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The St. Louis Adult Learning Centre is in a desperate need of new parking space. As a student of this school, I know the problems we are facing every morning and evening with parking our cars. There are twentyâ€"eight parking spaces available for students and staff in the church parking lot. Obviously this is not enough to accommodate everyone. The Waterloo Separate School Board is offering a great service and opportunity for adulits of all ages to help in upgrading and finding better jobs. In my view, this important service cannot be overlooked. After reading your article, " ‘Insensitive‘ treeâ€"chopping," in your April 20/88 issue, I get the impression that the Maryâ€"Allen Neighborâ€" hood Association is not looking very realisticalâ€" ly at the problem of creating a new parking area. The school board wants to compromise with the area residents, but they won‘t accept any settlement. Mr. Shalinsky‘s statement ‘We want it all as a park‘ is very selfish. They are talking about~ ‘insensitive‘ treeâ€"chopping, I am talking about being insensitive to other people‘s needs. There is always room for dialogue and reaching some understanding and satisfying both parties Maryâ€"Allen group insensitive involved in this conflict. The school board has shown willingness to compromise by offering to use only a portion of the green belt as a parking area. I can‘t say the same about the neighborhood association! The St. Louis Adult Learning Centre, in the near future, will be offering a wider variety of courses, so we can expect even more people coming to this school. We simply need a bigger parking lot! Accusations made by some resiâ€" dents of the Maryâ€"Allen Neighborhood about The Waterloo Separate School Board as being, Comment Letters and effective voices, say the authorities. I don‘t know how they got that statistic, but almost anybody can cultivate effective speech. If you have ever heard a recording of yourself speaking, the chances are that you were surprised at what you sounded like and probably not too pleased. This is because you hear yourself speaking through the bones in your head, more than your ears. If you want to hear how you sound to others, use the old radio announcer‘s trick, pull one ear forward while cupping your hand to your mouth. You will probably want to lower your voice to a more agreeable pitch. It seems that most people speak several tones too high. If you‘re disappointed in the way you speak, Paul Mills and Bernie Roberts, veteran actors and speech coaches, suggest that you try whispering. Digest, Paul W. Kearney pointed out that more than 75 per cent of communication between one person and another is by talk, yet we are notoriously sloppy speakers. We slur and mumble, we drop letter sounds and whole syllables and seem so unsure of our coherence that we feel we must punctuate every sentence with "okay?" or "right?" just to find out if we are being understood. Many of us speak so indistinctly and unatâ€" tractively that, far from convincing our listenâ€" ers, we fail to get across any message at all. Ounly about one out of five people have pleasing Sloppy speakers Geoffrey Fellows Perspective ing in the Reader‘s When you whisper, you have to pronounce words the way you should pronounce them, forming the words properly with your mouth, feel of the mouth, tongue and lip movements so vital to clarity. Then, if you continue these same movements when speaking normally, your listeners will be surprised at the improveâ€" for arctic; reco‘nize for recognize; Trawna, for Toronto and so on. And get hold of a book called "Canajan, eh?" by Mark Orkin and laugh yourself into speaking better. Alexander Graham Bell, whose parents were both speech therapists, once wrote: "Consonâ€" ants give intelligibility to speech, but vowels give beauty and utterance. Consonants constiâ€" tute the backbone of spoken language, vowels the flesh and blood. You cannot do without either." It might also be helpful to browse through the dictionary to enlarge your vocabulary and correct pronunciation and also Roget‘s Theâ€" saurus as an aid to expressing yourself better. And if you‘re really serious about improving your speech, a tape recorder is essential to practise on and also to get that necessary playback so that you can hear how you sound to Don‘t talk too fast. Give each word its proper value and inflection And pronounce every syllable: don‘t drop consonants and say ar‘tic An inscription found in an Egyptian tomb contained this maxim: "Make yourself a craftsâ€" man in speech for thereby you shall gain the upper hand." That‘s as true today as it was 3000 years ago. Geoffrey Fellows operates the Human Reâ€" source Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, N1R 5W1, providing effectiveness training to business and industry. I hope that the neighborhood association will be more flexible and understanding in their views. I sincerely wish that everyone involved in this matter will be able to reach a mutually agreeable solution, a solution that will provide more parking space for the school and a park for the residents living in the St. Louis school neighborhood. "insensitive, deliberate and offensive", are absolutely unjust. Delivered with each blue box were two pieces of paper. One was a glossy brochure explaining what could be recycled, and how the recycling program works. The other piece of paper was a letter from Mayor Marjorie Carroll saying almost the sme as the brochure. Did we need two pieces of paper to deliver one message? Couldn‘t the mayor‘s message have been Recycling gets off to a fast start Waterloo finally got into recycling this week. One has to wonder though just how serious city council is. wasted by this needless duplication? Is it cynical to look at a letter from the mayor being delivered to every home just a few short months before the municipal elections? How many trees were sacrificed to show that the mayor is concerned about conservation? Perhaps we should use the mayor‘s letter as the first item for our blue recycling boxes. incorporated into the brochure? Ironically, neither of the papers had an indication they were made from recycled paper. How many sheets of city letterhead were Paulette Pagetto, for Concerned Students of St. Louis School % % % Waterloo, Ont. We were sitting around the table in a year in Switzerland taking grade 13. ing the return of my brotherâ€"inâ€"law after a Opening those doors "You know," said my fatherâ€"inâ€"law, "this sandwich and fries would have cost me 38 bucks in Switzerland." "dinner for two at the Pizza Hut in Switzerâ€" land is about $40." "Yeh," said his father, "the salad bar alone is about $11.95 Canadian." what. How would we survive over there? The Now, that would go a long way in easing the crunch. Compare it to our own minimum wage here in Ontario, which Labor Minister Greg Sorbara last week announced will rise from $4.55 to $4.75 in October. The same night of that restaurant conversaâ€" tion, I read an excellent piece by Marg Kasstan (a former Fairway Group coâ€"worker) in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record. Surveying some unemployed people at the Canada Employment Centre on Queen St. N. about Sorbara‘s announcement, Marg found them to be wholesally unimpressed with the numâ€" bers the minister was putting up. Some considered $6, $7 or even $8 as a decent minimum wage in our market. Some claim you would starve to death on $4.75. Others noted that working for minimum wage would be OK if you didn‘t have to support a family, or at least had someone else to help pay the bills. But the tone of the article made it abunâ€" dantly clear that many unemployed people today simply aren‘t willing to start at the bottom rung of the ladder. And so, we continue to see the service industry plagued by a shortage of workers, continue to see help wanted signs in mall store windows, and continue to see unemployed, often unskilled, answer came a moment later from the toast of the evening, the grade 13 grad. "But don‘t forget, the minimum wage over there is $10 an hour." Wow, I thought. High standard of living, or “No ‘That‘s Life Rick Campbell WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY JUNE $, 1988 â€"inâ€"law, workers virtually able to set their price in a I suppose the first question that came to my mind was whether I would work for the minimum wage of $4.75 in today‘s market. The answer, despite the fact 1 consider myself to have a healthy work ethic, did not I recall back in my high school days, my. first real partâ€"time job at the supermarket paid student minimum. Translated, 1 was making 90 cents an hour to do the dirtiest, smelliest job in the joint, cleaning up in the meat department. Never crossed my mind to even question how much 1 was being paid, however, I was just thankful to get my foot in the door, er, the bone can, as it were. And even though the job was partâ€"time, in a matter of three short years, I climbed the pay scale, took advantage of an aggressive and powerful union, and was making over $7 an hour back in 1972 â€" and was worth every penny of it in terms of loyalty, experience, and commitment to the company. Actually, I‘ve been lucky all through my career. Technically, I don‘t ever remember working for the minimum wage, though with some jobs, 70 hour work weeks were not uncommon and that equated to about $1.85 an hour sometimes. But throughout, I‘ve always held the belief that hard work and loyalty to an employer will reap just rewards. And about, say, 72 per cent of the time, such has been the case. However, I am not someone in middle management who has been shuffled out the door and is faced with supporting a family. I am not someone reâ€"entering the work force after raising a family who has no "recent experience." I am not someone with skills to offer who hasn‘t been able to click in that "first big break" department. And so, when I ask myself if I would be prepared to work for the minimum wage under those cicumâ€" stances, I‘m not sure I like what I think the answer would be. But one thing I do know. If I was young, and unskilled, but long on enthusiasm and dedicaâ€" tion, I would examine the market and be willing to offer my services in an industry or career which showed promise and room for advancement. It could take some career counselling along the way. It could take a bit of prideâ€"swallowing â€" for now. But it could also be the best move of your life. Because it is a door, and it is open.