tribution can be made toâ€" wards more informed and more publicly sensitive deâ€" cision making. There need never be a Canadian verâ€" sion of New York‘s Robert Moses, who individually â€" some say autocratically â€" shaped the destiny of that city. â€" Professor Gertler says the book will deal with two main subject areas â€" _ city growth and the quality of life in urban centres. As for the growth area. he notes that in recent years Canada‘s population has tended to concentrate Construction of a 24â€"unit senior citizens home by the congregation of St. John‘s Lutheran Church, Waterloo, is now in progress. The building was designed by Swain and Rupnow, Waâ€" terloo architects and is being built on church proâ€" perty on Allen Street, by the Schiedel Construction Co. Ltd. of Cambridge. The Ontario government has granted the congregaâ€" tion a $250,000 loan at eight per cent. The low rental of about $130 a month,. as deâ€" termined by the governâ€" ment, will amortize the mortgage over a period of 50 years. The congregation‘s direct financial responsibility will be about $100,000. It is exâ€" _. St. John‘s builds seniors residence Waterlioo Kitchener JESSOPS cleaners KITCHENER/WATERLOO Ontario & Duke Sts. Waterioo Square in a relatively few large cities. ‘‘We will be examining this ternative plans. And we will try to find out what policies may act as levers to change trends and inâ€" with studies of the benefits they decisions with respect As for the quality of urâ€" ban life area. "this will inâ€" ment schemes, urban planâ€" which have been done on city sizes. on urban form, and on the physical environâ€" ment at the subâ€"city scale, * Gertler says the project is **symptomatic of the inâ€" creasing interest of the federal government in taking its research off the shelves and making its majo! findings accessible to the many actors, including the interested public, who have a stake in the character and quality of Canadian cities." treated not simply as an inventory of buildings but in terms of how people use and perceive their environâ€" ment,‘"* professor Gertler written by Canadians, about Canadians and for Canadiâ€" ans, its authors will be keeping worldâ€"wide urban forces and trends in mind. Gertler is being assisted by three graduate students: John Curry, who has a sc» ence degree plus 4 baa ground in the resource ma agement _ area; Angus Schaffenberg, who has a degree in political science and economics: and Brad Hodgins, who has a backâ€" ground in urban geography. The project will be calling upon â€" outside specialists at various times. > pected this will be retired six or seven years or less. The congregation is in a position to undertake the housing project‘after retirâ€" ing indebtedness of $345,000, and interest, assumed when the new church was built on Willow Street. ' backed by 50 guarantors, and fire insurance received following the fire which destroyed the King Street church, financed the conâ€" struction of the church, eduâ€" cational wing and parsonâ€" age. Over a 50â€"year period. many people in low income brackets will be accomâ€" modated. LIMITED