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No Waterloo tax change before 'ttt The City's finance advisory committee voted last Wednes- day to postpone for another year implementation of any form of assessment reform, in order to benefit from the ex- perience of other communities b Last year Waterloo council voted to make no changes der Section " of the Assessment Act before 1900. The Etision reached in the committee meeting Wednesday, if tified by council. will mean that any tax reform legisla- tion passed in 1980 will not show up on owners’ tax bills until By Geoff Hoilo "V Chronicle on" who: Property owners in Waterloo will not be faced with mar- ket value assessment until 181, but when it does come city council wants to be sure everyone understands what is hay Mme. - - _ _ - I I III L The six other municipalities in Waterloo Region changed their assessment format last year. The reassessment in Kitchener and Cambridge has precipitated about 4,000 ap- peals in Kitchener and another 2,000 in Cambridge, despite the fact the change is intended to bring about a more realis- tie and fair basis for property tax assessment. Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll spoke out in favour of waiting another year, to give the City an opportunity to launch a public relations campaign and information bro- chure to introduce residents to the ensuing tax assessment change. While there have been far fewer assessment ap- peals registered in Waterloo than in either Kitchener or Cambridge in past years, the mayor is concerned that rush- ing into market value assessment will cost the City tax re- venue by upsetting up-toone-third o the homeowners. It is estimated that under market value assessment a third of the homes will receive lower assessment, another ird will remain unchanged, and the remaining third will ave higher taxation. It is from this latter group that ap- peals would be expected, and if successful, could represent a sizeable loss of revenue to the City and increased pressure on an already tight budget. A number of Waterloo area service groups are joining forces to focus on the physically disabled in August. A waren ess week to focus on handicapped The Twin City Spinners Disabled Sports Program. Kitchener-Waterloo Ser- vices for the Physically Dis, abled, Ontario March of Dimes, the Action League for the Physically Disabled Adults along with the United H; ndicapped Groups of Om tario (UHGO) will all be in- volved in what is to be " you were in downtown Waterloo on Saturday morning, you must have heard the music made by this antique steam calliOpe. The machine was parked in Waterloo Square's parking lot, and drew quite a crowd with its blaring pipe music. The calliope was part of Waterloo's Roaring 20's Sidewalk Sale. called Ability-Awareness Week. The program will run from August 6 through to August ll. The program will empha- size abilities of the disabled, as well as inform them of new programs in the com- munity. A number of special events will take place dur- ing Ability Awareness Week, including a wheel- chair dance-a-thon on Fri- day, August 10. Mayor Carroll said the City would like to wait until the government agency, HUDAC, completes a major study of vacant land to relate its findings to any market value as- sessment involving vacant land in Waterloo. She would like to see the ministry treat vacant land separately from im- proved lots. Area Kiwanis Club Family Day Chvoniclo st." writer The eleventh annual on servance of Family Day will be held Sunday, August l2 throughout Canada. United The downtown Waterloo sidewalk volunteer troubadors strolled up a: Bye. Bye Blackbird. The lady in the and happily got into the act dancin Waterloo sidewalk sale turned into a real celebration last Friday as these two udors strolled up and down King St.. playing old favourites like Bill Bailey and ird. The lady in the foreground of the picture couldn’t resist the strains of music. into the act dancing and singing. THE SOUND OF MUSIC? States and the Caribbean. according to Kitchener-Wa- terloo Kiwanis President Gerry Leyes. Fa'mil); Day IS an event In announcing Family Family Day was star Day, Mr Leyes requested In the late 1960's Mr lar: support from aiIresidentsof saui it recewed the l the Waterloo area Family mediate approval of CM ' Day IS not "just a Kiwanis church, governmental f . program", he said education leaders Ghd aids research l with UW rant The City's finance commissioner. Don Schaefer in recom- mending the delay in tax reform suggested that Waterloo might be able to use 1979 market-value figures instead of the 1975 figures other municipalities are using. Mayor Carroll said people would be better able to relate to was figures in understanding the tax change when it comes, '- sponsored by Kiwanis Inter- national, The theme for this year's observance, according to the local Kiwanis Club, will be Family ReSpon- situhty-the Strength of N- tions, Mr. Leyes said the event will try to dramatire family pride and solidarity. strengthening the role of the family in our society A mechanical engineering research group at the UM versity of Waterloo recently received a 828.500 grant from General Motors. to study tribology ___ Iubrica- tron. fnclmn and wear Donald Hayes, head of GWs mechanical research department In Michigan made the grant presentation at UW on July 6 The grant was allocated by the GM Research La- boratories to the Mechani- cal Engineering Depart- ment at UW, to support ef- forts aimed at developing a better understanding of how :wiwrbo Chronic». wmv. My 18.1979 " Fun 3 Chvomcie no" write" The program this year will be an extension of the Kiwanis program, Right- start. presently underway in areas of the world where the Kiwanis Club is active Some of the activities sug- gested by the local Kiwanis group are family gather- Ings. banquets. picnics. ethnic group gatherings and children‘s activities Family Day was started m the late 1960's Mr Leyes said it received the tm- mediate approval of civic. church. governmental and education leaders engineering surfaces m- teract and how their In {emotion IS influenced by a thin layer of lubricant. spread over the surfaces The study will centre on what is known as the "mixed. or boundary" lubri- cation area, a situation which. according to General Motors, is not well under- stood but which contributes greatly to the friction and wear of machine parts Work In this area us already being done by two uw professors. John Schey and Joseph Tevaarwerk. and the grant will enable that work to be expanded and done in more detail