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_ _ Groups get $1,000 from Optiâ€" June is a marvellous month! The ducklings are The Waterloo Community Services programâ€" out with their mothers in the park, babies are out mes are many, varied and range in cost from free strolling with their families; the flowers are to realively expensive. Some of the free activities blooming, the grass growing â€" and the school include; adventure playgrounds for youngsters 8 children are beside themselves with the excitee years of age or older. These are open from 9 a.m. ment of anticipated freedom. .\ . to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday at Hillside Park. Recently, when I visited MacGregor School, _ The junior playgrounds are for 5 to 13. year olds you could almost touch that anticipation. But at most schoolgrounds either in the morning or those lovely students settled down beautifully to afternoon from Monday to Friday. â€"honour Jean Hutchinson, Nancy Holmes, and A number of youth activities are as also schedâ€" ~Philip Smith, the winners of Senior Challenge. uled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday at And that brings me to my topic: settling down for the summer. Most children enjoy a"week or two of real oldâ€"fashioned freedom,. Bikeâ€"riding, neighbourhood exploring, and just lying in the sun are exhilarating. But there seems to be a fine line between freedom and boredom. â€" Of course we are all aware that youngsters need an environment to explore, that challenge helps them to grow spiritually and intellectually. The unfortunate part of modern education is that it has made many parents feel inadequate to proâ€" vide surroundings in which the children and the adults in a family may enjoy each other and still provide the youngsters with stimulating experiâ€" ences. . f If you sit down for ten minutes with your kids and make a list of the things you all enjoy doing, you‘ll be amazed at the number of activities you find: picnics, hikes, Waterloo Park, Laurel Creek Conservation Area, Waterloo Library, Moses Springer Park, and family ball games are all cheap, interesting, familyâ€"type things to do. The bus is cheap (and it is a good family activâ€" ity in which parents can teach children basic good manners while on an outing. ) The YÂ¥MCA offers a number of sporting and recâ€" reational facilities and activities; for as little as $10.50 for a fourâ€"day week, your 4 or 5 yearâ€"old can go to %â€"day camp; for $20 a week, your 6â€"9 year old can go to day camp; and, of course, there are weekâ€"long camps handled by many organizaâ€" tions for children of all ages. Dear Sir, Recently it has come to my attention that the Downâ€" town Merchant‘s of Waterâ€" Leffter fo the edifor loo are in the process of forming a Merchant‘s Assoâ€" ciation. In a letter dated the fifth of May 1975, to all the Downtown Merchant‘s, acting secretary for the association, Speck Turner, who incidently is the Secreâ€" taryâ€"Manager of the local Chamber of Commerce. A total of $1,000 was doâ€" nated to various groups in the city by the Kâ€"W Optiâ€" Mrs. at their annual meetâ€" ing held recently at the Transylvania Club. The women decided to donate $100 to the YWCA to sponsor six girls for one week at the Optimist Day Camp in Bamburg. _ _ The Ontario Society for Autistic â€" Children at the Wateriooâ€"Wellington _ chapâ€" ter, was given $400 to sponsâ€" or one child at their day camp for a fourâ€"week sesâ€" Another $100 went to the Kitchenér Parks and Reâ€" creation _ department _ to sponsor four girls for two weeks at the Optimist Day Camp in Hepdleberg. The Houdsgeé of Friendship was given $25, the Big Brothâ€" ers Assoc.. received $100 uB â€" h‘ a P MQH yq‘ t 8 g 33M w gc es s *‘J;W o L. .0 + * 34 higlt (oPn C §.. +c Kye :.* 3 A eA Koi N 4z ¢r * > V ho says summer‘s boring? stated that a meetingâ€"was to be held on May 13, at the Waterloo Hotel. Thd purpose of the meetâ€" ing was to discuss the forâ€" mation of a downtown merâ€" chant‘s association, sales promotions, â€" and â€" associaâ€" tion advertising. Mr. Turner stated in the letter that representatives from the Kâ€"W Record and CHYM Radio would be on hand to submit presentaâ€" tions. However. Mr. Turner to sponsor two boys at their camp near Orangeville and $125 was donated to the Kâ€"W Services for the Phyâ€" sically Handicapped to help with their transportation The two major moneyâ€" making projects for the year included the Annual Wine and Cheese Party held last year. and a quilt draw which was organized by the past president, Mrs. Robert Nelâ€" The last $150 was donated to Camp Heidleberg to be used to replace curtains and a mirror and to purchase material and paint to cover table tops and storage areas. Their volunteer work throughout the year consistâ€" ed of assistance to the Kâ€"W Services for the Physically Handicapped at a picnic last September and at a n PE oo ut 5 5y 2L 4e 20 A number of youth activities are as also schedâ€" uled from 9 a.mm. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday at the Waterloo Arena, Moses Springer Arena, and Ceeke VY EDW ETS S 15 MeSStby COCEMIRTRARE RZ OE ECOIrymAE * C Ds BWeC y Cene Albert Mcgpénniek Arena from July 7 to Aug. 22. Bluevale Collegiate Institute will have som Bluevale Collegiate Institute will have some programs for high school youngsters from 6 to 11 p.m. Monday to Friday from June 9 to July 18. Walt Disney Family Films on Tuesday nights bring your lawn chair, Brochures with detailed information have been printed and they will be distributed to every school child in Waterloo. Try to hang on to yours. a | Other Waterloo Community Services programâ€" mes available but which cost between $10 and $25 are: pottery workshop for 8 to 12 years old, six oneâ€"week sessions $10, tennis instruction, under 16, six lessons $10, junior sailing programâ€" me, for 8 to 10 years old, two weeks $10, and basâ€" ketball for Girls, 13 years and older from July 7 to 18 $25. This year, the Leadership Training Programme will operate once again. It is for 14â€"16 year olds and costs $2. There‘s the usual Roller Skating available Friday and Sunday evening. And, of course, swimming lessons will be offered at the pools. ' ' neglected to include Waâ€" terloo‘s own newspaper, a newspaper that has been established in this city for one hundred and twenty years, a place at the meetâ€" ing. What perturbs me about this situation is that the local Waterloo Chamber of Commerce should begin to operate in a way that will benefit all of its members and all facets of the comâ€" munity. There are many things to do, it just takes a little digging and a little planning to make this summer a memorable one. If you:Wwant other information, call: city of Waâ€" terloo, Community Services at 576â€"2420 Social Planning â€"Council, Community Information at 579â€"3800 or me at 884â€"8913 Happy Holidays!! card party in April. They helped the K â€" W Optimists at their annual childrens Christmas party The club also helped to prepare and serve the food at a Physically Disabled Teenager snowmobile party at Camp Heidleberg in Febâ€" and at their booth at the Elmira Maple Sugar Festiâ€" val. After the dispersement Of funds the new executive was elected for 1975â€"76 seaâ€" son. Mrs. Ross Shantz of RR. 1. St. Agatha, was elected president, and Mrs. Robert McCullock of 552 Brookhaven Cr.. Waterioo was chosen viceâ€"president. Mrs. James Kuntz, 253 Erb St.. Waterloo was namâ€" ed secretary and Mrs. Norâ€" man Sinclair, 429 Edwin St.. Kitchener, is now the Submitted by Lyune Woolstencroft Waterioo County Board of Education The Waterloo Chronicle was not asked to submit a promotionalâ€" proposal â€" at the meeting. It seems to me that local merchants who are interested in the support of the local resiâ€" dents, should have had at least, the courtesy to listen to the proposals of their local newspaper. treasurer. Mrs. Douglas Fleischâ€" mann, 148 Ellis Cr., is the social convenor while Mrs. Fden Snyder, 189 Lester St., is program convenor. The new president reâ€" minded the Optiâ€"Mrs. of their purpose which is to create â€"friendship armong the wives of the Kâ€"W Opâ€" timist Club and to engage in welfare work and other worthy projects along with assisting â€" their â€" husbands in their club. FOR OUT OF THIS WORLD A concerned member of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. o. 449034 . Waterioo Chronicle, Waednesday, June 11, 1975 ~ Page 5