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address correspondence ttt Waterloo omee 92 King St. South. Waterloo. Ont . telephone mam Wanton Chlomclc when " locum onan'loovoC the 0 W Sports banding appeal. Wat-Hoe Square Park-no on (my Sun! or m Wourloo Squat. Opon Monday to Fnday900lm to600pm 1%tf1 Perhaps the board of education staff - who are Iooking tor new headquarters - would consider moving to en unused school rether than spending tax dollars on e new fecility? With school enrolments declining at their pre- sent rate, some serious thought and action must be given to what can be domcto make use of school facilities no longer needed for classrooms. And since Voelker is a respected builder and architect. we can safely assume his plans for con- version are workable and economical. More important than the idee itself is the fact that a few people like Voelker are taking some ini- tiative to meet the ptoblem of excess school space rather than hide Item it. In a few very short years, we are going to be left with hundreds of classrooms and not enough stu- dents to fill them. What will be done with all that space? Whether or not Voellter can sell his plan to the Waterloo county board ot education is secondary - but hopefully he will be successful. The space could be used for resource. recreational. or com- mercial purposes. but it must be used if we are to deal constructively with declining enrolments. Waterloo Alderman Charlie Voeiker has a sug- gestion. And while it may seem radical at first. on reflection it looks like the type of scheme needed. Ald. Voelker feels unused school space - such as that available in Pine Grove School. should be used to provide senior citizens' housing. He suggested the idea a year ago and got sup- port from some quarters, but like too many good ideas this one was shelved when the problem of declining enrolments slipped out of the headlines. Now the problem is in the limelight again. and authorities are starting to take a careful look at Charlie Voelker's idea. The Waterloo alderman has already drawn up blueprints to show how classrooms could be modified into apartments. To the Editor: May I draw your attention to an error contained within my letter of Dec, 5 The word after blanket was “Bossi- ness" as opposed to "business" which you published, Maybe I should have written more clearly or used the word authori- tarianism May I expand on regional government growing pains by saying that we are becoming highly over-governed. Region- al government created jobs rather than eliminating jobs, and many of those positions are highly paid Persons. whether highly educated or not are human and prone to errors of judgement We didn't need this type of expansion any more than we need a greater membership m the House of Commons or the senate Probably 10 years after I am decently interred some bright PHD from one of our bastions of higher learning will get a lot of praise for this discovery and his simple sta- tement will "Bigger government is not necessarily better BA Norma Sagoi Waterloo PS Please print your postal code. Our postal code is N2.) IP5 - ed. “To former resndents of Sarma. Ontario If you attended Cmtral Collegiate you are cordially invited to attend the 25th reunion to be held In Samia on May 16, 17, and 18, 1980 For further information please write to When is a school not a school? Big government isn't necessarily better Sarnia school anniversary rlhlyttl9oAhrrtt1it*r, Wednesday. December It published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd . owner 225 Fairway mr s, Kitchener. Ont, subscriptions' tt4 a year m Canada 316 a year in United States and Foreign Countries Anniversary Reunion Committee Sarma Central Collegiate 281 East Street North Samia. Ontario Pam-Ibo! Paul kalor Edna Mower“ Elhon established 1854 1979 It is a difficult concept to grasp - a single nation com- posed of a billion people This is a nation with a population about 40 times that of Canada. And the concept is about to become a reality. Some time very soon, certainly during the In fact, some demographers argue that there are already more than a billion people in China The timing of the event really is academic. Perhaps what is more important is the news from Peking that China's democracy movement --c the groping toward some genuine human rights as understood in the West -- has slowed considerably 19805. the ieaddrs in Peking will announce that the popula- tion of the People's Republic of China has reached a billion And Indeed this was inevitable In searching for a truth The Chronicle takes this opportunity to apologize for two factual errors which ap- peared in Iest week's editoriel titted "Home buyers beware". (Dec. 5, pg. 6) The editorial stated that the advertisement in question appeared in the Today section of the K-W Record when in fact the ad appeared in the Homes section. The article also incorrectly stated that the Beechwood North subdivision was being ad- vertised. Actually the Beechwood West sub- division was the one in question. We sincerely apologize for any incon- venience caused by these errors. 305T RlNGJF Yoo \WANT NRE. / f (iiiif'j'ii.i))!:s,, (A l OUR MISTAKE rc- 3% 'liiiellEiEtC----,2 C) LN f I o . Q, I "A ./ gl)' L Tu [t,i,' I , N atlll_/d N . , & CI WUIIiIW) ”all “to (i,).,,ilt, {$3S3A83933 Exhé C-Ct, Chtrartld Of human rights Cihrrtitt.ru3.ittt,,: that applies to ail of humankind, modem philosophers a difficult time deciding what is more important - for. and women to have the right to speak their mind a times, or for people to have access to basic needs such as adequate food, clothing and shelter, Certainly the leaders who have followed the fundamental thrust of the late Mao Tse-tung have had no hesitation in picking the latter of the two options, For at times a leader- ship must take one of the two options The Chinese have decided that the personal freedoms most people in the West take for granted must wait until China is a modern. affluent state ---_ something that may not happen for two to three generations Can a nation of a billion people afford to push for human rights for every individual within that nation" Unfortunate- ly. the answer probably has to be no Those who msh to help China unquestionably have every right to hope that the basic freedoms we hold dear will in time come to that great na- tlon Letters to the editor of the Waterloo Chronicle must be signed With the writer's name in order to be pub- lished The name wtll be published with the letter The writer should also Include his or her address and tele- phone number Normally. a letter signed with a psPu- donym will not be published Tire editor has the right to edit letters for grammar and spelling and to withhold letters which may be deemed defamatory. contemptuous or of questionable taste ' The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor on any subject Letters should be sent to The Editor, Wa- terloo Chronicle. 92 King St S. 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