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125th Year No. 43 123 sigrrpetition By Tongan» Unless the City of Water can come up with some suggestions, secondary school students in the Beech- wood North subdivision will be walking' to class for the remainder of the school year. " "Kt their regular council nieeting on Monday night, aldermen received a petition signed by 123 concerned residents, requesting that the city and the Waterloo 'i"l'SliiCiTrliLtiE maniac, Students left without transportation Wilfrid Laurie: University hold their costumed man was only a pan ot into the make up of the parade. Who is this masked man? held their annual Homecoming Parade Saturday on King Street and this a part ot the floats. cheerleaders and caged football players that went Wednesday, October 24, 1979 County Board of Education come up with a shared bus system. Until Sept. 26 a bus picked the students up at the corner of Columbia and Hallman Road. According to Robert Schlosser. transportation officer for the school board, overcrowding orrthis bus made it necessary to revise the route. This revision left seven lat last count in September) students without any means of "tran- City may give it one more try By Chronicle " Staff Writer One year ago the City of Waterloo got involved in newspaper recycling. It was a hit and miss programs Now 1eity council is willing to give it another try but this time the program will be well thought out and each step carefully planned. “I admit that when we started I was rather naive," said Alderman Blake Hull. He said one of the reasons for the failure was the fact the paper was not picked up on regular garbage days and people Just didn't re- member. - On Sept. 15 Superior Sani- tation's one year contract expired and they did not wish to extend It Jim Willis, city engineer, said the com- pany only collected two tons of newsprint a week. With this in mind council voted in favor of joining the Recycling Council of On- tario They also agreed to consider (In conjunction with the recycling council) entering into an agreement for the delivery of used newspaper. consider equip- ping city garbage trucks with racks for separate col- lection and collecting newspaper as part of the re- gular garbage pick up Mr Willis pomted out that collecting the paper them- Mr. Schlosser said that the school board's transpor- -tation policy requires that a student live three miles from the nearest bus stop or school before it is manda- tory for the board to provide transportation. The stu- dents are within the three mile limit. In their petition,Me concerned residents stated that , (Continued on page til i;iiairai'Gtii, 33m} taut I 3.25.? ttl) Ps _ I v. g new minim-tr 's, new qt8,ttt. smut-m ; s 'iitiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiii iiiaiit' Tr, __ ""3; jiiirui1u,,rtfik"iyW', T, yin unity a! In”: tympani m. 4883f m ht the v---------))--------, sportatit Waterloo, Ontario Comment 6 Columns , Sports 11-19 Community Calendar 23 J selves meant double han- dling of the garbage and would result in costly over- time. He said'the city would also be in head to head com- petition with groups like the Boy Scouts who pick up papers in Lakeshore Vil- lage. Alderman Richard Biggs felt the motion was a "make work project" even though he is in favor of recycling. Council also had before them an application from Joseph and Co. Ltd., a firm interested in providing free newspaper pick-up for the city. The firm agreed to a pilot program consisting of a two week cycle for the period of one month with the results to be reviewed at the end of that time "This is at no cost to the only, "We're going back- wards If we involve the city m collecting It." said Alder- man Biggs. Alderman Mewhinney was all for trying to set up a program on their own She said the city had already gone through the experience of dealing with a private company and could not see how they would be much more successful than Su- perior Sanitation, Staff will report back to counml on the cost of enter- ing into their own program and collecting the newsprint themselves, 15 Cents