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This thought was prompted when an Australian girl. an exchange student, walked into my class today. she'd arrived on the weekend and had gone skidooing in a blizzard, Quite an introduction to Can ada. I think she's still a bit shaken It's summer in Australia, and the drop in temperalure she experienced would be about tto degrees, Just think of those lousy Australians. loitering about the beach in Sidney. bikini-clad. while we lurrh about. bundled to the ears. like a lot of sort- headed bears Afraid to open our mouths in raw our lungs freeze Certain the car won‘t start Cursing the town snow plow that came sailing alone just after we'd risked a coronary shovelline the driw. and dumped a couple of tons into the driveway Why couldn't my great grandfather have been a convict. and been sent to Australia, free passage, instead of a bog Irishman who had to scrape a few shillings together to pay his way to Canada. steerage class? liven my wife. who has always been a fea rless driver. is dauntvd She used to sail off to the city with the two kids. in any kind of weather. to lake muxu‘ lessons in the city. a round trip of nearly 200 milvs I wonder if southern Australia needs a weekly columnist or a cracking good English teacher khe was own raughl in a six car pile up om- day, when a white nu! blinded her and In a Chronicle story this week, Economic Development CommitteehEDC) Chairman Robert Kaehler recommends that the city consolidate the EDC and the Civic Development Committee (CDC) to operate as sub-committees under the direction and supervision of a professional development manager. What an efficient idea! The EDC was formed three years ago to encourage industrial development throughout Waterloo, while the CDC was launched this past October to work toward core revi- talization. So why, we ask, should they continue functioning separately, where the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing and duplication of effort is inevitable? - - And we urge Waterloo aldermen to support such a move when the recommendation is presented to city council in the near future. Both committees are "working for the same end - for a better, more vital city," in Kaehier's words. As Mayor Marjorie Carroll, who supports the consolida- tion, points out in the news article, oftentimes there are industrial development matters cropping up in the core while commercial development occurs in industrial areas of the city. "Where do you draw the line." the mayor asks. Rather than have duplication of time andieftort while two committees grapple with where the fine line separates their mandates, we support the EDC's proposal of a consolida- tion. The CDC-EDC merger points toward improved efficiency, which would then result in a more vital Waterloo, both industrially and in the uptown core. use a - WATEQLQO mums. “meson, vacuum N. 1m Improved ~efficiency established 1854 published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway 86.8.. Kitchener, Ont. Warming thoughts tY-tooo-ttct-oF-toc-ttrrp-tBoosey')." Soon-w WOWIWM "erhmqooKtrNtB-tortet-too8- 09m "ooa.vtoFrta.r9tt0nm Iosooxnn address correspondence to Water-homer: 92 King St South, Waterloo, 0m , telephone “an This winter, she's plain scared to take off to visit her father. what with plugged highways. drifting snow. high winds, and that constant bonerchilling cold. Had a look at your oil bill lately? I swear that if a couple of Arabs, dressed in burnous and robes. showed up in an aw-rage small town in Canada. they'd be lyrwhed. after suitable torturv appliva tion of icicles to their tenderest paris Or maybe burying them up to their rhins in a snowbank and leaving them there. the way they used to bury people in the send and [PI the sun finish them off There's only one small bit of comfort, Everybody else is getting it. too, including those traitors. the rich. who went south for the winter. leaving the rest of us to stumble toward spring. should it ever arr tnve, That's the good news from the south. The bad news is that the heavy frosts down there have killed a great part of the citrus crop as well as the vegetables whose prices. which were already sky-high, have shot into the stratosphere I can we the day coming. soon, when Canadian matrons will be selling their bodies for a bunch of carr'ots. a couple of those little. hard, green tomatoes that are artificially reddened. or a chunk of that rabbit food known as lettuce five other drivers. and some idiot plowed into her rear end. Her car's rear end that is. There seomx nu way out Hvert suicide Publisher: Manager: Editor: Paul Winkler Bill Karges Karla Wheeler About the only thing that pulls most Canadians through a winter like this is that we can stay hot under the collar most of the time, and generate enough heat to keep the lower extremities from turning to stone All we have to do is read the papers our RCMP, once one of the mow admired police forces in the world, can produce a lot of thermal units. Paying a multiple murderer $90,000 Paying another well, known hood fifty thousand for fingering some other hoods Government warning over Poland, “fringing every possible nickel in taxes out of the poor and the middle-class. while allowing the rich to go merrily on their way, Even atwot1ntants. the most tight lipped people in the land. have been stirred to anger by 'iome of the blatant idiocies of the MacHachen budget, which almost seems as though it were designed to increase inflation and unemployment, discourage people from investing in their own country. pul a stop to new construction, and deliberately alienate almost every not unknown in residents of northern climes, is almost impossible Jump off the town dock to drown, and all you do is fracture your skull on the ice. Slit your wrists and the blood congeals so fast all you wind up with is a couple of sore wrists. Try a head-on collison with another car. and he skids into a snowbank just before you hit him. It's depressing. that's what it is. BILL SMILEY Not many banks going bankrupt these days, but a lot of other people are, from farms to fishermen to small business to manufacturers. There seems a great lethargy in Ottawa, a sense that our leaders are saying. “I‘m all right, Jack, what are you gruurhing about? I think it's time to throw the rascals out. [low about you? And how about one of my three faithful readers starting a campaign to raise funds [or SSA (Send Smiley to Australia). I'm surv there are a great many who would contribute, heavily. The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor. Writers must idem tify themselves through their name, address and telephone number. We reserve the right to edit. sector of the public Letters policy