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Dwayne Weidendort Group Publisher Group Sales Director/ Associate Publisher Canadian Publications Mail Sales Prod uct Agreement Number 40050478 Intenatonal Standard Serial Number ISSN 0832â€"3410 L nn Bartal Marilun MarAvella Special Profects Special Projects Mgr. 623â€"3050, 623â€"3050, Ext. 206 Ext. 210 The Waterloo Chronicle welcomes letters to the Editor They should be signed with name. address and phone number and will be verified for accuracy No unsigned letters will be published Submissions may be edited for length. so please be brief Managet, EX.230 _ Sales, Fx1.223 Andrea Bailey Bob Vrbanac Editor, Ext. 215 Sports Editor, Ext. 223 mailing address is 279 Weber St. N Unit 20. Waterloo. N2J 1P2 www waterloochronicle.ca Gerry Mattice Bab Zarrycki Letters Policy 5> SK1i Audited circulation: 27.538 Norma Cyca Eric Habich The veterans get to share their stories, and are often thanked for the freedoms they‘ve helped preâ€" serve. He was standing out front of his Waterloo home, on the site of the former Brighton public school, gathered with his parents and neighbours to offer their best wishes to another neighbourhood boy heading overseas. The year was 1939, and Canada was at war. But that didn‘t mean a lot to the sixâ€"yearâ€"old Such, unsure where the young man he knew from down the street was going. With the naiveté of a child, he waved goodâ€"bye, never realizing it was for the last time. The young man waved back and was mm lost to history. "I still have that memoâ€" ry of him," shared Such with The Chronicle a few years ago, offering a glimpse into what drove his work with the local Legion, even though he never served in the Secâ€" ond World War. And as the head of the local Legion, Such knew how quickly those memoâ€" ries were fading, with more and more veterans passing away each year, and less and less of that history being taught in our schools. That‘s why four years ago he started a program called Why Do We Remember? With fewer schools making it to the Rememâ€" brance Day services, he gave thousands of local stuâ€" dents the opportunity to find out something about the sacrifices made by young Canadians not much older than them. And it‘s made a real difference to the veterans and students who share in the experience. For students, it takes history out of the textbooks and puts a face on those who fell in defense of this country, or worked to preserve its ideals. But if there‘s any group that doesn‘t forget, it‘s the veterans. The worry was that with Such‘s passing, the proâ€" gram might lose the passion he brought to it. â€" I;sl we forget wasn‘t just a motto for Gerry Such, it sas a memory. The longâ€"time president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 530, who passed away after a long battle with cancer last summer, often said his starkâ€" est memory came when he was six years old. People like Stan Guthrie, who took over Such‘s duties this year, live by the words penned by Col. John McCrae in his seminal work, "In Flander‘s Fields". Keeping the faith with Such would have made him proud. And that brings me to my favourite memory of Such as he participated in the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Waterloo Cenotaph a few years ago. 1 was taking pictures of the ceremonies when a young girl all in pink came up to lay a wreath. And there was no one prouder of the moment 1 caught than Such, who submitted the shot to a national Royal Canadian Legion publication. They‘ve promised to carry the torch for Such as long as they can. Such looked on with a big smile as the little girl flashed a peace sign to veteran Murray Scherman, who accepted her offering on behalf of local Girl Guides. I was one of the most poignant pictures I‘ve ever taken in my newspaper career. And perhaps a few more people in the crowd will realize that Lest We Forget is more than a motto. This year, 1 suspect 10â€"yearâ€"old Jenna will be back with the rest of her family to lay a wreath in honour of her beloved grandfather, Gerry. 1 found out later the little girl was Such‘s grand daughter, little sixâ€"yearâ€"old Jenna Daum. Program is more than a motto BOB VRBANAC VIEWPOINT Fussing over a couple commas These legal things go slowly, you know. They say they just got the incorporation of Canada settled. There was some hangâ€" up about John A.‘s birthday, and a minor difficulty about Laura Secord and the formation of her candy company. owee! The dollar has climbed Wabove 80 cents, and how do you like that performance? The gain is linked, among other things, to a decline in the U.S. dollar, which has been battered by the mental gymnastics of George Bush. \In addition, one of the lawsuits seeks $10 million in punitive and aggravated damâ€" ages. â€" Court Whist: Waterloo council has lined up a set of lawsuits it hopes will get some major money in four legal actions. It‘s fallout from the RIM Park financing, as you no doubt figured. Council hopes to get $47 million in total. _ That represents $31 million in damages, plus $6 million in special damages to expenses such as the cost of legal proceedâ€" ings. _ s â€" _ The city has hired attorney Morris Manâ€" ning, described as one of Cana~ o da‘s experts in complicated litiâ€" hk gation. ONCI So you can see how the SA hitches develop. On a big set of BA lawsuits â€" as in Waterloo Verâ€" sus Nearly Everybody â€" there are apt to be big fusses over a couple of commas, and the soil‘s capacity to overâ€" come weeds. Or other fine legal points like these. The only way for the country to get out of debt is to declare war on itself and lose. __ When will the verdicts be in? Not next year, brethren. And maybe not in the next decade.. On second thought, you‘d better make it twa decades before we get a decision. One For the Books: Waterloo is going to feel some pressure in the talks on a proâ€" posed joint library with Kitchener. s _ The folk from the bigger city are all for plowing ahead on a decision, and then let‘s get the darn thing built. _ â€" But Kitchener has a lot fewer worries than Waterlao. One, it doesn‘t appear to have any financial heebeeâ€"jeebies of the kind the Waterloo taxpayers face. PROGRAMS GET YOUR PROGRAMC.. YOU CAN T TELL WHO IS SUiNG Wio W THE CITY OF WATERLOO WITHOUT Second, there suddenty appears to be a jgie _ _ "CVy We e | Niree ‘.* N 3 > frses:=~â€"â€" 2 â€"A@Â¥râ€"â€" / big hurry in getting a new library built. Honâ€" est, I can‘t recall any outcry urging that books get more â€" much more â€"space. Thus it has come up with a potent trustee committee which has been making recommendations on a wide array of issues. The rules put a clamp on "derogatory" language, but the fear is it‘ll stop criticisms of board decisions. It seems that almost everybody has an idea of what to do about the government spending. Maybe that‘s how we can raise any money that‘s needed â€" charge a dollar to everyone who wants to give advice. Silence Forever: The Waterloo Region District school board would like the public to have less say over what the board is doing. Still, the committee won‘t have to consult their taxpayers when it produces recomâ€" mendations. And it‘s also produced new rules for folks who want to address the come But if we have to face four more years of George Dubyah, I think I‘ll move to some place that‘s remote to U.S. feeds. And, say, some hospital clerks are mean. They‘re the only people who would say "Have a seat, have a seat please," to a hemâ€" orrhoid patient. As you probably know, I was rooting for John Kerry and at the time of writing, I don‘t know how he fared. Some place where you can‘t be reached by George Dubyah doing speech, music or recitations. The man‘s a fraud, pure and simâ€" ple. Particularly simple. _ Sick Call: Medical coverage is covering our populace like a spring rain. Trustees have been already been seen interrupting people they don‘t agree with. _ Manners, you could say, are a twoâ€"way thing, and surely the trustees are embarked on someâ€" thing hardly worth the effort. Yup, the politicians get made when their campaign promises come back to haunt them. They‘d try and pass a law that all newspapers must be printed in disappearing ink. Or at least in erasable pencil. The Close One: Well, the U.S. election was a close one and, as a duel between two schools, it was as good as they