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*Service: We Believe in It" On Friday, the Kâ€"W Sexual Assault Support Centre will present a dayâ€"long workshop for women who were sexually assaulted as teens or adults. The free workshop, held from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., is being offered in Cambridge, but transportation is available for Waterloo Region women. For more information, call Laurieâ€"Ann at 571â€"0121. From 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, Anselma House Public Educaâ€" tion Committee presents a public education forum entitled "The Costs of Violence" in Mt. Zion Lutheran Church‘s Felâ€" lowship Room. Call Cheryl at 741â€"9184 for more informaâ€" tion. Faith Nolan and the Woman to Woman Choir will perform an International Women‘s Day concert tonight at 7:30 in Guelph. For location and ticket information, call 519â€"836â€"1110. "Equity Between Man and Woman", a disâ€" cussion by members of the Baha‘i faith, will be held tonight at 7:30 at 91 King St. N. (884â€"5907), and "Chinese Medicine and Shiatâ€"su", a talk and handsâ€"on workshop for women only will be held at 8 p.m. Call the University of Waterloo Women‘s Centre for location and other information. Activities in celebration of International Women‘s Day (March 8) are being held across Waterloo Region tonight and throughout the remainder of the week. those with tickets. For régistration information, call 885â€" 1211, ext. 2447. Women‘s Day events held throughout region Visitors will see model buildings sinking in quicksand, fire temperatures being measured with lasers, and the destruction of pollutants with light. Among the displays will be solarâ€"powered robots, a solarâ€"powered car, concrete toboggans, and wind tunnel models of buildings and airâ€" "Exploration ‘95", hosted by undergraduates of UW‘s Facâ€" ulty of Engineering, offers oneâ€"hour tours, giving a glimpse of engineering to students in Grades 5 through 8. Approxiâ€" mately 1,400 students and parents are expected to attend the freeâ€"admission event. Tours begin at 12:30 p.m. Elementary school children and their parents are being invited to discover the world of engineering at the Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo this Saturday (March 11). Children invited to discover engineering at UW News Digest To avoid overcrowding, attendance will be limited to Traffic Talk, provided by the City of Waterloo pubâ€" lic works department, answers common questions about Waterloo‘s roads. If you have a question you‘d like answered, call Christine Koehler at 747â€"8747. You may not park: * on or overhanging the sidewalk or curb, * within an intersection, * within three metres of a fire hydrant, * within 1.5 metres of a driveway, * within nine metres of an intersecting drive way, * on any roadway for longer than three consecutive hours, * on any roadway between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. * within 15 metres either side of a designated bus stop. What are some of the City‘s parking regulaâ€" tions? 747â€"2040 Part of the reason for the heavy use of the garage is the success of an agreement between the Uptown Business Improvement Area (BIA) and the city that allows many peoâ€" ple who work in the area to park for $2 per day. Eichinger said the city has sold close to 40 of these special permits to The top four floors in the parkade are reserved for employâ€" ees at Waterloo Region‘s Health and Social Services building at Regina and William Streets. In January, revenues from the sixâ€"storey, $7â€"million municipal parking garage were up 85 per cent from January 1994, while February numbers were rose 35 per cent. Currently, the garage is taking in close to $5,000 per week from use of the 149 public spaces on the first two floors, city engineer Paul Eichinger said. Drivers get a $10 ticket for parking at the town square for more than two hours, Rather than risking parking too long at the mall, some drivers appear to be opting for the comfort of the onceâ€"deserted Uptown Parkade across King Street. "There has been a decrease in the number of tickets issued," said deputy city clerk Deborah Bricknell, and the filling of the Uptown Parkade "would have contributed to the Tom Brockelbank he steadily increasing use of the Uptown Parkade is I making money for the City of Waterloo, but costing it money in tickets issued at the Waterloo Town Square parking lot, say city staff. Chronicle Staff Uptomm Parkade getting a little too popular Through the prografil, vehicle owners fill out registration forms and are given reflective C.A.T. rear window decals. The decals indicate to police that particular vehicles are not In the year and a half that C.A.T. has been operating in British Columbia, only one of the 32,000 vehicles registered through the program has been stolen, said Const. John Hallâ€" iday of the Waterloo regional police service. Combat Auto Theft (C.A.T), a joint venture between the Canadian Automobile Association, local police departments, and Crime Prevention Ontario, has proven extremely effecâ€" tive in other parts of Canada and the U.S. A program is being launched throughout Ontario this month that could greatly reduce your chances of falling vicâ€" tim to auto theft. Chronicle Staff Decal program deters auto theft WATERLOO REAL ESTATE UPDATE If you would like to have your homes value established of if you‘d like information on bome» for sale, please call Scharf Realty and T‘ have one of my team talk to vou The Federal budget contained few surprises. The cuts to some program» and the reduction of government staff was expected and unfortunately needed. We can all hope that those afferted people will be able to find work in the private sector and will not become dependent on our social net | do believe we need a strong social net for those people who are unahle to find work for if there is no where to turn then some will turn to crime. 1‘d rather pay more for social requirements than to constantly be hiring more police and paying higher insurance rates. The positive acceptance of the budget by most people should translate into a stronger economy and more home sales in March / a traditionally good month under €100,000 with about 350 homes available. Over £100,000 to £1530.000 then ary ahout 850 homes on the market. So for first time home buvers and move up buvers there remains an excelient WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MARCH & 1995 PAGE 3 Eichinger said that practice was discontinued when a number of region employees were taking advantage of the more convenient parking on the first and second floors Nevâ€" ertheless, the gates were up again several days last week "We lose a bit of control by lifting the gates, but we go on the honor system and the guard has a good idea if the regional people are on the second floor," Eichinger said Last year staff actually kept the entrance gate up for the busiest 15â€"minute period of each morning and afternoun to reduce the long lineups that often stretch around the corner on to Regina Street. Despite a successful winter, Eichinger is looking forwarc to the warmer weather to ease some of the technical difficulâ€" ties with the parkade gates, which sometmes remain open or closed for no apparent reason "I know the gates act up more when it‘s cool All through out the summer they were great. As soon as it got cold. there were glitches," Eichinger said Eichinger‘s department is now handing surveys out to pecâ€" ple who occasionally park in the parkade, "to get a bit of a feel for what kind of customers we‘re drawing into the parkade." Permit holders are also being surveved to find out what they like and dislike about the facility "It‘s a lot busier than it was. We‘re recovenng the operat ing costs of the bottorn two floors of the parkade $50.000 pe year) with the revenues that come in But we stull have th capital debt to pay off as well ($375.000 a vear for 10 vear~ We‘re certainly not covering those costs" uptown businesses â€" up from 30 at ths trime last yvear Const. Halliday will be at Conestoga Mall in Waterloo tomorrow (March 9) to answer questions about the program and to hand out registration forms. He will also have on dis play a 1995 Chevrolet Caprice police cruiser, fully equipped with the latest in law enforcement technology "Just show driver‘s licence, ownership and insurance." Hal liday said. "If they all match up, you‘re on your way â€" have a good night. If they don‘t, then we‘re going to have to talk a little bit more." Registration for the program is free of charge. and forms are available at your local C.A.A. office normally driven between the hours of 1 a.m. and 5 a.m If. between those hours, a police officer observes a vehicle disâ€" playing a C.A.T. decal, he or she is authorized to make an investigative traffic stop to determine if the drver is legally in possession of the vehicle. TAsimlo.te hn 56 ST GEORGE‘S SQUARE GUFLPH #21.%08, 8 KING STREET EAST. KITCHENER "a5.505 KnaR JEWELLERY Entertainer Dinah Christie (centre) Casa Nina owner Dale Decker (left) and Susan Frimâ€" Kachik, checks out the menu at the Chef‘s Gourmet and all that Jazz Evening Monday night at the Seagram Museum. The event, which featured the food from 12 of the areas top chefs as well as a silent aucâ€" tion, raised money for Big Sisâ€" ters and Best Friends of Big Sisters. PLL START WITH THE .