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Wickl says it is a "comfortable" feeling which he plans to bring to Simon's. and although cuisine will be French. the restaurant will be a “family place where customers and staff know each other, I hope to make people feel cbmlortable, then they'll keep coming baclc" Establishing and running a restaurant like Simon’s is nothing new to the Swiss-born Wicki, who trained as 3 chef in Geneva. He came to Canada in 1952. and in 1967 was able to open his own restaurant in Montreal. culled The Bavarian Place. A desire to escape "the big city" and a growing difficulty with Quebec's French-only language policy prompted Wicki's decision to Water, After touring southern Ohtario, he decided tom e his new home here in K-W. Quarterly magazine for seniors Peter and Wavy Grainger have com- menced publication of a quarterly mag- azine entitled Excellence. aimed at the 55-year-old and older market in Water- loo Region. . Peter (editor) and Wavy (business manager) estimate the Golden Triangle senior population to be in the neighbor- hood of 40,000. Their magazine contains local and international news. recipes, poetry, coupons for seniors and lots more. June. -iiie" Summer '84 issue has been on local newsstands since the middle of Thompson new Zonta president Betty Thompson-Bauman of CKCO-TV has been elected president of the Zonta Club of Kitchener-Waterloo. succeeding Phyllis Fisken. FEEidéiiQiect is Lynne Baden. FEE Architect‘s rendering of Simon's. a new Tid-biz vice president is Marian Puncher. trea- surer is Ellen Miller, recording seere- tary Marijke Kort. corresponding secre- tary Kerina Elliott. one year directors Val Campbell and Charlotte Heywood and two-year directors Gloria Chapman and Margaret Rennie. _ Zonta is a worldwide service organiza- tion of executive women in husinss. The KW Chapter has 62 members; locally in the past year the Zonta Club has raised and distributed $8,500 to various organi- zations with major support to Anselma House and Big Sisters. The club also support their international project in Sri Lanka and Amelia Earhart. Mackay new St. Mary's chairman Gordon Maekay, Sr., Q.C. was named the new Chairman of the Board of St. Mary's General Hospital at the June 27 meeting of the Board of Trustees. He succeeds Cranson Knechtel. Mackay has served on the board since 1975 and has been Chairman of the Finance Committee as well as Vice- Chairman of the Board. The new Vice- "This sinned off as A whole ditterent idea. I came down to buy one house. do the whole renovntion myself, but that changed because I couldn't get a house that was bitetugtt and zoned tpropertyr," snys Nicki, . . n - 3-... Al AL- -.-----.. “-<. '""hii"iiG"airrGiartoiri Hosséééion dt the property last month. and has spent the past two weeks preparing for the massive renovations that ,tsfrhedelrd: . The ”Harold restaurant building. Wicki says. had previously been rented to six students and "it was a disaster. When my wife came down to see it, she said ‘Ire you sure?' " He rolled up his sleeves. set to work and has completely gutted the building himself . A L l . . .. *' _, “*4-.- . A ”and” LVIIIPlI/le -_ee'- -- ~w~vriru When in]; on the building is completed, the exterior will he painted white. with brown trim and shutters. Focal point of the interior will be I central pine "French-strut" restaurant to open on Regine Street in September by owner Simon Vicki. Chairman is William P. Pemfuss. Three members of the Board at St. Mary's retired as of June 27: Thomas McCauley. Hartman H.L. Krug and Frank Voison. Altogether these three have served St. Mary's for over 30 years and each has been Chairman of the Board. 7 New Board Members appointed Wednesday were Ronald Sills. Q.C., James Beingessner and Father Robert Liddy. Smoking prevention program. grant The final stage of a smoking preven- tion program for use in Ontario schools is being developed at the University of Waterloo with a grant from the Ministry of Health. The 3122.726 grant goes to Dr. J.A. Best and Dr. KS. Brown of the depart- ment of health studies, who now will evaluate the program‘s effectiveness and prepare it tor distribution in the Ontario school system. The evaluation is expected to be completed about a year from now. "irGiiiae million is being awatiteti, t1trfi8re'rl'd"v"l wrar. ai11iiii ilGi the restaurant will Be “simple, with lots of light, windows. plants and a warm feeling." He estimates cost of setting up the restaurant will be approximately $250,000. with more than 3100.0” of that to he spent on building reconstruction. As for the menu. Wieki says it will feature "French. style" cuisine-style because he always likes to add a Swiss touch to his creations. Prices will be moderate. ranging from as to " for dinner and $2 to $5 for lunch. "It'll be a place when people can eat and not be soaked," he remarks. Wicki hopes to open Simon's doors for business in time for the September Labor Day weekend. in the ministry's first semi-annual health research competition for 1984415. IRDP funds for Development Centre The Waterloo Centre for Process Development has accepted an offer of $300,000 under the Industrial and Be- gional Development Program (IRDP) of -v - .. - . -A -1 n_‘XA_..I 6"""‘" V" . V'Vr'-"-VV - ’v V the federal Department of Regional Industrial Expansion (BRIE). The centre. at the University of Waterloo, will use the funds to continue its program. begun five years ago, to move theoretical research into the nation‘s production lines. The new emphasis by the centre will be to assess the potential oinew or improved chemical processes and de- sign pilot plants for full-scale adoption by the private sector. . The centre was established with the assistance of the federal government's former Institutional Assistance Pro- gram (lAP). It has proven to be a notable success in developing and trans- terring to private industry new pro- cesses and process control technology,