y HOWARD MOZEL akville Beaver Staff After having the proposals in its ood plan rejected by an alliance of )akville residents, the Town will ow prepare a report on the group‘s Bunny Bradshaw‘s BOXING DAY â€" DEC. 26â€"27 Square * WALL UNITS . eb c S At . + COFFEE AND END TABLES onnectio * HIGH CHAIRS By encouraging discussions in Cottontall Club 2049 Pine St. English in the classroom where Wes Burlington HOURS: TUES., WED. FAL. 10 A.M..5:30 P.M. * MINWAX PRODUCTS « FINISHING SUPPLIES was an interested observer who also Chlldren § we ar 637â€"2110 THURS. 10 A.M.â€"8 PM., SAT. 9 A.M.â€"4 PM. + HOMESTEAD HOUSE PAINTS gave a presentation on business termiâ€" WMWWMWWWWWMWW%M%MWWM%WM%MWMWWWW 7 own will respond to residents‘ flooding concerns .................... own recommendations Council voted in favor of the move on Monday after Coalition to Protect Oakville Creeks (CPOC) spokesman Brian Chapin outlined his concerns â€" issues which have been aired in recent months OPEN MONDAY The Village through public meetings and petiâ€" tions. With written documentation explaining both points of view, Chapin believes councillors will at last have something solid to comâ€" pare side by side. CPOC organized in August in reaction to the Flood, Erosion and Master Drainage Plan Study preâ€" pared by Town staff and outside consultants which promotes expanded culverts, burms and "channelization" (basically paving a creek bed with concrete) â€" someâ€" thing CPOC is adamantly opposed to. Last month, Chapin called for a "complete and total" moratorium on development in the Wedgewood and Morrison Creeks watershed until solutions to serious flooding TABLES CHAIRS JELLY CUPBOARDS MIRRORS PANTRIES CHINA CABINETS ROCKING CHAIRS SHELVES WALL UNITS COFFEE AND END TABLES THE UNFINISHED FURNITUREWOODEN TOYS Specializing in solid Oak, Pine, Maple, Birch THE OAKVILLE BEAVER problems can finally be addressed. Runâ€"off from the Ford lands, Cornwall Road and other developâ€" ments is both potentially dangerous and ruinous to private properties and the creeks‘ banks, he mainâ€" tains. After a "modest" threeâ€"hour rainfall on August 13, for example, Wedgewood Creek rose five and half feet up its 45â€"degree banks and threatened to flood Wedgewood Drive. The creek is normally only about six inches deep and residents worry about what will happen in a major storm. Continued development, said Chapin, will result in 40% more runâ€"off into Wedgewood Creek and 10% more into Morrison. On Monday, Chapin offered ways to lower the flood plain, reduce eroâ€" + DRESSERS ARMOIRES * TVNCR UKNITS * BAR STOOLS * MICROWAVE STANOS * TOY CHESTS e HIGH CHAIRS sion, protect the natural beauty of the creeks, reduce the danger to life and property and other issues. To accomplish all this, Chapin proâ€" posed the following: â€" Install a suitable combination of diversions and/or storm sewers to take the excess runâ€"off directly to Lake Ontario or Sixteen Mile Creek. â€" Eliminate the channelized secâ€" tion at Cornwall Road and restore this to a more natural watercourse. ( (Continued from page 2) Many of her 20 fashionablyâ€" dressed students were lucky enough to have jobs in firms in which English was necessary and wanted only to become more fluent. A few of them were unemployed but looking to an understanding of English as a positive addition to their resumes. Some of them spoke no English at all, even though she had specified at the start that they needed at least some. Students showed signs of stress "I taught them anyway," she said. "At the end of it, Wes and I were pleased because we felt we‘d made a contribution." By encouraging discussions in English in the classroom where Wes was an interested observer who also gave a presentation on business termiâ€" â€" Minor erosion repair at certain key sites using only natural meth CPOC suggests the Town keep all this in mind when dealing with future developers and that it prepare a byâ€"law which forces the diversion of additional runâ€"off away from the creeks. The coalition would also like to see a policy statement on the proâ€" tection of the town‘s natural enviâ€" ronment. nology, the Peacocks learned much from the students about this emerging democracy where everything was dated as "before perestroika or after, perestroika." Among mainly older citâ€" izens they found a yearning for the good old days of Communism when everyone had at least some money coming in from some job or another. The younger generation, though, seemed more inclined to look to the future and prepare themselves for opportunity, if it should perchance knock on their doors. But the growing pains of a gling new order was evident. On the faces of their students they saw the ravages caused by the October fall of the ruble. One young man, who apparently worked somewhere in the money market, came to school look: ing exhausted from the strain while young woman told the Peacocks that her family‘s chance of getting the apartment it had been saving for had been wiped out. The investment had been lost. "We had some pretty agitated dents," said Winnifred. "The turmofl' affected everybody." With living accommodations at a premium in Moscow, the Peacocks were lucky enough to live in a pres: tige, comfortable clientâ€"arranged apartment while the former occupant was visiting a sick relative. It was close by the world famous Moscow Metro (subway) where they had easy. stops to the Bolshoi Ballet, the Pushkin Art Gallery and the American Embassy, itself a tourist attraction. "Although the boulevards were: still broad and beautiful, the trees and benches in the middle of them didn‘t. seem tended," said a thoughtful! Winnifred. "And the streets weren‘t; swept the way they used to be." As tourists, the Peacocks had visit: ed Moscow10 years before but, as Wes pointed out, "only saw what the Russians wanted us to see." This timeé it was different. Now they were work ers who saw what Russians saw. They, noted «deteriorating buildings, although some of them had scaffoldâ€" ing that indicated a future facelift. And they saw other signs of neglect. ; Nor do the Peacocks remember the giant potholes in the streets or the "old noisy cars" that had to circumvent them, cars that were repaired on the streets because "there are no garages. "On one occasion, we saw what; looked like half a car laid out on the: street," said Winnifred. "We wished:« we‘d had a camera with us." s One innovation that is into Moscow lightened the load a litâ€" tle. Since Wes was in charge of groâ€"" cery shopping, he took advantage of the small supermarkets that were. beginning to open up in the city.. Although marked with American prices, his purchases of basic food; items still had to be paid for in rubles: which the government wants to keep» under its control, he said. But superâ€" markets at least freed him from interminable lineâ€"ups at traditional stores where you first stood in line to: make your choice, then picked up a chit for it and finally lined up again to pay for the item. If you made a mis< take, you had to repeat the whole pro- cess, he said. § Referring again to the swarming incident, Winnifred thought the crime rate was high, although "it‘ wouldn‘t be fair to say Moscow was lawless. _ ; "We asked the students what would have been the response of a policeman if we wanted directions ofr help. They said the policeman would probably want money for it." However, the Peacocks tended td put it down to a state of uncertainty and economic fluctuation besetting the country. With factories closing and even those with jobs not being paid, with unemployment lines growing and with even sports and cultural peo: ple leaving the country to seek their fortunes elsewhere, an economyâ€" based psychological turmoil has been created where citizens don‘t know from one day to another what will happen next. s s C That could account for the feelin; of anger Winnifred sensed in bus subway passengers as they pushe: and elbowed their way through th crowds. "We‘ve been in many countries§ and used their transportation syste but never in the world have I felt that sense of anger," she said. "I think might be due to a loss of dignity f many people who are reduced to sell: ing something on the streets to vive." $ December 26, 1994