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Friends, family and former students gathered last Sunday at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church for a special party to wish Neil MacEachern, a happy 90th birthday. Above: MacEachern a former teacher, principal and trustee in Waterloo County, and his two sisters Mrs. Flora Stewart (left) and Mrs. Donelda Greaves (right) leaf through a special birthday greeting prepared by the students and staff of NA. MacEachern public school. Hydro's proposed 9.I per cent rate increase for I985 will cost the average homeowner about $50 next Fear, according to Liberal Leader David Peterson, who has accused the provincial government of acting without conscience in requiring workers to accept salary settlements below the inflation rate while allowing Hydro to propose a 9.1 per cent increase. after 7.8 per cent this year and 8.2. per cent in I983. The Ministry of Energy has indicated that Hydro rate increases will be higher than inflation for at least the next two or three years. Hydro officials maintain that without the increase, which is about At percentage points above the predicted inflation rate for 1985, the corporation would be short some $350 million which it needs for 1985, The Minister has indicated that international lenders who have provided cash for the corporation's multibillion-dollar building campaigns would grow uneasy if Hydro were forced to borrow to meet operating expenses, Opposition Members questioned the Min ister of Citizenship and Culture about the Macaulay Report which in essence states that the Minister is starving the arts and fattening her own bureaucracy, She was asked how she /W’;,‘;\ EASTER \ _ c i"ijiii/iiti) filltlllll'ilf POND RIjiElrErIjEZETRjii OVEROSJm40M -tAqetttteq on In. ikreimetuii Kiitgdmte SKIS. am 21/84 1:00 on. Queen 's Park MPP (Lib.. Waterloo North) Herb Epp could justify the sorry state of funding of tho arts in Ontario when she is at the some time inflating her own information budget, which doubled last year to some $2.4 million, although it is providing absolutely no produo tivity for artists and the arts. The Macaulay Report maintained that the ministry could get the best value for its investment in the arts by exhibiting restraint in its own operation. It stated that the province contributes only 9 per cent of the actual expenditures on the arts, with the remainder coming from other levels of government. This is the lowest percentage for any province in Canada. and is in fact only so per cent of the average level. A survey sponsored by the committee discovered that 53 per cent of the province is prepared to spend up to $25 per person per annum more in this connection through taxation. Hugh O'Nvil cited the fact that Ontario's spending on the arts has declined by over 20 per cent since 1978/79 levels. and quoted from the Report, "We believe that unless there are increases in the provincial subsidy to the arts. in part to correct the erosion caused by information, we could lose some of our most exciting talent and we will have squandered much of our sizeable investment." OPEN DAILY 8 AM. TO 7 PM. Elem! Monday: ' ., BROOK a RAINBOW TROUT FISHING TROUT HATCHIIIY Malacca Mammal photo 006-3222 COLA, ALE, & vlif,?PA .39“ WESTMOUNT PLACE, WATERLOO 7461822 9.30 AM -6 PM THURS & FRI 9AM 4) P M OVER mm? Come on in - (1mm: mgupt 1lm an? invited to fabo a 00010 at am 00ng new Gimp. . . "li/rl)? l,, mud (0 (Jam gnu td1ni w haw f0 Oliva-bro (r,1ho,!itrikor1 Y menu? {Jam divine esolhyovesoo, "p?tr,'prr'pFs and mm! minim . Maple Lane 2%, A Lt. plus .300 dep. Shopsy’s Extra Lean Cooked 27P /100 g MILK $3.19 HAM Great Mixers 'l .69 reg. $3.39 of%rsinat%trtuntiltttoa1ntitTt-.Apr." LO? /lb. ‘. 540/100 tr WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL tth 1984 - PAGE 9 EWING. _)iij_)"irlesi"iCC"il-i) k 65 University Ave. E. Ill Freshly Baked ASSORTED MUFFINS 4for Sy Humpty Dumpty POTATO CH I PS DINNER ROLLS 99t doz. reg. .300 each Fresh from our oven 200 . bag reg. 1.89 . 1.20