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Clronicde VpapaeeomNT By Thursday morning, several readers had phoned us to say they agree with the Ministry report. Some said they grew up in the area and recall that the dump was in fact on the crest of the hill, now a residential area. So where exactly is the dump? The bottom line is, city officials aren‘t sure. And they can‘t be faulted for that. The dump was buried long before environmental concerns over methane gas Last Wednesday, the Chronicle ran a frontâ€"page story quoting a Ministry of the Environment report which placed an abandoned landfill site on the crest of a hill above Moses Springer Park, not under the community centre‘s parking lot as city officials had preâ€" vioulsy said. Where‘s the dump? 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 1P2 Phone: 886â€"2830 Fax; 886â€"9383 Eâ€"mail: wchronicle@sentex.net So how has it come to this? Everywhere you turn, there it is. The milâ€" lennium this and the millennium that. Retailers are going on about their millennium sales, communities and government agencies are organizing their millennium projects, and regular folk are planning their big millennium shindigs. Enough, already. Somebody, somewhere got it wrong. And the best I can figure is that the rest of us just got swept along with the hype. So, despite my grumâ€" blings, there‘ll be a be a bash of grand proportions this New Year‘s Eve. And I‘ll be at it. C â€"~ *) Now, far be it for me to knock a good excuse for a party, but we‘ve got the Deborah Crandall wrong year, people. The fact is, the next millennium will begin and the current one will end precisely at the stroke of midnight, Jan. 1, 2001. And the thing that irks me most is that most of us know this. EDT O RI A L Okay, so what‘s up with this whole millennium thing? 1 may not be a mathematical wizard. Far from it, in fact. But the last time 1 checked, our numerical system was based on groups of 10. And without getting Well, here it is. My first Many faithful Chronicle readers, over the past couple of years, have passed on comments that perhaps 1 should write a column. Well, maybe not many of you, but some of you. Okay, two of you. And one of those two went so far as to say that perhaps the reason 1 don‘t write a column is that 1 have nothing to say (coâ€"workers reading over my shoulder as 1 write this are dropping to the floor in fits of uncontrolâ€" lable laughter). So this, my first, is dedicated to all two of you who were wondering what I have on my mind. You‘re gonna be sorty you asked. Chronicle Internationa} §tgngard Serial Nupber ISSN 0832â€"3410 Millennivm schmennivm AND ANOTHER THDG... So how is it, then, that popular opinâ€" ion has this group of 10 known as the current millennium ending with a nine, as in 1999, and the much ballyhooed group of 10 known as ‘the new millennium‘ beginning with a zero, as in 20002 my calculator out, I can pretty much figâ€" ure out that any group of 10 ends with a zero, as in 10, 20, 100, 200, 1000, 2000. And any group of 10 begins with a one, as in 1, 11, 21, 101, 201, 1001, 2001. You get my drift. If there‘s one thing the city can be faulted for, however, it‘s in not handling the problem with urgency. Council was to deal with the issue at its Aug. 16 meeting, but the item was pulled from the agenda at the last minute. A preâ€" liminary environmental investigaâ€" tion showed that waste was generating methane gas levels at potentially dangerous levels. Given the results of that investigation, the matter should have been dealt with immediately, not put on the back burner. While whe risks are remote, it‘s unsettling for residents to think they could be sitting atop a potenâ€" tial methane explosion became an issue. We‘ll only know where the dump is after an enviâ€" ronmental investigation is comâ€" pleted. Group Publisher _ Jim Alexander . Martice " Bffl Karges * Norma C mu:auâ€"-â€",‘s‘:'l-pw_ Aivertising Saks ~~ Advoniang Sas Anyhow, it‘ll take a little while to work out the details, but {again) the supercity is inevitable. With that a fact 1‘d like to skip ahead to something of importanceâ€"what we‘re going to call the new city. Without a doubt, it should be called Waterloo. That‘s only appropriate inasmuch as it has historic antecedents aplenty, including latterly the Region of Waterloo 1 suspect that much of the opposition comes from politiâ€" cians who want to protect their fiefs and their prospects for reâ€"election, and from municipal workers who want to safeâ€" guard their payroll spots and their prospects for a pension. Now we have Waterloo Coun. Mike Conâ€" m nolly and Cambridge Coun. Doug Craig excoâ€" riating Chairman Seiling for his views. Why? He was elected the same as they were. And on a regionâ€"wide basis yet. Was it lonesome to be just about the only one to be flatâ€"out fulminating in favor of a oneâ€"tier supercity? Yes, but I just asked myself if regional councillors could be so wrong on something so important. The answer came back a resounding "Yes!" The moral? 1 guess it‘s that you have to be highâ€"up to have your pleas register. It‘s like being born with your hand in the cookie jar. Crystal Bawl: Ho hum! It looks as if this geriatric voice cryâ€" ing in the wildemness is going to be proven right once again. Ken Seiling, Waterloo Region chairman, wants to see the seven 0NCE municipalities rolled into one supercity. PE eXRL And that‘s what your faithful correspondent has been urging and predicting since Julius Caesar was a lanceâ€"corporal. Did I ever doubt that a oneâ€"tier supercity would be the ultimate result? Never. Like their public school counterparts, Catholic teachers were told there‘s precious little money for increases. Like their public school counterparts, Catholic school bureaucrats have been given increases. I never doubted we‘d become a supercity Cambridge? That name has been around locally for only 25 What d‘ya mean you‘ve been standing out here since Monday morning 7!! The Chronicle Bob Vrbamac Tim Gardner C | 6 CV #%JF , C l‘i«] 0 QQ ONcE ovERr LIGHTIY Full Court Press: Theres talk that the appointment of two replacements will reinvigorate the Supreme Court. Fine and dandy, but there‘s one thing bothering me. How come it takes a nineâ€"member court to decide who‘s right and who‘s wrong? Alex Trebec does it by himself on Jeopardy Although, come to think of it, he was a parliamentary assis tant at the time. Sixtyâ€"five per cent of Canadians sard hes ; doing a good job, but by a margin of almost two to one they said its time for him«to step down Some Liberals figure he‘ll quit next year, but I doubt that By all the poll figures so far, he‘d be a leadâ€"pipe cinch to win again. Contrary to the popular impression, he‘s not one of the Fathers of Confederation. The sentiment that would have him step down arises from the feeling that he‘s been in politics forever. What‘s that you say? What about Kitchener? Well, that‘s another Johnnyâ€"comeâ€"lately name, a monicker that was a tribute to a nowâ€"discredited foreign warlord who couldn‘t swim worth a dam. There‘d only be one worse nameâ€"Berlin. And as sure as sauerkraut is desecrated cabbage, some yahoo will suggest that as the name for the supercity. There‘s not just one reason years, the twinkling of an eye as city histories go It‘s all of a piece of the community back ground that gives us Goudies Lane as Gewdies Poll Vault: Wow! When you‘re talking about a typically Canadian view, you have to consider the recent poll on Jean Chretien Not a Chance: By the way, I‘ll point out for the umpteenth time that Kitchener and Waterâ€" loo couldn‘t and can‘t merge because it‘d proâ€" duce a huge centre that would skew the region That was true when the region was formed, but illâ€"informed members of the media talk seriously about it as a possibility What a disâ€" service to their audiences Berlin is an unacceptable name. There are two and : the newspaper Mailed subscripyon rates $65 yearly in Canada $90 yearly pyigige Gapada! # 6.5.1, , , , . , TA tA ++ 3 Abh}sP*} 3 g : n( Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group = A division of Southam Inc. Yah, my parents wanted to make sure / didn‘t miss the first bus back to school!