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Cat bylaw article was 'misleading' Reporter Ian Kirby (sic) (“Watereddown Version: City's Cat Bylaw Takes Aim at Nuisances", May 4) has misled the Chronicle's readers. The revised by-law, which was given "first reading" at the May 2 meeting of Council, is little changed from the draft by-law discussed at Council on March 7. Furthermore, those changes that have been made are merely cosmetic in nature, e.g., replacing "leash" by "suitable harness and lead", substituting the nearequivalent provisions of the Ontario Ani- mals for Research Act for "cat so impounded shall be held for a period of 72 hours" (after which,ifnotclaimedbytheowneritmaybe sold or disposed of), using the 'sanitized' word "euthan'uing", rather than "killing" " in the March 7 version. Kirby (sic) also states that “catsmlongerwill haveto... receive mandat. ory rabies vaccinations”; well, the March 7 draft also said nothing about vaccination: for rabieawanythingelae! 'ne1uy4artieleauoirtatas"councildidnot mkereferenoeinthehy-lawtotheuaeof unclaimedeatarforr-zh".Itutruethatno directmentionof“uaeforreaeamh"iamadein the hy-law. However, clause 9 of the by-law permitathepoundkeepertosellordiapoeeof anireutdedeat"pumsanttothehnirnalsfor Renaud! Act and Regulations thereunder". 'l‘hatActpermitsaaleed’animalatoreeeanh lahchithoughtrueht_reitaidtolteagairtat Comment Dr. Joseph Peck, whom I have quoted before, writes: "Man, I repeat, was created to work, and when he is denied the right to work, either by economic depression or by enforced retirement at the arbitrary age of 65, he becomes a surly and uncooperative segment of society." Harvey Swados, in his book A Radical's America, says: "Every study that I am aware of indicates that man is a creature who thrives best on work and (at least until now) has not found means of deriving continuous personal satisfaction in a society from which work has been outlawed." Let me make this clear: I am not referring to the "work ethic", engendered during the industrial revolution when Church and State combined to glorify grinding labor as a patriotic path to salvation. I am talking about the human need for personal satisfaction that can be gained only by some activity that is challenging and constructive. Our youthful social planners too often try to arrange the oldieters' lives so that they will develop a state of galloping' senility. They seem convinced that a second childhood is a For example: we live in a time when we are being persuaded almost to worship leisure, yet people don't want more leisure and, moreover, when they get it, they have no idea how to use it. 'nt-e-tstole-er-ttttInman naturethatmtntstotellpeoplerrhati good forthemandthenammgethrtmgh . - tion,orothermeuu,thatthese . me ahout--onlytoduamer much later that y Leisure’s meaning Letters welcome J Geoffrey Fellows the current practices of the Kitchener-Waterloo and North Waterloo Humane Society (the city’s designated pound-keeper), neither Council nor the citizens of Waterloo have any guarantee that the current practice won't change at some future date. With respect to the "group of citizens" that Kirby (sic) says comprised the by-law review committee, of a total of 7 persons, two were veterinarians in private practice. two were employees of the Humane Society, one was Like everything in nature, we follow a rhythym of relative activity and rest. Leisure only has real meaning as the counterpart of some effort on our part. Geoffrey Fellows operates the Human Re source Development Institute, PO. Box 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W1, providing effective, ness training to business and industry. They were giving up the joy of living their present lives, for the distant promise of a well-heeled heaven in their retirement years. The obvious result is that just as they spend their present looking longingly toward the future, they will most asrtainly spend their future looking with longingly at the past that they didn't have enough sense to enjoy at the I am all for financial independence in our later years. Who wouldn't be? But it is important to live now, and make certain we plan for some kind of engrossing and chal- lenging activity that we can continue to enjoy when we no longer need to earn a living. Cohncillor Sehnarr (who has made this by-law her personal crusade), and one was the City's by-lew clerk who drafted the original, unac- ceptable version. In my view several of these persons had a possible amfliet of interest and, overall, the committee certainly was not repre sentative of Waterloo residents "at large". Thus, the independence of the review commit tee seems questionable. Those Councillors who have argued in favor of this bylaw have been either unable or unwilling to present factual data in support of theallegainmsdforthumeatrureThe"justirr cations” pneented to Council by both City staff and Councillors have been haaed largely on misunderstanding of the important issue concerning animal "amtrol" in an urban environment. Therefore, it is indeed regrctt able that the Chronicle’s frontpage story on May 4 missed the opportunity to inform; rather it merely has added to the considerable amount of confusion and lack of common aenee that have characterized the discussions to date. C.W. Robinaon Waterloo, Ont. amtpartysellknownfrrritaperrtittdtaring and retirement plan. It seemed that all their people amid talk about was when they could retire with all that money. None of them seemed smart enough to realize that the purpose of life and work is not to retire, any morethenthepurposeofretiringistositand stare at a big bundle of money. wadphmdhmnmnndlombthom tdthitr adult dignity by continuum like children. Dr.hekpointsotstthatinhisomtlitWutts, bah-WM uns-tinet, wean 1t'trgainomrtmrgoaltrandhuman values by convincing oumelmrtltatree're getting some pick their lifework because some company tdhraabetterpmtitonplanortnoreecurity, tltenthisamntrywillheirobadway. Imtternherdoingaatnstltingjthtora The problem is, no one is buying his cheap grab for voter sympathy and popularity, especially since it seems to be coming at the expense of his wife. With the Liberals self. destructing, he no doubt in his magnificent miscalculating manner viewed the incident as an opportunity to kayo the NDP as well and re-affirm his position as king of the castle. All he has really done, however, is capture the Exaggerator of the Week award from this corner. I came a close second. Oh yes, I can't very well whistle The Chin Ike-ofthe-mont-mam- in the Watch» anasat and of our 'at"""""'""'?""'"""" Asdt-tlt,mmlrar-kgtitmtm dtas'turotktitir0ttsmqtmthragtttotat ,qeisstthmth-r.8taitet_mtt hwummmpquw As the Canadian public has come to expect, Mulroney made the big play to make the incident a national crime, and has since portrayed Mila's attacker as Paul Bunyan- like, impaling his wife with a chopped off Douglas Fir tree, He has blasted the NDP and organized labor for contributing directly or indirectly to the angry mob scene, and vowed that Canadians will not tolerate “anarchy and violence." atiiittykiiilitru-t'ttatt when elbowed in the stomach. quite possibly by security personnel in the PM’s entourage. Well heck, if you were suffering sagging fortunes at the polls virtually since the day you were installed as PM, which of those two scenarios would you want to believe? Finally. We have discovered something PrimeMitt'uterBriartMtttrttttereartdtill. Itman,doyour_indit"hilarious" Idotheny Mulrmteramtinumtoearryon ahouttlteineidmttmoeethantimsekagoin MimetmtwltemltiswifeMil-ttauntip during: trade union demonstration? Initial reports indicated Mila was assaulted by aplaeard<arrring demonstrator, but Mila WI!” later amhmied she was only winded I'm first runner-up 'That's Life' Rick Campbell mmmmvmv 1..1--Pm7 OK?" Shhhhhhh. It was Actually one 14 hour day and two 10 hour days. No one else has to know, though. misathe best round of my life by one shot. Or the other day, when someone told me I had a lot of bloody nerve missing his meeting because I was needed on the golf course. "Listen, I just came off working three 16 hour days, friend, don't put the heat on me, ,rhiehttmtallyt-rtmrdttguarlttittmin Att-rl-r-ts-thot-ttstr' mammotmnmhm 1ttr-,tttsttlttrtrttat-lt-udetar. tttiaohktiiurgiritttlt-Hhthettr 'tatur,t-eatthrtttaatattstlott&rtakittg iomllr-tt,-ttteqautt!t tghriagthittttrttttterrttmt thatrthieh "Rey, Ger," I said, nipping into the offiee early Friday morning. “Smked in a 30-footcr on 18 yesterday forabirdtogive men 74, beat round of my life." Actually, I choked and threeputted on the 18th hole to shoot 74 and Then the storm hit Sunday night, "Yeh," I told a guy at work Monday, "and you should have seen it in Toronto. Blackest sky I've ever seen, auA be sure but we think a funnel touched down, too." Of course it did. In Shelburne, about 50 miles away. for mounting without admitting that I tttruth-ttester-toat-e-teh thing: I little, (has up locum, embellish tlteoddaneabte. Yikiitttlt-treekaltmeIeanthinkof atuunurotgituatiomwhereItoldthetruth andthenaome. And of course, when I heard a good friend was moving back to the area, and had bought a house in Beechwood West...“Yeh, well, we've finished all the upgrades in our house too, and I spent the winter putting in the second bathroom, and we subdivided the family room into ofNe space and we'll be putting a deck in soon, once the professional landscaping. is finished." Translation, we wallpapered a room, my brother-in-law built our owe in a day, a plumber put in our second bathroom, and I noticed when cutting the grass that the sod’s dead beside the house and I better cover it up with something. So you see, Mr. Mulroney doesn’t have the market cornered when it comes to exaggera- tion. Oh, wait a minute, let me correct myself, it was my wife who wallpapered the room. Forget to mention that, and N be getting more than the wind knocked out of me. Get well soon, Mile.