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WATERLOO CHRONICLE Lynin Bartol Laurie Ridgway Regional Classified . Classified 886â€"2830 Fax: 886â€"9383 Eâ€"mail: wchronicle@sentex.net 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Waterloo, Ontario N2J IP2 <> SKi The Waterloo Chronicle welcomes letters to the Editor They should be signed with name, address and phone numâ€" ber and will be verified for accuâ€" racy. No unsigned letters will be published. Submissions may be edited for length, so please be brief. Copyright in letters and other materials submitted to the Publisher and accepted for publication remains with the authot, but the publisher and its licensees may freely reproduce them in print, electronic or other forms. Our mailing address is 75 King St. S., Suite 201, Waterloo N2J 192, our eâ€"mail address is wchronicle@sentex.net, and our fax number is 886â€"9383 Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement Number 136379 International Standard Serial Number ISSN 0832â€"3410 r’ ie O ' haah ~ & _ @ The Waterloo Chronicie is published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group, a division of Southern Ontario Community Newspapers Inc., a division of Southam Publications, a CanWest Company. The views of our columists are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the newspaper. Letters Policy &mlyn_ M.nley Karen Dwyer Andrea Bailey _ Bob Vibanac. Reporter Sports Editor Cal Bosveld _ Deborah Crandall Publisher: Cal Bosveld Audited circulation: 26,056 Manager We decided to combine business with pleasure and spent a couple of days in Kingston before the Odessa show. You can never see too much of the Thousand Islands. The view from the American Park bridge, looking over the water and islands towards Kingston, is magnificent. Wolfe Island is well worth a visit, and the ferry between Kingston and the island is free and runs until 10:40 p.m. The General Wolfe Hotel is always worth a visit; we last had a meal there more than eight years ago, but the excellence has continued and our gourmet dinner was very enjoyable. All the talk of the heat these past few weeks makes you wonder if anyone remembers winter. I remember it, and as far as I‘m concerned, the heat can stay as long as it likes. The summer has been a good one for us, with lots of barbecues and tennis, and my golf game has even improved. Heaven knows it needed to. We really are fortunate to have the privilege to be able to live in such a wonderful country. Later, I was showing fV‘« +V HHTE another potential cusâ€" In such a tomer a lovely early Canadian tea table with A wonded:ul swivel top, circa 1880. country_ The customer, noting some minor blemishes on this 120â€"yearâ€"old table, said: "But it‘s not new!" I can only blame the heat. It was so bad, in fact, that the only reason people came to the show on Sunday and Monday seemed to be to buy cold drinks. They certainly weren‘t buyâ€" ing antiques. Nevertheless, the weekend of Aug. 11â€"12 took us to the Odessa Antique Show, just outside Kingston. With more than 100 dealers, we were hoping to pick up some stock for our own business. The heat â€" certainly affected the public. Sales weren‘t bad the first two days, but some of the peoâ€" ple who visited our stand were a little... strange. 1 showed one customer a rather nice Vienna regulaâ€" tor wall clock, which dated from about 1880â€" 1900. 1 explained its age, where it had come from, and pointed out the very nice polished case. I thought I had made a sale. But at the end of my pitch, this person said: where do you put the batâ€" tery?" No sale. I don‘t know whether this is an indication of geoâ€" graphical ignorance or just the impact of American culture on Canada, but something is amiss. Texas, according to my encyclopedia, is 691,030 square kilometres. Ontario is 1,068,580. Anyway, I was thinking about Texas on the long August 1 weekend. As some people know, my wife Mary and l deal in antiques, especially antique furâ€" niture. Each year for the past 12 we have taken part in the annual Stratford Antique Show. We were set up in a hockey arena. How, 1 wonâ€" dered, can an arena that is so numbingly cold in the winter become such a stifling sauna in the sumâ€" mer? It was like sitting inside a giant hair dryer, e without the breeze. If GUESI you‘ve ever been to Texas 6 U€T in the summer, you‘ll COLUMNIST know exactly what I mean. 2 & was buying hamburger buns in my favourite Igmcery store the other day when I saw a packâ€" age of largerâ€"thanâ€"normal buns. The label said they were "Texas size". I suppose large hamburger buns could be called "Quebec size" (1,540,680 square kilometres}, but I don‘t think that is going to happen. â€" And that‘s a Quebecâ€"size sentiment, from me to Summer ramblings > We really are fortunate to have the privilege to be able to live in such a wonderful country. CONNOLLY VIEWPOINT on acquiring two core area schools that are set neither prove or disprove his guilt, the case rests as unsolved. Ordinarily police keep their invesâ€" tigations super hushâ€"hush, but SA the Munroe slaying deserves speâ€" BA cial treatment. Because of the overwhelming public interest â€" not to mention, concern â€"â€" a special effort should be made to reveal what can be disâ€" welcome. The Slingers are a gang of brutal, bigâ€" oted white youths who deserve all the expoâ€" sure they can get. Besides being racists and a disgrace to the community, Slingers are flatâ€" out cowards. The police, acting within the law, should sling them a couple of countries away. Still, there‘s one thing you have to say for the regional police. They‘re meticulous about their recordâ€"keeping. Last week a neighbor had his house broken into, and he said the police recorded it in wonderful detail. It was the 35th ditto from the top. Edifice Complex: Waterloo has first dibs There are times, you know, when police know full well who did a killing, a breakâ€"in or passed a counterfeit bill. Still they are just short the one bit of eviâ€" dence that would clinch the case. W@MW@I Fact is, there are local killings .. MB â€" grant you, just a few â€" which BE held and hold no mystery for police. Included, of course, would be the case in which the prime suspect told police he honestly didn‘t know if he‘d killed the girl. He was wacked out on drugs, he said. Since the police could box weeder. Arm of the Law: It‘s easy to interpret the police silence in the swarm slaying of Howard Munroe at Victoria Park as meaning they‘re getting nowhere. I doubt that. With the numâ€" ber of officers assigned to the case, with the number of witnesses questioned, and with the number of potential leaks represented by them, its hard to figure that police haven‘t ast week the first scattered drops of rain I descended like champagne on the arched fields and lawns below. It was too late to really help the farmers, and it didn‘t do my business any real help. Let a Grade 8 class do the math Any publicity about the Slingers would be My business? Why, by trade, I‘m a windowâ€" ht _ & P agPXES AuTrPiaPlEI, CC ? u2\ ourh ol Erce s Someday son.... This 1 all be yours. He summed up ignored warnings about the town‘s vulnerability, manager Stan Koebel‘s incompetence, the water commissioners who focussed only on the bottom line, the governâ€" ment‘s multiple oversights. The Harris administration has seemed conâ€" tent to lay all the blame on Koebel while critics of the Tories prefer to see government cutbacks as mostly to blame. As a matter of fact, 1 know one ardent NDPer who‘s willing to believe that Mike Harris is to blame for the RIM Park fiasco. The NDPer says that a lifetime of manipulating golf scores makes him a key suspect. which ultimately caused Walkerton to occur... There was complacency in almost every quarâ€" Trouble On Tap: Lawyers took polesâ€"apart positions on guilt in the Walkerton water tragedy, but it strikes me that the lawyer representing the DY Walkerton Community Foundâ€" D ation got the matter right. Rick Trafford said it was a terrible acciâ€" dent waiting to happen: "There‘s no one thing, no one act by any individual Most of them say that the region is callectâ€" ing the dough so the region is responsible. Explanations go for naught. It‘s just something else to blame on the region. To hear some tell it, the region IVER is to blame for the drought, im Canada‘s poor showing at the lR global field meet, and the price of gasoline. I could name one other taking the whole month of August off. People who telephone the White House will surely be disappointed. They elected a president, but they‘re getting an answering service. Thumb Tax: Queen‘s Park dictated the bulk of the latest tax increase regional taxpayâ€" ers have been confronted with, but it‘d be hard to prove it by the taxpayers. 0 for closing and may I make a gentle suggesâ€" tion? In the event Waterloo buys any property it best have a classroom of Grade 8s scan the paperwork so the cost doesn‘t rise up and bite the municipality in its asset statement five Marathon Vacation: George W. Bush is blamed for, Canada‘s favorite comedy team â€" the Toronto Blue Jays 0 _ 0_ thing they could as reasonably be §S96 w