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133rd Year No. 11 ask the Seagram Museum‘to ope ming schedule prior to the budget whether to grant the .company estimated :annual $60,000 property tax exemption. p In a sometimes emotional speech, the *f;fil‘ directors is Moantreal, he saul. "Almost the enâ€" â€" the map", he said. _ f Coun. John Shortreed told Bwann pu‘c.‘-fudar*% '.0' inidpnn i rmatlh find a bendhital "to o i ..-_flâ€""". council that the municipal act does not require the city have a seat on the museum board. tz k e A hean‘t all been a oneâ€"way street". Carroll cited already lowered municiâ€" pal taxes and lobbying of the provinâ€" cial government by the city for lower taxes on the Seagram company. _ "I don‘t see an overwheiming amount of support for this in the community," said Coun. Jim Erb. "One of the ways I can rationalize fihh’wwufio Erb also took Swann to task for comments made to the media at the The current ‘board. comprised ‘of A Fairway Group Community Newspaper Franco Congi, a sir cayat Paue! wood? ¢ @75 20 °0 SJante tram Watarine ancd Ki E 4 mmammmhisw.wnmmmwmumwx-w Hocpnnl‘schlldmn'sfairlutThursdaymdFfiday.Theupumsmalitwnhmmdem:asmetiny pioeetofphshrmoldodtoflnlrhands. isobe!l Lawson photo Friendly visit Hospitals don‘t have to be scary places Chronicle Staff Children and hospitals are not as comâ€" patible as children and teddy bears or puppies. But hospitals are a fact of life and the experience of visiting one need not be uncomfortable. For the 1,300 Kitchener and Waterioo kindergarten to Grade 3 students, who attended the Kâ€"W Hospital‘s children‘s fair Thursday and Friday, the mysteries of the hospital were uncovered in an environment of fun and learning. It‘s the first time the hospital has responded to the nationally celebrated Children and Hospitals Week with an open house, said public relations director Annie Coteâ€"Kennedy. "The purpose is to remove the fear and we know we‘re doing that when you see these 40 kids coming Slashing and delaying were the order of j.d'dhxwwmpamtfiomm wwpwapr«m.m end result, which will considered for final ratification by council at the regular council meeting March 21, is an increase of $30 rather than $50 on an average residential property. The reduction was made in two main the day as Waterloo city council tackled the .1“8 operating budget in a special areas. The actual ope! slashed by $947,196, Franco Congi, a Sir Edgar Bauer Grade 2 student, Mammoth slash session out munching on their cookies and gabâ€" bing about what they saw." Because of the fair, a child‘s next trip to the hospital may not be a traumatic one, instruments, crutches, an infervenous unitattachedtoantufl'ed?‘mkl’antberâ€" and playing â€" with wheelchairs, stetho scopes, splints and microscopes. If the children only remember one thing, Coteâ€" Kennedy asks that it be: "hospitals aren‘t scary places."‘ Some of things, said Coteâ€"Kennedy, are "a little bit scary to look at but once they get to touch the things, they say it‘s neat." Marcy Pfaff, a Sir Edgar Baver Grade 2 student, said she learned "that hospitals @BNC genmy > The capital budget includes items such as walking trails and recreational faciliâ€" ties which citizen groups have recently firefighters from October until January million with revisions. Coun. Jim Erb, who chairs the council‘s finance committee said the cuts were made because council "wanted to pass on a reasonable tax increase to ratepayers of At the March 21 In an cries ..m.smmwcfloum M...flmwnm.-dmme'MK-w â€" bones, a pig‘s lung, ing, council will m $100,000 can be fun instead of scary". While her favorite part of the fair was receiving a :':i;;d;‘g':ve me a red mark®" she said she found the oxygen masks interesting beâ€" annfichnsafriendvhohasuthma and uses a mask and takes medicine. As students nudged up to each display table they were presented with informaâ€" tion on everything from an xâ€"ray of a pcnnyimidethet:bostof(hechfld'ho swallowed it, a simulation of being anesâ€" thetized, a chance to crawl on top of a reoaverybed,andlwkathwaddythcloun through a microscope. Children took practice rides in wheelchairs and used walkers and crutches. Janet Lobosco, who manned a display demonstrating the function of the laboraâ€" (Continued on page 5) While citizen groups, including the Futures Committee, have called for rapid construction of cultural and recreational facilities to meet the rapid population growth of Waterloo, Erb said, "I‘m not Sors socgls se feopared io se in ie h L N se t . 4 ‘demand (for facilities) that people require 'fiemmww“y buliet‘, when they realized bottom line was". economy during the proposed seven year capital construction period, "things will get spread over 10 years," said Erb. what the