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Mike Gondosch. of " Culpepper Drive, told uldermen Monday that the creek “represents a 'eriltus hazard to children in the neighbor- Additional study on creed quandary Pat Arbucklo Chronicle Staff When Alexandra public school opens its doors in September, 1983 it will be to a new kind of student - the adult who is returning to school to complete his/her high school education. in a meeting of the Waterloo County Board of Education last week, trustees Gondosch said that when he bought his home ' -Woolsteincrof't, residents dismayed _ at board's Alexandra school move Lynn. trttqtq1rtttttttf.t, At least " won't be ‘parking Iot’. votmto close the school as a facility for ele ntary students and instead move Operation Open Door, an adult education program, out of current location at Bluevale collegiate and into Alexandra school next fall. Students who are cur- rently attending Alexandra will be ac- commodated at other nearby elementary schools. Trustees had voted in a previous meeting to keep the school open and transform it into an alternative school as a way of attracting more students. The tinal decision on which alternative to choose was deferred at that time until accurate estimates of the cost of imple- menting each of the three programs under consideration. the Alexandra Staff Alternative, Process Place and Operation Open Coor, could be supplied. Lynne Wmtlitunteroft, the only trustee to oppose the move to introduce Operation Open Door into Alexandra School. stated during the meeting that she was con- cernedahoutthesaietyotsmallehlldm at Alexandra who would have to cross busy main arteries in the city to get to another school, if Alexandra were closed. She also questioned whether the three storey Alexandra School would he access- ible to handicaned students. "I am 1oattteto-tseiotsetttatsettool as an elementary achqol. I think were are very good reasons for us to keep the Alexandra school open as an elementary facility," she said. In an burden with the Chronicle after more than five years Mo Maple Hill Creek was a “slow. meandering stream." - But, he continued. "in the past three yelrs there have been major changes of now in the creek ... it's dry the majority of the time but when it rains that dry creekhed turns into a raging river in a matter of minutes. "'rhere's no way a child under the age of no could survive if he slipped into the creek." Gondosch said. "I don't believe our children should have to run this risk of losing their lives. You can't put a cost on this." An engineering report released last week Ward has contacted school board revealed that enclosing the creek could cost the omen“, the Ministry of Education, city as much as $1.2 million. The least costly of city Alds. Mary Jane Mewhinney the seven solutions to the problem presented, and Glen Wright, the city's engi- fencing the creek at a cost of $20.“. was neering department as well as a rejected by both city engineers and residents as solicitor to prepare her arguments a potential safety hazard. tor busing the children which she According to Gondosch he and his neigttttmsrs will present to the separate school would prefer complete enclosure of the creek, board at their Dec. 13 meeting. but would accept a compromise involving ants getting interesting at this installation of a pipe to handle most of the water point," she said. "I'm collecting with an open channel to take care of overflow quite a package of information during peak periods. Cost of that alternative was which 1 will be presenting," estimated to be approximately $420,000. Frank Clifford, secretary and croft said. "At least it will remain as a school and will not go down as a parking lot." The two other Waterloo trustees. Eliza- beth Witmer and Robert Kleinschmidt, supported the motion to move the adult education facility to Alexandra. a deci- sion that was arrived at with extreme difricuity, they admitted. _ "I know the community would like Alexandra to continue as an elementary facility," said Winner. "No matter where we close a school, someone is going to be "I can support either one (Process Place of Operation Open Door)," she concluded. “but I know which has the greater need.'_’ - - - . . Kleinschmld also admitted that he had "wregtud" with the queatlon all week. “Weneadtocloaeoneschool.80me action must Iranian.” he aald. He added that Alexandra could be reopened In the future should the and arlse. T la it: upon. stall at the board could and he time malt» “can“: to coat: of may, wattle mamas. Alexandre - Attemative with an eminent ot 1. students would cost the but “07.8.. Process Place with MO students In. kindergarten to grade tr, 3114.0. and Operation Open Door. with no students. all“. “The Acceptance of either elementary school elterndve will not lulu in resolving the declining enrolment in the CttretgtltNSutt A Lakeshore Village woman runs in children based the two 'rsi%sttte-ttraveltotittl and she is ”and to fhtttt tor her at mud. "We'dtihetottetmtrkids based!» Sir Edger Benel- School because of the We and satay {new In- volved." sail Virginia Ward who lives on Albert Street near According to Ward, a mother of two youngsters aged five and seven, "proximately an when in her ”labour-hood must walk two miles along congested Bear-lager Road to reach Sir Edgar Bauer School, can Glentorest Blvd. Because of the distance, the children take a short- cut to school. cutting through Old Albert Street. which the city has closed to traffic. The shortcut still involves a walk of almost a mile. This shortcut, said Ward, "is not”; Road, dangerous ... the children walk through open tteids and over train tracks ... (the area) floods in the spring and when there is a heavy rain, the walkway is sinking and there's an open culvert which the kids could fall into." Area residents, Ward added, have petitioned the Waterloo County Sep- ante School Board since MF75 to get transportation for their children, but the board "hasn't done a thing about it." Ward has contacted school board ofrieia1s, the Ministry of Education, city Alds. Mary Jane Mewhinney and Glen Wright, the city's engi- neering department as well as a solicitor to prepare her arguments "rdraringer area hazards focus of parents' protest mm.mv.m t. "e--e8 conclude} that the uptown core of Waterloo. in all likelihood. any increase in Alexandra Alternative School enrolment will be at the expense of adjoining schools," said Bruce Scandrett. superintendent of schools and chairman of the Alexandra School Accommodation Review Committee in his report to the The report also emphasized that Opera- tion Open Door which began with 11 students last September and which has a projected enrolment of 120 students for September, 183 "addresses an important community need in the education and preparation of adults for present and future employment.“ David Underwood who served as repre- sentative from the Uptown Waterloo Residents Association on the Alexandra School Accommodation Review Commit- tee, said in an interview with the Chronicle on Friday that he was person- attrverrdi V brtttedeciiioe. !rpsgMitaet'tth'eegt1"ela,, aodtotrsitipirr-tanttttattherebea neighborhood school," he said. Underwood said that he understands the position of trustees who must spend tax dollars wisely but he expressed concern about the effect the board‘s declslon will have on the character of the uptown “I an committed to living In the am- erea for residential use new I school." he explained. "My hope Is that council will'sdct . official oh- no that matdeqttal We we. " be manner of the Waterloo (manly Separate School Board said in an interview last week that these cum have not be based because “the Board Magnum require- ments and these youngsters don’t exceed that detainee. when an youngsters all over the county walking that distance." Ctifroed said. The board, he added, “is aware of the potential safety hazards and is monitoring them. This question has gone oi to} I number oiyears." Attheeasdofthesehoolyear, children in Ward's neighborhood will be based to St. Michael's School, said Mae Zettel. Waterloo representative on the separate school board. Zettel said the separate school board has set distance requirements of “a little more over a mile," which they use when deciding when and where’to provide busing. At Waterloo city council Monday night, Aid. Glen Wright asked that the city's engineering department forward to the separate school hoard a report compiled two years ago dealing with traffic congestion on Bearinger Road. "Children walk that way to school and I have some serious concerns about it. I wouldn't let my nine-yearold near there never mind walk that way (daily) to school," Wright said. As well, Aid. Mary Jane Mewhin- ney asked city engineers to prepare a report on whether the city should legally close that section of Old Albert which the children use as a shortcut. “It certainly hasn‘t been cleaned out or maintained in any way," said Mewhinney. According to city clerk Ron Keeling. because no bylaw has been passed to otri- cially close the road, "the city's legal responsibilities for it _.. are the same as for any other road in the city."