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. City charged with altering plan xii),,':,':',;::,':')::: 'iraroroiiedwideogot AthertsueetbyMargaret hy night's col-Id] meet- Mrs. Kerr-Lam.‘ol 137 M St., widen-Id! that shetrraderstoodthepmposed pian mum he presented to council alderman 12and notmderttectiemeigtttasit amandon the warlord“ dur'nga Feb. Meommittee ofthe%tohemeetirtg. 'epeesentirrg a member of AltertStreetresidentswho Idaho's city when Helen Lace. ll. at 3V High St.. Waterloo. ties the final knots to complete her macrame plant hanger. Helen, a grade five student at Winston Churchill Public School, was just one of many students taking part in a six-week creative program which included batik. knitting. drama, cook- ing. wood crafts and a science class. About 20 persons made up of professionals and parents as sisted the school's personnel with the program. a work order waterloo chronicle 120th Year No. 10 (SE73, $t5qt8toea plan to widen the sheet from its present I tottt-idthtoaStfootmutttt ”meswdmmecityen- gi-r'sreport. [untested the change from section " to eight‘and that they were not informed of thechange. Under the local improve- ment act a project can be listed under section 12. If residents object to the pro- posed plan then a petition with atteastSOpercentof the names of loan] residents can stop any proposed pro- jects. Come“ can. following a Wednesday, March 5, 1975 city's engineering staff. change the status of the proposal to section eight. Under this section only one I“!!! person has to object than the proposal would go to an Ontario Municipal Board Mrs. Kerr-Lawson said that residents Md a glint- mer of hope during the Feb. 24 meeting of the committee of the whole when council deferred the decision to widen the street pending a more complete report from the engineering staff. she felt it was highly irregu- lat thatnttmttieeotthe changeintttestatusottite phnnspmtedmthe this would destroy a mum beroftreesontheeastside of the mad. Mayor Herb Epp said that the residents were informed of the proposed plan prior want the street widened " to the Feb. 24 meeting. Mrs. Kerr-Lawson said this was correct but they were not informed of the change. Alderman Roy Bauman said it was not unusual for Shesaidtheemtditionof the engineering department to change the status of a plan. He said that council was not dealing with Atbe'rt Street in a different manner butthatthechange from sectioqt2toeightwasde signedtospeedupmepro- "There wasn't anything done out of order," said Aid. Mayor Epp said that coun- cil had communicated with the residents but Mrs. Kerr- Lawson felt that council should not continue to make changes in the status of pro- posed plans. grant request Waterloo, Ontario Council defers The House of Friend- ship, which provides family aid, a hostel and other ser- vices in the Kitchener-Wa- terloo area. will have to wait until Apr. 26 to see if their request for $5,500 hat been approved by Waterloo city council. Howard Bauman, repre- senting the organization. made the request for the additional funds during a meeting of council Monday night. Prior to the request Mr. Bauman outlined some of the programs that the or- ganization is involved in. He said there are about 40 families in the KW area that receive assistance from the organization as well as a drop-in-centre for theyouthinthe area. He said that the organi- zation provided 11,000 meals and 6.000 beds during 1974 and opened a new recovery home for alcoholics at 174 King St. North in Waterloo. He told council that the organization had five main sources of revenue with Waterloo supplying about one per cent, 11 per cent from Kitchener. 20 per cent Waterloo city council has deferred a request for a speed change on Highway 85 pending a meeting be- tween the city's engineer. James Willis, and the dis- trict engineer for the minis- try of transportation and communications. Speed drop may go to city limit James Willis, the city The speed change if ap- proved by the ministry. would make Highway 85 a 40 mph. speed zone from its present 50 mph. limit. The change would effect that section of road about 400 feet south of the Cones- toga Road interchange and extend north for 3.000 feet just past the houses on Northfield Drive, engineer. told the delegation that council had approved the initial plan in January. He said this plan, under sec- tion 12, was just a draft pro- posal and not a final plan. Mr. Willis said the eetgi- neering department did not change the act but only made recommendations to council. He then informed the group about the 50 per cent petition under section 12 and the regulations applying to sec- tion eight. Aid. Mary Jane Mewhin- ney said that her chief con- cern was that the change in the plan was not brought to (Continued on page 2) from the Federated Appeal, 29 per cent from private donations and 38 per cent from the region. March 31 meeting cancelled Aid. Harold Wagner ask- ed Mr. Bauman how the re- gion came into the system. Mr. Bauman explained that in some cases a family does not have any food and the region would contact the House of Friendship. (Continued on page 2) Waterloo city council has decided not to meet on March 31 as city hall will be closed .on that date. Council. dur- ing a council meeting Mon- day night, decided to meet on March 10, 17 and M. Council normally meets on the first and third Mon- day of the month while the committee of the whole meets on the second and fourth Monday of the month. When a month has five Mon- days in it then the fifth meet- ing is usually cancelled. Council decided to defer any decision pending talks between Mr. Willis and the ministry's district engineer. Council hopes to submit a recommendation to the ministry calling for the Speed change to extend to thecity limits. Highway 85 is a provin- cial highway and comes under the jurisdiction of the ministry. The ministry made the speed change re- quest to council. Council will now pass a resolution endorsing the change and including its request for the extended speed limit to the city limits l0 Cents