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Laurelwood residents have genuine cause for concern over traffic congestion Ti, first question anyone has to ask about the nature of the Bearinger/Laurelwoodl Hallman intersection (Waterloo Chronicle, Ian. 16) is why the city would design it like that in the first place? Previously. Bearinger Road became Beaver Creek Road as soon as you crossed Westmount Road, and Fisher-Hallman Road would end in a 'T' intersection into Beaver Creek. What didn't make sense about this design? _ _ _ . ow that 2002 is off to a hope- Nful though not spectacular beginning. it would be a good time for our elected city om- cials to make some New Year's reso- lutions. City council should make a few New Year's resolutions First should be to resolve the huge rmancial dispute with MFP in the most equitable way possible for us taxpayers. Also take a contract- reading course. The fact that two other big Ontario cities are also suing MFP should strengthen our city's position. If Mayor Lynne Woolstencroft needs outside, better qualified help in this matter, she should certainly go after it. Walkerton council and mayor are also to blame Secondly, 6n} council should proceed to rename our glitzy new park as Millennium Recreation Park. he Walketton water report I blames the Knehel brothers and the Harris government for the tragedy. . They Grgot to lay any blame on the Koebels' bosses; namely, the You said it WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SUPER BOWL SUNDAY? Cars “that would rocket along QUESTION H IFaHh Hallman would be forced to slow down and stop to make a turn and the same would be true for those driving along Beaver Creek (now Bearinger]. The region had a natural trairurcalming deterrent already in place. Mr. Knobloch and the residents of the Lawelwood area do have gen- uine cause for concern for future tramc congestion and speeding. If the new massive high school pro- posed for Erbsville comes to pass, then they can expect many students from the Northlake/Albert/Hazel/ it's original name. Then you could put the RIM name on the golf course instead of the ridiculous Grey Silo, This would be popular with every- one. City council should take a long look at Kitchener council's position on this issue. They have learned a valuable lesson from the mess Waterloo created with the park. A name is more than just a few letters. It confers respect and status, con- cepts that are subjective. It is the city's right to name parts of the park for outside donors, but the name of the whole complex is a community affair and needs public input. Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex is a good example. Walkerton council and the mayor. Di,dn't they ever go to see what their employees were doing? Hnfortunately, Ontario has a lot more mayors and councillors who don't supervise their employees. Lit us hopé Waterloo hound] will "It's a tradition for me to go to my aunt's in Otterville to watch Super Bowl, Before the game the adults all play cards. and we play football outside" "Nothing, I love football. but I don't plan my days around sporting events." 0 THE CHRONICL] Matt Westberg COMMENT Brad Ferris Glenfotest areas using that route more frequently in the mornings 1n fact, those savvy students will soon learn that Laurelwood fWillowWood streets make veryconveniem subur- ban shortcuts. The only little ray of hope in this situation is the Westmount Road extension across the University of Waterloo property. This will alleviate some of the commuter traffic and make excessive speeding somebody else's problem. use a more responsible, common- sense approach to future big pro- jects in our city. Thirdly. what is... the conflict of interest policy all about? Do our councillors think they are above scrutiny? They are elected by the taxpayers and should be account- able. They have done nothing so far to improve their image, so this move was a step backwards. Most cities in southern Ontario have this policy in place already. ls three years too long to be elected to office? Would two years provide better performance? Work on these resolutions and report back to the taxpayers in a few months. My uncle taught me years ago, "You can't make an intelligent deci, sion without going to see the prob- lem." "We're hoping to gel cable just for the Super Bowl. We'll hopefully get two free months to start, then cancel it." "i can't watch tt this year- I'll be studying for my exams." Farhan Khandwallu CHRONICLE l Rob Heinbecker, Kitchener Rob Schummer. Waterloo Paul Dawson Carl Kaufman, As the host of "This Country in the Morning" and "Morningside" Peter Gzowski was the voice that carried me and a million and a half other people through our weekday morn- ings (and, if we listened to "The Best of Morningside", our evenings as well). He simply could not have existed in any milieu other than public broadcasting. He and his guests did all kinds of things that shouldn't have worked on the radio - things like painting a canvass or playing cribbage -- and they did work. He was able to go from a serious political story to a hunt for the best relish recipe within the space of an hour, with- out losing us once, ccording to a current Health Canada advertisement, Aiiitfs?' Canadians will die from tobacco this year." Peter ",zowski is just one of those 45,000.dyingthreeyears after being diagnosed with emphysema and more than 50 years after he had the first of over a million cigarettes. Peter had an excellent command of the English language. but was also the master of the run-on sentence. Adding a few well-placed dashes - along with any number of stock phrases such as "and, I might add" and "not to mention that", Peter was able to make almost anything he said sound grammatical. Even if he didn't succeed in that regard. few 7â€" -w..r."-.-_ of us would have cared, The thought- ‘ , ‘ fulness ofhis musings and the genuine ‘ AN0 . IER ‘ warmth of his voice were what mat- I tered to listeners. r MI [tWI The fact that Morningside was ‘ N 'N- ‘ngg broadcast out of Toronto seemed ‘ _,'i"'dT"'"' . Ea B, ‘ almost incidental. Peter loved every r g A. " part of this country and made every r "__, © a i 1 part of the country love him. Whether a“ "q _ " = it was the north. the prairies. the a IDT, 1'iii" ‘ Maritimes, British Columbia or i LTrua g ‘ Quebec, Peter wanted to know and l ’3; i wanted listeners to know the people of ‘ all of Canada's great regions. His "Song l for Canada". put to music and per- ‘ "?/igliGa ‘ formed by his friends lan and Sylvia, l summed up his desire that Canadians ‘ learn to "talk to each other". With his radio program and his books, Peter Gzowski made that possible. Peter loved to promote Canadian music. and wouldn't play anything else on Morningside. I fast heard Barenaked Ladies. the Rankin Family and hundreds of other artists on his show. He once had both Tom Jackson and Brad Roberts (of Crash Test Dummies) on at the same time, so that he could judge which one had the lower voice. Some of Peter's interviews could move his audience to tears, while others would have us rolling on the floor laughing. Often, he'd accomplish both in the same morning. He talked to vic- tims of sexual abuse. and we learned about sexual abuse. He talked to people with disabilities, and we learned about disabil- ity. There was never a sense of preachiness or pity in Peter's interviews (for example, he told Donna Williams, an autistic woman that "I wish I could see the world through your eyes."). Dalton Camp, Eric Kierans and Stephen Lewis, Peter's long- standing political panel. reportedly said that they each thought Peter was in the other's camp. He was conservative on some issues, and liberal or socialist on others. During the GulfWar. for example. some members of the Brian Mulroney back bench tried to have him pulled from the air, but he was just expressing his feelings as honestly as he could. He was a tough interview- er. Talking to Pierre Trudeau, Gzowski noted that, had the cir- cumstances been different, Trudeau would have been incarcer- ated under the War Measures Act. He told lean Chretien, "C'mon lean; give it to us straight from the heart". He berated Alexa McDonough for meandering around one of his questions (something that her advisors should probably do more often), Quite simply, he was a contrarian, One of my fondest recollections of Peter Gzowski stems from a trip that my wife and I took to the East Coast in the summer of 1991 (I related the story in this space several years ago, but it bears repeating). As we drove through the morning fog on the Cabot Trail. we listened to a repeat of Peter interviewing the remarkable Canadian singer-songwriter Mae Moore about her then-current album "Oceanview Motel". Peter wanted to know whether there was an actual Oceanview Motel that had inspired her writing. "I'm sure there is. but I'm not sure where it might be," she replied, laughing. Within a minute of the end of the interview, we had driven through the village ofCheticamp. right past the Oceanview Motel, " was absolutely magical. . There are thousands of stories like this, rhanyrof which we've been lucky enough to hear over the past week since Peter's death. _ Peter Gzowski was who he was: a great Canadian who will be sorely missed. Peter Gzowski, a great Canadian W