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', Waterloo council ap- yroved the spending of a total oft59,000 for the beautification of that ‘75-metre stretch of Emad, "We will do our ut- most," to have the :work done by that date, "promised city engineer .Jim Willis as he out. tlined the project at tMonday night's council 'aneeting. Beautification of King Street continues " everything goes .accordlng to schedule. "e beautification of the east side of King Street from Herbert to the CNR tracks should be completed in time for Founder's Day, May 27. E 345.000 of that sum will be spent on side- :walk reconstruction. [storm sewer and wa- . Last Monday the strike left approxi- mately 1.400 students across the region stranded and unable to gel to school. Since that time the public school ',' "We tried everything we could, but under standard (homeowners and tenant insurance) packages. there ts nothing we can do. The damage doesn't fall under any of the perils listed" in these insurance packages, Dorscht 'aid. I By Ray Martin E Both boards of edu, cation are still scram- bling this week to pick pp the slack left to them as " school bus lirivers continue their strike 'against Charter- ways Transportation Limited. tieten Korhovic is concerned, there is nothing we tan do for her. 3 “We triad ounrvihino mo t-nnld but "rarhar AIDED ACCIDENT" VICTIMS _ By Molodeo Martinuk y What would you do if one evening there was a serious car accident in front of your house? , Probably most would acr exactly as Helen Korhovic did last month when a serious collision dccurred in front of her King Street-Central Avenue home - she brought the injured in and tried to help until the ambulance arrived. '. But, as Korhovic has since discovered. in many Ways being one of the good guys can be a costly business. ' "For about 45 minutes," she recalled, "there was a lot of traffic in my house ... police. ambulance attendants." The man they helped “was so badly cut up you eouldn't even see his (ace, it was covered in blood; the woman was "in shock and had to be held down." _ And, Korhovic said, as a result of the activity amt evening her carpet was ruined and must be replaced. and blood stains, which cannot be removed. cover receRtly-reupholstered furni. : "These things were not done intentionally," she guessed. "they are just things that happened." But, as Korhovic was later told, it is damage which she herself will have to pay to have re- paired. 5 Unfortunately, said Gail Dorscht of Protectors Insurance Service Ltd., Waterloo, "as far as "Good Samaritan' lost $, but would help again Schools try to cope Bob Schlosstr. trans- portation officer with the Waterloo County Board of Education said the strike has left him in a bit of a bind. board has started using from extensive use its own buses on the 18 . routes left unattended. According to, The board's buses have been able to fill the Rap, but only just. They have no reserves and the buses are be, ginning to break down Halt of this amount will be paid by the uptown Waterloo Busi. ness Improvement Area, Council also ap- proved the spending of $i4.000 for the im. provement of street lighting along that stretch of King Street. including the installa- tion of the same type of fixtures as have been used in past beautificav tion projects further to the north. terwork improve. ments, curly and gutter improvements and the construction of plant- ers. "We've got prob- lems, but the system is working." he said. Cost to the city for this work is 835.000. The remaining $10,000 will be paid by the Re. gion. The separate school board has no buses at its own and is now relying on a network of parent operated car pools to get tho stu. dents to school, "As of last Wednesr day when the last sur- vey was taken we had The separate school board also has ttt va. cant routes, but the majority at those routes are urban and the city transit systems are taking up the slack. Schlosser said in a telephone interview Tuesday he was still receiving complaints from parents about the strike. He said in the majority of cases the parents have been pretty good. but many still understand that the school boards are not directly involved in the labor trouble According to the transportation officer the strike has cost the board nothing as the funds which would have been paid to Charterways for their services have been di- verted in the operation of the boards buses. Frank Clifford. director of education with the Waterloo County Separate School Board also has the same problem with parents. “We are getting about four or five calls a day about the situa- tion, but the people don't understand that we aren't really in, volved." he said. This, Dorscht said. is not right. "Khrhovic is paying for being a Good Samaritan." she said. V Desbite the damage and cost she incurred by being a rod Samaritan that January evening. Helen K hovic is not sorry she helped out. “I don't regret it because it could have been me in that car wt. or my children that needed help. "I'd do it again tomorrow," she said. People shouldn’t be penalized." Korhovic agreed, but she added, "they shouldn't try to look for a reward either. However, in this case, "the people injured didn't feel any responsibility and didn't offer to help." according to Dorscht. So where does this leave Korhovic? Paying for the damages herself. replied Dorscht, and "you are talking quite a bit of money." Or. Dorscht said, "if each of the people who entered Korhovic's house had carried tenant's or homeowner's insurance packages, under the liability-of (these) packages there is a $250 non-deductible amount that they can voluntarily agree to pay" as compensation for damages done. Also. she continued. the damage to Korhovic's property does not fall under the automobile insurance of the driver involved in the accident if she had had insurance, because that covers only damage directly caused by a vehicle. Moth people would not hive insurance coverage to deal with a situation such as this. In fact, Dorscht explained, "this situation would only be covered by a very broad. ali-risk form of coverage which most homeowners and tenants do not have." "rm hoping some thing might happen this week.“ Strain said. "Right now we are waiting for the union to get in touch with the mediator so that we can sit down and talk. I've been told by the mediator the gap be tween us is so great right now there is no sense in getting to- gether. ln the meantime ne- initiations between the legally striking drivers and the company have stalled. According to the manager of Char terways Kitchener operation, Brian Strain, the strike will continue until the two parties can settle their monetary differences. The board also con- sidered renting a num- ber of minibus vans, which could be operat- ed by the parents. but this move was nixed by the ministry of oduca, tion. The ministry did not consider the vans to be safe enough or the drivers well enough trained to take the job The director of edu, cation said Tuesday the car pool alternative was the last resort for the separate school board. Clifford said the board because the striking drivers an. nounced they didn't want the students to suffer had tried to get buses from other com- parties, but none were available. about 95 percent of our students getting to class," Clifford said. (Continued Mom page ft panding growth in the northwest section of the city, Bluevale's is declining; therefore. there is more room to operate an improved girl's program. A drafting shop could be refurbished to provide the girls with a shop. Parents questioned Parliament as to why this sum of money could not be kept in Waterloo to increse la- cilities at Waterloo col, Iegiute and Bluevale. Parllament,said the ministry was unlikely to provide funding for new facilities when these facilities were available and not The estimated Cost of this proposal totals $2l5.000 with $65,000 being spent in Elmira. 365.000 at Bluevale. $65,000 for transporta- tion costs and $20,000 not $195,000 as reported in last week's Chron, icle) for equipment. Shops, including auto, welding, woo?- working and: horticu - ture. would be avail, able to the boys in El, mira. Due to increased in, terest in technical sub, jects over the last three years, the shops at Wa- terloo collegiate are operating to capacity. The boys face limited shop time and it prof ections for next year hold true, the situation will worsen. Parents say. Mayor Marjorie Carroll demonstrates her fine bowling lorm at Waterloo Lanes Saturday during Big Brothers' Bowl for Millions Celebrity Day. The event was one of many held last week at area bowling lanes to raise funds through pledges for the Big Brothers of Kitchener-Waterloo. And althougttthe mayor's scores were nothing to brag out, she at least tollowed the rule of “keep your eyes on the pins." (Photo by Melodee Martinuk) “AYEELOO WICLE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1m - PAGE 3 E " ON THE PINS Waterloo trustee Eli- zabeth Witmer, who was present at both public meetings, told fellow trustees she could not support the proposal due to the social and psychologl cal (actors Involved. The proposal, sug~ Resting the students be taken out of their home schools and communi- ty. was met with con- siderable opposition. Unlike the first puts- lie meeting, Parlia- ment threw out two more proposals for the parents' consideration. The first proposal sug- gested that the stu- dents stay in their home schools for the entire four-year pro- gram while the second proposal suggested the students stay in their home schools for grades 9 and 10 only with the girls finishing grades II and 12 at Bluevale and the boys at Waterloo. The latter proposal received no support with the first one receiving the mtv jority of votes. The public meeting was called at the re- quest of school board trustees who wished to gain input from as many parents as possi- ble before being asked to make a decision. operating to capacity elsewhere in the county. A delegation of com. corned parents will ap- proach the bond to- morrow evening to make their concerns known. At the same time two petitions. bearing the signatures of students and parents It Bluevale and Water. loo Colleglates. will be presented to the trust. "It is a first class program. I would far rather see a lesser pro- gram in the home schools which would benefit them in many other ways," she said. The trustee said it doesn't matter if it is a good or bad program if you can't get the stu, dents to go. She said the program was ex- panded trom two years to tour to "get rid of the stigma that it was a second class pro- gram." "These are the kids who need the most and sometimes we give them the least." said Bake. Lynne Wooistencroft, also a Waterloo trust- ee, echoed these con- cems. She suggested that the board could offer the best educa- tional package in the world but if the stu- dents didn't accept it, it wouldn't work. Trustee Dorothy Beke suggested that general level students were not treated in this manner.