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Dance proceeds help project Lift Sixtyâ€"nine students have begun studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in the January term, compared with 57 who entered a year ago at the same time. _ Keith Rae, assistant registrar for admission, said the entering students are fairly evenly spread across the divisions of arts and science, business and econoâ€" mics, and music. . Some of the students came from high schools that allow students to complete their grade 13 studies by Christians. Others were students who had been in the work force. A number were adult students who had been away from school for two years or more. "I think some of them realized they were in deadâ€" end jobs," Mr. Rae said, "and realized they needed more education if they wanted satisfactory and fulâ€" filling careers." The university has about 3,000 undergraduate stuâ€" dents. Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region announces the appointment of two permanent staff members. Marg van Vliet has been named fullâ€"time executive coâ€"ordinator. Her duties will include community eduâ€" cation. Ms. van Vliet was previously in charge of eduâ€" cation, fundraising, office administration and rehabiâ€" litation with the Wellington County Lung Association. Connie Clement, newly appointed volunteer coâ€"orâ€" dinator, is responsible for implementing training proâ€" grams for the agency‘s volunteers and working with the counselling function. Ms. Clement was coâ€"ordinaâ€" (o; <;f' the Waterloo Chapter of the Ontario Public Inâ€" terest Research Group (OPIRG ) for one year before joining Planned Parenthood. Ruth Stehr of Project Lift receives $90 in cash from Jack Loth and Inez Stager of the Waterloo Adult Reâ€" creation Centre as a donation to assist in buying new equipment. The money represents profits from a dance organized by the Senior Citizens in December. Operation Lift is a charitable organization that does not charge for providing transportation to disabled members of the community. They rely entirely upon grants and charitable donations for their operating revenue. John Albrecht‘s application for zoning exemption from the proposed bylaw 78â€"153, which implements the City‘s central residential district plan, has been deferred until the review of the plan is completed. Mr. Albrecht originally proposed building an 11â€" storey, 100â€"unit senior citizen apartment building at 9 Lodge St. in Waterloo, however the old zoning bylaw would have prevented construction of the project. when viewed in terms of the city‘s 35â€"foot building height policy. The proposed bylaw being sent to the Ontario Muniâ€" cipal Board rezones the site to General Residence (GR2) which restricts multiple occupancy dwellings to a triplex Planned Parenthood announces staff appointments Enroliment going up at WLUY Waterioo at a glance High rise zone change postponed Ma P o Aei s dhee s s eg@s s e o s ut n es ‘?i"mt.r‘fi‘.w»; 4 ndllites . _4 1 > < JeE (Continuad from page 1) Rebels in that the parâ€" > on through a Can; munity and either living on . ticipants themselves are reâ€" &:&uamc*:t their own or in group homes, . sSponsiblé for planning and â€" teenagers was started in Noâ€" the organization saw the . carrying qut the programs. _ vember. Youths between need for some basic life _ The Ricochet group meet the ages of 14 and 19 get toâ€" skills training. evory'e‘:_uday ‘cv_eat!.(ia gether every Saturday ‘‘The disabled have to learn to do the things we take for granted,"‘ said Mrs. Cruickshank." Therefore once a month the Happy Rebels are invitâ€" ed to listen to a guest speaker lecture on some aspect of basic life skills. Subjects in the past have inâ€" cluded architectural barâ€" riers, money management, banking and wheelchair The organization hopes to get a 10â€"week life skills course underway in the near future. The participants will learn how to cook, clean and manage for themselves in their own environment. Kâ€"W Services has yet anâ€" other social group which differs from the Happy How to _ manage inventories One never ending problem in the business world involâ€" ves managing inventories. Astute inventory manageâ€" ment often makes the difâ€" ference between red and black ink in the ledger at the end of the business year‘ The trick is to have whaâ€" tever goods you need on hand when you need them, but not to have more than you need,. or to have things you don‘t need at all. The problem is always there,. whether the concern inâ€" volved is a manufacturing. wholesale or retail operaâ€" tion. A University of Waterloo management sciences (enâ€" gineering) professor, Dr. Edward Silver. has just pubâ€" lished a book that could proâ€" vide significant help to Canâ€" adian businessmen with these particular problems. The book is entitled Decision Systems for Invenâ€" tory Management and Proâ€" duction Planning and has been published by John Wiley & Sons, New York and Toronto. In it. Prof. Silver and his coâ€"author, Dr. Rein Peterson of York Univerâ€" sity. have made a concerted elfort to relate to practical inventory _ management problems in the real world. They have also come up with what could be a useful textbook for business adâ€" ministration, industrial enâ€" gineering and management sciences/operations _.reâ€" search students...since it deâ€" velops practical methods based on sound theory and mathematical models for decision making. ‘‘We‘ve tried to organize the book so that one can still get a good deal out of it by skipping the mathematical sections that require some understanding of university level mathematics. ‘ says Prof. Silver. ~"The various sections are arranged so that this can be done ‘‘We‘ve also presented many of the decision rules in such a way that the calculaâ€" tions can be done with a hand calculator. In addition. many graphical and tabular implementation aids are inâ€" cluded. At the same time most of the logic has been (Continued on page 8) it & sponsible for planning and carrying qut the programs. Theâ€" Ricochet group meet every Wednesday evening in the Adult Recreation Cenâ€" tre, Waterloo, or Zion Unitâ€" ed Church, Kitchener. In the past they have planned dances, pub nights and quiet social evenings. _ A swimming program under the direction of Bab Cruickshank has proven to be very popular. The recreaâ€" tion swim is held every Tuesday evening at the Waâ€" terloo Family +Y‘ and Thursday evening at Forest Height‘s Collegiate. This program requires the larâ€" gest number of volunteers who work one to one with the disabled. The organization is hoping to get their swimmers inâ€" volved in an adapted aquaâ€" tics course. The Red Cross program, adapted for the disabled, enables the parâ€" ticipants to achieve levels equivalent to those in any other Red Cross Program. Kâ€"W Services is having difâ€" ficulty in finding a qualified instructor willing to volunâ€" teer his or her time. Thanks to the efforts of Debbi Clemens, a graduate of the recreation program at Conestoga College, who worked briefly with the orâ€" If you ever visit Fort Lauderdale, Florida, keep your eyes open for Lorrie who can be found at the local yacht clubs. She is a great fan of fishing and disco. ncccmmn Wednesday Girl ‘‘As our numbers are growing we need more and more methods of transporâ€" tation," said Mrs. Cruickâ€" shank. ‘‘We find it necesâ€" sary to use cabs which are vey which indicated that upon leaving the Rotary Centre at age 17, many of the disabled youths returned home and lost all social conâ€" tact with their peers. teenagers was started in Noâ€" vember. Youths between the ages of 14 and 19 get toâ€" gether every Saturday morning for a good game of floor hockey or just to sociaâ€" this past summer, more and more physically disabled are becoming involved, the prganization is facing a new problem â€" the lack of sufâ€" ficient transportation. The need for this proâ€" gram came to the organizaâ€" tion‘s attention when Ms. ._**Many of our teenagers are older and have never had the opportunity to sociaâ€" lize with their peers," said Mrs. Cruickshank.â€" They have always been protected. The kids are being taught to be more independent today. We see a big difference." While the programs are thriving and thanks to an ouâ€" Moe Dyke‘s Project Lift has been a big asset but they have ny merous demands on their time and she would like to see them being financed by e = 8+ ol TAB. 7i & _ 2 costly and intonvenient. We wish there was more fundâ€" ing for transportation. This segment of society should the As well as the programs mentioned above, Kâ€"W Serâ€" vices prints and distributes 200 copies of a biâ€"monthly newsletter and with the aid of a Younq Canada Works grant they stage a summer According to Margaret Pallot, a volunteer with the organization for quite a few years, the service the orâ€" ganization provides to the disabled is ‘"incredible." **Before the community had this service many were confined to their homes,"*‘ said Mrs. Pallot. "If their family didn‘t take them out they had no social life at all. Now there is virtually a proâ€" gram every day, five days a week. Today the disabled have friends and a social life; probably the first time in their life for some. The work of this organization has made a tremendous difâ€" ferencé."‘ $ The secretary said that