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â€" Working for the \ region With 19 new faces on regional council the job will take a lot of hard work to supply the sysâ€" tem with the leadership it requires. While this city has had fair representation at the regional level, other communities have been less fortunate. Cambridge, for one, has suffered from representatives who demanded the entire area cater to the whims of their particular municipality. Demands are not the answer. Working through and with the 25 perâ€" sons representing three cities and as many townships is the key. It should be noted that working with regional government for the benefit of the region is much more important than fighting tooth and nail for one individual municipality. Regional government is here to stay. And the only beneâ€" ficial approach by any area representatives is to work through the region for the city. During the first two years of regional government in this area far too many politicians adhered to a ‘"‘"fight to the last" policy. The result was damaging. ' Our representatives are good onesâ€"there should be no mistaking this fact. And it will be their job over the next two years to work for the betterment of Waterloo without damaging the regional structure. By virtue of the recent municipal election the City of Waterloo will have three new repreâ€" sentatives on regional council. Accompanying mayor elect Herb Epp will be aldermen Brian Turnbull and Robert Henry. While all three may be considered novice reâ€" gional councillors they are seasoned politicians. Both Mr. Epp and Mr. Henry have served on Waterloo city council for the past seven years. Between the two of them there are very few (if any) aspects of local government that will not be dealt with an experienced voice. And Brian Turnbill is anything but a newcomer to the political scene, having served one term as a city alderman and a stint as the city‘s first chief planner. While Turnbull will not be involved in reâ€" gional planning (one aspect that would certainâ€" ly provide conflict of interest) he will lend his expertise to other areas of equal importance. Henry and Epp have both indicated their conâ€" cem over regional planning procedures and both will take a determined stab at retaining this city‘s identity within the regional structure. Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 225 Fairway Rd.. Kitâ€" chener. Ontario. Address: correspondence to Waterloo Square. Waterloo. Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Without question Waterloo‘s new repreâ€" sentatives should be taking a stronger, more viable approach to the region. And that apâ€" proach should benefit this municipality. 2 " 54 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, December 11, 1974 In Canada: one year $8: in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 waterioo chronicle Viewpoint SUBSCRIPTION RATES Editor: Don McCurdy ESTABLISHED 1854 The opening session. next Monday. will feaâ€" ture papers by Professor J.C. Courtney of the University of Saskatchewan who will look at *Mackenzie King. Roosevelt and the New Deal,~ and in the evening of the 16th a reception and dinner at St. Jerome‘s college will be followed Education Next Monday and Tuesday, December 16th and 17th, a special tribute will be paid to William Lyon Mackenzie King the man, born in Kitchenâ€" er,. who served longest as Prime Minister of our country. The Mackenzie King Centennial Colloquium will be a unique and interesting conference at the University of Waterloo. It will coincide with the centenary of the birth of King. Well known politicians and civil servants of the King era as well as academics will present papers and parâ€" ticipate in all phases of the conference. Panel discussions will also be featured and the entire conference is open to anyone who is interested in the community. Accordingly, I plan to be active through such groups and in other ways to promote such goals as smaller education classes, the universal availability of French from Grade One, alternate elementary schools (progressive, traditional, French immersion, etc. ) for those parents who want them, open boundaries for high schools, neighbourhood schools, an enrichment program for talented students to go alongâ€" side the current special education and remedial programs, and a curriculum which will acquaint students more criticalâ€" ly with the society in which they live. Contrary to the impression some people seem to have, not all of the changes I favour would cost money. The teaching of French, for example, need not cost any signifiâ€" cant additional expenditures. If one assumes that students will be taught some subjects in French as well as the lanâ€" guage itself, we need not add any more teachers. The quesâ€" tion is not that of hiring additional teachers but of what Having snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the election, I shall make this, the fifteenth, my last Chromicle report as trustee to the residents of the City of Waterloo. I hope that I will be excused for making it more personal than my earlier reports. However, I do not intend to abandon the field of public eduâ€" cation. The reason I ran for reâ€"election was to advance certain causes. Having served on the board, I realize more than I did before how much power can in fact be exercised by citizens groups and even by individual articulate people. In personal ways defeat is almost certainly better than victory. Being a trustee is voraciously time consuming and physically demanding, especially if one takes the job serâ€" iously (and not all do)»Now I shall be free to resume a more normal family and cultural life and to put more energy into professional projects. Yesterday revisifted GEE...IT5 As EesY As 2 <<> SHO0MNG QILIN A BARREL! _ (( @ ® ; + n § fn, %RTa‘ \)lé,’} 3A > 1J w e “3 ’k N ’l;\ o e m M )M/ml-mlu W P One election note. My campaign cost $245.31, chiefly for flyers and newspaper advertisements. I received a total of $219.20 in donations from 14 people, several of the donaâ€" tions made after the election itself as a generous act of solidarity. Finally, I would like to thank the voters who supported and the Chronicle for having provided the space for my' ports. I would like to extend my best wishes to the three Waterloo trustees for success on the new board and to exâ€" press my hope that Doreen Thomas will be elected next chairman of the board. C To one and all, compliments of the season and au revoir. Senior high school students have been invited to attend a panel discussion on Tuesday afterâ€" noon which will involve civil servants of the Mackenzie King era. They will be looking at the ‘*King administrative process." The conference will close Tuesday evening with a public reception and dinner at Bingeman Park after which another panel discassion will talk about "Memories of Mackenzie King." Registration and tickets may be had through the Department of History. U of W. or by phonâ€" ing 885â€"1211. extension 2772 Of all of my activities as a trustee â€" from getting better salaries for lowâ€"paid secretaries, helping organize the Hamâ€" ilton program for Francophone students, and encouraging the pilot project in French from Grade One through a role on the committee which is currently reviewing the board‘s structure â€" I feel most proud of the report on religion in the schools, of which I was the chief author. That report was approved last spring and will begin to be felt in the schools in 1976 at the latest. by a panel discussion on "King and the Histo rians.‘"‘ Papers entitled ‘"Mackenzie King and American Progressivism" and ‘"Rockefeller and King: Capitalist and Reformer®‘ will be presented on Tuesday morning. Following these papers there will be a reception and luncheon at the Faculty Club, University of Waterloo. teachers do once they are in the classroom. > The same is true for alternate schools. There are perfectly respectable but competing views of how schools and proâ€" grams should be organized. Why should we in this area be denied the kind of variety readily available elsewhere? Why should taxpayers who want a different educational philosoâ€" phy have to mount expensive private schools? To create alâ€" ternate schools does not mean hiring new teachers or erectâ€" ing new buildings. It simply means rearranging the reâ€" sources we already have to permit a more flexible proâ€" gramme. All that is required is a toleration of different ways of organizing schools. Mr. Moyer is the author of Waterloo County Diary and This Unique Heritage. By Don Baker, Retiring Trustee Waterloo County Board of Education By Bill Moyer