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g‘sense of the senseless When asked by a reporter for comment on the collapse of the IRA truce and the resumption of the bombings in London, that killed and injured many, Mr. Adams stated that while he could not condone the bombings, he would not condemn them either. The next day, Gerry Adams was feted at a St. Patrick‘s Day banquet orees at this annual gala have included Harry Truman and Robert Kennedy. A good Irish Catholic, Gerry Adams also attended mass at St. Patricks Cathedral and received communion from the highest ranking Catholic clergyman in New York, Cardinal John O‘Connor. 1 am still struggling to make sense of the senseless. as an honored guest. Sullscathngbrmw‘,lundlohm news in time to catch a confident, smiling face staring back at me from the screen. The smile belonged to Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the IRA. He was walking down New York‘s Filth MnucmlhcmdSthick‘sDaypthwlmtltvmm l__*] less? How can you cull insight from that which has no civilized meaning? Those were the questions that 1 asked myself last week as 1 thought about the awful happenings in Dunblane. When acts of terrorism occur they tear at our souls and scream at our intellect, appealing for explanation. A bombedâ€"out day care centre in the heart of the U.S. Midwest. Teenage girls caught in the shrapnel of an explosion outside a busy Israch shopping mall. The 18â€"yearâ€"old son shot outside his Florida hotel while phoning home to his mother. But as the town counsellor in Dunblane said minutes after the disâ€" covery of the horror, "You can‘t legislate against bad people." Other than locking our children forever in their rooms, we as parents have no recourse but to take the leap to faith that they will remain untouched â€" that they will be safe. Like many other parents the world over, we tuck them into their beds each and every night with a thankful prayer that we are so lucky. "What‘s up?" | asked. "Nothing", he answered, "I just wanted to make sure that everybody was safe." it was a fair question. He had just heard the numbing news of the ragedy in Dunblane, that an entire kindergarten class and their teacher had been fired upon in the school‘s gymnasium. He was callâ€" ing simply to hear our voices and be reassured that all was well. it was. To be safe is the one thing that we want most for our children and sadly, the one thing that we cannot absolutely guarantee. We can coddle them, overprotect them to the point of smothering, but ultiâ€" mately there comes a time when we have to let go. | hadn‘t heard the news. 1 was in the midst of a March break frenzy with a band of threeâ€"foot crazed snack marauders when the telephone rang, Jangled, | lunged for the receiver to hear the slighily agitated voice of their Father Waterloo Town Square 75 King St. South, Suite 201 N2J 1P2 #1m by the window on my tiptoes staring intently at the crosswalk until my chilâ€" dren are across. The granting of their freedom away from my watchful eye is a painful evolution for me, even though I know it is a critical and necâ€" essary one for them. Last week‘s events proved that the worst can happen even to the most diligent. Nothing could be safer than gymâ€"time for the kinderâ€" garten class, and yet it wasn‘t How do you make sense of the senseâ€" L am one of those parents who stands 12> / mo#i Tim Gardner (Sports Editor) Hamilton yacketyâ€"yack did. Theres one fly in the ointment though. The three cities have a total of five downtowns so Wor you can‘t expect them to be thronged in equal Offhand, you‘d have to expect Kitchener‘s downtown to be d!bcmwhchmusdmmluvclobewyofcfifidzhg the participants as looking odd. Omuthevddmlookingwiflbcdnday.by&y dcnizaa,dnwfl:i‘eymumbliglud\tmindn& A"Yfmifllbtgulosal(ilchatrsmapinb\mhng Wilhpmpk.hulwfin'lpflbfsmnl:aguson‘mn. Kitchener councillor sees the day as "a chance to showcase the community." .. 1 wouldn‘t call it a showcase. No, not with businesses closed, dzdowmwnmfiqflhwmmmiu ohâ€"soâ€"high skyscrapers echoing to their rants. And, say, I didn‘t know that high school teachers can attend without penalty; Under their contract, members of OSSTF are Natch, I‘m talking about the oneâ€"day protest the unions and sundry other rabble rousers will be holding in Kâ€"W and Cambridge on April 19. It‘s only one day, a Friday, so you‘d hardly expect it to draw the crowd the term as mayor. It‘s because 1 think it‘s his last. Welcome Mat: it has a quaint appeal, one akin to having all Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge folks having a root canal at the Chalk up Richard Christy as accidentâ€"prone. He tumbles over such trivia as a $5,500 state dinner for Lord Kitchener and sister, over icy sidewalks at his home, and now over a hushâ€"hush, topâ€"secret, burnâ€"beforeâ€"reading $1,700 trip to Boston last summer. That‘s a fair tab for a trip to Boston, but I won‘t pursue the point. No, this time I‘ll not offer a word of criticism. Not a No easy job to protest in h We And, no, its not because this is Christy‘s first The Waterioo Chronicle is p4 75 King St. S., Suite 240 Holiday Inn Dr., Unit F $45 )utly in Canada. A Cambridge, On. $90 yearly outside Canada. N3C 3X4 * *OGSTL * The views of our columnists are Mm-flbflmwj the views of the newspaper. Cnatife k Waterioo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Green Stuff: Kitchener council decides on Monday what it will do about its celebrated bowling greens, and, as I‘ve writien before, the MB whole project should be abandoned and tht . bowling club left at Rockway. n In the doing, council would establish that it â€" doesn‘t take dictation and its direction from . mgmpmainel : Parks arid rec, as many . of us have long susâ€" . As a mater of fact, council could resoive that, mmummm-wwm.m@ cityâ€"owned golf courses, Rockway and Valley, be sold. _ A taxpayer might ask why a city should own a golf course at dl.habmmdmmdm.duulmdmbj why the city should subsidize golfers at a substantial real cost. . The two courses are worth tens of millions, but they pay & paitry return to the city each year. If you guessed in the mighty | M . low five figures, you might be close to correct $ For too long parks and rec tail has waved the cityâ€"council . dog, and one way for city council to assert itself is to torpedd . $ Our councils are just like the rest of us â€" they‘re spending . more money than they have. The only difference is they don‘t . have to pay taxes first. < 6 Ts The Fairway Group 240 Holiday Inn Dr., Unit F N3C 3X4 + International Standard Serial es t Apparently assorted holidays,; Christmas vacation, the March break and two months off in the summer aren‘t always. M enough to restore their mental composure. 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