Daily Bulletin, Thursday, August 11

SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION:  The ring road construction near Matthews
Hall, home of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, will build
a sidewalk to offer improved pedestrian safety.

The sidewalk construction is a "safety and accessibility" issue
for pedestrians in the area, said Dave Churchill, director of
technical services at plant operations. This is especially true
during the winter, he told Martin Van Nierop, director of
Information and Public Affairs

The new sidewalk will benefit people with disabilities, as well
as joggers and people out for stroll, Churchill said.

But to make way for the sidewalk a berm had to be levelled and a
number of mature trees cut down, causing a degree of
consternation among staff at Matthews Hall.

"When I questioned the destruction of large trees, I was told
that the deciduous trees were either too large to move or could
not be successfully transplanted at this time of year," said Judi
Carter, a staff member in AHS.  (Carter's account is from her
report yesterday to uw.ahs.general news group.)

"Many of the evergreens on campus are suffering from disease and
will have to be removed anyway, so the evergreens were cut too."

On a more happy note, Carter said that some new trees will be
planted once the sidewalk is built.

MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP:  A UW scholarship has been set up in memory
of Warren Lavery, a Waterloo junior Expos baseball player killed
in a car accident July 11.

Lavery, 20 was a first-year kinesiology student at UW.  The
scholarship, initially worth $500, is open to full-time
undergraduates entering second-year studies in kinesiology.
Eventually, with further fundraising, the scholarship will amount
to $1,000 in value.

Contributions to the Warren Lavery Memorial Award can be made at
the university's student awards office.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED:  Here are a few volunteer positions available
as of August 5 at the Volunteer Action Centre in Waterloo.  If
interested, please call the centre at 742-8610.

Walk-A-Thon Assistants.  "This is an opportunity to make a
difference and be part of a unique and exciting event which will
promote AIDS awareness.  Various committee positions are
available, or you may wish to be involved in the actual event."
Position #133-662.

Tutor.  "Learner based literacy tutors are needed to work with
adult students who are on probation or parole.  After training
you will be matched with a student." Time commitment:  about two
hours a week for eight months.  Position #140-465.

Conference Registration Clerk.  "A conference dealing with a
disorder which affects only the female population, particularly
young girls at the six- to 18-month stage of development, is
being held in October.  As a registration clerk, you will be
asked to record and confirm all incoming registrations and report
to the conference planning committee."  Time commitment:  two or
three hours per week until October.  Position #036-963.

Host Family.  "Bring some joy to your own family by becoming a
friend to this delightful nine-year-old girl who has a moderate
physical disability.  The child enjoys swimming, crafts, dolls
and spectator sports.  It is preferable if you have a child of
similar age."  Time commitment:  four hours a week, every two
weeks for one year.  Position #034-965.

PLAY TIME:  The King Rudolph Players, a new theatre company
founded by UW drama students and recent graduates, continues
performing its inaugural play tonight and until the weekend.

"The House of Blue Leaves," by American playwright John Guare,
and directed by UW drama graduate Jennifer Epps, runs through
Saturday in the Waterloo Community Arts Centre located at the
Button Factory (25 Regina St. S., near the train tracks).  Show
time is 8 p.m.

ALTERNATE LANDSCAPES:  Two UW students are giving the public a
glimpse tonight into the world of alternative landscaping.

Cheryl Evans and Katherine Dale, both in environment and resource
studies, will give a lecture and tour of the three alternative
gardens they designed and planted this summer at the Steckle
Heritage Homestead.

The gardens consist of a drought-resistant garden (xeriscape);
native forest garden; and low-maintenance ground cover garden.

The two-hour lecture and tour will take place at 811 Bleams Rd.
in Kitchener, beginning at 7 p.m.  Tonight's lecture is part of a
series intended to educate people about the significant resource
and natural habitat drains caused by the cultivation of
chemically treated lawns.

John Morris,
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4567, ext. 6047
jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca