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Chronicle ES On our side Environment minister Jim Bradiey was in town last week tohelp Waterioo kick off its Blue Box recycling program. Page 3 Who‘s calling? Southpaw pitcher Frank Marsden is mowing down Interâ€"County Major Baseball League batters â€" and better yet, the 18â€" yearâ€"old is doing it in a Waterloo Tiger uniform. Page 33 Potential Waterioo riding Liberal nominee John Roberts conducts a local phone poll to survey his popularity before committing to the race. Page 3 Minnie Norman, at the centre of last year‘s Granny Flat controversy in Colonia! Acres, passed away last week a year after moving into her fiat. Page 5 Opinion .......... Comment ........ Feature ........... Community ..... Entertainment . Business Week Inserts delivered with tonight‘s Chroniâ€" cle: City of Waterloo Recreation Guide, Canadian Tire, Dutch Boy/Pro Hardâ€" ware*, Party Time*, Mary Poppins Chimâ€" ney Sweeping*, Copps Buildâ€"all*, Little Caesar‘s*. *Selected areas only. Classified noliced thet he had no headlights and was *I‘“*nh&wh“ "4 picked him up just past the Milky Way when I es en enenenen esns se s s s s s o s Wednesday. J 10 18 31 lan Kirkby Chronicle Statf Waterloo cat lovers defeated a proposed city byâ€"law Monday when Coun. Mary Jane Mewhinney reversed her previous support of regulating the animals. Voting for the byâ€"law were Coun. John Shortreed, Bob Henry and Dorothy Schnarr. Opposed were Coun. Mewhinney, Andrew Telegdi, Lynne Woolstencroft and Brian Turnbull. Coun. Jim Erb, who had previously supported regulation was absent. Mayor Marjorie Carroll did not cast a vote. Carrol} had originally supported a byâ€"law, but reversed her position at the May 2 meeting of council where council voted 5â€"4 for a regulation requiring owners to stop their cats from trespassing on private property . When on public property, the cats would have had to wear a harness. No identification tag or collar would have been required, and cats would not have had to be vaccinated against rabies. Monday‘s meeting of council would ordinarily have seen the byâ€"law receive first, second, third and final reading. Instead, discussion was opened on the appropriateness of regulating cats. Council heard from catâ€"owner David Russell, who is employed as an assistant crown attorney. In a humorous presentation, Russell told council, "It‘s ironic that you‘re voting on this motion just prior to the mounting of the Cats (musical) production." Russell said he had checked with people working in the judicial system and "nobody knows of a single case where the (Kitchener pet control) byâ€"law has been enforced. "I don‘t think any law should be passed which is not going to attract Jim Kotsopoulos, of Texas Barâ€"Bâ€"Q in the Waterioo Town Square, checks Rangers‘ Andy Bernhardt in an exhibition electric wheelchair hockey match Friday as part of Accessâ€"Ability week activities. An open house and wellâ€"publicized media biitz were part of the strategy to make the public aware of the week‘s Proposed cat bylaw scratched Dizzy council finally decides to bury issue MAKING A PLAY public respect and is not going to be enforced." 4 He warned that it could "set one neighbor against another", and such personal matters are better handled through mediation than through the court system. Council was also presented with a petition opposing the byâ€"law. Carroll said the byâ€"law should receive routine endorsement, as it was a formality. The real debate had already taken place, she said. Woolstencroft disagreed. "The reason in democratic history for first second and third readings is so you can stop, at some point, something from being passed." Mewhinney, in introducing a motion to open discussion, suggested a "sunset clause" which would treat older cats differently as they might be more difficult to train. Woolstencroft responded that cats "don‘t carry birth certificates." An attempt by Shortreed to have the motion deferred to full council was defeated. "If we‘re going to have people come in with staged questions and staged answers, we should at least wait until we have a full council," Council can "debate this forever," said Henry. "At some point you have to make some kind of decision." Mewhinney later said she changed her vote because she was "not quite comfortable with the total byâ€"law. I wanted to step back and look at it again. "It gives us some opportunity to communicate with the Humane Society and maybe try coming at it from a different route." round Comm eWsDa d U lsobel Lawson photo