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Although the consultants must identify the entire city to become eligible, Deyman predicts the neighborhoods in and about the uptown area will likely be the initial recipients of the provincial funding. ' Hoping to cash in on available provincial funding, a City of Waterlooâ€"sponsored study is currently underway to esâ€" tablish locations and activities which are in need of future rehabilition and improvement. ht k % The Starr Group, a Torontoâ€"based planning and manageâ€" ment consultant firm, will be interviewing resident groups, business people and civic representatives within the city in the next month to discuss potential improvement initiatives. Public meetings will also be staged throughout the study period to obtain feedback from the general public. The first of these will take plate next Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Marsland Centre. The first meeting will be to discuss improvement goals, objectives and selection criteria. Upon completion of the study sometime this summer, Waterloo council will have an identified rehabilitation program to work with. The program will then be added on to the city‘s Official Plan, making Waterloo eligible for funds from the provincial PRIDE (Program for Renewal Improvemnt Development and Economic Revitilization) program. Chronicle Staff Dog owners beware. Waterloo City Council has taken the next step towards establishing a stoop and scoop bylaw. City clerk Ron Keeling has been directed to prepare a report outlining details of the proposed bylaw, a promotionâ€" al program to publicize it, methods of enforcing it and fines to accompany enforcement. Council‘s task was made much easier in February of this year by Bill 197, which makes a number of amendments to the Municipal Act. Prior to the Royal Assent of this bill, enacting such a bylaw was a long and involved process which Waterloo had opted against. But the amendment now allows municipalities to draw up its own guidelines for the removal of excrement left by dogs anywhere in the municipality. Certain classes of handiâ€" capped persons will be exempt from the bylaw. Council has turned down many requests for such a bylaw over the years, but a request by the Lincoln Village Homeowners‘ Association earlier this year prompted council to reâ€"examine its position. Waterioo City Hall could be flying an unfamiliar flag during the last week of May. Strathcona County, Alberta, has challenged Waterloo residents to take part in the annual Crown Life PARâ€" TICIPaction Challenge Wednesday, May 27, 1987. In a letter to Mayor Marjorie Carroll, Strathcona Reeve Jim Common says his county wants to prove it is more fit than Waterioo in this oneâ€"onâ€"one fitness contest. The idea behind the challenge is to motivate as many people as possible to register their participation in 15 minutes of physical activity like running, walking, cycling or swimâ€" ming. Whoever records the higher percentage of communiâ€" ty participation is the winner. As part of the challenge, the losing community must agree to fly the winner‘s flag from May 27 to May 31, the end of Canada‘s Fitweek. This is the fourth year of participation in the event for both communities. Waterloo goes into the challenge with a dismal 03 record but appears evenly matched with the Wildrose Country community of 48,024. Waterloo had a 33 per cent rate of participation last year, compared to 32 for Strathcona. Even council believed this could be Waterioo‘s year. ‘*Finally, someone we can beat," joked Ald. Jim Erb. Local organizers will establish a telephone number at a later date for participants to register their PARTICIPacâ€" _ Waterloo can then apply on an annual basis for a portion of the available funds. The province matches the cost of the initiative on a 50â€"50 basis. The only other requirement stipulated in the PRIDE guidelines calls for the applying muncipality to have in place a property standards bylaw, which Waterloo has had since last summer. Rob Deyman, a city policy planner, says Waterloo has made initial input to The Starr Group, but the eventual establishment of criteriz is up to the consultants. The study will cost Waterloo $17,000. City studies community improvement There‘s nothing like a fitness challenge Getting information about sex, she told the students, is probably the hardest thing, and the most important, that youth will ever have to doâ€"and, although the best place to learn about sex is in the home, parents in the 1980s still shy away from talk of sex and birth control. WLU students union representatives handed out birth control information to students attending Monday‘s talk by sex counsellor Sue Johanson on Sex in the ‘8BOS8. chronicie photo Melodee Martinuk Chronicle Staff But most of all this radio celebrity and registered nurse was brutally honest Monday night, as she gave approximately 300 students at Wilfrid Laurier University the straight truth about sex in the 1980s. Sue Johanson was humorous, sarcastic, and sometimes just a little angry. Johanson knows. Although she has been advising youth about birth control and sexuallyâ€"transâ€" mitted diseases since 1970, she admitted she taught her own children virtually nothing about sex. "I‘m also a mother. There was absolutely no way I could talk to my three kids about sex. When my daughter asked about sex, I lectured, I preached, I moralized and I said really significant things like ‘don‘t do it,‘ ‘don‘t let any man touch you between the neck and the knees‘...my son, unfortunately, grew up knowing zip all about sex," she said. Chronicle Staft Wilfrid Laurier University students will get a chance to vote in a second refereridum on whether the birth control pill should be included in the students‘ health plan. The referendum, tentatively scheduled for April 3, will be the second vote on the issue held in the past two months. It was called after a petition, signed z more than 430 fullâ€"time undergraduates, was ga protesting the results of the Feb. 5 ;fi: which put the contraceptive on the health The petition claims that the first referendum was conducted under "unclear, confusing and unacâ€" ceptable‘ rules which presented inadequate inforâ€" mation and prevented students from making an Straightâ€"shooting Sue urges dialogue on sex Pill referendum at WLU to get a second opinion Johanson said the best thing parents can do is simply to tell their children, "I don‘t care what you...are doing. I don‘t want to know. But it‘s important you understand that sex is an adult behavior, and if you want to act like an adult, be an adult and get protection." ‘"An unwanted pregnancy is not a good way to get sex educaâ€" tion." She advised the students to Sue Johanson open forum March 30. Under the new arrangement slated for next September, the cost of health services would increase from $16 for all fullâ€"time students to $32. It also would mean students would pay $1 froni their own pockets for a month‘s supply of pills, compared to the $8 they are paying now. It will cost $3,100 to repeat the referendum. The matter will be discussed in a debate March 25 and In the February vote 763 students, approximateâ€" ly 52 per cent of the 1,456 who voted, said yes to 1y mr cent of the 1,456 who voled, said yes 10 including the birth control pill in a new student health plan. Hotly debated was whether people who don‘t use contraceptives should help pay for them, and whether a legal majority must be twoâ€"thirds of a vote or just 50 per cent. stop ‘"‘and think about sex" before they become involved in a relationship they may not be ready for. Ultimately, and perâ€" haps unfairly, Johanson said, it is up to the female to decide how far a relationship should go, and women must insist that unless a condom is used, sex is out. *‘Talk about it. Get a method of birth control. Talk about sexâ€" uallyâ€"transmitted diseases, your fears about AIDS. Talk about what you are going to do if contraception fails. It‘s risky, and it‘s scarey, but it‘s the safe thing to do." Johanson warned the students that unless birth control is used one in five women will become pregnant after their first time intercourse. One in 10 female students will get pregnant before graduating from university. The 56â€"yearâ€"old Johanson hosts the Sunday Night Sex Show on Q107 and Talking Sex, on Rogers Cable TV. A registered nurse who has taken numerous courses on sex and sexuality in the United States and Canada, she operated a birth control clinic at Don Mills collegiate from 1970 until last fall and has spent much of the past 13 years travelling to high schools across Ontario to inform young people about sex. Her WLU lecture was sponsored by the university‘s student union.