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_ Parking _ \â€"_ is a ' problem Page 4 â€" Waterioo Chronicie, Wednesday, November 5, 1975 Limited parking space on King Street is a probâ€" lem in itself, for customers and downtown emâ€" ployees, but the twoâ€"hour parking byâ€"law in Waâ€" terloo Square is even more of a hindrance. Instead of being able to leave one‘s car in the parking lot for an unlimited period of time, and shop leisurely, the shopper must keep a close eye on his watch in order to beat the metermaid and move his car before the time limit is up. The Waterloo Downtown Merchants Associâ€" ation is constantly thinking of methods to proâ€" mote business and attract customers to the downâ€" town core of Waterloo. | a rush of bodies flinging themselves out of the doors every two hours in a frantic attempt to avoid getting a $5 ticket. Persons can be seen rubbing the chalk off their tires, shuffling their cars with workmates or desperately trying to find another nearby parking space which is a feat in itself, especially on Thursdays and Friâ€" days. Waterloo has to be different. It is unlike other shopping malls where meters are used with varâ€" ious time limits, and accept different amounts of coins. Parking is even free in other shopping areas. Waterloo‘s meters only accept quarters. It‘s your tough luck if you don‘t have the proper change. The same is true for employees working in the Waterloo Square. A passerby can frequently see There are parking meters, which have a time period of five to 10 hours, but these are almost too few to mention. Those who are lucky enough arrive early in the morning and are able to park by the meters and not worry about moving their cars for hours. Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press,. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 225 Fairway Rd., Kitâ€" chener. Ontario. Addre#® correspondence to Waterloo Square. Waterloo. Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. A reader of the Waterloo Chronicle for several years. I am quite satisfied what it offered in the past and present. . Bill Smiley does not have to worry how the â€" weekly â€" newspaper‘s editors choose the printâ€" ing material ("Should we go to court?" Oct. 15). There are several ways There is just one word to describe the parking byâ€"law â€" ridiculous. Restricting parking hours does naot encourage business, it can only discourâ€" age it. to get court news. _ The daily â€" newspapers, _ radio and if someone‘s taste reâ€" quires more violence, just turn on the TV. Dear Editor Recently I had a train trip to Boston. and while waiting for a U.S. bound train in Montreal station (it has the most beautiful interior _ architecture one can imagine}, I talked .etter fto the editor In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 waterioo chronicle SUBSCRIPTION RATES ESTABLISHED 1854 Bill _ Smiley _ recently called the Mayor of Monâ€" treal a ‘"con artist."" Frenchâ€" speaking â€" Canadians â€" are worried that Englishâ€" speaking â€" Canadians do not coâ€"operate. like Smiley. And the Montrealers are worried about the safety of the athletes. The tragâ€" edy in Munich, 1972, is painfully â€" in â€" everybody‘s memories. Let us all. Englishâ€"speaking, _ French speaking and new Canaâ€" dians. hope and pray for the success and the safety of the Olympic Games. to several people to find out how they feel about the 1976 Olympic Games. Sincerely yours. Ada Csanady. Downtown perspective It was late last spring that the Downtown Residents‘ Association first began to be publically referred to as a rateâ€" payers‘ group. A member of a "ratepayers‘ group‘ can be two things â€" a concerned citizen who, because he is fortunate enough to own property in Waterioo, takes an interest in its future, or a narrowâ€"minded property owner whose concerns go no further than his own comfort and financial investment. It depends on word usage. Educafion Mayor Epp seemed to have the more negative interpretaâ€" tion in mind when he addressed the Kiwanis Club last week. According to a report in the Record he said that ratepayer groups have opposed downtown commercial development because it "would be incompatible with the kind of lifeâ€" style that they would like to lead". We are set up as a hosâ€" tile group of reactionaries in opposition to the business community. . Before our residents® group was even formed, several of our members appeared before the Urban Renewal Comâ€" mittee with proposals for downtown redevelopment. Howâ€" ever as far as the recent area meetings for the secondary plan are concerned, or any position of the WDRA. nothing much has been said about the downtown core. Unfortunâ€" ately the central business district was, like traffic, not a part of the terms of reference of the secondary plan. _ The mayor has stated publicly that his major aim during his term of office is to see downtown redevelopment take place. He seems equally determined to set up ‘"ratepayers The bureaucrats® answer was to hire consultants to reâ€" examine the recommendations and report back to them. Naturally the consultants weren‘t about to play down the importance of the people who had hired them or to recomâ€" mend cutting out potential future employers â€" quite the Remember the Glassco Commission on federal governâ€" ment organization? Between 1960 and 1962 it produced sevâ€" eral hundred recommendations â€" in six volumes â€" on how to improve government efficiency at less cost. After anâ€" nouncing it would adopt certain recommendations, the government handed thd job over to the same bureaucracy that was to be reorganized. All dressed for Halloween were left to right, standing. Ricky, Jennifer, Jessica, Dan, Elaine, Pete, Geetika, Melissa, John, Stephanie and sitting, Amanda and Suzanne who all attended a special gathâ€" ering last Thursday at the Waterloo Public Library. The week of November 3â€"7 is Community Concern Week. Sponsored by the social planning council of Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo and the Kitchener Rotary Club, it has been approved by the Waterloo county Board of Education and the Waterloo County Separate School Board. Its purpose is to increase the public‘s awareness of the broad range of social and health services in the area. The Social Planning council will schedâ€" ule speakers from specific agencies for teachers of Grades 7 to 13 or for church and community groups and stresses that they will gladly arrange the details. I feel strongly that the week is of great importance. Last year nearly 2,000 students heard about one agency. At least two students were helped as result of speakers coming to the schools. Of course, because the topics of the speakers vary so vastly (law, family life, environmental studies) some students are influenced in their choice of vocations. There will be publicity, so keep watch for news of Commuâ€" nity Concern Week in Kâ€"W. If you belong to a class or group OTTAWA and Small Business By Kenneth McDonald 4 af f The WDRA is one "ratepayer group‘" which encompasses a variety of viewpoints. That‘s why we try to encourage individuals to get out and represent themselves. The last public hearing for the downtown area plan is Wednesday, Nov. 12th at the Adult Recreation Centre. Speak up at the ‘hearing, it‘s your downtown. groups"" in opposition to his aims, if the Record account was an accurate assessreent of his Kiwanis address. Actuâ€" ally the feelings expressed at public meetings showed that part of the downtown lifeâ€"style that people liked was the proximity of commercial and recreational facilities to their homes. Newspaper reports can be misleading, and sometimes not even due to the fault of the reporter covering the event. Headlines are often added by another writer and do not always reflect the content of the article accurately. If you had read only the headlines in the press reports about the public planning meetings, you would have the impression that all the downtown residents are opposed to hiâ€"rises. That sentiment was certainly not the central theme of all the reports, its just that "hiâ€"rises‘: makes a good headline. Anyway, the public hearing will serve to sum it all up. There will always be someone who gets up and says "I want it to stay just the way it is"‘. Some of us feel that way in our hearts, but recognize we must adjust to the inevitâ€" able change that will take place in Waterloo. Good planâ€" ning should be able to make the transition as comfortable as possible. Under the Consumer Labelling and Packaging Act, all nonâ€"food items sold in Canada since Sept: 1, 1975, require bilingual labels. The same will apply to food items from March 1. 1976. Last month a small Winnipeg oil comâ€" pany â€" Radio Oil â€" was threatened with seizure of more than $5,000 worth of antifreeze because the labels were in English only. A food importer â€" B.L. Marks, of Thornâ€" hill. Ont. â€" told the Canadian Federation of Independent Business that "a large part of our products will disappear from the market. Many of our suppliers will not make a separate bilingual package for Canada.~ wishing to arrange for a speaker, please call 579â€"3800. This past week it was my distinct pleasure to moderate a panel on sex education in the school system at the Kitchener YWCA. Composed of four members: Bob Chalmers, consulâ€" tant of family life education for the public school board; Mrs. Florence Fleming, coâ€"ordinator of family life studies for the separate school board; Beth Burk, public health nurse and Joyce Cornick, education director of the Planned Parentâ€" hood Association, the panel provided a great deal of informaâ€" tion. Because our children are small, I was particularly interâ€" ested in the recommended reading for parents. The books covered a wide base;, everything from where babies come from to a novel for small children caught in a divorce dilemâ€" ma to a 10â€"yearâ€"old girl‘s very frank discussion with God. Ten years later the consultants are still busy, at an anâ€" nual cost of about $1 billion in fees aloge. The result: 443,192 federal civil servants in 1974 compared to 294,750 in 1962. That‘s about 12,000 more every year. We have new deâ€" partments, new divisions of old departments, new agencies and more and more layers of highly paid officials regulatâ€" ing everything from egg prices to bilingual labels. What Canada needs is an updated Glassco report for action by Parliament, not by the bureaucracy. The turn out was light but the efforts of the panel, their collective compassion, and the concern each speaker radiâ€" ated were greatly appreciated. reverse. Both parties had the same incentive â€" not to cut back but to build up. * % # by Doreen G. Thomas by Rosemary Rowe