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Mark Bryson Chronicle Staft Local students are losing faith in Waterloo‘s housing task force and would like to see the city hire a temporary fullâ€"time worker to gather information and aid in finding a quick solution to the housing crisis, city council was told Monday night. Speaking on behalf of Students Together on Community Concerns (STOCC), recentlyâ€"elected University of Waterioo Student Federaâ€" tion president Scott Forrest requested that council begin a housing study to assist with the housing task force. The shortâ€"term hiring requested to carry out the study would give the task force a "data base‘‘ to work from, says Forrest. “‘V‘GVitHofit“; data: B;’s‘e,f the task force can‘t make intelligent dec;sions because those decisions are not based on anything," he said. "-F-(;llowing the meeting, Forrest and four other members of STOCC told reporters there was deep concern amongst the city‘s student population about the task force‘s progress to date. "Â¥You need to look at where things are and where things are going. Students are beginning now to find a place for next September and if they can‘t find one, they won‘t be able to come to Waterloo," he said. _ Another member of the group, called the task force‘s meetings to date nothing more than "student bashing"sessions. The majority of council seemed confused about what Forrest and his group were asking for and requested that he submit his proposal in written form for the task force to look at. After studying, the task force will report back to council in three weeks. progress to date Task force chairman, Ald. Brian Turnbull, expressed doubt about the necessity of the proposal. _ S y _ ‘I‘m not convinced additional research will solve the problem any quicker than we are going. I‘d be the first to support it if it did," said Turnbull. _ -i:le -w_(-e;it on to say that additional research would likely hamper the targeted task force deadline date of Sept. 1. . â€"i’iixfn]né-tilmctor Tom Slomke says there is already data in from Wilfrid Laurier University and expected similar statitistics from UW shortly. He also said there was no need for an extra full time worker. â€" "l-)-::ébite the obvious opposition, Forrest was relentless in his pursuit of a study that would determine where the students live, "the obvious place to start with the study." _ e _ Forrest‘s 7o‘nlry shpport came from Ald. Andrew Telegdi, a former UW student president himself. Telegdi agreed that no one knows how bad a problem actually exists and that the stqd_y coulfi not hurt "We have to know where the problem is and I‘m not convinced we do," said Telegdi. The student leaders said, following the meeting, that Telegdi seemed to be the only council member who understood what they were asking for. Chronicle Staff The corridors of Waterloo city hall are unusually quiet this week as city staff are keeping tightâ€"lipped about which way they will direct council to proceed with the controversial Colonial Acres granny flat unit. According to Greg Romanick of the city‘s planning department, his report advising council to either proceed with the proposed Whitmore Drive location or give in to neighborhood protest and back off, is complete and will be made public Friday, and no sooner. "I can‘t say anything. It‘s city policy to let council see it first," he said. Chief administrative officer Don Roughley also refused to release the recommendation. â€" e _ The proposed site, in the backyard of Ed and Nancy Norman, was met with stiff opposition at an informal public meeting on Feb. 24. Nearby residents presented council with a petition bearing 303 names of objectors to the zoning amendment that would allow the portable prefabricated housing unit. Since then three aldermen, Andrew Telegdi, Lynne Woolstencroft and Dorothy Schnarr, have ventured into the neighborhood to try to lighten the objection. P k t & en Bus . . % s BVE o omgipin conpeandueis ts e ie s ce t ce Ao ie en ns Telegdi, who has stated he is in favor of the site, was unaware of which way the planning department would be recommending council when contacted Tuesday. Council will have two weeks to go over the planning report before a formal public meeting will be held May 5 to settle the issue. Another granny flatâ€"related happening occurred Monday night, when council initiated a zoning amendment file for a proposed site on Beaver Creek Road. The application, made by the Stager family, will not likely be met with any opposition because of the rural setting of the property, says Romanick. An informal public meeting has been scheduled for April 30. over task force ‘Deep concern‘ â€"ity mum on granny flat controversy Chronicle Staff An appreciative crowd at Bluevale collegiate Friday listened attentively to the presentation made by former Cambridge model Wendy Crawford. _ Mark Bryson photo Less than two years ago Wendy Crawford was on the verge of something big. The glitter life she had been pursuing in fashion modellâ€" ing appeared to be within her grasp. And then tragedy struck. Crawford, 21, was only hours away from embarking on a working trip to Japan when the vehicle carrying her to Pearson Internaâ€" tional Airport wasâ€"rearâ€"ended by a drinking driver. The Highway 401 tragedy extinguished the dreams that had seemed so close. Today, she is still picking up the pieces. "It never gets any easier to accept the fact ym:l’ll be like this for the rest of your life," she said. The July tragedy left her with permanent spinal column damage. She has no use of her legs and only partial movement in her arms. So, instead of jaunts to the Orient, Paris and New York, Crawford is travelling in different circles. She now spends her days touring across the province, trying to conyince high school students that drinking and driving is a fool‘s game. _ Her caravan rolled into Waterioo last Friday as she spread her message to an appreciative crowd at Bluevale collegiate. ‘"What happened to me wasn‘t an accident. It‘s not an accident if it can be confronted. Because he just wanted to party and didn‘t care about anyone else, I have to go through the rest of my life like this,"" she told the gathâ€" The students were visibly taken by Crawâ€" ford‘s presentation and passed on the usual high school antics to give her their undivided attention. Backstage following the talk, one young male student who had waited for his friends to leave the auditorium before conâ€" fronting Crawford, told her the speech was ‘"really good." "I fins‘i wanted to hang around to let you know that we all appreciate it," he said. _ _ _ Speaking on a level that the students could identify with, Crawford expressed her opinâ€" ions on drinking and driving. _ "If you‘re planning a party, have someone stay straight. I‘m all for partying, just make Former model uses grim experience to get message across WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986 â€"â€" PAGE sure you have a way home," she said. The Cambridge native said she would go to the extent of phoning the police to stop a friend from drinking. â€" S â€"‘"He may never speak to me again, but at least he‘ll be alive," she said. â€" â€" Her province-wiiie campaign is sponsored by the Attorney General and has been in fullâ€"flight since November. Booked solid until schools‘ break for the summer, Crawford says the gatherings can be "very high impact." _ ‘"Sometimes you get kids standing up and telling the school that they had lost a friend to a drunk driver and it‘s really very high impact," she said backstage, following the speech. Recalling the tragedy infront of the crowd, Crawford expressed her bitterness about the legal system, which allowed the drinking driver who caused her condition to get off scottâ€"free on a technicality. _ _ She later answered a student who wondered whether Crawford felt gorry for the driver who caused her condition. â€" "I don‘t feel the least bit sorry for him. He‘s made no attempt to contact me and apologize, so why should I?", she said. o o Following the incident, Crawford spent six weeks in intensive care before 10 months of rehabilitation. Today, aside from brushing her teet't;e and eating, she has everything else done for her. ‘"I try to be independent but it‘s not easy. But sometimes I use it to my advantage and get things done for me," she said with a twinkin in har ava twinkle in her eye. During the presentation, a ‘"Contract for Life" was handed out to the students. The document, which was to be taken home and discussed with parents, called on parents to agree to somehow get their child home if he or she had too much to drink, with no questions asked until a calm discussion could be held at a later time. As for her future, Crawford has not ruled out pursuing her career in modelling and would one day like to return to school. Until a settlement can be reached however, she will have to scrape by on a dayâ€"toâ€"day basis. "It‘s expensive being crippled, but hopefully one day I can get back to school," she said.