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Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff Waterloo MPP Walter McLean gains a new title and responsibilities following Prime Minister Brian Mulroney‘s first Cabinet shuffle since last September‘s federal elecâ€" tion. 130th Year No. 34 Wednesday, August 21, 1985 Waterioo, Ontario Cabinet shuffle sees McLean move to Immigration Formerly Secretary of State, McLean yesterday became Minister of State for Immigration. He retains his responsibilities as minister reâ€" sponsible for the status of women. Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staft Westhill Drive residents are reacting cautiously to promises from the region‘s engineering committee that iti will improve maintenance of the Erb Street landfill site. While pleased with the committee‘s unanimous decision Thursday to live up to the terms of a 1973 agreement with area residents concerning maintenance, landscaping and fencing of the facility, Glen Shantz of 101 Westhill Dr. nevertheless expressed misgivings about how soon the work would be done. "I think they finally perceive there‘s a problem here that they have to do something about," said Shantz. "I think it looks reasonable, but how long it takes to get done is a good question...only time will tell." Committee members agreed to provide $130,000 for chain link fencing on the perimeter of the landfill, $15,000 each year for temporary manpower to pick up litter on the region‘s landfills and adjacent properties and $25,000 Benoit Bouchard, who was minister of state for transport, was appointed Secretary of State. â€" Acknowledging that some will see the move as a demotion, in an interview McLean called it a proâ€" motion, reflecting ‘"a continuation and affirmation of the government‘s priorities with regard to women and citizenship. Walter McLean ‘Only time will tell‘ on Westhill canp ouessaiiyt Pere ce aitervint ‘"I leave with some mixed feelâ€" ings, but I‘m happy with this," he said. "Obviously 1 will have a continuing interest in the symbols of the nation, in language, and I‘ll have to continue to deal with broad citizen concerns." A Presbyterian Minister, who spent five years in Africa with CUSO, McLean said he brings a strong background to the Immigraâ€" tion ministry. One of McLean‘s first tasks in the newlyâ€"created position is to underâ€" take a study of the future of the department with "with recommenâ€" dations to the Prime Minister on where immigration should be in relation to employment, training programs and citizenship." That Mulroney chose to reâ€"esâ€" tablish immigration as a ministry separate from manpower, he said is an indication that the government ‘"‘"sees it as not just regulating the Now of immigrants to the country. It‘s a matter of humanity â€" too much of our immigration policy has been tied to our need for workers." In the shuffle, the prime minister also moved Wellingtonâ€"Dufferinâ€" Simcoe MP Perrin Beatty to the Solicitorâ€"General‘s post. Former Soâ€" licitor General Elmer McKay reâ€" placed Beatty in Revenue. In other changers, the bharshlyâ€" criticized Suzanne Blasiâ€"Grenier was shifted from environment to minister of state for transport; Jack Murta left multiculturalism to beâ€" come minister of state for tourism; Thomas McMillan moved to enviâ€" ronment from tourism and Otto Jelinek added multiculturalism to his responsibilities as minister for fitness and sport. There will be one new face in the Mulroney Cabinet, Halifax MP Stewart Mcinnes who took over Supply and Services from Harvie Andre, who became associate minâ€" ister of defence. to complete landscaping of the east side of the Waterloo Although engineering staff recommended that the work be budgeted for 1986â€"87, at the urging of Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll committee members also asked staff to investigate ways the wark could be undertaken this year. . . ""After all these years of not fulfilling the agreement I think we owe these people a commitment...we should do something this year â€" plant some trees, put up some fences. This has been left hanging too long," Carroll said. Shantz and his neighbors have long petitioned for improvements to the facility in keeping with an agreement they signed in 1973 which states that trees were to have been planted and fences erected to reduce the dump‘s impact on the area. The matter came to a head earlier this summer when a consultant recomâ€" mended expansion of the Waterloo landfill as the best We can‘t expect people to live adjacent to these sites if we don‘t properly maintain them." o o Branch 530 of the Canadian Legion celebrated its 60th Anniversary in unusual style last Saturday night. Here a group of men (?) from the Royal Legion troup ‘Twinkileâ€"toes‘ take the stage as part of a bizarre cabaret. It is estimated that 175 people were in attendance. Nobody knows how many were left after the show. Catherine Wiiehm photo 25 cents at the Newstand LIGHT ON THEIR FEET ‘"We‘ve always been told that the dump would never be expanded, yet now they‘re talking about doing it â€" I just don‘t understand their thinking," said Tweed, vowing to continue his opposition to the plan. The Westhill residents are united in their opposition to any expansion plans, saying it will only add to the noise, odor and debris problems which they already experience because of the landfill: Regional Chairman Jim Gray said the region must show "some good faith"‘ and improve relations with the Westhill Drive property owners if it hopes to reach agreement with them concerning the landfill expansion. \*"I suggest this may even be selfâ€"serving...if we haven‘t cleaned up out act, they won‘t be too coâ€"operative," he said. But, if Bob Tweed of 28 Westhill Drive, reflects the feeling of his neighbors, it‘s clear that the region has a long way to go before it will receive their support for the expansion. solution to the region‘s longâ€"term waste management Catherine Miehm photo