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idvato idb nb n hss on s R During the years he was at the orphanage, Miloff said he lived with approximately 50 other children, including eventually his younger brother Max and his younger sister Rosemary. Contrary to popular belief, most of the children in the orphanage were not orphans at all, but rather were children who came from broken mhmwwhm.lmdmhbp-- ents had split up. His went to live in Toronto while his father remained in Kitchener, "I think to a certain extent orphanages have got a bad rap lately," Miloff said. "Maybe there were a couple of dozen bad ones out of maybe hundreds, if not thousands. (But) there were probably a lot of kids out there who were in these places and didn‘t do badly for themselves." But Miloff is not thinking of writing the book in order to exorâ€" cise the memory of some horrible incident that occurred to him while living at Willow Hail, which is what the orphanage used to be called. Rather he wants to write the book at least partly to recall one of the more pleasant periods of his life, although he chose to run away from that experience when he was just a young teenager And he wants people who used to live with him at the orphanâ€" age from 1945 to 1952 and who used to go to school with him at Elizabeth Ziegler public school to write to him with their memoâ€" nes and iences to help him write his book 'Mymhbammd“m&uwm kfls,'mnflhammmmflvfiyk enjoyed at the orphanage. "And we were not badly done by at the orphanage, although at the time, maybe we thought we Allan Miloff of Richmond Hill lived in the old Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo orphanage for sever years until he ran away from the instituâ€" tion when he was 14. That was back in August, 1952. Now 60 and retired, and with some spare time on his hands, Miloff is considering writing a book about the old orphanage, which used to be located at 22 Willow S1, where St. John‘s Evangelical Lutheran Church is now. While at the orphanage, Miloff said he lived pretty well. For one Chronicle Staff "We had a preity loose rein," Miloff said, about life in the orphanage. "During those times when nobody was bothering with the kids, we‘d go to Waterloo Park, or walk to the Grand River and go fishing or go swimming in the lake down at Waterloo Park." thing, the building itself was the largest home in Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo, a 65â€"room former mansion that had housed Waterloo‘s Joseph E. Seagram family for mote than 50 years. it. Here of orphans had the to visit neombers of the Kittinaer Duiciwen bockey teme widlc the orphanage was in operation. It closed in 1959â€"60. Allan Miloff, a former resident of the Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo orphanage on Willow Street, wants to hear from former residents of the orphanage in order to write a book about City staff were tecommending that council already owns other woodlands immediately to The 491 â€"hectare west side lands are bounded by Erb Street West in the south, Wideman Road in the north, The Wilmot Line in the west and Erbsville Road in the east. The woodlands approved for purchase by council are located just west of The Activa Group‘s new Columbia Forest 1 residential b?uc-udyh'qhfiuthm side of Erbsville Road just north of Columbia Waterloo council vored 9â€"0 in favor of buying another 24.53 acres!9.93 hectares of woodlands on Waterloo‘s west side from Activa Holdings Inc. of Waterloo for $65,000 at councils regular meeting Monday night The City of Waterloo will soon own approxiâ€" mately 50 per cent of the environmentallyâ€"sensiâ€" tive woodlands in Waterloo‘s vast west side Eventually Milof did manage to link up with a good friend tha grew up with him in the orphanage who now lives in Ottawz When he first called him up on the phone, the Iriend seemed But he said he undersiands if some people don‘t want 1w talk f (Contimumd on gage 7 ) "You get older and you siar thinking about these things and you say, What happened to so and so . and so on and so forth." Miloff said. "You know 1 would have loved to have known tha Elizabeth Ziegler had its 50th anniversary down there because | would have been there prety fast. But 1 didn‘t know" ment from the CNR after a 40â€"year career Then about three four years ago, he got the urge t try and look up some of 4 childhood friends. without much imsual sucorss marnied, had 2 couple of children of his own and took early retrs But living with his mother in Toronto wasn‘t all Milof had orlg inally thought it would be cracked up to be. His mother needed someone to work and help pay lor the room and board. and tha someone turned out to be Milof{ l‘krycâ€"hdfiduam-dwdh-n back with him t Toronto 100. Later, he came back to Kitchener h‘*odpfidbmnmvlbhwm P 1“&-‘1"»“““&‘0&”“ in August, 1952, the 14â€"yearâ€"old ran away He 1ook up resâ€" dence in Toranto with his mother, and had a fullâ€"«ime job with the Canadian National Railway in Toronto by the time he was 15 But as time went on, Miloff began to ure of the orphanage He began 1w wonder what he was going to do with his like and there didn‘t seem to be much future for him in Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Npw to go and work in Toromo, that was 2 different proposiâ€" However in time Miloff became satished with his lile. He got currently in negotiations with other west side landowners and expected more woodland purâ€" chases in the future. the west of the lands in question, because th price was within council‘s accepted purchase price for environmensal lands of $2.6% per acre and because council tries to follow an imitiatrye to preserve and manage environmental lands in the city. The city also already had $120,000 in its environmentally sensitive lands reserve fund and the proposed purchase of the Actwa Holdâ€" ings Inc. lands had been anticipated and planne< for in the fund. In a memo to council, Waterloo semior city planner, Brian Trushinski, said even withous Monday night‘s purchase, council had a2lréacy acquired approximately 585 acres/237 hectares of woodland within Waterloo. That represenited about 47 per cent of the total 4237 acres/500 hectares of remaining woodlands in the city, he Trushinski also said city staff members were