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PAGE 6 - WATERLOO CMONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER la, second Class Mail Registration Number The city's engineering department certainly can't be accused of not doing its homework when it came down to recommendations for the proposed second annual university street dance in the Uptown area. But what eventually came out in the wash was that the is-tww-t Imima mm a hnnph of stuffed shirts - and But what eventually came out in the wash was that the department looked like a bunch of stuffed shirts - and rightly so. Instead of analyzing the problems of the inaugural event held last year (which drew close to 4,000 to the city core) in a positive light with an eye to correcting them, Engineering focused on them as reasons why they "do not believe this type of event is suited, in its proposed size, to be held in this location." Poppycock. An annual Uptown street dance is exactly the type of event that should be perpetuated to help juice up our core activity. DUAL quIVImJ. No question, the inaugural event, held last year in conjunction with the city's 125th anniversary and UW's 25th, was not without significant problems. Having no real idea of what impact (numbers) the dance would have on the community, organizers fell short in terms of washroom facilities and exercising crowd control. Damage to city property also resulted both in the Waterloo Square parking lot facing King Street and in surruounding flower beds. But despite the fact there were problems, organizers did a superb job of keeping things as orderly as possible. And with that experience, future dance organizers can "go to school" in terms of corrective measures. That they have done by agreeing to a number of recommendations by city staff and councillors, by increasing multifold the washroom facilities and security, by paying a damage deposit and securing adequate liability insurance. w - - - - n. u ,,A‘-__:_-__._ ...I.:.... (A- Well, you can't say it hasn't been a hummer of a summer, with all those bright hot days beckoning everybody to the golf course and the beach. "guru..- ......----., _--- -- __-_ -- Council, by locking arms with dance organizers, asking for and offering recommendations to make the event a smoother running ship, has done its part in recognizing the value of such a venture. Not only in a public relations sense, but also with significant forethought to the benefits the city proper will reap from the street dance October 1. A - l I Au, -4 -L-..I.I LA w... w-.. -.-.... ---- ----__ he -- It is a good event, a fun event, and one that should be encouraged, not discouraged. At a time when too many traditions have gone the way of the dinosaur, let's be original and reverse the trend. Why is it then, that when I go into the local delicatessen to pick up a bit of grubbery, there are 44 women ahead of me, waving their numbered cards, push- ing, jostling. pointing at six kinds of cold meat, and shouting: “A liddle of that, cut real thin. Half a pound of that, in one-pound chunks. Three-quarter pounds of the potao salad, no more, it makes me fat; two pounds of the pickled beans - well, no - well. OK, I'll have only a spoon- ful"? Who's at the beach? Who's at the golf course? Well, I know who's at the beach. The cops. I took the boys out for a swim one blazing afternoon, found what I thought was a fairly legal spot, even though it said "No Parking," and it cost me 10 bucks. Why aren't our boys in blue out chasing motorcycle gangs, instead of hanging tickets on doting (duty?) grandfa- thers? I guess it's fairly simple. They're not going to be beaten up by the odd grand- father. ikiws at the golf course? I don't know Stuffed shirts published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterioo Record Ltd, owner ',, 225 Fairway mrs., Kitchener, Ont. BILL SMILEY tMMqrioo Cutomcle othce as Iocaled In the Hamel Nancy and Wnue Law We Budding (real entrance, upper Noon Valuing at the tea! ot the banding Open Monday to Foday, 9 00 a m to 5 00 p m address correspondence to Waterloo office " Erb St E , Waterloo. ont Ned IL7, telephone ttttti 2830 I'm not going to thump around on my tin foot checking what idiots are hitting or missing the little white sphere when the temperature and humidity are up around 100 degrees. F that is. Just to add to my summer fun is a busted eardrum that isn't healing. But even that has advantages. It I push my finger into my good ear, I can't hear a word my wife is saying. It drives her woolly, because I've been pretending for years that I was getting deaf when she went into a tirade. "Why haven't you trimmed the hedge?" Eh? swept the ledge? "Why don't you get the grass cut?" "Watch your language, lady." "Why aren't you useful about the house, like other husbands?" "Eh, I wouldn't be seen dead in a Mother Hutr bard?" Just to add to my summer fun, my English staff has disintegrated, in almost one swell foop. One lady, an outstanding teacher, has become sick of the system, pulled out and started her own business. Another has gone on halftime. so he can write poetry. Two others are knocked out for some time with heart trouble. Another has been having a baby. with six months leave. Her kid will be ready for Day "P Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell established 1 854 "Man, Evil Knievel on heroin would be afraid to place. We used to spend 30 minutes playin' the musi It is written Summer fun? by the tirpeAhe gtts. back. l'll probably wind up with a couple of jocks who don't know the difference between, “I seen the both of them," and "The whole team wore gloves on its right hand," or "Shakespeare wrote in longhand because the typewriter was not yet invit- "However. as summer wanes, don't think we haven't had a swell time. And rm-sure you had a lovely summer, too, with all those relatives dropping in, just at meal-time. _ - _ . My wife took a music course, driving 60 miles a day to do it. - _ You‘re having two slices of ham and a tomato, and a big bowl of canned soup, and a whole carload of friends whom you invited to drop in, sax years ago, arrive at the door, friendly as all get out and hungry as hell. No, no, they wouldn't think of staying for lunch. It would be an imposition, which it is, Half an hour later, they've drunk all your beer, commented on your "lovely" house, and downed the canned ham you were saving for an emergency. gobbled the fresh corn you were saving for supper. and cleaned up your fresh green beans. be afraid to go into this room. What a Gawd-foresaken in' the music and 30 minutes watching the fights." Ronnie Hawkins on his earlier days of rock 'n' roll, describing the Coulson Hotel in Sudbury. - SEE PAGE 14 You don't even know whether the guy's name is Rob or Rod, or whether the woman's name is Myrtle or Marg. You Just sit there in the debris, not caring. and hating their kids for breaking a branch off your lilac tree. Summers, on the whole, though, are therapeutic. They make you realize how horrible winter is in this country. They make you realize you are too fat and blowsy, and that, next winter, you‘re going to ski and walk in the snow, and not be such a slob, eating pig food and lying arund like a eunuch or a harem member. And of course, when winter comes, you realize that you must keep up your strength by eating lots of carbohydrates to beat the cold. and watching TV "to keep up with things," and that next summer you‘re going to exercise and get fit and brown by running down in the car to the supermar- ket, and jogging all the way from the car to the house with the groceries, and striding angrily across to the boy who cuts your lawn and demanding why he hasn‘t cut it. And all the time." millions of kids are starving in Asia and Africa. Serves them right. They should have been born in Cam