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Might have to sellâ€"house Chronicle staff writer Evelyn McLaughlin told Waterloo Council Monday night that she is "less than pleased‘‘ with a proposed sewer project that would "‘force me out of my home." McLaughlin, who bought with retirement in told Council she could up paying as much as $4,000 per year more in tazes on her Bridge St. home if the project is comâ€" @Qaffic computer The first stage of the sewer project on Bridge St., from Lexington Rd. to Bing Cr., would add an additional $620 on her yearly tax bill because it would cross about 150 feet of her 865â€"foot lot frontage. The next two phases would raise the estimated total to $4,000 for a project she called "a city improveâ€" "I‘m going to have to pay something 1 can‘t use," ‘ughlin said. Willis, City engineer, said McLaughlin‘s figures were accurate but said the following two phases of the sewer project may never come. He said the sewer is designed to serve subâ€" division developments in Holiday postal service Regular mail delivery and wicket service will be proâ€" vided at Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Post Offices on Monday, Dec. 24 and Monday. Dec. 31, according to postmaster C.R. O‘Brien. All offices will be closed on Tuesday, Dec. 25, Wedâ€" nesday, Dec. 26 and Tuesâ€" day, Jan. 1. OK‘d There will be one compleâ€" te street letter box collecâ€" tion on Wednesday, Dec. 26 (Continued from page 1) the Canada/Ontario Energy agreement, leaving the municipality to contribute 25 per cent, according to "It‘s anticipated this deâ€" monstration will pave the way for the installation of computerized traffic control systems in the dozen or so other municipalities which are candidates for such sysâ€" .‘ Snow added .}erlm Mayor Marjorie II said Monday night that Regional Council has given the green light to the project There‘s a good chance of petting 75 per cent funding rather than 50 per cent. but that hasn‘t been decided vet." Carroll saird The project is one of the initiatives aimed at helping the province reduce the per capita growth in petroleum consumption to zero by 1985 as announced in its policy paper titled ©Energy Seâ€" curity for the Eighties® ; not a local improveâ€" Improvements cost resident ‘620 Colonial Acres and the new industrial basin near Northâ€" Property owners along the sewer line are being asâ€" sessed additional taxes based on their property frontage because the line is being built as a local improâ€" **Why not a unit levy?" Cruise said. ‘"If that‘s the way the legislation is; I find it hard to understand." suggested the sewer project should be funded under the unit levy, rather than as a local improvement. j Cruise said it would ‘‘*cause undue hardship for certain property owners." The unit levy is a fee paid by developers to the City for Chronicle staff writer There were no major reâ€" velations from Prime Minisâ€" ter Joe Clark when he spoke in a packed ballroom at the Valhalla Inn in Kitchener last night Clark criticized the NDP and Liberal parties for brâ€" inging down his government last week and said they conâ€" tinually worked to prevent him from zgetting on with the nation‘s business " while his party was in power He said that rather than running the government as a milqueâ€"toast. he gambled by running it with force and direction _ and lost "The Liberal party the party that clung to power as long as it could in May. did Chronicle staff writer Jeff Guenther of John St in Waterioo will be going to Toronto via VIA train. and then to the very top of the Canadian National tower. Clark slams both opposition parties A number of winners in the Waterloo regional police railroad safety contest are students of Westmount School, including grand prize winner Jeff Guenther. Six of the winners pictured here are Jamie Finster, Chris Crowne,. Laurence Goddard, Jeff Guenther, Dorothy Waterloo youth wins Toronto trip each lot they build on in a subdivision and is used to cover expenses incurred when providing sarvices such as roads and trunk sewers in the new sub Willis said there was no provision for collecting later on hookup costs under the unit levy. ‘"I bought my home for my retirement, but after this work and added expense I‘ll be forced out," Council decided to look into alternative ways of payâ€" ing for the projeect by referâ€" ring it to the City solicitor and the finance committee. Keith Cowan of Victoria, B.C., coâ€"chairman of People to People Petition for Canaâ€" McLaughlin said. everything they prossibly Clark criticized Opposiâ€" could to obstruct or delay tion leader Pierre Trudeau our actions this year and _ for what he called the lowerâ€" even at that. we began to get ing of Canadians‘ expectaâ€" this country moving forâ€" tions ward again by working with ~You recall in the last the provinces. cutting the campaign. Mr_ Trudeau deficit. encouraging the ciâ€"â€" went around the country tizens and restoring the â€" warning Canadians to lower House of Commons in Parâ€" their expectations ‘Look hament." Clark said down don‘t look up ‘ Well. of Clark sard his party brought a fresh outlook to Canada‘s government ~The changes we achieved were not just chanâ€" ges in law, not just changes in an issue, but fundamental changes in the attitude the government took toward the citizens of Canada and the government took toward the future of Canada." he said thanks to his ideas about saâ€" fety o Jeff was the winner of the Waterloo regional police railroad safety contest. He along with many other Waâ€" dian Unity, presented Counâ€" cil with a proposal for inâ€" cluding a miniâ€"petition in with residential hydro bills. Cowan, who had visited four other cities on Monday, said the petitions would caâ€" sily fit inside the utility bills and were designed for famiâ€" ly signing. â€" _fonCoucilcomuappmx- u;ntdyoneyearaftetthe Qtypheedpefifiauhpoll- ing booths during last year‘s municipal elections. It reâ€" sulted in 1,855 signatures. Cowan said he prefers going the hydro routebeâ€" cause using the polling booths didn‘t get the best reâ€" sults due to low voter turâ€" nout and he claimed some polling officers promoted ~You recall in the last campaign. Mr_ Trudeau went around the country warning Canadians to lower their expectations ‘Look down don‘t look up ‘ Well. of terioo area youngsters subâ€" mitted their safety slogans in the form of posters. The idea. according to poâ€" lice organizer John Powers, was to encourage children In Waterloo, the election battle has yet to start. Frank Epp. who ran for the Liâ€" berals in the last election, is again seekâ€" ing the nomination from the party Waterloo alderman THE CANDIDATES also a winner, but was absent for this photo.) Behind the students are Canadian Pacific investigator J.J. Koren and Canadian National police officer T.H. Garrett. Rieger and Chery! Strawbridge. (Wayne Chapman Doreen Thomas Waterioo Chronicie, Wednesday, December 19, 1979 â€" the petition more than He said the response would be greater if the miniâ€" petitions could find their way into individual Canaâ€" dian homes.: â€" He feels he is getting good response for his electricas bill proposal from other Onâ€" tario centres and the cost of the project would be ‘‘negliâ€" w.li The City will ask Waterioo North Hydro to include the petitions in with their hydro bills early in the new year. Cowan said he hopes to present the petition to Queâ€" bec sometime in March. Alderman Richard Biggs reâ€"introduced a resolution to help keep the Kitchener and Waterloo District Labor to think about safety tips and practices. The safety contest is a monthly event. Topics like eye and tooth protection and bicycle safety will be coâ€" all the things with which we disagree. thre is nothing more profound than that beâ€" cause I believe and my goâ€" vernment believes and my colleagues here believe that this is a time for Canadians to raise their expectations To look for a future we can build together for this country."" Clark added may also seek the nod from the Liberals. but she hasn‘t decided yet UW professor Robert Needham has sard he‘ll seek the NDP nomination in Waâ€" terloo. The incumbent here is PC Walter McLean Centre open by providing some **badly needed fundâ€" ployed open until March, Mitic said students, on loan from the University of Waterloo, are preparing a report on the centre for Reâ€" glonal Council and the funds were needed to keep it open ‘‘at least until March." ‘‘The centre will close in March, depending on the tative for the centre, said $4,000 was needed to keep the facility for the unemâ€" A majority of Councillors voted to provide the centre with the necessary funds. vered in future contests Along with the grand prize of a trip to the CN tower, other prizes were presented to weekly contest winners Clark asked the large but quiet crowd to give him a majority government so that he could get on with goâ€" verning the country and guide it through some difâ€" ficult times ahead Clark was in the Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterloo area as part of a campaign swing through (mtamo " 2k