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ldlu:nadwithmnovalbytlzkpmo{ Waterloo has been saved. dinator for the City of Waterloo, told Waterloo council in a recent memo that regional council. approved the retention of a number of regional traffic lights, including the one at the Erb Street West/Amos Avenue intersection, at a budget meeting in late November. Although regional council asked regional engineering staff to conâ€" duct a review of the 46 traffic lights that were least needed at council‘s final budget meeting Jan 30, the Erb Street West/Amos Avenue light was saved "due to pedestrian safety." . A second Waterloo light, located at the Glenâ€" ridge Drive/University Avenue East intersection, w..vdbydnmhduymh&p ud.,tlrcouwywmwedwdodndndgng of Silver Lake, have arranged to truck the sediâ€" ment to the former gravel pit. There it is to be blended with top soil and used as fill. Dredging of the lake was to begin shortly after a special ceremony to kick off the rehabilitation of Silver Lake Jan. 7, but soft damp ground and a proper location to dump the sediment delayed dredging until Jan. 28. The $2.3 million rehabiliâ€" tation is to be completed over 10 years. > LA problem regarding where it is going to “PwDMcpbkmudn&l::‘hmt:, bottom of Silver Lake. Mike Tout, the project coordinator for the rehabilitation of Silver Lake, said the owner of a former gravel pit on Country Squire Road has agreed to take the sediment. Tout said the w-uu-mmmmum) Jonathan Laine, a senior development officer for CIDA, said recently that is no longer the case. which will focus on improving Rafah‘s civil â€" Although the first mission was W"’ Strip for nine days to take part in the Y V chief city official will leave Waterloo this Saturday to take part in a Canadian International Development Agency mission to the Middle East Turnbull and Waterloo‘s executive assistant to the chief administrative officer Paul Eichinger will be going to the City of Rafah in the Gaza wmlayorld-T-flsdmhcr chief city official will leave Watedas i he second and last Waterloo traffic light EWS DIGEST he City of Waterloo seems to have solved the Pigk 3 hn bndabnermesnendiidi onl ie in ic nicn esmmc m0(Eoree ceneniilinnicnmnieietiminaibonremmdld The three men won a court case involving control of Waterloo Junction Railway Tours, the parent company of WSJR, Jan. 27 in Kitchâ€" ener. However two promoters of the railway, Burlington lawyers Peter Cass and Rex Bishop, began the to appeal the court decision dn-ngundud The Waterloo St. Jacobs Railway Company purchased an 18â€"kilometre section of railway track between Waterloo and Elmira from Canadian National Railway last April 13. At least some of the owners of the railway hoped to begin operating a tourist train between Waterloo and St. Jacobs this past summer and had funded the construction of a railway staâ€" tion in Waterloo in 1995â€"1996 near the Canaâ€" dian Clay & Glass Gallery. Randy Pepper said in an interview from Toronto his three clients, Erv Skrien, Eric Seiâ€" del and Dr. Harry Phills, all of Burlingion, would still prefer to try and get the Waterloo St. Jacobs Railway Company up and running as opposed to selling the company Tbtbwyalonhuimuonh-pro- posed tourist train between Waterloo and St. Jacobs says his clients ideally would like to proceed with the venture. Investors‘ first choice to continue developing railway wiilapdemimgidiniani n ataioa uit aacines ° °L TTTIEDCECEORdemimenaistntvesisiis Chronicle Staff "So the next actual step is to send out a notice under the Personal Property Security Act that allows us to seize the assets, which is what it boils down 1o," Pepper said. "But there‘s a process that you have to go through 10 do Pepper said because of the decision by Ontario court, general division Justice R. C Sills Jan. 27 , Skrien, Seide! and Phills now have tentative control of WJRT‘s and WSJR‘s assets. WMSMW”“,I’]W of Justice Sills decision, is they‘re entitled to proceed to realize on their security, which is company (WJRT) and in turn the subsidiaries," Pepper said. Skrien, Seide! and Phills owned 50 per cent of the company and had paid Cass and Bishop a total of $1,060,000 to help get the railway up and running, Cass and Bishop owned the other 50 per cent of the company but had paid no money into it. * Elegant Sofas *Wing Chairs * Sleeper Sofas in * Reclining Chairs * Reclining Sofas + Reclini to.cut custodians or secretanies, reduce special assistance for students with special needs. and increase classroom sizes. The group posed its first question â€" "What specifically will your government fund as necâ€" essary classroom expenditures in 1997â€"98>" â€" to the Ministry last week. Ryric said the ”fl'i-nmhndphuuohu local MPPs but the group has yet to receive any answers. As of Monday, Gary Leadsion (Kitchenerâ€"Wilmot) and Wayne Wettlaufer (Kitchener) had not responded to the quesâ€" tion and Cambridge MPP Gerry Martiniuk directed the group instead to Snobelen‘s office Waterloo North MPP and Labor Minister Flizâ€" The group is concerned that Snobelen has announced he will reduce outâ€"ofâ€"classroom expenditures, which he has defined to include pals, and viceâ€"principals ‘l'hnmmknvds.ahhpl- to cut custodians or secretaries "What teachers want to know, and what parents and students deserve to know is what plans Mr. Snobelen has for schools beginning in September of this year â€" the start of the next academic year" said OSSTF Warerioo chapter president John Ryrie. "In particular P educators, support stafls, parents and studenis deserve tw know how Mr. Snobelen intends 1w :llhxhokh-w-flyw announce ther plan to pose one question 2 week., every Monday for the next six weeks to Education Mimister John Snobeien Local represematives of the Ontario Secâ€" ondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF ) the Waterioo County Women Teachers Assoâ€" ciation (WCWTA) , the Ontario Public School Teachers‘ Federation (OPSTA), the Omtario English Catholc Teachers Associstion (OECTA) and the Association des enseignantes et enseignants francoâ€"ontarien (AEFO) met with reporters in Kitchener to Call Lor Fagan (519) 8889143 Teachers‘ groups : : demand answers : DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1959 46 King St. N., Waterloo 886â€"2040 Closed Sunday & Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9â€"5â€"30 ks â€"Ayp P3 hy l INVESTING N YOUR FUTURE No RREPR â€" * LOLNMS M PPE * GACs * Mutual Funds ‘MM innoimannyriniiniitiiitiais inss WESRREAETT 1 CR Reacr amiene m Deborah Crandall a# Chromicle Seaff (Continued on page 5