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13Oth Year No. 29 Westhill Drive resident Glen Shantz (right) discusses the problems 'of the Waterloo landfill with Ald. Brian Turnbull. What better way is there to spend a hot summer's afternoon than learning how to sail, as Morgen Grigg, Ryan Mader and Fred Kraster discovered last week when the Ontario Sailing Association's "eouu Cnilinn thMl king,“ in.“ WaOA'IM In “inn Alannan- 1-. CI... I nun-AI run-.. Pan-AruQOKAn gran M06614;- shining Sofia}: GuriaiiktGiuUriaroGitaaaG iii Gi, Laaaia" "eai;draiiGGra.' Wednesday, July 17, 1985 I'D RATHER BE... It should come as no surprise, then, that "ses the Shantz has little good to s'ay of the Region of Ibull. Waterloo as a neighbor. Chrooictephoto "This is the forgotten area," said Shantz. Waterloo. Ontario Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff When Glen Shana purchased his eight-acre property on, Westhill Drive, it was undeveloped land - part of a farmer’s field. _ A __-__ Two-years later the Waterloo landfill was established on Erb Street and everything changed. _ _ A - - Now, instead of waking in the morning to the song of birds, Shantz hears trucks. and from his rear window he sees "2tFton pieces of equip- ment" pushing rubbish around, instead of rolling fields and bushland. Sometimes, on a hot, hazy summer's afternoon he "enjoys" the scent of rotting refuse and when heavy winds blow from the west, debris is carried to his carefully-landscaped property. Dream site shattered by Waterloo landfill W 25 cents at the Newstand Mq6odqq “Minn. photo That contract was signed in 1973, and said Shantz, in the years since the region has made little effort to live up to the terms of the agreement. Trees which were to have been planted in 1973, weren't put into the ground until 1980 and are "too small to make any dir in the past when it cam" to dt-aling with thi- problem of intoxicated customers. "because of the increasing number of accidents and lawsuits it was felt the situation had becomv more serious requiring the formalized training of servers and bartenders .. The only program of its kind offered m Canada. Serving Alcohol With Care was devel oped by the Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Motel Association Taught in Kitchener by Joe Abes. of George Brown College's Hospitality Program, the course A one-inch thick file folder full of letters and memos is evidence of the long battle Shantz has waged in an effort to get the region to improve the dumpsite. Key in his arsenal is a lengthy contract signed by the region and some 40 area property owners outlining measures that were to have been taken to reduce the impact of the landfill on surrounding lands. In an effort to n-dum- thv inriderw" of drunk driving, along with th" risk of thtrd pint} liability and civil suits in licvnscd cstahltsh ttttmth, and wru-rx, the Untarm Hotel and Motel Assoctatto" is sponsoring Serving Alcohol With Care. a wminar prugram promoting “thu- rvsponsiblv salv and wrviu' of alcohol PV "lt's something that's born wanted in thv Industry something that's m-u-svary.” (“n1 mented local Ontario Motel and Hotel Assoria lion director Bernie Spidvll Spidoll added thai, while the industry has been "fairly suraissful" Meiodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff livery day in Ontario two people arr klllvd Au " result of alcohol related accidents More than 100 local waits-n, waitrcsscs. hartendvrs and mannm-rs gathe-re-d at thc Valhalla Inn Monday for the two and a half hour program "When we moved I said we lived one mile west of the Westmount Golf Club. Now we're within 750 feet of the dump (which he has christened the William Davis Dome.) "We had great expectations, but the balloons have been flattened." Helping to erase drunk driving (Commued on pane 3) (Com IN! on "no“ I H