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Fudges, Reitmans, Fitness Classics, Lizzy R, The Boomer Club, The Lady's A Champ, & The Frat House Saturday, March 2ll 1:00 pm. Models from "The Look Company" will feature fashions from your favourite stores in the mall. Spring fashion 3i,(it,r-z./t,/, 75 King lit South. Uptown Waterloo . 886-4190 @EIK0'\ Visit Bin-Hm for Ylll‘ emulate mum of unit: MS. MIL sm- Wa's toys I; actiul ”£41411 up” ae 'wr Emma: Amman NDMINEE roll Exchgch: IN can": REYAILINB 30-50u, HATASHITA - evil I m JIIEMI" . “mil“ . VALUE HmMM~.-I‘I n..: SeNeggo., thtrtthtg with the Mayor mung In the Mayor's office, walling lor Joan McKmllon In drrtve, you cant help but name the coasters Quilted And shaped Ge apples, they he on the wooden round table that dominates the oihce She drl’lVBS with Mourett. a smut kw minutes late, but heavy with apology and a tug smilc Quickly, she dolls her coat and grabs a pad of looseleal and d pen before taking a seat at the table The subject may be her, sell, but Mayor McKinnon ty ready to take notes m use am tlung else comes up Note-raking: cozy coasters for the coffee, asking how um are thes tS the style of Waterloog newest Mayor, Joan Mckm non Enthusiastic and oul-golng, It‘s not surpnsmg to ds, cover that she was a cheerleader m high school -- and on student councll and Intermural sports and the school news- paper. "l was one of those kids that got Involved m new dung," she says wuh a shrug, . Home those days was Timnuns, which she loved but left for university, Chuckling. she tells me that she chose Unurp my of Toronto "because " was at the end of the rail line ' ll took H hours. (sometimes 24 m winter). for the tram In reach Toronto McKmnun completed an honours degree In Home hm nomlcs and lollownng graduation ought hrgh school nulh suencr and home economrcs HI neighbouring xarhuruugh Marrrage soon followed, and on completion of her husbands law degree they set out to bud J 'small town atmosphere m mm“ which to false our £11le They chose Waterloo and crt'i- Itml tled here In 1960, unsung two . a . boys and a girl. iall now mar- ried) They are the proud Ca-Irs, l grandparents of "threc grand- k boys" who lwe nearby _ V First elected as ( Its (nun 5t ' cillor In 1988, and Lulu . > Regional Councilor, Mckur . E ' nun savs that the best das \hr 'crra- ’ "ctC! ever had m pulllks “ax 1hr day >hc “as eluded Maro, Lisa O'Connell even ihough becommg Mawr wk, never d [mum ambition "When I heard that Bron (Turnbull) wus Slapping down I fell as the most senior member I should think about u _ She's glad she did, although she acknowledges that sums becoming Mayor balancing the personal and the publs “hm been hard." “Our lifc IS so much more public now I have to work M creating famdy "me. ThiSJOb can cat up all your time. .weck- ends too." Her favourite books are historical biographies. "usually l get on a kick and read a slew. Ge on Russian history or on Ireland." Her favourite food IS spaghetti, made m the Aburzzo style wuh a sauce of ground meat and pieces of Italian garlic sausage. The dish is a legacy from her mother, who emigrated from central Italy to Canada. Mckinnoas' mother was undenlably her greatest influence Her voice softened and her usually forthright body relaxed, as she discussed her mother, Mckinnons' father was interned m a POW camp In Hanover during the Second World War. The eldest child, McKinnon was "eight or nine" when they received the telegram telhng thcm that he was missmg and presumed dead. They awaited word for five years. "Mother managed as a single mother of two girls and on a soldier? salary for all those years." Despite the hardship, Mckmnon remembers that her mother was "always very pos- "we mammmng a sense of fmmess and “as never butler " Her father survwcd the camp and returned home weighing 98 pounds Another daughter mun followed and he founded d construction company which oll dre girls helpcd mu wnh "because he dulnt have an mm VV Both parents dwd 'y m young. over 30 years ago The war was very hard un than both." she mulled. looking down quietly The qulcl was soon broken by an .lSSISlanl mmlndmg Mck, mnon of another commllmcnl Instantaneously, thc Mayor returns to action. Her srmle broadening and her poslure straightening, McKinnon says good-bye as she Inches for her nourpad Ths lime ttls blank My guess Is It wont be for long Canadian Publicauons Mad Sales Product Agreement #136370 Pubhshcd every Wednesday by The Farrway Grvup A leISlon of Soulham Int Tq March I l, 1908 WATERLOO CHRONICLE