Edmonton Journal from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada • 14

i i EDITOR: CATHERINE CARSON Monday. January 31. 1977 14 I Camsell staff, residents clash Employees of Charles Camsell two-way traffic. At the meeting in that parking be banned along 124th crossing between 97th and Hospital and residents of 127th Street Westmount Community Hall, they Street during peak traffic periods, Streets, or between 127th Street and met head on at a meeting to discuss argued that one-way traffic creates a They were cool to other proposals ex- the St. Albert Trail, traffic problems.

safety problem making it difficult for cept that calling for a cul dc sac at the Peonle to the east nf 127th Str-t JvV The Camsell employees want the ambulances and fire trucks to reach north end of 127th Street south of the favor the use of diaeonal cut-offs Street returned to iwwwoy uoinw, mt iiujyiuu uuni uic urn ui. inieiacviion wun i loin venue. alona minor res dent 1 streets and a i with no restrictions or barriers. They complained it is awkward for They didn't think council would go svstcm 0f barriers alona 127th Street A 1 A 1 Xi ui't; 1 i lib iv.iiuviiia uiu wain m- jhivvt Miiui iu aiiu Hum nvik aiiu jy iui uua, uiciv fias uccu prcssuic vj turned into a major arterial route, pose any suggestion of barriers. promote 1 27th as a major thorough-They will accept two-way traffic only One resident, P.J.

Clooncy, says fare, said committee chairman Ed if" some system of barriers or cul de people in the area "are very strongly Bridges. 1 sacs is used. committed to keeping the one-way." Everyone at the meeting agreed At one point a Camsell employee The meeting was called to discuss that a long range program is needed, suggested if residents don't want to traffic problems along 127th in par- The two most frequently heard live on a major route, they "should ticular, and in the Westmount and In- suggestions were the upgrading of sell their houses and move out." glewood neighborhoods in general. Groat Road, so it can carry more Residents of 1 30th and 131st Streets favor the return of 127th to two-way traffic, with no barriers. The 131st Street group also called for construction of an interchange at Groat Road and 1 1 1 th Avenue.

The six-month trial period of 27th as northbound one-way between A resident countered that hospital This follows up on public meeting traffic; and the development of anew Stony Plain Road and 118th Avenue employees "should get a job some- held last fall after which proposals route from the northern part of the ends at the end of February. Mr. where were presented to city traffic plan- city, which would involve the build- Bridges hopes the city will hold pub- Camsell employees have petitioned ners. ing of a new railway underpass or ov- lie hearings in the area before decid- city council to return 127th Street to The officials endorsed a suggestion erpass. At the moment there is no ing on the street's ultimate fate 4t A I VI AHC near decision point on seniors housing site WEST Mike Braithwute is your neighborhood reporter Contact him at The Journal.

425-91 20. with news of your area. Deadline 5 p.m. Wednesday for publication Monday. an BOUNDARY If lid include about 50-55 units can begin.

The project wa started by West-Ingle and has been approved by the AHC. The funds are in the budget- and the project is on. says West-Ingle member P.J. Clooncy. Meanwhile, the St.

Andrew's Housing Ltd. group is negotiating with AHC and Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for funds for its proposed senior citizens' high rise development Alberta Housing Corporation is on the verge of choosing a site for a senior citizens home in the West-mount-Inglewood area. A meeting of the West-Ingle Community Development Association was told AHC is looking at two properties in the area. It is expected the corporation will shortly choose the site it wants. Then planning for the centre expected to on 111th Avenue west from 127th Street Mitch Collins of St, Andrew's says he hopes to see a start on construction of the $10 million seven-storey structure "sometime before August." The West-Ingle people, who object to the height of the St.

Andrew's proposal (they want it limited to four storeys), decided some time ago to develop a senior citizens' residence of their own for their community. Elmwood-Aldergrove students count their pennies Piggy banks emptied to helv the disabled Council to hear 2 bylaw changes A bylaw amendment arising from lengthy negotiations and a land swap will go before city council Feb. 8. The land in question, known as the Bremner Estate, lies between 1 16th and 1 18th Avenues west of 142nd Street. The amendment will exempt the property from the city's redevelopment levy which is required when an older, established area is redeveloped.

Funds from it go toward the It must have cleaned out juht about every piggy bank and penny jar in Elmwood and Aldergrove. But the students at Elmwood Elementary School. 16325 83rd Ave. came up with $150 for the Associated Canadian Travellers (ACT) Telerama this past weekend. They collected it all in pennies, then put them in rows to measure exactly how many they had.

It came out to 290 metres (about 900 feet). The money was then put into 50 cent rolls by the downtown branch of the Bank of Montreal. The 600 students at the school wanted to do their bit for Edmonton's disabled, says Elmwood principal K.H. Sealc. The school is actually two schools one while students from Aldergrove wait for their new school on 182nd Street between 84th and 85th Avenues to be finished, probably by the end of February.

Elmwood has 3X0 students and Aldergrove has about 220. Proceeds from the telerama are helping equip the first phase of the recreation centre for the disabled being developed in Rundle Park. development of public reserve lands. The developer began assembling land some two years -M' 1 1'M beiore tne redevelopment levy came into being. The city needed the original land so a trade was arranged with the de veloper taking the Bremner Estate.

The developer feels he shouldn't have to pay the levy which came into existence while negotiations were in prog Police calls JP Comp sponsors photo competition ress and the municipal planning commission agrees. The same council meeting will consider a application to rezone a piece of land south of 105th Avenue and west of 1 70th Street from AG-MR 1 (industrial reserve) to M-l and M-2 (both industrial district). The M-l area involves tight controls on appearance and landscaping while M-2 is somewhat less demanding. The MPC also approves this move. Coming events A photography contest for high school students in Edmonton.

St. Albert and Sherwood Park, is sponsored by Jasper Place High School Photo Club. Physics teacher J.M. MacKeage, co-sponsor of the club, says winning photos will be displayed in Mea-dowlark Shopping Centre, 87th Avenue and 156th Street, Feb. 17, 18 and 19.

City police were investigating a rash of motor vehicle accidents following Thursday's snowfall. Streets and avenues in west Edmonton, as elsewhere in the city, were slippery because of the new snow and many minor accidents resulted. Some break-ins were reported in businesses and homes, but not in unusual numbers. Fire calls Edmonton fire department answered 19 calls in the west end this past week. Eight were fire calls, none involving serious damage or injury; five were service calls, dealing with smoke, odors and the like; and six medical aid calls.

A FILM program for children also begins at 2 p.m Saturday for four weeks in Jasper Place library.Pre-reg-istration required. FILMS for children 6-12 will be shown starting Saturday at 2 p.m. in Woodcraft Library, 13420 114th Ave. ASTRONOMY for ever-starts Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Jasper Place library, 9010 156th Fee for the six-week course taught by the extension services of the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium is $5 for students, $8 for adults, or $12 for a parent and child together.

PRE-SCHOOL story hours for children to five resume in Jasper Place library. Sessions are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at Entrants must be a full-time high school students in either the public or separate school systems of Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park. The deadline for entries is 3 p.m. Feb.

14. Photos can be mailed or delivered to the JPCHS Photo Gub, care of Jasper Place Composite High School, 8950 163rd St. The contest has three categories: black and white, color print and color slide. Students in the black and white category must print their own pictures. Color prints and slides can be printed commercially.

There are three cash awards in each category. They are: black and white, $32, $22 and $16; color print, $16, $11 and and color slide, $11. $8 and $5.60. The amounts are scaled to the degree of effort in producing each entry. The winning photo display will coincide with the shopping centre's annual Photo Fair, which begins Feb.

14. THORN CLIFFE Babysit-, ting Registry number is 487-6009 and can be called any day after 1:30 p.m. Road closures City engineers report there ill be a road closure in west Edmonton, starting today. The closure affects about 500 feet of 156th Street north of 118th Avenue, which is being closed for sewer construction. The road should be re-, opened in.

about 10 days. A detour route is being indicated by signs. Work continues on sewers in the Mayfield subdivision. Other than these, no other road closures are planned in west Edmonton this week. Activity and care helps problem youngsters After four program helps in socializing People KA fa- -1 pi lif; "who spend some time with these children" while being neither teacher nor parent to them.

For this reason they try as much as possible to avoid formality although some structure is needed if anything is to be accomplished. Children are encouraged to choose what activity to participate in. The program was tried at Thorncliffe on a pilot basis last year with teen-age volunteers. The idea seemed to produce positive results, so it was decided to run it again this year, with paid staff. Bob and Donna both work as teacher aides at the school during regular class hours.

She has a background in music but "loves working with children" and he has some theatre experience gained while attending the Univers' ty of Alberta. Bob has also been involved in two drop-in centres with older children. This program is financed under a federal LIP grant. Thorncliffe principal Len Ramsay said this could create a problem to it in the long run, because the federal government intends to discontinue LIP grants after this year. Organizer would like to make it permanent.

It is slated to end June 17. The main effort now is to try to extend it through the summer holidays and into the 1977-78 school year. "We're hoping maybe a service club or organization might help out when the LIP grant ends. The big problem is, as always, money," says Mr. Ramsey.

A special program in west Edmonton is helping children who have trouble making friends, mixing with their peers, or finding things to do. Called Youth After Four, it operates four days a week at Thorncliffe School, 8215 175th St. and involves 65 children in Grades 1 through 6. It differs from other after school programs which are designed primarily for children of working parents and operate in the hours before and after school. Youth After Four has no early morning or noon hour supervision.

Directors Donna Seidel and Bob McLauchlin work with a different group of children each day. It offers a variety of activities for children such as games, sports activities and crafts and puts special emphasis onto teaching children to socialize. Bob and Donna explain that the children in the program are the type who don't make friends easily and have trouble mixing with their peers. They have trouble finding things to do in their leisure time and without the program "would just sit around watching TV." Many are from single parent homes. Bob estimates that 65-70 per cent of them are latch-key children.

They were referred by their teachers (all are students at Thorncliffe) or came as the result of a form letter circulated to parents in the school's attendance area. Donna and Bob believe they fulfill a special role in that they are two adults Two Grade 9 students from HiDcrest School, 16400 80th are headed for the northern finals of the Alberta high school debating championships to be held in the city next Monday. Scott Jarron and Valerie Curtis are members of the school's debating club, whose staff advisor is LeR oy Smith, The patient and family counselling department at the Misericordia Hospital has a new social worker, June Murray, who has been with the Royal Alexandra Hospital most recently.She began work last Monday. Valerie M. Forest has resigned from the staff of Yoimgsfown School, 10330 163rd St.

Mrs. Forest has taught' in the public school system for six years. MoDy Basaraba of Alberta Housing Corporation reports confusion arises over the role of AHC and the Alberta Home Mortgage Corporation, which came into being last June. AHMC helps Albertans with low and average incomes buy a home, and encourages construction by private developers of new rental accommodation "to be marketed at reasonable monthly costs." AHC concentrates more on what she calls "social housing" involving senior citizen accommodation, public housing, native housing and the like. It's magic! Magician Brian Alloway entertains youngsters at Jasper Place library, 87th Avenue and 156th Street.

The magic show was one of a series of Saturday afternoon program at the library designed for young children..