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9 W hosts international dance conference â€" Chronicle Staff writer Dance in Canada will hold its Seventh Annual Conâ€" ference at the University of Waterloo this year from June 27 to July 2. The conâ€" ference, promising to be the largest in Canada‘s dance history, _ will _ feature speakers and guests from across the country as well as the U.S., Great Britain and Australia. Dance in Canada, a nonâ€" profit service organization, is conducting the affair as part of National Dance in Canada Week. This year‘s theme is the Future, with an accent on the business angle of dance. Waterioo Days wouldn‘t be complete without an amusement park, and these two girls got their money‘s worth by riding the ferris wheel. Other rides caâ€" tered to the younger kids and of course, candyâ€"floss was plentiful. _ . _MP stuck on bmbassyissue Rev. McLean said he doesn‘t anticipate a serious problem over the subject of the embassy location. because the Prime Minister hasn‘t laid down any guiâ€" delines as to when the move will take place But when Globe and Mail Reporter Denys Horgan asked the MP whether he would vote against the moâ€" tion in the house, he said he‘d need a lot more inforâ€" matidn before making a decision one way or the other The Globe and Mail article says the international afâ€" fairs committee is strongly opposed to the move,. and said so in a letter to the government. The committee stated that an embassy move would be unfair to both !:rties involved because it would strongly favor Jeruâ€" lem. Rev. McLean told a Globe reporter that he was surâ€" prised the embassy move came up in the election campaign, since the candidates hadn‘t been consulted He also said he‘s had some complaints regarding the idea from contstituenst in Waterloo. "I‘m not the only MP hearing about them. (probâ€" lem regarding the propsed embassy move) he told the Globe. , Chronicle staff writer Walter McLean is in a bind. The newly elected Waâ€" terloo PC MP is also head of a committee opposing Prime Minister Joe Clark‘s plan to move the Canaâ€" dian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. According to a report in the Globe and Mail, pubâ€" lished Tuesday, Rev. McLean is having a rough time with that conflict of interest. He‘s a member of Mr. Clark‘s governing party, but he‘s also a member of the church group that wants to stop the Prime Minisâ€" ter‘s embassy move. The exâ€"pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, Waâ€" terloo, is chairman of the international affairs comâ€" mittee of the Canadian Council of Churches. The assembly has been hosted by different provinâ€" ces since the founding of the organization in 1973. Memâ€" bership consists of dancers, dance companies, educaâ€" tors, administrators, techâ€" nicians and members of the dance audience. A national office in Toronto is responâ€" sible for coâ€"ordinating the activities of the regional ofâ€" fices, which include workâ€" shops, regional conferences and information services. Each day of the Waterloo conference will focus on difâ€" ferent aspects of dance. Thursday will be devoted to thought and expression, Friâ€" day to physical realities, Saâ€" turday to dance and related Social, political and econâ€" omic questions will be dealt with in a number of sessions focusing in on art in Canada, the role of the artist, and arts management. To further the expression of these goals. Dance in Canada has adopted a new policy â€" to take a business approach toward dance and to be aware of the internal and external politics dictatâ€" ing the organization‘s fuâ€" ture. In this time of governâ€" ment cutbacks, the group sees the need to find a more commercial funding in order to survive. All the activities planned for the conference will conâ€" tribute to the objectives of the Dance in Canada Asâ€" sociation. Those objectives include, the promotion of dance acâ€" tivities in Canada, the linkâ€" ing of dance organizations within Canada. the creation of a vehicle for a united voice to express collective concerns. and the creation of a vehicle for international cultural exchange. Researchers will conduct workshops in dance history, education, aesthetics and physical aspects of dance. As well, master teachers will conduct daily classes from ballet and modern dance to Chinese and Afroâ€" Caribbean. Speaking about policies and politics in the arts will be Gertrude Laing, a former chairman of the Canada Council and an expert on Canadian culture. Keynote speakers will address the assembly on dance related activities. Lukas Foss, world renâ€" owned composer, musician and conductor, will speak on current and future trends in musical composition and music and dance. Bella Lewitzky, lifetime professional dancer, founder of her own dance company and receiver of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Dance in 1977, will address the topic of today‘s training on tomorrow‘s artists. arts and Sunday to the role of dance in society. â€" Chronicle photo Waterloo‘s planning deâ€" partment conducted a series of public meetings a year ago, to find out what people wanted from their parks system and what they thought of existing parks, as the first step towards creatâ€" ing a Parks and Recreation Master Plan. Based on the public input, city planner Greg Romanick has prepared the first in a series of three slide presenâ€" tations outlining what land will be needed and how it would be acquired. The pubâ€" lic meeting to be held Wedâ€" nesday, June 27 at the Adult Recreation Centre on King St. will use 60 to 70 colour slides shown two at aâ€"time to demonstrate the various factors involved in esâ€" tablishing a land base for fuâ€" ture parks. â€" Last year the planning deâ€" partment decided there were four main directions they could go with park space; lineal facilities suiâ€" table for jogging and biking, the large park approach, enâ€" vironmentally _ oriented areas, or a setup based pretty much on the existing system. They have taken the best ideas from a series of 20 maps portraying park features in an attempt to deâ€" velop an ideal parks and reâ€" creation format. _ _ By Geoff Hoite people of Waterioo could see Chronicle staff writer some early changes in a What will parks in Waâ€" year or two he said. "It is a terloo be like in the year guide for park land acquisiâ€" 20007 How will they differ tion ... but through it all from the current system? _ council has the final say. Where will they be located? _ People are teniling to lean Waterloo‘s planning deâ€" toward lineal parks and asâ€" partment conducted a series Sociated activities," accordâ€" of public meetings a year ing to Mr. Romanick: ‘"The ago, to find out what people â€" facilities and park developâ€" wanted from their parks ment aspect is important, system and what they . but that is the responsibility thought of existing parks, as of the community services Although the master plan is designed to reflect long range thinking, there will definitely be some specifics dealt with, said Mr. Romanâ€" ick. With council‘s approval and available financing, the Planners to present _ new park concepts A centre spokesmen outâ€" lined the specific goals of the organization for the summer of 1979 as> modifiâ€" cations of the present rate structure so excessive conâ€" sumers pay more per unit for their water : education of ~ By Danny Feeney Hot summer days are here â€" at last, you say â€" but with them comes the greater consumption of water resources and the threat of lawnâ€"watering bans or similar measures to cut down water use. A Waterioo group. Water Conservation Centre. is preâ€" sently studying ways to conâ€" serve water in the Region of Waterloo. Formed last sumâ€" mer when dangerously low levels were reached in the region‘s water supply. the centre is dedicated to orâ€" ganizing a comprehensive conservation program to avoid expensive developâ€" ments of new water sources. Water Conservation Cenâ€" tre (WCC) is funded wholly by the province and the reâ€" gional municipality. Though it is located on the campus of the University of Waâ€" terloo. it functions separateâ€" Iv Water concerns local group one of the few cities in Onâ€" tario, along with Kitchener, who have put together this type of parks plan. Mr. Romanick would like to see the plan flexible enâ€" ough to tie schools in with a system of linegl parks to form smallef compact neighbourhood areas with more attractive develop ment. The advantage of such a lineal park system would be the tying together Centre coâ€"ordinator Sanâ€" dra Howardâ€"Ferreira conâ€" siders public education of great importance since priâ€" vate residences account for 43 per cent of the total water usage. Of that portion. toiâ€" lets account for 45 per cent Though these two projects would increase the region‘s water capacity. the centre spokesman said they would cost *millions of dollars and would create bigger probâ€" lems than the region already has with its water supply + The Waterioo Concert Band will be holding a free concert at the Centennial bandshell in Waterloo park. Sunday. June 24, at 7: 30 p.m Projects the centre wants to delay at this time are the construction of a dam at West â€" Montrose. which would flood large areas of fertile farm land, and the construction of a pipeline to one of the great lakes, which would have an adverse efâ€" fect on the environment. the public to encourage resiâ€" dential conservation: and the testing of conservation devices for toilets. Apparently Waterloo is Free concert June 24 Greg Romanick ces,, forming a network throughout the city and proâ€" moting an alternative to veâ€" hicular travel through bikâ€" ing and walking paths. He said the lineal system in adâ€" dition to creating a physical and visual relief from adâ€" ~jacent development would make â€" smaller neighâ€" bourhood units with which people could easily identify. An extension of this concept would be the evolution of inâ€" dividual neighbourhoods and the "growth of citizen groups who would perhaps look after their own local Another three employees of the WCC are involved in the public information proâ€" gram. One of them. Karen Bailey. said the group would set up displays in local malls this summer to show people how and why they should conserve water Right now the group is tryâ€" ing to get permission to inâ€" clude a pamphlet. chockâ€"full of conservation ideas for the (Continued on page 4) of many areas and resourâ€" of consumption. It is hoped that eventually about a gallon of water per flush can be conserved by the bottle method . For this reason, three of the ten people in employ at the centre are studying the use of bottles in toilet reservoirs to displace the inâ€" coming water and cut down the amount of water used for each flush. This group will be performing exâ€" periments in a number of houses in an attempt to find the most appropriate object to use in the reservoirs. In the second presentation the planning department will deal with types of park facilities and the develop ment of existing lands. Later in the year the poliâ€" cies plan will be unveiled to the public to solidify the final thinking before it is submitted to council for apâ€" proval.