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Regional news and views GREENWARE â€" SUPPLIES â€" GLAZES STAINS â€" GARESLIP Join our CERAMIC CLASSES R.R. No. 1, (Hespeler) CAMBRIDGE 658â€"2574 V isit The O ld B arn . authentic recipes Excellent CANADIAN cuisine _ Large selection of Coo Coo clocks 9 miles south of Cambridge Junction Hwy 5 & 24 Ask for Max 1â€"448â€"1533 Au#hoian Vfi"a‘?e lun VYVIENNA RESTAU RANT For Areas freeâ€"calling to Waterloo 7436353 A Taste of Old Europe In keeping pace with our progressive society, the Home Service Department at Union Gas Limited has recently changed its name to the Consumer Services Department. CONSUMER INFORMATION is a new service offered to you by this Department. It‘s a communication link designed to provide you, the Consumer, with information on such topics as appliances, home planning, recipes, budgeting and many more. Our professional Home Economists are on hand to assist you wherever we can. CALL US . .. WE‘LL DO QOUR VERY BEST TO HELP YOU! 9 A.M.â€"12 A.M., MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY GERMAN & AUSTRIAN se ~= . s u0 $ o § o f s F Lo ~ s sn $ S P _ reey k %. "ae. S :«6“’5_ LE Wholesale â€" Retail FOR CONSUMER INFORMATION Pat Hughes WE WANT VYOU 1O CALL E£1AMLCA Marilyn C NHION CGCHAS Housing study meet Thursday The meeting, arranged by planning chairman Counc. Harold Chapman, will hear a progress report on the reâ€" gional housing study. A special meeting of the regional planning _ and development committee will be held at 9:30 a m. Thursâ€" day, March 13, in the Waâ€" terloo _ Regional _ council chambers at Weber and Frederick Streets in Kitâ€" chener. Mr. Chapman has invited the entire Regional council, and through the municipal clerks, any area councilior or members of the area planning committee who may wish to attend. In addiâ€" tion, â€" â€"municipal _ housing committees . and â€" boards and other municipal people are invited to attend if they so desire. The â€" Regional â€" housing study , has been underway since late December, 1974 and is expected to be completed _ during _ April of this year. The project team made up of Regional and area staff and consultâ€" ants has investigated a wide range of housing probâ€" lems which fall generally into the following cateâ€" ampbell gories: houses for sale; In reviewing these probâ€" rental accommodation; ree lems, Mr. Chapman said habilitation; problems of . special and lower income they | have s talked i to a groups and constraints on large number of people the development process. throughout the Region and A substantial number of apartment dwellers choose apartments because they are close to expressways and after moving in more than half the tenants are disturbed by the noise. *‘*‘These questions _ and answers, based on Ontario law, are published to inâ€" form and not to advise. No one should try to apply or interpret the law without the aid and advice of a trainâ€" ed expert who knows the facts, since the facts of each case may change the application of the law."" "Ilronically," the report says, "many of these apartment dwellers are no closer to access ramps than if they lived in apartments farther away from the expressway." Eighty per cent of these tenants use the expressway for oneâ€"half or more of all their trips. . "It seems clear that unless prospective tenants become much more sophisâ€" ticated about the hazards of noise in the residential environment and the imâ€" portance of this factor in making their location decisions, and unless the supply of variety of apartments increases substantially, relative to demand, over the next few years, then stringent site planning restrictions must be imposed withâ€" in expressway corridors," they conclude. This information, researched in Toronto, will be presented to members of the Waterioo regional council this week by the Transportation Research Board. _ The authors of the brief recommend a minimum setback of 500 feet from the nearest edge of the pavement for apartment construction. to coâ€"sign a loan Could you advise what this involves A. Normally a loan conâ€" sists of a series of one or more promissory notes. That is, the drawer of the noteâ€" the person getting the loan â€"makes an unconditional promise to pay a certain amount to the loan comâ€" pany or whoever it may deâ€" signate at a certain time. If you coâ€"sign it is genâ€" erally as an endorser of the note. When you sign in this capacity, you are held to warrant the genuineness and validity of the note in certain respects. If the perâ€" Sears Tenants move to expressway then complain about the noise MEMBER UNITED FLORISTS ASSOCIATION friend iend asked me a loan for him. advise me as to Flowers by Sears Fairview Park, Kitchener for every Special Occasion Phone 744â€"6 141 (Ext. 365) "Charge It‘ In reviewing these probâ€" lems, Mr. Chapman said ‘they have talked to a large number of people Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, March 12, 1975 â€" Page 23 son getting the loan cannot pay off the note as it falls due, then you would be liable, as an endorser, to pay it off yourself. Of course you could then try to collect the amount that you paid from the person getting the loan, although if he could not pay the loan company, he would most likely not be able to pay you. Q. I‘m leaving town at the end of next month, and I want to sublet my apartâ€" ment to my sisterâ€"inâ€"law. There are still five months to run on the lease. But my landlord says I can‘t sublet the place. We never signed a written lease. What are my rights, if any? A. Unless ~your â€" lease says something to the conâ€" trary, (and all written leases do) you have a right to subâ€" let to whomever you please without the landglord‘s apâ€" proval. But remember that you are still liable on the lease if your subtenant fails to pay. have benefitted from discusâ€" sionsâ€"with the special techâ€" nical advisory committee, the Cambridge housing comâ€" mittee and the Kitchener housing study committee. Q. Bob and I are going to have a baby. But even with OHIP, our cost of living is going to increaseâ€"so I want to holid on to my job. Does the law give me any protection from getting fired? â€" A. It depends, believe it or not, on where you work. If your. employer employs 25 or more emâ€" ployees, then you are proâ€" tected under the Employâ€" ment Standards Act of Onâ€" tario, s. 13 a. You cannot be dismissed on account of pregnancy. _ _ You are not allowed to work for six weeks after the birth of the child without a medical certificate sayâ€" ing that you are able to do so. You are also entitled to a leave of absence starting six weeks before the baby is expected. While your _ employer need not pay you while you cannot perform your work because ofâ€" pregnancy or postâ€"natal care, he ~must reinstate you when you are ready to report to work with no loss of seniority or benefits. MARRIAGE He told her he‘d make her happy if it took every dollar her father had But that‘s the way things work out Some men get married because they want a large familyâ€"and get one The wife‘s The books on marmnage are a big help Like ~How To Make Your Marmage Work Best one of all is ~How To Make Your Husband Work _ These provisions apply where you have worked continuously for your curâ€" rent employer for more than a year and six weeks before the birth of your child.