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Chronicle Staff Waterioo city council may have decided against the realignâ€" ment of Bearinger Road at its budget meeting Tuesday, but according to Ald. Glen Wright, the issue is far from dead. ‘‘I‘m not happy about it. I think they made a mistake, that it should be built," said Wright, who will ask council to reconsider the matter at its next meeting when it will give the 1983 budget final apâ€" proval. Reconstruction of Bearinger Road has long been a heated issue in Waterioo. Reâ€" peatedly this year and last, Wright has pressed for the work to begin, arguing that beâ€" cause of the narrow ness of the roadway and the heavy vehicle. pedestrian and bicycle traffic, Bearinger is a serious safety hazard. Wright won‘t give up fight With a swirl of her kilt, to the haunting strains of the piper, sevenâ€" yearâ€"old Waterioo Highland dancer Celeste McPhee emerged the best of her class in a threeâ€"day Scottish piping, dancing and athletic competiâ€" tion held in Dunedin, Fla. late last month. Although Celeste has been dancing for only two years, she has already been successful in competiâ€" tions locally and throughout the province with 18 medais to her credit. The Dunedin Games is a major annual event in Florida with competitors from Canada and the United States. DANCIN®‘ CHAMP Bearinger Road It was at the request of Wright that the Bearinger realignment was included for conâ€" sideration in this year‘s budget deliberaâ€" tions. Last week a petition signed by 450 residents of the Blythwood Road/Haze!l Street area protesting the reâ€" alignment was presentâ€" ed to council. Total cost of the proâ€" posed roadwork is esâ€" timated to be $390,000 with the city share exâ€" pected to be $220,000. Voting against the realignment Tuesday were Mayor Marjorie Carroll, and Alds. Jim Erb, Doreen Thomas, Charles Voelker and Richard Biggs, who cast the tieâ€"breaking vote. C "There‘s no doubt in m y m ind (h a t Bearinger Road will have to be built at some time, but I‘m reluctant to do anything until we Melodee Martinuk photo know what‘s happening with the westâ€"side reâ€" alignment (the extenâ€" sion of either Hallman or Westmount Roads). This will have a major impact on Bearinger traffic," argued Carâ€" roll. *"‘This work has been brought forward severâ€" al times and from a technical standpoint it has not been brought forward by staff, it‘s been brought forward by politicians," she added. "If you are looking at priorities you have to keep that in mind." Wright responded that the matter was "brought forward for political reasons beâ€" cause it had been shelved the last time for political reasons. *"*No matter how you cut it, that thing is underbuilt, inadequate and a safety hazard for the cyclists, pedestriâ€" ans and motorists using it."" he argued. "It is the prudent thing for council to do this work." Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff Supporting Wright in his stand were Alds. Robert Henry, Mary Jane Mewhinney and Brian Turnbull. The Ontario Federation of Labor believes it has an answer to Canada‘s economic woes and last week OFL president Cliff Pilkey and secretaryâ€"treasurer Terry Meagher visited Kâ€"W to publicize their strategy . The labor proposal is designed to get the province‘s unemployed back to work and the measures the OFL advocates to stimulate the economy include greater governâ€" ment spending to create jobs, free collective bargaining, selected price freezes and rolibacks, improved public services and a new industrial strategy emphasizing great public control of the resource sector. Following the budget meeting Wright com mented that the Bearinger realignment had been ‘tkicked around and kicked around for years. The reasons for not doing it at all are just smokeâ€" screens." The local visit was the 13th of a 23â€"stop, provinceâ€"wide tour by labor representatives to stir up support for their program and gauge grassroots sentiment. The tour is the cornerstone of a $210,000 campaign entitled Ontario Needs a New ERA, an acronym for Economic Recovery Alternative, launched by the OFL in response to the imposition of public sector wage controls by the province last September . W The alderman added that despite this setâ€" back he has no intenâ€" tion of abandoning the Bearinger project. "I don‘t intend to give up. It just may take a little longer,"" he said. _ In addition to the "outreach‘"" tour the program, said to be the most ambitious public education project ever undertaken by labor, includes an onâ€"theâ€"job canvass of pmario \vorkel;s.‘ ht tlltcin ies ratidl Mb iabnttibatosivtitiih e ivatii tradih e dudts Autn mt d mininii on e eair o A spokesman for the OFL told the Chronicle that they‘ve had ‘"a very good response‘‘ from the public to their economic alternative, with support found among numerous church, student and labor organizations concerned about unemployâ€" ‘*Maybe the next step is to have the Lakeâ€" shore residents make their feelings known," Wright concluded. While in the Twin Cities OFL representatives met with local OFL plots strategy Attention all book lovers â€" and there are many out thereâ€" Hilliard Hall at First United Church is the place to be this weekend. _ _ The Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Branch of the Canadian Federation of University Women will be holding their 19th annual Used Book Sale at the Hall at King and William Sts. in Waterloo. And if you can‘t find something to your liking among the estimated 100,000 books offered, it‘s time to go looking for another hobby . The actual date for the sale are Friday from noon until 9 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 â€" Prices are extremely‘ reasonable at one dollar for hardcovers, 50 cents for paperbacks and records and one dollar for 12 magazines. The club‘s 200 members have been busy collecting books throughout the year. Many books. rcords and magazines are recycled each year by people who faithfully return to the sale. ‘"‘Those are very good prices, especially when you see what you are paying for paperbacks these days," said Kay Faichney, helping with publicity for the Book Sale Comâ€" mittee. One of the special features of the sale is an auction, by the club‘s president Marcia There is nothing like a good book! Local groups speak Don‘t miss this sale politicians, including Mayor Marjorie Carroll, visited local centres for the unemployed and participated in an evening public forum. _ â€" Ds _ Addressing the meeting, beld at the Kâ€"W District Labor Council offices in downtown Kitchener, were representatives of the unemployed, local unions and social agencies. group, who outlined the plight of Canada‘s student population. "There is an incredible wasted potential in the community ... people trained in universities are not being given the opportunity to use their innovative ideas to make this world a beiter place ... they‘re graduating into a world where their hopes of making a contribution are dashed .‘ Kitchener resident Leo McNet! related his fourâ€"year struggle to find work. "It isn‘t very comfortable collecting unâ€" employment insurance benefits," he said. "I can‘t begin to express the incredible frustration (of graduating students) when they face the prospects of not having a job," said Phil Weller, of the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group, a UW studentâ€"funded and directed research ‘"My future? Well, I guess I‘lljust keep looking for work, writing letters, knocking on doors and pestering them (employers). In the meantime I‘ll just keep doing my best to survive," McNeil said. Alida Burrett, speaking on behalf of the Kâ€"W Status of Women, detailed the "hidden costs of unemployment‘‘ â€" the disorientation and dislocation in society as families are forced to adapt to new economic realities. ‘"New roles are being learned very quickly by couples (as) more women are participating in the labor force for the survival of themselves and their {families," she said. Shortreed, of first editions, unusual old copies and books on poetry, art and Canadiana, which will take place Friday at 6 p:m. _ _ ‘"‘That‘s where many of our valuable books come from, donations from private colHecâ€" tions," said committee coâ€"chairman Yvonne Weichel. "We also get children‘s books from the public schools and textbooks from high schools and universities. Many of them are discarded books but still in good shape." In addition to Heritage Awards, another $9,000 will be given to students attending the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, Conestoga College and Laurel] vocational. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the club, Heritage Awards (total value $5,500) will be presented to students of the Grade 6 Environmental Studies courses within the region. The award will be autographed copies of Edna Staebler‘s Sauerkraut and Enter prise. Children are given an opportunity to select their own books Saturday morning at 9 a.m. The money raised at the sale is returned to the community in the form of educational awards, bursaries and social projects. As well, money is given to social projects such as First United Preâ€"Step Kindergarten, Anselma House and the YÂ¥WCA.