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MoGondoochofNCWDrfispokoumf'siébiucumde 'h*t-rrhitmr-tisuttimoitriro.ektoettkteriiU4iiitierai." new” "We simply had to have more detail before we made that decision," Mayor Marjorie Carroll said. Mike Gondosch, of " Culpepper Drive, told alderman Monday that the creek “represents a seminar; hazard to children in the neighbor- "Pd like to compare this situation to other areas of the city," Wright said. "We should look at comparison data and see if we can’t come up with a solution.” At Monday‘s committee of council meeting. council unanimously deferred consideration of an engineering report recommending that no improvements be made to the creek after Aid. Glen Wright called for additional information comparing the Culpepper Drive problem with similar situations elsewhere in the city. New Hummus Chronicle Staft Waterloo’s aldermen have decided to closer scrutinize the problems of Culpepper Drive residents, with properties adjacent to Maple Hill Creek, prior to acting on the waterway ditenr. Additional study on creed quandary 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. Pat Arbuckle Chronicle Staff tn a meeting of the Waterloo County Board of Education last week, trustees Gondosch said that when he bought his home "rr, tth?eptateetetroft '. Woolstencroft, residents dismayed at board's Alexandra school move At least it won't he ‘parking lot’. votl‘erga to 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 final 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 Wootetemtroft, the only trustee to oppose the move to introduce Operation Open Door into Alexandra School. stated during the meeting that she was con- cerned about the safety of small children at Alexandra who would have to cross busy main arteries in the city to not to another school. if Alexandra were closed. She also questioned whether the three- storey Alexandra School would be access- lhle to handicapped students. "I am loathe to see us close that school " an elementary school. I think there are very good reasons for us to keep the Alexandr: school open " an elementary facility." she ma. In in Interview with the Ohmicle met the meeting. a disappointed Wuhan- But, he continued. "in the past three years there have been major changes of now in the creek ... it's dry the majority of the time but when it rains that dry creekbed turns into a raging river in a matter of minutes. "There's no way a child under the age of no could survive if he slipped into the creek," Gondoach said. “I don't believe our children should have to run this risk of losing their lives. You ean't put a cost on this." more than five years ago Maple Hill Creek was a “slow. meandering stream." According to Gondosch he and his neighbours would prefer complete enclosure of the creek. but would accept a compromise involving installation on: pipe to handle most of the water with an open channel to take care of overflow during peak periods. Cost of that alternative was estimated to be approximately $420,000. An engineering report released last week revealed that enclosing the creek could cost the city as much as $1.2 million. The least costly of the seven solutions to the problem presented, fencing the creek at a cost of $10,000, was rejected by both city engineers and residents as a potential safety hazard. grantts.'rtte-rtemtehaHd “lathe Alem- tttaft Aitemative mu. tn etteertterttof-statd-mtideeretttte but! $107.”. m. Place my» attteatttrh_imMa6eegarteattoamdetr, and” and Il-rg.'."""'"'""""" mm ' "humus-am ' aw ”m‘dm - In atttitat in "m6trtgtttt6rrttrtittgte-rthr-ttttttt. 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 difrteulty, they admitted. “I know the community would like Alexandra to continue as an elementary facility," said Wltmer. "No matter where we close a school. someone is going to be unhappy. Kleinschmidt also admitted that he had “wrestled" with the qua-non " week. "We nod to close one school. Some action must hum." he all. no added that Alexandra on!!! be met! In the future should the nod arise. . In in W. staff at the bond e-" croft said, "At least it will remain as a school and will not so down as a parking lot." “I can . support either one (Process Place of Operation Open Doorr," she concluded. "hut I know which has the greater need.” Ward has contacted school board ofrieuts, the Ministry of Education, city Aids. Mary Jane Mewhinney and Glen Wright, the city's engi- neering department as well as a solicitor to prepare her arguments for busing the children which she will present to the separate school board at their Dee. 13 meeting. "Ws getting interesting at this point," she said. 'Wm collecting quite a package of information which I will be presenting." Area residents, Ward added. have petitioned the Waterloo County Sop ante School Board since 1975 to get transportation for their children, but the board “hasn't done a thing about it." closed to trame. The shorten} still involves a walk of almost a mile. through open fields and over train tracks ... (the are.) fioods 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." "We'd like to get our kids bused to Sir Edgar Bauer School because of the distance and safety Iactor igt- volved," said Virginia Ward who lives on Albert Street near Bearlnger Road. According to Word. a mother of two youngsters aged five and seven, approximately so children in her neighbourhood must walk two miles along congested Bearinger Road to reach Sir Edgar Bauer School. III) Glenforest Blvd. Because of the distance, the chlldren take a short- cut to school, cutting through Old Albert Street. which the city has A Lakeshore Village woman wants her children based the two miles, they must travel to school and she is prepared to fight for her de- mand. ' Chronicle Statt This shortcut, said Ward, "is tiiiiihiiiiiiiiF areé hazards focus of parents' protest "'ipd'y,'g"itttttt 2:22.23: 'Vg iiiiir: “and at a "igttue_tal,"ttesaiti. Upttkr-dtsaidthatttett-a-tte We. 'tttmat-t who must and tax dollars when but beams»! concu- ytmtttttetreketae mam ml 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, 1983 "addresses an important community need in the education and preparation of adults tor present and future employment.” Davld 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 Cymtieit on Friday that he was person- attyvee, - ttrttsediseiiG." “I 'tattgttfe,'g attestdtttesettoel "fArtettipiqttr?etanttttatttteretsea 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 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 Mewbinney. According to city clerk Ron Keeling, because no bylaw has been passed to ofti- cially close the road, "the city's legal responsibilities for it ... are the same as for any other road in the city." At the end of the school yen. when St. Louis school curses. the children in Ward's neighborhood will be based to St. Michael's School, said Mae Zectel, Waterloo representative on the separate school board. was 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 board a report compiled two years ago dealing with tramc congestion on Bearinger Road. “Children walk that way to school and l 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. The board, he added, “is aware of the potential safety hazards and is moniwving them. This question has gone on tor a number of years." treasurer of the Waterloo County Separate School Board said in an interview last week that these children have not be based because "the Board has set distance require- ments and these youngsters don’t exceed that distance. “There are youngsters all over the county walking that distance," Clifford said.