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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHARONICLE, Second Class Mail Registration Number $540 Waterloo city council‘s unanimous resolution voicing opposition to Sunday shopping (and especially Dec. 27 store openings) is but further proof that while progress is a wonderful thing at times, tradition can still carry its weight just fine. Like many other municipalities, Waterloo is fuming that the Ontario govrnment has decided to take the easy way out by dropping the Sunday shopping hot potato in municipal laps for regulation purposes. It shouldn‘t be news to Premier David Peterson and associates that the municipalities want none of it, either, thank you not at all. A city of Waterloo‘s stature is especially vulnerable. It has to deal with regulations of sizeable nearby cities such as Kitchener, Cambridge and Guelph. It is an expanding metropolis, with many of its newcomers coming from larger centres such as Toronto, where tourist Sunday shopping is a highlight, often the thing to do on a Sunday afternoon at Harborfront. Compounding this all, the city is and will be under constant criticism from various groups for the way it handles, or doesn‘t handle the ability to let progress take its natural course while maintaining traditional cornerâ€" stones that make our city the unique, vibrant community that it is. Darned if the city does, and darned if it doesn‘t. # _ Ai . s o y s cce â€" t BE . 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No | |of c. onitlons and adver. | & s e & $ Lt % o n e n s fr idnote, g M n P l T uy . 5 . M# _ m es yA ame the C f w M â€" annamialats â€" wike â€" Wab â€" & h e MK: . NAa M ho #9 Tmmmedt .. x _ Db o e o ces 41 ® & %:;- v : y n e ' . Well, three cheers from this corner to council for standing up to the province, condemning its spineless move, and for reiterating what most people of our community already know. And that is that an overâ€" whelming majority of people affected by proposed legislation, be they retailers, employees, and yes, politicians, feel there is no need for Sunday shopping in our city. Check Chamber of Commerce surveys, check Uptown BIA surveys. The numbers don‘t lie, and neither do accompanying comments. Everyone is entitled their opinion on Sunday shopping, but prevalent thought dictates that when it comes down to a yay or nay, Waterloo is not Toronto, is not Elora, is not even St. Jacobs. It is Waterloo, with a tradition of a common day of rest, that being Sunday. And no one has to apologize for wanting to preserve that. Address all cone:r:-deu% to Waterioo office, 45 Erb St. E. Wateriloo. Ont. NZJ 1L7. Telephone 886â€"2830, News and Sport Aadress all corn’?e-u-ncc U WavcrIo0 DIIICE, TO PREM A0%e Siey Waterloo, Ont. NZJ 1L7. Telephone 886â€"2830, News and Sports line 886â€"3021. Waterioo Chronicle office is located in the Haney, White law office building (rear entrance, mflnot). ?ll‘h. at the rear of the building. Open Monday to y 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Still opposed C Publisher: Paul Winkler Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group Incorporated Publishing address 215 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Or Editer: Rick Campbell mwk&m& . Circulation Manager: Greg Cassidy Display Advertising: Helen Smiley, Paula Hummel, Gerry Mattice Classified Advertising: Maureen McNab Reporters: lan Kirkby (news) Mark Bryson (sports) Circulation: Jerré.!-:scher Typesetting and posing: : Melodee Martinuk Â¥ 1 Fairway Press eyes... The sweat poured off my brow as I assigned the story to staff writer Bev Conquest. ‘"Bev, we‘re doing this Christmas section, right, and what I‘d like you to do is..." ‘"Uh, something the matter? You‘re a Christmas grinch right, and you don‘t want to do a story connected with Christmas?" ‘"No, no,"was her reply, "I love Christmas, what story would you like me to do?" She had faked me out. Still taken slightly aback, 1 approached with caution. "Well, you know those neat Christmas stories where famous people and not so famous people tell about Christmas their style; let‘s see if we can dig up a story like that, call it One Special Christmas and test the waters to see if there isn‘t a bit of the oldâ€"fashioned Christmas in all of us." ‘"Hey, that sounds like a great idea," was her reply. _ o _ _ And what an idea it turned out to be, as you will read on pages 20â€"21 of this week‘s Chronicle. After year of talking about progress and conflicts and high technology and bylaws and growth in our city, it is truly a Christmas treat to assemble the personal recollections of a number of Waterloo people. â€" â€" A holiday whose foundation is built on tradition, Christmas is often associated with special times and unforgettable moments. It may be holidays shared with families and traditional customs, times shared with good friends and acquaintances, or the briefest of moments celebrating the season with complete But we‘re delighted to say each person we asked had a colorful Christmas moment to share. Christâ€" mas celebrated as newlyweds, meeting relatives for the first time, priceless childhood memories, cusâ€" toms unique to each household, yes, even of a Christmas spent as prisoner of war, sharing food and friendship with complete strangers. As we sit back and reflpect about happenings here in Waterloo in 1987, some good, some not so good, we too often overlook the human element involved in a city‘s spiralling growth. Issues, issues, issues, personalities, personalities, personalities, conflict and criticism, yes life does go on, not as some would like, beyond the wildest dreams of others. But Christmas can and usually is the great human equalizer, when we see those around us in a different light. It is a time to put down artificial My train of thought was detoured by her rolling erent light. it is a time to gt down artificiai irds, relax our professonal stiffness, raise a toast, w on fond recollections, add building blocks to It is written fi;’..Iftheyhadchounwrunn¢ain,lunullmthethmpeoplowhowmddn'thooneouncil t now." Coun.Andanolqdinyinghoandothcnm elected in 1985 because former aldermen Rick Campbell Chronicle Editor Special Christmas traditions. Share some of those moments with those profiled on pages 20â€"21, in a feature guaranteed to warm your hearts. At the same time, we realize that for many, Christmas can and will be a trying time. Too often it is celebrated alone, just another dreary link in the 365â€"day chain. There are those facing unemployâ€" ment, facing difficult sickness or disease, stuck alone in strange cities, and others because of illâ€" fortune unable to give those they love a "proper" * sBE PaACK 5. Often, too often, they comprise The Hidden Minority, as reported on by staffer Ian Kirkby in a special feature, the second part which runs on page 3 this week. In a city like Waterloo, with its upper middleâ€"class image and bursting at the seams with growth and opportunity, it is difficult to imagine that the cracks are filled with welfare recipients, the impoverished, the sick and infirmed. For them, Christmas is a holiday to survive more than one to enjoy. Yes, food hampers and toys from toy drives are delivered to Waterloo addresses. Often the stories are not pretty ones, but they should be told, not to pinprick Christmas joy for the more fortunate among us, but to give us all a better appreciation and understanding of those less fortunate, that we may help them and wherever possible, make Christmas a more uplifting occasion. I‘ve been lucky. Even through tough times my parents endured but never allowed us four children to know, we had Christmases filled with laughter and joy, shared with relatives and friends, those of different races and religion. I will never soon forget the smile on the face of a neighbor my mother once invited to share Christmas with us, a social worker in a strange town, with few friends, and no place to go for Christmas. I know he was truly touched to be among us that Christmas, and his happiness left an impression with me that will last a lifetime. But my most special Christmas moment? One special Christmas, two years ago, my father was recovering from a nearâ€"fatal heart attack suffered in May of 1985. My mother knew that whatever she could give him for a present couldn‘t compare to the words in her heart which she put down to paper. My wife Beth, a calligrapher at heart, took those special words to art form, and Mom framed them, wrapped them up as a present and gave them to Dad. Unashamedly, tge tears flowed freely when he opened the gift and read Mom‘s words. Right then and there, as we put our arms around each other, I came to realize that the two greatest gifts to be shared at Christmas are life, and love. Merry Christmas, everyone. Â¥+¢