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Chronicle Both say they need to make a living and they‘re staying put, despite actions the city may take Two ‘squeegee kids‘ cleaning car windows in Waterloo say they‘ll continue practising their trade despite any action Waterloo council may try to take against them. Eighteenâ€"yearâ€"old ‘Spam‘ of Kitchener and 19â€" yearâ€"old ‘English‘ of Toronto both said last Friâ€" day they would continue squeegeeing in Waterloo even if council tried to take legal action against them because squeegeeing was currently their only source of income. Council took no formal action Monday night to try and prevent the pair from cleaning car windows for money on roadways in the city but asked city staff to continue monitoring the sitâ€" uation. "I can‘t find a job right _ %MIS IS now, 1 don‘t want to go on welfare, and this is the only alterr alternative," Spam said, __s when asked if he would conâ€" tinue squeegeeing even if city officials tried to crack down on the activity Squeegee kids set up shop in Waterloo "It‘s a lot better than sitting on a street corner, begging for money," he said. "Because I‘m out here working, making an honest buck." "I don‘t understand why they‘d prevent us (from squeegeeing) in the first place," English said. "We‘re not causing trouble, we‘re not wrecking vehicles, we‘re not husting anything." "If people don‘t want to have their windows done, all they simply have to say is no‘." he said A City of Waterloo official says traffic statisâ€" tics do not justify the erection of fourâ€"way stop signs at the John Street Wesu/Belmont Avenue intersection despite eight accidents there between 1995â€"97 Intersection dorsn‘t warrant fourâ€"way stop signs, study concludes Tim Gardner Chronicle Staff Tim Gardner Chromicle Staff "I can‘t find a job right now, 1 don‘t want to go on welfare, and this is the only alternative." â€"Spam Spam and English began squeegeeing car winâ€" dows at the corner of Weber Street North and Bridgeport Road Sept. 15. The next day they started squeegeeing car windows at the corner of Weber Street North and Erb Street East, and have been continuing the practice there pretty well every day since then for two to four hours a day. At Monday night‘s council meeting, Coun. Mike Connolly said although he didn‘t think the squeegee kids were causing a problem right now, he wanted to ask city clerk = Lew Ayers what tools the find a city had available if the situâ€" mOwW. J stion did get out of hand. ing the bylaw. "Don‘t be scared of us and park half way down the road. Just come right up and say ‘no‘." Also at Monday night‘s meeting, the city‘s manager of bylaw enforcement, Kaye Crawford, said she had talked to the Waterloo regional police about the problem and they said the only thing they could do would be to possibly charge the pair with obstructing traffic under the provincial Highway Traffic Act. However Crawâ€" ford said charging squeegee kids under the Act Joe Ribic, a roads and traffic technologist with the city, said last Fniday that city officials conducted their most recent study of traffic volâ€" ume at the intersection approximately one year ago and that the data collected could not supâ€" port the erection of fourâ€"way stop signs. John Street West resident Steve Wagner recently put up a homeâ€"made sign at the John Ayers told council city staff were looking into possiâ€" bly using the city‘s hawkers and pedlars bylaw against the pair. After the meeting, Ayers said because the squeegee kids were providâ€" ing a service in the city for money but didn‘t have a licence, they could be violatâ€" (Continued on page 5) LP LCOH Street West/Severn Street intersection asking motonsts to please slow down as they travelled along John Street West. Wagner lives between Severn Street and Belmont Avenue and would like to see fourâ€"way stop signs erected at the John Street WesuBelmont Avenue intersection. There are currently no stop signs at all along John Street West between Westmount Road €4 7eliw and Park Street. Ribic said that when city offiâ€" cials conducted their traffic study at the John Street WesU/Belmont Avenue intersection in September, 1997, there were two main criteria they were looking for in terms of perhaps erectâ€" ing fourâ€"way stop signs at the intersection. The criteria or ‘wartants‘ for the erection of fourâ€" (Continued on page 5) y