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Tuesday, July 4, 1995

It's really a glorious fourth

While the Americans enjoy one more day of holiday to wave the star-spangled banner, Canadians are back to work on a perfect summer's morning. The vacation season is definitely with us, though. For example, central stores has announced that, with its staff spread thinner than usual, departments will get just two mail deliveries a day, not the usual four, from now through Labour Day. Some buildings will see the mail carrier on the 8:30 and 12:30 runs, others at 10:30 and 2:30 only.

Some new things are starting, although the traditional "summer session" of classes doesn't exist any more -- there are just three courses (two at Conrad Grebel College and one at St. Jerome's) that begin today. It's the first morning of activities for two children's programs, which explains the worse-than-usual traffic confusion around parking lot H:

And the Shad Valley program for bright high schoolers is under way on campus; more information in a day or two, if I can dig some up.

Up on the rooftop

It's the season for roof repairs, and now that the weather has dried out again, crews should be able to get on with the work. The north and west quads of Village 2 have already been done; now under way is the General Services Complex. (A stack of roofing material for the job has been blocking the driveway into the GSC courtyard since last Tuesday.) Work should be starting on the roof of Chemistry 2 this week, says Hans Knepper of the plant operations department, and after that, it'll be Engineering 2, in the area over the first-year graphics lab.

Safety session offered today

An information session is on tap for today, at 2 p.m., about the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, better known by its acronym of WHMIS. The UW safety office reminds us thusly: "Government of Ontario legislation requires that all employees of the University be made aware of current Health & Safety legislation and the WHMIS Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System program. To facilitate this, the Safety Office has prepared a video decribing the WHMIS program and requirements of the Occupational Health & Safety Act." The presentation, including a brief quiz, runs for approximately 1 hour; it'll be held in Davis Centre room 1304.

On foot across the Arctic

Duane Kennedy of the accountancy school, a well-known local runner, reports on a conversation with another member of the running community, Bonnie Neglia of the civil engineering department. Neglia, he says, has just returned from running the Midnight Sun Marathon on Baffin Island. "The race was held on July 2 in Nanisivik, on the northwest corner of Baffin Island. She was the first place woman in the marathon with a time of 3 hours, 49 minutes. Bonnie also ran the Midnight Sun Marathon last year when she was first in the Masters Women's category."

He adds: "Larry Haworth of the Philosophy department also finished the race, but I do not have a time or finishing position for him. There is a long Waterloo tradition at Nanisivik. Last year, Dave Northey of Kinesiology won the Midnight Sun Marathon. Ralph Haas of Civil Engineering has run the race three times and I ran it in 1992."

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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