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i Teacher || : __ _ award "*aile / _ . Saat‘s a blase & * Tp nds is uie is a~3 :':Hulmulhn--ydht.c . City business is conducted by six standâ€" _ * Waterloo Historical S0CIOY ___ \jpoaae + mathematics teacher at * A:‘ ® y-;; a 123rd Year No. 19 fourth recipient of the Stewart Award for Teach er Excellence. recognition of educationist Rev. Finlay G. Stewart, a man who epitomized sented with an engraved medailion, a bound citaâ€" tion and biography of Dr. Stewart. Brass plaques wil} hang in his school and award for teacher excellâ€" of Ontario. pal of Bluevale Collegiate, guidance coâ€"ordinator for the _ Wateriloo County board of Education in 1976 and Bob Hannah, a mathematics teacher at Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Colâ€" legiate in 1977. By Terry James By the year 2001, senior citizens will make up 10 per cent of Ontario‘s population. As a result, Morley Zurbrigg, an Ontario Welfare Council official and chairman of a committee on aging, urged municipaliâ€" ties to expand and better coâ€"ordinate support servicâ€" es to these people. The social services division of the Regional Governâ€" ment acted on this suggestion and with the aid of proâ€" vincial government funding, expanded a home supâ€" port program for seniors. On May 1, Nancy Finkle‘s and Kitty Francis‘ weeks of planning went into action in both the cities of Waâ€" terloo and Cambridge. The programs in these two centres will resemble one which has been operating in Kitchener. The home support program, coâ€"ordinâ€" ated by the social services division, has been operâ€" ating in coâ€"operation with Kitchener Parks and Recâ€" reation for the past eight months. The twin program in Waterloo will be located in the Adult Recreation . As far as it is More support services urged for seniors to ‘"‘the system" the maypr and cight aldermen. in addi that uakes govâ€" > tion; there are 27 boards and commissions, Students at Northdale public school were presented with two trees this week for their participation on Arbor Day. City of Waterioo Community Services donated the trees which were planted in front of the school on Monday. Assisting in the planting are (front) Terailee Bird, Leanna Crofts, and Jimmy Legge, all three participants in the Arbor Day plantings at Waterico Park. And, Paul Wurgler, Murray Banhausen, Doug McKeand, Northdale principal Peter Miller, Marilyn Allenson, Diane Mitchell, Kim Reist, arborist and interested neighbor John Toth, Janis Otterbein and Andy Kyriacou. Mr. Toth gave technical assistance to the students as well as a short lesson in proper tree planting. He also planted the first trees in the school yard 15 years ago. Wednesday, May 10, 1978 41ME3 * *Jb * se ange. i: A2". sinpuphts aprech ue trh, ahgg with Centre and will operate in conjunction with comâ€" munity services. Ms. Francis, a resource assistant for Waterloo Regional Health and Social Services, said the provâ€" ince‘s reasons for initiating the service programs over a year ago were twoâ€"fold. The government wantâ€" ed to create jobs and at the same time provide a necessary service for senior citizens. While Regionâ€" al Government is taking care of administrative costs, the provincial government is covering all other The program has been established to provide serâ€" vices such as heavy cleaning, outside and yard work, sitting and escort services to seniors who do not have family or friends available to do these jobs for ‘"If neighbours and friends are already providing this service we don‘t want to replace them,‘‘ said Ms. Francis. ‘"Having these people providing the serâ€" vices will help to keep the seniors involved with both you n memoon a ponorines 10 Cents it â€" 5"'%.-: iithies â€"thisk sach com itstes meet aher: â€" Te n Wiand wet 1y tomel bo flioy. oogng Arog~Acmdlllifer $ Tnck thble mese sight snovclt seey ors are dealt to ti. . PDtces: with cachâ€"alderman sittingâ€" on m w fi“dfi& y es o _ Thay would actually be physically split, P | :2 o spoccichy Serine y ce Waterloo, Ontario their families and their neighbourhood. The program is primarily for seniors who experiâ€" ence little or no family and friend involvernent and who cannot afford to have professionals come in to help them. Each applicant receives a personal visit by Ms. Finkle, coâ€"ordinator of the program, and an assessment is completed. Seniors are asked to pay according to their ability. In only one case are project workers visiting a senior‘s home on a weekly basis. Ms. Finkle said it is not their intention to have the seniors become deâ€" pendent on them. Both the coâ€"ordinator and resource assistant stressâ€" ed the fact that the home support program is only a backâ€"up service to existing agencies. The community has expressed some fear that the program will be invading other agencies‘ territories. The local program has received a number of calls from interested seniors and any senior who wishes additional information may phone 579â€"1020. Thefe‘s also a committee that studâ€" ies remuneration for elected officials, a board of management for the downtown improvement area, and independent bodâ€" ies like hydro, hospitals, and humane soâ€" :iety, charity appeals, and Kâ€"W Oktoberâ€" est. gone by. One, the gasolineâ€"seryvice station to approve opening and closing hours for Another, which boasts the fancy title of the Town and Gown committee really doesn‘t have much to do with the world of fashion, Ald. Walter McLean, who heads the committee, said he‘s never had to call a meeting. s ~ The Town and Gown committee has its roots in the earlier days of Waterloo‘s two universities, when students would leave campus for a night on the town to do some serious drinking. The usual student pranks, like removing traffic signs and being generally noisy and disruptive, used to spark citizen complaints. Not so any more, it seems. In fact, things run so smoothly with council and the various committees, that meetings often appear as simply yawn sessions to the casual spectator. ‘"‘It doesn‘t make for too many headâ€" lines,‘"‘ Keeling concedes. ‘‘‘There aren‘t too many hooâ€"hahs . . . Maybe it‘s a pat thing to say, but look regularly to council. Each requires some council represenâ€" tation, as do the boards of governors of the two universities. 20 ,:fif most,pf these committees meet rly, there are a couple that are of a @pecial nature, holdovers from days at , that report