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make any size of event successful. C For over 50 years, Kitchener Caterers has satisfied the catering needs of family & businesses throughout Ontario. Our â€"o~â€" professionals offer a complete valueâ€"added event package, from consultation and . planning, to preparation, presentation and serving. Kitchener Caterers has the expertise to x 4 der (before amalgamation) near the fastâ€"moving cars on Ira Needles Boulevard. The lovely scent of flowers drifts skyward to me. Nearby, the two parks that were once small golf courses (before passage of the law banning such ineffiâ€" cient, inequitable land use) are full of children playing soccer (baseball has been long forgotten since the major leagues folded in 1996). Moving eastward, the newly expanded Waterloo Recreation Complex can be seen, and next to it, the beautiful Lutherwood Seniors Village, which has also expanded westward onto the old Westmount Place y although several bicycles can be seen ambling down roadside paths in the west end. The west side looks different than the rest of the city â€" greener, with fish jumping in several swift, cool creeks surrounded by lush vegetation. While the street patterns look much like the rest of the city, two prominent intersections are each ringed by a superâ€" market, a school and several office buildings, while one also has an arena. Looking south, a huge grassy mound stretches from Erb Street down to what was once the Kitchener borâ€" Picture Waterloo today. Now picture the city in the year 2020. Like what you see? I wonder. = In a glider flying into time and space over the rooftops of the city, I see many more rooftops than ever before, in a wide swath reaching from Wilmot Line east right across the city to the Grand River. More than 140,000 people are down there, although most can‘t be seen because they are in their homes, earning a living by working at their computers. The rush hour traffic is correspondingly minimal, The cuts will also cripple nearly 100 other groups, including Partnership Africa Canada (one of the few global development organizations with significant input from overseas partners), 10 Days for World Development and 80 other global education centres similar to Global. It seems that global education does not fit into the government‘s new vision for foreign policy which calls for foreign aid to be distributed "to development education programs throughout Canada. Locally, the cuts could mean the closure of the Global Community Centre of Waterloo Region, which relies on the Canadian International Development Agency for 65 per cent of its modest budget. For over 20 years, Global has provided a vital serâ€" vice to the people of the region. Through the centre, students and other citizens could access a resource centre with books, periodicals, videos and curriculum material that were not available from any other local source. More than 200 people use the centre each month. Without funding from CIDA, the resource cenâ€" tre will lose the services of its librarian and may not be able to pay for space in which to operate. Global also publishes a biâ€"monthly newsletter (Global News), delivers educational programs to schools, university‘s churches and community groups, produces a community radio program and offers supâ€" port and meeting space to local community members raising awareness about injustices in countries such as Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. It has a fullâ€"time staff of four (all of whom now face layoff at the end of the summer) and countless volunteers who contribute over a thousand hours of their time each Flying over a future Waterloo cils for international coâ€"operation and other ‘Stupid. That‘s the one word that comes to mind when I think about the Chretien government‘s deciâ€" Don‘t cut global education Comment â€"avCrers Nnas 3 family & * ) 0 . Our j valueâ€"added ion and . 4 m cand namrcarre Moving north on King Street (only burntâ€"out buildâ€" ings appear to the south, where it‘s no longer even safe to fly over), huge mobile signs dwarf Morty‘s Pub and the surrounding businesses, none of which can be seen from the street anymore. Flying east again, over the Glenridge area, cars â€" and stop signs â€" are suddenly more numerous. After a northward turn, I sail over the stillâ€"enchantâ€" ing Old Order farmlands, happy, upon landing, to know that some things never change. site. (With so much home shopping by Internet, the ‘only mall left in Waterloo, oddly, is Waterloo Town Square, now boasting a food court but still using cityâ€" owned parking while negotiations remain incomâ€" Several police vehicles can be seen gathered nearby on King Street, and several more at an apartment just off Weber to the east, indicative of the inevitable spread, a few years earlier, of Mississaugaâ€"level crimiâ€" The old health and social services building (whose function had vanished during the dark days of Preâ€" mier Harris) can be seen behind the almostâ€"finished promote sales of Canadian goods and services". [ n s eel o py This policy was adopted after a bogus "consultation "*’f?* _ TL 314 process" called the Foreign Policy Review. What it | _ _ "* * * * means is that money that once was targeted at | _ ____ @@@r® C NY p"“le :mdg giomhal ed‘"fl"dwehp’mmf m dbe'i’:fimw"g& ‘ e Standard Size Mat channelled primarily to Canadian corporations to help , â€" them develop export markets and to foreign governâ€" [BAKYAFar Y ic ments to assist them in building disastrous megaproâ€" p jects (like the Three Gorges Dam in China). The announcement of the cuts came nearly a month after the official release of the federal budget on Feb â€" [OAgik i iai(ad io ruary 27. The delay seems to be part of a deliberate OmE AucdaUE strategy to gain public acceptance for the budget prior to making the details public. Only after the budget is C â€"â€"â€" opaell off the front pages (and Paul Martin feels that the . [m==3 e ty i ree coast is clear) do the Liberals admit to the full conseâ€" [ o amunb ie en mss Infortunately, this budget cutting by stealth is not limited to funding for global education. Over the past month, Canadians have begun to get a clearer picture 5 of what the budget would mean to health care, educaâ€" * k: Abd tion and the CBC. This weekend, we heard details of plans to eliminate all federal funding for communityâ€" . \Q_L 00 ___ based job counselling. There is sure to be worse news yet. So, how do you like the federal budget now?Global â€" @ @ @OFeSY T EC Augles Tom Brockelbank Scott Piatkowski Kitchener Caterers nother View ®@we K 0 o 0o 0o Your place or ours, we are az_yba; service (519) 576â€"4250 WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1995 â€" PAGE 7 uty tm ns Te o ues S i Sm _ * WEDDINGS *« ANNIVERSARIES *« SPECIAL EVENTS 6 U ES o CTSEL OTTES ocR Fax (519) 576â€"7613 Tollâ€"free 1â€"800â€"667â€"0833 40 Shirley Avenue, Kitchener