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SNUZG@G&I@YS jurniture E Entertainment Lifestyles Eight days into 1997, how are you doing with your New Year‘s resoluâ€" tion? Most resolutions are broken within a few weeks. But Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo counseliors offer advice on how to stick with it .................8 V V should be much less divisive than the one Mbyflr‘ubcudhyu,-pu city‘s manager of budgets. lan Yeates said he believes staff will have a M!flrhflryfigbdh,’&w NY zolecs 1997 municipal budget process Torontoâ€"based quartet | Mother Earth is poised to be Canada‘s next big thing. They‘l be at Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo‘s Fed Hall this week .....12 WW anticipates calm budget process 11 12 14 16 20 ree Th l ; ceu fi V 4# Winter DDJ AJJV\ o | Zaell our floor models are greatly redured! ‘fl all our floor mo« > kilavs ienss ni ts ind iatithina MAmRNODY Mgeenineneitpmeniimiceiiine WAJ for two reasons. First of all, council approved a city staff recommendation this past May for staff to seck a zeroâ€"perâ€"cent property tax increase in 1997, something stafl is on the verge of doing, Secondly, the province has not done anything unexpected this year in terms of cutting provinâ€" cial transfer payments to. the city, something it didn‘t do in 1996 Waterloo council is scheduled to have its first Wds is onl d uit i tnsls hib agie ut m in n autm n n hovinan idnicatcla h i vinicn l mi i eV Â¥illP: to review the 1997 capi inintniipemhol‘yu io and possibly next Wednesday, if required. External agencies with concerns about the budget are scheduled to make presentations to council Jan. 20 with council scheduled to vou nhflfl. = The city Dec. 20 the provinice was only reducing funding to the city by $347.011 in 30 Weber 8t. N., Waterloo 46 4208 ~~ Monto S¢. 10um 43pa., Then. & Fri. 10 m Apm. 415 & W““Mhlswptbdm- ~b~hh“"~‘r-d- Conestoga Mall. The 12 by 14400¢ mural, ?&' WW-UHâ€"_--:EJ-!- turn of hflwlhh-h wall of Smyder‘s Erb Street next spring Maianh ds ns P w “mm mainly from Toromto, while approximately 10 of the buses came from the local area, Weiler said. The local buses were largely filled with semior citizens or physically or mentally challenged people, Weiler said. Those people were allowed to tour the lighted Waterioo Park for free while the ourâ€"of4own visizors were asked to make voluntary $1 per person donations. Weiler also said the outâ€"oftown bus tours heiped the local economy over the Christmas season For exam ple, 150 people stopped and had supper at a local Waterioo restaurant over two nights before they went to see the lights. The organizer of Waterloo‘s third annual Christmas lights festival, Bill Weiler, said over 40 tour buses full of #-n“&th%hfih year. This year‘s festival ran Nov. 30 10 Dec. 31 "That‘s quite an increase," Weiler said about the tour buses. "That‘s about four or five times as many as we had last year. And we‘ve already got ifiquiries for next year " Approximately 30 of the buses came from out of town. THE BIG PICTURE .â€"___ Chromicle Suaff merioo‘s annual Wonders of Winter Festival of L*yh.&wdhufl_nq- ‘I 1997 compared with $493 232 in 1996, Yemes said. City officials were livid in December, 1995 when the province announced it was cutting approxamaicly another $200 000 from the city in 1996 10 go along with the $293 832 it had already previously amnounced in provincial funding cuts. (Cortimued on page 3) (Cortnuad on page 5) Peier Cadies phow