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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 31 May 1989, p. 7

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int nluthnluins : Alins: l Siidabitiiitsliieled â€" sdecwabdill inb cians rejected a proposal (by Waterloo councillors Andrew Telegdi and Susan Forwell) to allow two days of watering every second Friday and Saturday. Forwell and Telegdi argued that hflcndn reasoned approach would give taxpayers a chance to keep &n backâ€" You Said It And while major new water sources won‘t be onâ€"stream until 1992 (when the Mannheim water recharge system kicks in), regional engineers predict watering bans this year, and next . . . Yet engineers aren‘t the only people screwing up. Waterloo regional politiâ€" Ready for a parched summer, with lawn watering bans and a feeling of helplessness as news trickles in of droughts from California to Waterloo? You‘d best get ready. Water is shaping up to be the big news story of the season. And, Waterloo. will â€"be part of that news. Largely because of miscalculation. You see, regional staff goofed when they made predictions about population growth and water requirements for Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo. And city hall based its own (rapid growth) policies on these "I hate it when it rains. It messes up my hair and makeup." Joanne McCarraher Waterloo Then there is me. Fit? Hah. It is to bellylaugh. To me, exercise is and always has been e plogy 3 n OCEE OOWR MBR hes, I get all down and de flo more so than this year, m sleek and sexy wife bounged through the front door a week ago from her YMCA fitness test. "Ask me if I‘m fit." "I don‘t have to, I know you are just from looking at you." "Ask me anyway." "Are you fit?" "‘Better believe it. In fact, on some of the tests, I scored higher than excellent. Now, I wasn‘t perfect in every test, but, yeb, I‘m fit." Let me quickly point out, Beth was not bragging. Our conversation was the end result of incredible hard work, sweat and commitment to exercise she made after giving birth to our son Jordan. Take my word for it, she is fit, and she deserves every bit of it. Comment There Every year this last week of May I get a terrible guilt feeling come over me. Why? Because it‘s National Fitness Week. Am)l I‘m not fit. I‘m not even close. d 1l}. m n Get ready for a long, hot and dry summer ° are some limits to how much I will exercise Cemewt ons un s c Kentucky Bluegrass lawns or get used to yellow. Yellow gives a lawn a more yards beautiful while possibly averting a total ban. Regional council (acting on an engineering recommendation again) decided we were too stupid to keep the dates straight. So Kitchener and Waterloo councils separately adopted the recommendation. Watch for city advertisements for deâ€" tails. Then tgere‘s Telegdi‘s otherpet peeve. Seems there‘s enough well water in the townships to delay the day when we‘ll have to drink GRAND RIVER: WATER. But a political decision made by regional council back in 1986 effecâ€" tively stopped even discussion of that possibility. _So, the smartest of us switch from > ‘‘People who can‘t drive properâ€" y." company) and realiiing TI;)Tlll-x;)-;;th";ld Don‘t get me wrong, I‘m certainly not proud of any of this, but I just don‘t have the drive I used to have to want to exercise. Hey, I consider a weightlifting session to be hoisting the golf clubs into the trunk or the baby from his crib to the change table. Therefore, knowing FitWeek was up coming, and knowing my wife is not only the picture of beauty but is now also the picture of l'it (my misery has no t Sm i s es flne. These days, I puff twice after nding over to tie my shoes. Five puffs after bringing the lawn mower cord up from the basement. And when I get home from nipping to the corner store for licorice, chips and pop, well, I‘m all out for the better part of 15 minutes. a dirty word. OK, I used to be fairly athletic and full of vinegar (I once even tried j*hoaing), but those days are long wawa ooo n sn o 1 Veronica Goodreau Kitchener City Seen lan Kirkby Rick Campbell ‘That‘s Life‘ correct that problem by suggesting concrete channels. Channels such as the one outside city centre, or the one proposed for the lower extremities of Colonial Creek. Talk about treating the symptoms, not the disease. But it all comes back to growth. Regional bureaucrats says there is no reason why growth need be slowed. surrealist quality anyway. Yet, water issues are broader than watering a lawn. As Waterloo councillor Robert Brown pointed out last week, the water we have available is directly related to how much water we retain locally. The more that drains off, the less we have to drink, shower and nourish that basil patch. And with Waterloo‘s rapid rate of growth, an ever.increasing amount of water is rushing away from us. Suburâ€" ban lawns, parking lots and roadways don‘t retain moisture the way that fields and trees do. That rapid runoff also causes spring flooding and rushing waters in our creeks after summer rains. Enter engiâ€" neers once again â€" this time rushing to "Don‘t worry, I won‘t." And so, I picked up the garden tools, put on my trusty garden gloves, tied an anchor to i s d in en in sA s wl 2. 0 lc3 stairs, what would I be like after cutting and pulling up sod, turning soil, replantâ€" ing shrubs and trees and framing and reâ€"trenching garden beds? ‘"You take it easy now" counselled Beth, the fit looking out for the unfit. "Don‘t do anything to jeopardize your (bad) back." "If we don‘t do it now, we‘ll never get it done," said Beth matterâ€"ofâ€"factly. Ugh. I was looking forward to the end result; just dreaded however the thought of exercise disguised as work. And if I was puffing comjng up one flight of §00 000 it m mm eDmed Cambridge ‘I\mf h“Rov.‘sry Run (ofi’ncigl, not icipant, you trying to kid?), but Waa also niade aware the weekend past was the last opportunity for over a month to totally redesign our front yard and garden, plans we had been talking abo_gt since the snow melted. son can do more sitâ€"ups than I can, I‘ve tried to let this week pass as inconspicuâ€" ously as possible. That lasted all of about two minutes. Not only was I mindful that duty called Sunday for the third annual ‘"Buses. I don‘t like the service and the discourteous bus drivers â€" that‘s my biggest beef." Phyllis Davidson Waterloo What really annoys you? WATERLOO CHRONICLE The normally mild and very polite Coun. Joan McKinnon didn‘t believe the information she was being given by regional staff. "I feel I‘m getting snowed," she told them. "I don‘t think I‘m getting straight answers." Who‘s running the show at region? Staff and an unelected Chairman Ken Seiling, or regional councillors (themâ€" selves not directly elected to region) They‘ve goofed on water, they‘ve goofed on sewage treatment. What‘s next â€" waste management? It‘s going to be a hot, humid. yet dry summer. Ian Kirkby is a reporter with the Waterloo Chronicle. sDomow o9 SmR PUOOe, BC T FOPwEen demanded of regional pfanners and engineérs at a special meeting with Waterloo city council Monday. "How can we be in this position and not even consider putting on brakes to growth"" "How can we possibly deal with putâ€" ting on more new houses between now and 1992 when we can‘t even service the ones we have now?," Susan Forwell We‘ll just have lawn watering bans every summer unti) at least 1992 Well, yesterday was two days from then. Sadly, from my 45â€"degree stoop, my perspective had changed. Figure it will take me to FitWeek 1990 to recover. Rick Campbell is the marketing director of the Fairway Group‘s suburban newspapers. P Ali i btond d dsA c 1 t 0 ‘"Yeh, Rick, yeh. See if you feel same way two days from now." "Not bad. (Puff, puff.) Not bad at (puff) all. You know what â€" I actually fee} good about exercising this weekend Great way to start FitWeek, no?" And you know what? I was. We both dug and spaded and planted and trimmed and watered the rest of the day and a good part of the next. I loved it Exercise, disguised as work, and I loved it. Imagine. "How you feeling?" said Beth who wasn‘t even breathing heavy after two day‘s of Islugg.i‘ng away "I‘m heading out now, Beth, to do the gardening." ‘"Yes, dear, don‘t worry, I‘m right behind you with all our new little flowers. Nothing‘s going to happen to you, you‘ll be just fine." my ankle to keep from blowing away in t.hfyilgd, and headed out terribl , WEDNESDAY MAY 31, 1989 â€" PAGE 7 the

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