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(Continued from page 1) cost $33,000 to construct a sidewalk on the south side of Forestlawn Road from Meadowwvale Drive to 250 metres east of Meadowwvale Drive. Coun. Rob Brown moved that council approve the sideâ€" walk construction as recommended by City staff, and that, as is usual under the Local Improvement Act, the city and residents split the cost of the construction 55 per cent/45 Lexington Ward Coun. Bruce McKenty voted against Brown‘s motion, only because he felt the City should pay the entire cost of the sidewalk construction. He agreed that sidewalks were necessary to ensure the safety of school children, but said that if the school were not there, the sidewalks would not be going in and therefore residents shouldn‘t have to contribute any of the construction costs. He said in proposing that the City cover the entire cost, a compromise might have been reached and the residents could well have withdrawn their objections. Without resiâ€" dents‘ objections, an OMB hearing would not be necessary, and the sidewalks would be constructed by September. Similarly, Coun. Susan Forwell supported the construcâ€" tion of the sidewalks, but suggested the City and residents split the construction costs 75/25 per cent respectively, and voted against Brown‘s motion on that principle. Councillors Bill Butler and Craig Hoddle also voted against Brown‘s motion. While the motion was supported by the majority of councillors, it did not receive a twoâ€"thirds majority, as is required under the Local Improvement Act. Puzzled about what steps to take next, council asked staff to compile a list of possible options and report back at the July 20 meeting. Of the eight options staff offered at last Wednesday‘s meeting, council chose to reconsider Brown‘s original motion. Forwell changed her vote in favor, and the motion passed with a twoâ€"thirds majority. Now council can submit it‘s proposal, along with residents‘ objection, to the OMB for approval. Council‘s decision, and the steps it took to come to it, have left Forestlawn Road resident Abe Theissen frusâ€" trated and disappointed. "This was quite a lesson in poliâ€" tics for me," Theissen said. "This is the first time I‘ve ever been involved in a Local Improvement issue such as this. But the thing that struck my mind was the word ‘improvement‘. Normally, one would think that the service put in would be seen as an improvement for the people who are going to be asked to pay for it. But the people along here, who are going to have to pay this considerable amount of money, don‘t see this as Sidewalks an improvement." *Service: We Believe In It" 747â€"2040 The overall real estate market remains optimistic as interest rates edge down and the economy remains strong. The announcement The warm weather and blue skies have many home buyers out enjoying weekend open houses as our summer rolls along. The sale of homes on the MLS system has slaved somewhat from the same month last year. There have been 149 sales in July this year while last year had 201 sales. Waterloo has had 52 sales while last year there were 61, so just a slight drop. Sales of homes over $200,000 have dropped slightly from 14 last year to 11 this Coffee drinkers get their fix despite increasing prices Chronicle Special ith all the laughter and good cheer around, you would have had a hard time believing it was a conâ€" struction site where hard labor was being done. Last week, 122 skilled, semiâ€"skilled and unskilled volunâ€" teers set about building a house on Daniel Avenue in Kitchâ€" ener for Makram and Afaf Gobran and their four children. It was all a part of Habitat for Humanity‘s "Ed Shreyer Homes Across Canada Tour," which included the building of 14 homes througbout Canada for families in need. But regardless of the enormous task before the volunteers â€" constructing a house in five days â€" they seemed to be havâ€" ing a ball. One of those enjoyâ€" MAKING A ing themselves was ‘A giant Lego set and a dirt pile‘ Although the increased cost of Colombian coffee beans has caused ripâ€" ples of higher prices at many local cofâ€" fee shops, it hasn‘t deterred coffee While buying a cup of coffee costs about five cents more at many area cofâ€" fee shops, local owners and managers say the increase hasn‘t hurt sales. "Most people knew that the price was going to go up, so they weren‘t upset about the increase," said University Avenue Tim Horton Donuts assistant manager Susan Calberry. "Our prices went up in June and for about the first week we got comments about us raising the prices, but most people had heard about the frost (in Colombia), so they knew it (increase) was just a matter of time. Habitat for Humanity project as much fun as work WATERLOO REAL ESTATE UPDATE One of those enjoyâ€" ing themselves was Waterloo‘s Margaret Voelker. "This is the adult version of summer "People need their coffee in the mornâ€" ing and there‘s no way that they‘re going to stop over a nickel increase." Rui Goulart, manager of Timothy‘s Coffees of the World at Westmount Place, also had to raise the price of his small and medium cups of coffee by a nickel, but doesn‘t believe it has affected his sales. "A nickel wasn‘t such a big increase. I think that many of them expected it to be a larger increase." One of the smaller coffee/donut shop chains that hasn‘t increased its price for a cup of coffee is the Donut Queen. group and I think we used pretty good foresight at the beginning of the year and I believe we protected ourselves for a while," said Donut Queen coâ€"owner Allan Asmussen. "I guess you could say "The customers have accepted the "We‘re connected with a buying for the Quebec election has many people wondering what the results will be and how they will affect us. The one thing we do know is that whether Quebec is in or out what we have in Waterloo will change very little and Waterloo will continue to be a great place to live, raise a family and grow old. The downtown Waterloo scene will certainly get a make over if Seagrams is successful in their plans. One can only hope that what they have n the plans will someday be life size. Hope everyone is having a great summer. Ted Scharf, Broker. 747â€"2040. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1994 â€" PAGE . Margaret Voelker and John Bigelow were two of 122 peoâ€" ple working on a Daniel Street house built by Habitat tor ness. It‘s yours for free until your kids are through with high school," recalls Voelker It is because of this experience that Voelker says she has become involved in Habitat for Humanity. She shares Habs tat‘s belief in a family‘s essential need to own their own Voelker got involved in Habitat for Humanity in 1989 and has been involved in each of the 16 projects the organization has undertaken locally. Known as "the Paint Lady" by fellow volunteers, Voelker uses her knowâ€"how in interior design in her role on the Habiâ€" tat building committee. She is responsible for material selecâ€" tion and gives interior design workshops to the recipient families once their houses have been built. She also gets her hands dirty working on the paint crews for the various builds and does offâ€"site painting of doors, frames and baseboards before construction even begins "I work on all the stuff that makes it look pretty," she says with a grin. that we got lucky, so we decided to pass the savings on to the customer." According to Asmussen, the price of Colombian beans will jump sharply by August, further affecting the cost of a cup of coffee. Although his four stores insulated themselves from the last round of increases, he knows that a sigâ€" nificant hike is just around the corner "This increase will be as much as the previous three. Looking at from the beginning of August, we‘re looking at about a 50 per cent increase at the wholesale level," Asmussen added that the big compaâ€" nies doing the coffee bean buying are watching the markets to see what will happen. Either it will carry on and go higher, or too many speculators will get involved and the price may bounce around at the higher level "By September it will gotten even (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 5)