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The event will give Waterloo residents an opportunity to meet City staff and council members, and to learn about services the City provides. The mall will be filled with informational booths from various departments of the City, and staff will be available to answer questions. The event kicks off Friday with a "Community Welcome Reception" from 5 to 7 p.m., and continues Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The City of Waterloo is inviting local residents to attend an information fair, Oct. 20 and 21 at Waterloo Town Square. Chris Green, chief executive officer of English Heritage, will visit Canada this week to speak to a heritage conference sponâ€" sored by the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation. The conference, "Beyond Survival: Heritage Partners for Sucâ€" cess", will be held Oct. 21 at the Kitchener public library and is expected to draw more than 200 participants from across southâ€" ern Ontario. As CEO of English Heritage, Green heads the organization that is responsible for more than 500 historic sites in England, includâ€" ing Stonehenge, Dover Castle, and Queen Victoria‘s Osborne House. Green will speak twice to the conference, once on "The Work of English Heritage" and also on "Marketing and Fundrais ing Methods of English Heritage." Registration fee for the conference is $10 (lunch included). Registration forms can be obtained at all area libraries, or by conâ€" tacting Debbie Shantz at 575â€"4500, ext. 3036. Green‘s visit to Canada has been made possible through the assistance of British Airways and Fairway Group community newspapers: the Waterloo Chronicle, Kitchener This Week, the Cambridge Times, the Guelph Tribune, and the New Hamburg Independent. City of Waterloo hosts information fair "Service: We Believe In It" 7A47â€"2040 KEWS DIG6EST Head of English Heritage to address regional conference PiGk 3 The beautiful fall days of October have warmed up the home buying market. The Oktoberfest crowd has headed for home with another very successful fest behind them. The whole country is poised to learn the results of the referendum in Quebec. The local housing market seems to have picked up a bit in October as buyers move to take advantage of low interest rates and prices. There have been 111 sales of homes on the local M.L.S. system in this area. The median priced home is the middle of the pack home with half of sales above and half below. The median home price is $126,000 which shows us that first time buyers and starter home purchases continue to fuel the market. There were 33 homes sold over $150,000 with 11 of those homes over $200,000. The _ "There certainly is not a consensus on the issue and we really weren‘t expecting one." In October, 1994 only 28 per cent of motorists travelling along Lincoln Road between Marshall Street and Margaret Avenue "There was every viewpoint represented," the city official said "People want them to stay, people want them out, some people prefer just one or two as opposed to three Some traffic statistics revealed at the Oct. 10 meeting showed the stop signs have indeed had an effect on traffic since they were Eichinger said although most of the 100â€"110 people who attended the Oct. 10 meeting were against roundabouts, the disâ€" cussion seemed to centre on whether the three stop signs on Linâ€" coln Road should be removed or retained Monday‘s accident simulation involved the Waterloo fire department, the Waterloo regional police, Waterloo Heartsave, WLU security, Waterloo Ambulance and a local wrecking and towing company. It d;picm'i a twoâ€"car accident caused by an impaired driver in one of the cars (in this case, WLU student union president, Scott Roundabouts They set up a fake automobile accident, complete with injuries, on campus. And they didn‘t tell the student population it was fake. BACCHUS Laurier coordinator, Craig Molfat, said Monday BACCHUS set up the simulated accident without telling students anything about it in order to arouse students‘ curiosity about drinking and driving. BACCHUS Laurier is the alcohol awareness program at WLU and is composed entirely of WLU students. BACCHUS Laurier chose an interesting way to kick off National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Monday morning at Wilfrid Laurier University. Simulated crash to deter drunk driving WATERLOO REAL ESTATE UPDATE The end of Oktoberfest seems like the doormat for cold weather and winter I‘d sure like to see an Indian Summer but who can complain about the great weather we‘ve had. I‘m heading north this weekend to Sudbury to see the folks, check the igloo and feed the sled dogs. It‘s no wonder the Americans think we snow ski all year long. market continues to show a potential to become stronger but the uncertainty of Quebec and its effect on interest rates is still a grey cloud over the economy. The outcome whatever it will be will certainly be welcomed by our industry so we can deal in fact and not possibility. Have a great fall and remember when you think real estate think Scharf Realty. For all your real estate needs call Ted Scharf. Broker 747â€"2040. (Continued from page 1) Eichinger said people who attended the Oct. 10 meeting were able to pick up questionnaire and comments sheets regarding the stop sign issue and had until Oct. 24 to return them. He said he would start prepaning a report and a recommendation for council after reading over the comments. The city official said he hoped the matter would come before council in late November or early December Traffic volume along Lincoln Road also dropped significant‘ after the three stop signs were erected. Daily traffic along Lincoln Road at the Margaret Avenue intersection alone plunged from 6,500 vehicles in October, 1994 to 5,000 vehicles in September 1995. adhered to the 50 kmvht speed limit. However in the summer of 1995, 84 per cent adhered to the speed limit Officers on regular patrol laid 33 other drinking and driving charges this year between Oct. 6â€"14, Chipman said In other drinking and driving news, Sgt. Bill Chipman of the Waterloo regional police said Monday officers with the Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) program laid 22 dninking and driving charges this year during Oktoberfest. 1995 (Oct. 6 14). That compares with 26 such charges laid during last vears Oktoberfest, he said. The RIDE program checked 5,325 vehicles dunng this vears festival compared with 5,324 in 1994 One woman in the second car ‘died‘ in the accident partly because she wasn‘t wearing a seat belt. A second woman, who was wearing a seat belt, suffered serious but not lifeâ€"threatening injuries. National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week continues at Lau rier until Friday. McCormick, who was ‘arrested")