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As well, the city is currently providing the equivalent of $630,000 to various sports groups in the city in the form of grantsâ€"inâ€"kind, Yeates said. That means sports groups are currently only paying 55 per cent of the actual rental costs of cityâ€"owned sports facilities. Margaret Frenette, the manager of the Thunder Bay Community Lottery Corporation, said last week the lottery corporation held its first draw in June, 1993. She said to the best of her knowledge, approximately $120,000 to help approximately 40 different charitable and nonâ€"profit groups. On top of that, it also is presently providing $73,000 to the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and $48,000 to the Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo Art Gallery. said Monday this year the city is spending Lotteries Mm County board of education trustee John Hendry has been appointed to the Ministry of Education and Training Advisory Councilen Special Education. Hendry, a trustee representing Waterloo who has for 20 years worked on behalf of children with special needs, will sit on the council to represent trustees from across the province. The purpose of the council is to advise the Minister of Eduâ€" cation and Training on matters related to the establishment and ing the identification and provision of early intervention proâ€" grams for students with special needs. During his 11 years as a trustee, Hendry has served on the board‘s special education advisory committee, with five years as its chairperson. He is a past member of the Waterloo Region Committee on Child Abuse, a current member of the Rotary Club of Waterloo, past chairperson of the Easter Seals Comâ€" miftee of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo, a volunteer trustee with the NonhWflzrlooO:ildun’annudeol,mdapmcipauin the education ministry‘s workshop on special education h g d Intwortienoctcmmcel &.wflww*wm Chronicle received first prize at the recent Association for Health Care ind Philanthropy of Canada conference in Halifax, Anyone who has ever wanted to gain The award recognizes creativity, planning and success of the.. almost instantaneous information about the hospital‘s Christmas and spring mail appeals, publications, speâ€" City of Waterloo can now do so simply by mlevm,-:dmflndodudmdum using his or her : "It‘s an honor to be recognized by our peers," says founda mcn,of\m‘;flmyw tion executive director Rob Donelson. "Our success shows the its very own site on the World Wide Web support of our generous community and the efforts of St. June 24. Mary‘s staff and many volunteers." Anyone who wants to access the informa The foundation was also recognized for its Christmas appeal tion on the web site can now do so, as long Whthl“fm*hdluffl*&%mm g'dfl}.gmmwdgm sive Care/Coronary Care Unit. The appeal was first runner up Wide Web, by simply typing in the site‘s ‘urt in the direct mail category. address, wwwoceta on.ca/citywaterloo. The St. Mary‘s foundation raises funds for patient care equipâ€" city‘s web site contains approximately 40â€"60 ment; renovations and new construction. harls namaet P infanmoution sb SLL ul IEWS D6 EST Local trustee appointed receives top honors Summer is officially here. The warm weather is welcomed after last winters long cold blasts. The economy is on its way back and the Blue Jays are winning, what more could we ask? The housing market is busy as many buyers and sellers continue to visit open houses, call on ads and browse the listings on the "net". July sales are on a pace similar to last year when our summer market eased a bit. There have been 50+ sales in town on the MLS stats in the first 9 days of July. While there hasn‘t been a large number of sales over $200,000 so far this month we are infact getting good activity in that price range so we should soon see the results. Cood news that interest rates don‘t look like they will be going up, has fuelled more optimism in the housing industry as the low (Continued from page 1) But the original intent of the alderman who set up the lottery was to get rid of the city‘s obligaâ€" tions to certain charities, Frenette said. It is curâ€" rently illegal for municipalities to directly run lotteries in Ontario, she said. At present the Thunder Bay Community Lotâ€" tery Corporation is made up of 66 members. Any Although a Thunder Bay alderman originally came up with the idea of the lottery, and the city took the initiative in setting it up, Frenetie said the lottery is now completely separate from the Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay and is run by member organizations which elect a board Thunder Bay is the only Ontario city that presently has organized a communityâ€"based lotâ€" Reid said his company began to prepare the web site for the city in June, 1995. it took the company a fair amount of time to prepare the site first because it had to define the audience the site would be aimed at, second because a lot of research and inforâ€" mationâ€"gathering was necessary and third because the company had to present the wanted to tell people what Waterioo has to offer so that if some business is looking to relocate, they‘ve got the information at their The Reid Group, Dan Reid, said in an interâ€" view the city and some University of Waterâ€" loo professors came to his company late last spring to see if the company could create a web site for the city "We looked at it as being a prime opporâ€" tunity to promote the city on a global basis," said Waterloo‘s director of information sys "From an economic standpoint, we Anyone who wants to access the informa tion on the web site can now do so, as long as they have computer access to the World Wide Web, by simply typing in the site‘s ‘urt address, wwwoceta on.ca/citywaterloo. The baucpz’duhmnbou the city The executive officer of Waterloo‘s WATERLOO REAL ESTATE UPDATE )0 spins info the Web In the past, the City of Thunder Bay was con tributing approximately $430,000 annually t« In 1993â€"1994, the lottery corporation netied $210,000 while it netted $180,000 in 1994â€"1995 In 1995â€"1996 it experienced a bad year and only brought in $75,000 Tickets are sold at approximately 100 outlets throughout the city. Four other special draws are held annually in which the prize package is much bigger group can join the lotery as long as they are also eligible, on their own, to get a lotery licence "At the moment we‘re putting out 10,000 tickâ€" ets a week at $2 each," Frenette said. "And we have a prize package every week of a grand prize of $5,000 and 10 prizes of $100 each on Wednes Under City Info, people can gain inforâ€" mation on such things as recreauon (acihâ€" ties, city wards, community services, "One of our goals was to make 1t warm and inviting," Reid said. "And we think 1t is those things. We think it‘s graphically appealing, but also content nich." The Reid Group‘s new media producer Mike Powell, said one of the best ways to access information on the city‘s web site is to turn to the actual site map. There people can gain information about the city by clicking on four main areas â€" City Info Anything that is underlined on the web site can be clicked on in order to gain information on the web site in an appealing People with computers and access to the World Wide Web can access the site at www oceta. on.calcity. waterioo The delay in getting the tourist train running is worth wasting for 11 would be great to have a bit of nostalgia in an old train. | wonder how many children have never ridden on one or who will never great a chanee to. My morning start much eartier these days as my crow family start» up at about 5:30 a.m. It seems one of the young crows won‘t fly yet and the rest of the family stay around to protect and encourage him. | may be taking him to the crow doctor if he doesn‘t get going soon . Have a great and safe summer. For all your real estate needs call Ted Scharf, Broker, 747â€"2040. rates somewhat offset reduced income» to 80 Kinc Strert Sourmn, WatE®LOO + 888â€"9200 DiscoveEr WarErLOO‘s NEWEST GEM! Thunder Bays general manager of finar«e and treasurer Paul Milligan said he belseved the actual amount of money the city was saving through the lottery was negligrble "So its like comparing apple really * "We cant give them (the chanues) anywhere near the kind of money that the aty was gring them because the city had _ $430.000 altogether for maybe 20â€"25 orgamizatuions " Frenette said "Whereas our membership at the moment is 66 And we don‘t rase anything like $430.000 in a nonâ€"profit orgarizations in the aty Although it has been able to freeze or even reduce some of those grants the aty must sull contmbute to 2 number of chantues, Frenetie said At the site map people can also sign the atys Guest Book. can gain access to inforâ€" mation about other cities in Ontamio by chclang on the Caty Links heading and can also hear actual audio clips from famous (Continued on page 4, Business Info contains informatuon on City of Waterioo demographics the loxzâ€" uon of atyâ€"owned land and again contains 2 business directory Lersure provides inforâ€" mauon on such things as fixed attractions in the area and accommodztions while Technology provides people with specifc information about what types of industry and technological research are currently going on in Waterioo taxation and can even acoess 2 business directory. made up of compames who have asked to be placed there and