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Core parking â€" beatification rather than beautification? Maybe I should start this letter with ‘‘"Once upon a time there were adequate parking spots for Waterloo shoppers."‘ When the first excavations were made on King Street, I was under the faise impression that these were the burial plots LETTERS , Now the poor dears are in trouble â€" a quandary which they find unsolvable. Like all good academics, they are studying the parking subject to death while prattling. (All good politicians speak before they think!) Unfortunately, council decided to elimiâ€" nate 12 or more by imitating Kitchener and digging out spaces for trees and flowers and all those things which beautify a business section. The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor. Writers must idenâ€" tify themselves through their name, address and telephone number. We reserve the right to edit. T PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1982 Brainstorming and coâ€"operation. Waterloo needs all it can get of these ingredients in order to keep its downtown alive. But at meetings such as the one scheduled tonight at the Adult Recreation Centre, perhaps the host of concerned individuals and groups will generate ideas which can be turned into viable solutions. And it seems input from city officials would be helpful. For instance the recentlyâ€"formed civic development committee, which has been studying downtown development, might well have suggestions. And after brainstorming, coâ€"operation will be essential. Coâ€"operation among neighborhood groups, parents at Alexandra and St. Louis, representatives from both school boards, and city officials. The schools, located in the heart of Waterloo, have been hit hard by dwindling enrolment as young families migrated to the suburbs over the last decade. For instance, St. Louis was designed to hold 390 students and now has 97. Alexandra has experienced a similar drop. An accommodaâ€" tion review committee recently reported that in the school year 1980â€"81, it cost over $2,000 per pupil at Alexandra, compared with the Waterloo average of $1,500 per student. And concerned parents, beard officials, downtown residents and business people have all voiced alarm over what seems inevitable â€" school closings, which would have a devastating longâ€"term effect on Waterloo‘s core. Without schools, young families would hesitate to move into homes in the core. Without young families, the city would lose a vital part of its urban mosaic. Without a vibrant core, all of Waterloo might suffer. Brainstorming and coâ€"operation. It seems these are two crucial ingredients néeded as Waterloo‘s core area faces the crisis of having both Alexandra public and St. Louis separate schools closed. School closings Letters policy published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont. address correspondence to Waterioo office: 92 King St.South, Waterloo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 Waterioo Chronicte office is located on 2nd floor of the O W Sports building opposite Waterioo Square. Parking on King Street or in Waterioo Square Open |;.. Monday to Friday 9:00 a m 1#6:00 p m $30,000 a year for what they do is ridiculous. For all the action going on around here they are on a permanent holi day The garbage man and the letter carrier at least do something useful and should be paid more than they do. We have here in city council another noâ€"win situation in the recent firefighters‘ wage settlement. The only precedent they have set is to give themselves a license to steal. This index system with the public service is nothing but a ripâ€"off and should be stopped. 1 suppose now city council will give themselves a big raise. At a time of deep recession and high unemployment this is misrepresenting the taxpayer. When we are speaking of King Street, Waterloo in conjunction with council, it may be more appropriate to use the word ‘"beatification‘"‘ instead of ‘"beautificaâ€" tion."‘ for the first luminaries of regional govern ment and their eventual successors. High wages rip off taxpayers After _ all, there‘s St.. Marjorie, St Doreen, St. John, St. James, St. Charles ad infinitum. Publisher: Manager: Editor: established 1854 Paul Winkler Bill Karges Karla Wheeler E.A. Scoggins 11 James Waterioo Norma Sangoi 8 Marshall St. Waterioo First, check your conduct and beliefs against the Bible record. Analyze your own form of religion to see if it fits the mold that Christ set. Then, ask yourself, "Is my religion genuine christianity? And do I practice it?" Ask yourself: ‘"Which nations initiated the two world wars that caused so much slaughter and suffering in this century?" Anybody who believes in Jesus Christ Anybody who was baptized in a christian church. Someone who lives by the Bible Only those who have been born again, or only those who believe in the Pope. Today, hundreds of millions of people use the christian "label" or "signature." But how can you tell if you are a genuine christian, the real thing? Millions of people today have had a similar experience with religion. They were attracted by the "christian‘" label and then were put off by what they saw and experienced. You may ask, what is a christian, anyway? ldeas on this vary, but see if yours coincide with any of the following popular views: According to statistics, nearly one in four of the world‘s population is supposed to be christian. Have you ever bought a product with an attractive label, only to find that it did not match the label‘s claims? But do statistics give a true picture? If so, do you consider yourself to be a christian, or is it just a label? Who are the real christians? They could either phone 576â€"6068 or write Sand Hills Books, Box 352, St. Jacobs, Ont. NOB 2N0. If some of your readers have informaâ€" tion about Neufeld‘s early artistic career in Kitchenerâ€"Waterlioo in the late 1920s and in the 1930s, and/or about his associations with other area artists at that time, I would be happy if they would contact me as soon as possible. Information sought about Woldemar Neuteld On the occasion of Waterloo‘s 125th anniversary, Sand Hills, a small Canadian publisher, is preparing to publish a limitedâ€"edition collection of paintings by New York artist, Woldemar Neufeld. Neufeld lived in Waterloo in the decade 1925â€"1935. The writer Malcolm Muggeridge wrote: "In the various wars of our time the church has been insistent that God was on our side, and has given its unqualified blessing to whatever methods of waging them the generals and politicians might consider expedient. And Jesus said: "All those who take up the sword will perish by the sword." (Matthew 26: 52.) Were they Moslem, Hindu or Buddhist? No, they were the soâ€"called christian nations of Europe, urged on by Catholic and Protestant politicians and clergy. 403â€"65 Westmount Rd. N. Waterloo Director Sand Hills Books Inc. Hildegard E. Tiessen W.D. Pope