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Nov, 26; Angles in the World Today, held Dec. 3; and Sex May Be Wasted on the Young, held Dec. 13. All sessions are held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and cost $2 to attend. Refreshments will be provided. For informaâ€" tion, call 888â€"6356. The sessions are informal and speakers involved are open to questions and discussions, The series begins Nov. 12 with a discussion about early French cookery. The City of Waterloo will begin offering "Leisure and Learning" sessions to older adults this month at the Wing 404 RC.A.FA. Rotary Adult Centre. Share the Warmth provides coats for children in need A program run by the local Salvation Army with supâ€" port from CHYM FM/Country 570 will provide warm coats for children in need this winter. The Share the Warmth Distribution Centre opened yesâ€" terday on the lower level of the King Vatue in Kitchener, and will remain open for the next three weeks to distrib ute winter coats free of charge to those less fortunate. All Newtex, Macintosh and Reese Cleaners locations in Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo have been accepting donations of children‘s coats and jackets for the past two weeks. The coats, which are cleaned and given minor repairs, will be accepted at any location of the three participating dry cleaning chains until Nov. 16. The distribution centre will remain open until Nov. 30 or until all the donated coats have been distributed, whichever comes first. During last year‘s campaign, the Share the Warmth Disâ€" tribution Centre distributed 4,000 coats in less than four weeks. Other sessions include Your Money Matters, held Nov. 19; Are Older Adults At Risk of Drug Addiction?, held Matthew Shantz (centre), seven, of Sir Edgar Baner School in Waterloo, recently won a bicycle from the Waterioo Fire Department for successfully naming the department‘s new fire safety cart. ‘Sam, the Safety Awareness Mobile‘, has recently been seen in Watcrico malls and at different Waterioo functions and is used by the Waterloo Fire Department to betâ€" ter promote fire safety and awareness. With Msnkwm'flabo‘z prevention officer, Bill Haase (Ieft) and Waterioo chief fire prevention offiâ€" KEWS DI6ES$T Learning sessions offered to older adults 1 SOFAS and LOVESEATS from$699 â€" Waterloo resident finds flames If of war not easily forgotten _ The following is Waterloo resident Dave McPherson‘s account of _ his trip to Beigium in the summer of 1995. He discovered that the _ flames of war are not easily forgotten â€" particularly if you can still â€" see the ashes. crowned with a solemn soldier‘s head, bowing in gnef and praying For many, these numbers are symbolized through Remembrar + for his fallen comrades. The column marks the batticfield where Day and epitomized in the poem "In Flanders Fields" |t seems 18,000 Canadians withstood the first German gas attacks from Apn| _ appropnate that the final stop in a tour which surveyed the rem 22â€"24, 1915. In the vicinity of this monument about 2,000 Canadiâ€" nants of the war included Essex Farm cemetery 1t was in this ceme ans died and lie buried. tery that Canadian doctor John McCrae wrote that famous poer As From the Canadian monument, our van drove past "no man‘s the tour finished here, we paused for a moment of silence beside land", along Menin Road where on Christmas Eve, 1914 the Gerâ€" the infirmary and despite history classes and Remembrance Day cer man and the British armies emerged from their trenches in a peaceâ€" _ emonies, the effect of war had never been so haunting ful salute sharing rum, food and other amenities in a small * Remembrance Day Program â€" ser centrespread. With Lode as our guide, the first stop was at the Canadian monuâ€" ment known as the Vancouver corner. The 60â€"foot statue was ° crowned with a solemn soldier‘s head, bowing in gnef and praying for his fallen comrades. The column marks the batticfield where 18,000 Canadians withstood the first German gas attacks from Apn! 22â€"24, 1915. In the vicinity of this monument about 2,000 Canadiâ€" found he possesses more knowledge o ee . *A f than any history book could provide. As s us n a native to the region with great uncles # who fought near Ypres, Belgium, in the Great War, he has taken it upon himself to inform others of the tragedies of war _ Yancouver Corner marks the battleficld where while providing informative historical 18,000 Canadians withstood the first German lours gas attacks in April, 1915 between 1914 and 1918. Each year on average, farmers ploughing their fields bring to the surface 200 tonnes of shells Two years ago, due to abnormal rainâ€" falls, about 800 tonnes came to the surâ€" face. Additionally, every year 10 per cent of these shells is found to be live, unexâ€" ploded ammunition. These shells result in at least three casualties a year. The tour guide who led us through these fields was a middleâ€"aged, blondeâ€" haired, stocky figure named Lode; we Belgians everywhere, the nightmare of the war is still part of their living history just as it is part of their landscape. countryside of Flanders Fields, it was hard to envision that this idyllic pastoral landscape played host to some of the most gruesome and bloody battles in the history of war â€" but they did â€" and the landscape has kept the evidence. Thousands of unexploded shells and live ammunition still lie in the soft, rich soil from the harrowing trench battles that occurred in northern Belgium «L. World War One is still fekt by Belgian citizens today. A walk back through time. A step into the future. For â€" Only the monstrous What passingâ€"bells for these who die as caitle? i}f! he guns are no longer angry but the helpless feeling (ek zujdvyn m for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen, 1917 #* 2000 SLEEP SOFAS IN 3 SIZES A visit to the medieval towr . provided further testimor hy 4 destructive nature of war The cits i s dl'muhsh:c dunng the First Work t "; r M War however in the | 920« anc } 5 rem es the town was reconstructed t its . nal medieval architectural stvie | entering the moat city we passed through the domunating Meriin (â€"a s the battlefield where Mrmt,gm} which commemorates 1# ,“”d the first German men of the Bntish Commonweal:t . who died in the Great War and w mussing in action Thus, the walls of the gate are inscribed wit close to 55.000 names celebration. The next day however. the carousing soldiers of the pre vious evening became bitier enermes once again and over the (o| lowing four long years, this act of goodwill was never repeaaed by FRIDAY 9â€"9, SATURDAY 9â€"5:00 FBEEPABKING ALFRONT 4 REAR O $TORE ONTARIO‘S LARGEST DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1959 46 King St. N., Waterioo 886â€"2040 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9â€"5 30 ALBkN RikBeyt‘s From Tyne Cot cemetery we pasec by the spot where the * massacre of the innocents" occurred in 1915 is these helds. thousands of young German soi diers armved with "roses" in their bayo nets. unprepared for the realimues of war and were anmihilated This bloodbath occurred off Merun Koad near 2 windâ€" mull, whuch for the remainder of the wa was regarded by the Germans as the "windrmill of death pre