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WATERIDO CHRONICLE Publisher: Cal Bosveld 336-2830 Fax. 886-3383 F -matl wchromcletwsemex no! 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Wltedoo, Ontario N21 1P2 Region-l (II-HIM Manager The Waterloo Chronicle IS published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group. a dmswn of Southern Ontario Community Newspapers lnc.. a dwlsnon of Soumam Publications, a (hnWest Company The news of our Calumists are their own and do not necessarily mpmsem those of the newspaper [Amman Publtcarruns Mill Sales Product Agreement Number 1 36379 Internauunal Stamina Saul Number ISSN 0832 _ M IO r, w " 1 ml} a” Ir _,:', T he Waterloo Chit-nu iv welcomes letters Io the mum rhey should bc ogned mm name. address and phone num hm and Will be u'nlwd tur an n uh ' No unsigned letters ml] he uuhlmhed Stgttmtsstotys may br. edited for length. so please be brief Copyright tn letters and other materials submitted lo the Publisher and accepted tor publication remains with The author. bat the pohlisher and its licensees may - reproduce them m prrnt. electronic or other [onus Our mailing address is 75 Km; St S . Suite 201, Waterloo NZI 1P2. our e-mail Address I: wchron_oter,net. and our fan munber is mam t amlyn Ansley Chm-lulu“ Manager Letters Policy Andrea Bartey Bob Wbanac Reporter - Editor Cal Bosweld Debut-h Cumin" Publisher Milo: Jun AleEndu’ ”NW9!“ Audited circulation: 26.066 tvrtrt Banal ERA}; Ji ' Min sun Warming Ma my: s>strtti9 lemme Diane Adflfldng Iaurre Rldgum OnssMrd Gerry Mattrce Karen thwyes Crud-lion hanksgiving meant a little extra to me this I year, as I've found out what it means to be truly appreciative of the large helping of good fortune life has served me. Compared to others who are forced to struggle and scrape just to find their next meal, 1 had every- thing?nd more, [took it all for granted._ _ . _-- Well, no more. I can now say f know what it's like to pinch my pennies, and search for extra dollars that jurt aren't there _ _ _ _ _ . Ahd guess what? Mommy and daddy werent there to bail me out. It all started a few weeks ago when Fred Lehmann. communica- turns omcer for the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, approached me about try- ing something "new". "Sure Fred, what?" was my naive response. A food hamper is not a permanent solution He proceeded to tell KM me that in honour of the iiti5i" food bank's annual ' Thanksgiving food drive, In" which incidentally wraps up today, he thought it ANDREA Would be interesting to BAILEY have individuals from the media raise awareness by living as though they are on welfare. and surviving offa food hamper for four days, 'How bad could it ber, was my initial thought. Lehmann then added that aside from living on a minimal diet, I would also have to create a pseudo budget based on the current Ontario welfare rates for a single person. No problem, I thought, until I saw the numbers. According to the rates, I am eligible to receive only $520 a month to cover all of life's necessities. Working with this figure, I had to then deduct what I would pay for rent if I lived in a bachelor apart- ment in Kitchener. You see, if I calculated the bud- get based on the $620 average cost of a one-bed- room apartment in Waterloo, I would have been $100 in the hole. So rsne, I returned to my Kitchener roots, but the budgeting didn't end there. After deducting my rent. which left me with a whole $95 to spend the rest of the month, I then had to deduct $30 for a phone. That left S65 to cover three and a half weeks of groceries, which I estimated to cost $40. The only area I saved in was in transportation. as l opted In lace up my running shoes for work every day, rather than spend aToonie each way on Grand River Transit. So that left $25 leftover for fun. Broken down, that gave me a whopping $150 a day to spend on whatever. Ouch! I picked up my food hamper from the House of Friendship last Monday morning. That was an eye- opener. Volunteers from all walks of life scrambling lo ml cardboard boxes with as much nutrition as possible VI remember thinking to myself, Tour days? This sucker's going to last me two weeks!' l was then given a list ofitems to check off, sim- ilar m a menu but with more variety After about a five-minute wait. my name was called and I was handed a fair sue box. filled to the brim with rice, bread, peanut butter. cereal. soup, canned goods, vegetables, and even some caramel corn for a treat. On my way home, [couldn't help but get a whiff of a nearby McDonald's restaurant. in the midst of preparing Big Macs and fries for the lunchtime crowd. On a regular day, I might have stopped. But no, I forced myself to ignore my watering mouth and drive on by. After all. there was no way I was Continued on page 9 VIEWPOINT l ”summon mtmm'umm . _ MatrataE...%tmttmttt'"t- i; e grounds at the old homestead are start- ing to resemble Algonquin Park Autumn is such a sad time of year-- with trees shedding their leaves and baseball clubs shed- ding their managers. On the Rims: There hasnt been a lot doing on the Rim Park lawsuit, and believe me, it leaves a hole in the weekly topics when the par- ties haven't traded accusations for a week. Gave only dhe question when it comes to gathering legyes: Are: toes, any ggod for mulch? OK, so you can picture them gathered in some lawyer's suite of offices, chomping on caviar sandwiches washed down with a com- pelling brand of champagne. Thisisaday-long striketotryand and down a solution. And, natch. as you fling millions around in the overheated oratory. expense becomes no object Say. will you let me have another two-buck stogie. As afternoon moves towards evening and larynxes become bone-dry, the suggestion is made that all repair to a hotsy-totsy restaurant before taking in a hockey game. You understand that an up-scale cafe and the hockey game are in keeping with - , _ ___ the tradition of things-done during 1 , s" the initial negotiations. This may ‘ B", N C l again bring them together. They're selling their tax-theat- ened properties. and buying tents. They'll be camping out at Rim Park for the winter. v But white the talk go on, some Waterloo taxpayers are taking action. Plunging Bucks: If misery loves company, you may take a lit- tle comfort from this: Canadians constantly wring their hands about S/ where their buck lies with reference B to the US. dollar, but pity the poor . i Australians whose buck rings up 48 or 49 cents US. pennies You remember our dol lat, eh? Canada's version ofthe Edsel Ein Prosit: It's Ein Ptosit time once again, with beldrprovuking Wiener schnitzel and the tigtttlrtitting)edertosen are in full supply. V The oneihing that surprises me thi/rear is the number of our older citizens who grumble that they dont attend, - _ Themmmentsofsomeofthemsurprised meChapswhousedtobeactivewhenitcame todowningafireinorsoafsudswerecritimlof everythingahout0mbesftsst. Maybe the festival should offer some events for the older folk How about a wheelchair dance arritpeeitiim? Clark or Day could get the country moving SAN DY BAIRD That's even though when the older chaps are invited to an evening of wine, women and song theyfind it pays to find out the vintage of the first Border Warfare: Strange things are hap- pening. PM Chretien has been under constant fire for his wishy-washy approach to the Sept. I l terror. Opposing politicos, editorial writers, stray intellectuals and suds-salon philosophers have been whuppipg him to, a fare-thee-well. A _ And yipe his popularity has grown though the assaults. It strikes me that our once-and-future prime minister has at last misjudged his Canadian public. He apparently believed that Canadians would balk at anything that smacked of yielding any sovereignty. Not sa Not so. Canadians in a poll were 82 per cent in favour of coordinating border securi A ty with the Americans All questions on the same subject were answered in a similar vein. Anyhow, it seems that finally we may be going to do something about our porous bor- dem Ofcourse that would leave the Opposition critics with nothing substantial to yap about. Butyap theywiRMestauGarkandDayin these trying times seem obsessed with penny- ant? ajticism. They make mountains out of oftanmrerthey'reNstthegtrrtogetthe countrymovtiknowthatifettherofthem getsekeedhttmohntr Mark you, the Americans are playing scape goat in fingering Canada as a sieve in border security. After all. the people admitted from _ __ - Canada were scanned by Americans upon entry. cult to recapture. It strikes me the way we got into this mess that we lost control when the big numbers hit our borders Then we bowed and took the easy And, mark you, they aren't held while their cases are undergoing review. They are as free as the autumn breeze and almost as diffi- Still. the Americans are on safe ground when they point to the lens of thousands of immigrants Canada can't even find. And the Americans are proba- bly as puzzled by Canadians at the red-carpet reception we give the immigrants who drop in unan- nounced. They apparently get the full treatment-welfare, medical care, dental care, rent payments and so on.