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These faces may become a familiar sight in Waterioo parks this summer. Members of teens on patrol (left to right foreground) Marianne Burgener, Leslie Seiman, Paula Ruppert, Sharon Lantz (back) John Ruigrok, Rob Baillie and Craig Wesson began patrolling parks in the Waterioo Region this week. Besides park supervision, the team will be conducting safety programs for children in the city‘s playgrounds. Pat Arbuckle photo Housing for seniors in the 1980s is the topic of a oneâ€"day symposium June 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of Waterloo‘s St. Jerome‘s College. Sponsored by the Waterloo Regional Social Resources council, the day offers lectures and workshops about seniors‘ housing in Waterloo region, with emphasis on two topics, Staying In Your Home And The Resources Necessary To Do So and Moving To Alternative Housing. Guest speakers are Dr. Finlay Stewart, Minister Emeritus of St. Andrew‘s Presbyterian Church in Kitchener, George Przyblowski of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Appeal outlook jives with improving economy Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff The improving economy of Waterloo Region means good news for Kâ€"W and Area Federated Appeal and the 29 community groups it supâ€" ports. ; Appeal organizers announced at a board of directors meeting last week that in 1985, for the first time in four years, Federated Appeal will not have to dip into its reserve funds to meet the needs of its member agencies. This is despite the fact that the campaign goal for the 1985 fundraising drive has been set at $1.5 million, up 9.1 per cent from the $1.375 million target of last year. For the community organizations which receive funding from the Appeal. this means allocations in 1985 will increase 11.7 per cent from last year. to a total of $1,318,365. Campaign chairman Bryan Stewart termed the 1985 goal "very attainable" adding that he ‘"hopes the economy will help us out."" He noted that although the campaign doesn‘t officially get underway until September, the first major fundraising effort of the year will occur June 4 when he and his committee will meet with the senior officers of 25 "pacesetâ€" ter‘® companies to discuss their role in the drive. The 29 Appeal member agencies had asked for a 33.7 per cent increase in funding for 1985. Allocations committee chairman David Carter said in setting agency allotments "the objective was fairness, equity and consisâ€" Seniors housing symposium at St. Jerome‘s College Allocations up tency. Each agency‘s request was reviewed on its own merit, but we had to keep reality in mind." Groups receiving the largest increases are: Anselma House, whose 1984 allocation of $7.500 was increased to $30,000; Canadian Hearing Society, which will get $25,000, a $13,500 increase; and the Salvation Army, which will receive $105,000, up $18,000 from its 1984 portion. Several groups had their allotments reduced including: The Canadian Mental Health Assoâ€" ciation, Waterloo Region, cut from $53,000 to $45,000;. Girls Guides of Canada â€" Camp Conestoga, cut from $11,000 to $5,000; Multiple Sclerosis, from $5,000 to $4,000; St. John Ambulance,. from $6,400 to $4,000. Carter explained the reductions were made because these organizations had experienced a surplus and he stressed that the cuts were ‘"not punitive"" but ‘"a response to the situation we have now . If the Appeal is not successful in achieving its target, it will reduce each agency‘s allocation proportionally. They guarantee, however, that 90 per cent of the goal, $1.35 million, will be available for distribution. At its meeting last week Federated Appeal directors also rejected the applications of two local organizations, Community Justice Iniâ€" tiatives of Waterloo and the Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabiliâ€" ties, for memberships in 1985.. ACALD, however, did receive a grant of $5,000 from the Appeal. and Joan Simon, an architect and professor with the University of Gueiph. The session gets underway with an address by regional chairman Jim Gray. o Topics dealt with during the afternoon workshops include: programs offered by municipalities which help seniors to maintain their homes; alternative housing arrangements such as granny flats, home sharing and negative mortgagâ€" ing; what seniors should look for when they move to an apartment; the transition seniors make when moving from their home to an institutional setting. Cost of the symposium is $6, including lunch. To register contact the Social Resources Council at 884â€"4670. Teens on Patrol keen to expand summer duties Pat Arbuckle Chronicle Staft Already a proven deterrent to vandalism in city parks, Teens on Patrol are expanding their role to other areas of crime prevention this sumâ€" mer. The patrollers, a familiar sight for the past four years with their distinctive blue Tâ€"shirts and twoâ€"way radios, began this week patrolling area parks and playgrounds and will continue to do so on a daily basis throughout the summer. ‘"We‘re preventing people from taking the pleasures of the park away from the public,‘" explained Paula Ruppert, project leader. "We will be visible in the parks as a preventative (measure) against vandalism â€" people know you‘re there and they won‘t try anything." The Teens on Patrol program was introduced in 1980 by the Waterloo Regional Police in an effort to reduce increasing vandalism in area parks and playgrounds. Funding is provided by the federal Solicitor general‘s office. Although no statistics are available to prove the effectiveâ€" ness of the antiâ€"vandalism program, Constable Glen Taylor, supervisor of the patrol team, said that the group has been widely praised by parks and recreation department workers. ‘"*All the parks [ieople say that there seems to be less vandalism in the parks when the teens are there," he said. â€" The six patrollers, all students, share one characteristic of their predecessors. Ranging in age from 19 to 22 years, the majority are not teens. In contrast to past patrollers, however, who came from varied backgrounds, six of the seven team members, including Ruppert, plan to pursue some aspect of police work. The seventh hopes to become a mechanical engiâ€" neer The Oktoberfest Heritage Timeteller got its official start Monday with a groundâ€"breaking ceremony performed by Mayor Marjorie Carroll and Reuben Baetz, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Recreation. & WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1984 â€"â€" PAGE 3 PAIRING UP While the main responsibility of the patrol team will continue to be park surveillance â€" checking for acts of vandalism and keeping an eye on park animals and children playing in the area, Ruppert, a thirdâ€"year criminology student at Carleton University and a former patroller herself, is enthusiastic about the group‘s new crime prevention duties. Members of the team will be checking cars in the parks and those left unlocked, with keys in the ignition or unlocked with valuables in clear view will be tagged. The tag program was initiated this year in response to a rising number of car thefts, and although they serve as merely a warning to carâ€"owners, Ruppert hopes the team‘s efforts will result in greater public awareness of how crimes can be prevented. Rupert is also urging patrollers to stop and talk as much as possible with park visitors in order to gain feedback from the public on the team‘s efforts. Last summer, Teens on Patrol began a bicycle retrieval program which proved highly successâ€" ful with a return rate of 80 per cent on found bicycles. This year‘s team will continue picking up found bicycles and tracing their owners in addition to conducting a number of summer bicycle rodeos for children in area playâ€" grounds. And since rainy days prove to be a tiresome experience for both patrollers and youngsters, Teens on Patrol will be introducing a Rainy Day Activity program offering a series of films with a safety theme which will be shown to youngsters at a number of the city‘s playâ€" "The rodeos are being sponsored by the Waterloo Regional Police in conjunction with Parks and Recreation to promote bicycle safety for children," Ruppert explained. grounds. Waterloo finished an unlucky thirteenth in the class for municipalities with populations beâ€" tween 30,000 and 70,000, final results of the Great Canadian Participaction Challenge show. With 16,106 participants, Waterloo had a turnout of 27.4 per cent, compared to Fredericâ€" ton, New Brunswick, the winner in that category, with 57.9 per cent. Twentyâ€"three communities competed against Waterioo in that class. Overall, ihe win oâ€"r of the oneâ€"day fitness challenge was Flin Flon, Manitoba, where 87.7 per cent of its population of 8,000 participated. _ A total of 167 municipalities across the country took part in the Challenge, which was started 11 years ago in Saskatoon, Sask. No such luck! Chronicle photo