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Drawing presented by Big Sisters to Dream House campaign chairman Murray Haase in recognition of his efforts to make the fund-raising drive the success it was. Chromde Staff A long-held dream is becoming a reality for K-W and Area Bin Sis ters. With the estimated $120,000 profit from last week's Dream House Lottery added to money already raised in its capital campaign. Big Sisters has collected sufficient money to purchase a permanent home of its own. _ Ten employees of Cambridge", planning and engineering depart- ment won the $150,000 fully-fur nished home on Kingsford Drive in Waterloo, when their ticket was drawn last Wednesday. "It was fantastic. It went better than we expected," said Dream House campaign chairman Murray Haase. "People caught the Dream House fever - we could have sold another 3,000 tickets.“ Although Big Sisters limited sales of the $100 tickets to 3.000. campaign organizers were more than a little concerned last month when only LU!) tickets had been sold. The Waterloo County Separate School Board has moved quickly to find an interim replacement for its departing director of education. Jack Chinrelli. I ibyear veteran ofthe board. has been selected to fill the vacancy. He is currently the board‘s superintendent of curricu- Dream come true for Big Sisters RC Board names interim director Thunks for tINtting us nwr tlw top'. Moves quickly "Three weeks before the draw. " really took off and it never stopped after that." said Haase. attributing the last-minute surge to media support and the (-oncern of area residents “that Big Sisters wasn't mum: to make it .. The Dream House campaign wax the "last thrust" m a fund raising drive launched almost two years agu by Big Sisters. said fund-raising co-ordinator Phyllis Fiskem Chiarelli temporarily fills the post left "cant by Frank Clifford. who is joining the provincial Ministry of Education team. The next job, she said, is to undertake the search for a new building in the area to purchase and renovate for use as Big Sisters' new headquarters. Fisken stressed that all money raised through the Dream House and other capital campaign efforts will be used only for the acquisition and upkeep of the new headquarters. and will not go to cover the organization's operating expenditures Chiarelli will carry on as interim director of education tor the rest of the school year. but in the mean- time. the been] will begin the search tor a permanent reNAemea" "Big Sisters has moved eight times in 15 years - the need is there, We couldn't have done it without Murray's help." she concluded. Mqtetdqq “"th Chronicle Staff It started " a brewery; became a Insanit- temple; was transformed into a porno movie house; and last year, almost became the borne of a local theatre group. What has long been known as the Majestic Theatre on Prin- cess Street was sold Monday, and if its new owners have their way. we'll see history repeat itself, as the building will be renovated and used again as a brewery. Sonia and Bernie Adlys. owners of the Kent Hotel on King Street, have purchased the vacant theatre adjacent to their hotel, for an undisclosed amount. "We always had it in the back of our minds to buy the piece _ it belongs with our building. It's always been a sore thumb there, and people are always surprised that we don't own it," explained Although the Adlys' have no immediate plans for the struct ture. which has been vacant for some four years. they are con- sidering a number of alternate uses including a banquet hall, brewing museum. and possibly an extension to the Kent. "Our ideal would be to go right back to the building's roots," she said - restore the building to its original condition and use it as a brewery, where they could produce beer for sale at the Kent. although a change in the province's liquor laws is necessary before that could happen. "We have to think about it, see what this area wants and needs before we make a deci, sion," Sonia said, Establishing a brewery at that site would take the building a full circle, since the entire structure at King and Princess Street was originally built as the home oi the Lion's Brewery and C Huetherrs Hotel. A thick brown nlefolder kept try the Adlys family. crammed with photos and copies of every bit of information they could locate about the Lion's Brew, ery. is a testament to their long-standing interest in the building's history Further proof is the lime. effort and money they have Display advertising' deadlines and editorial deadlines are Thursday, Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. Classified deadlines are Friday, Dec. 21 at 12 Just as a reminder, here are the deadlines in the various departments of the Waterloo Chrom icle for our Boxing Day issue Dec. 26. Anyone wishing to submit advertising for Boxing Day sales and so on therefore must have their copy in by Thursday of _titis week, -.. Readers are also reminded that carriers will be starting their Voluntary Paid subscription collections beginning tonight for the December draw. Carriers must have their collection money in to the Chronicle by Saturday, Jan. 5, Waterloo Chronicle‘s apartment subscription program is being advertised on page 4 of the Dec. 12 and IS Chronicle. Apartment readers should note that once the subscription program is in place. there will no longer be any drop-om of Chronicles in apartment lobbies. only to the doors of those apartment dwellers who sub, scribe to the paper There is a maul of winners in this month‘s Voluntary Paid subscripdon drive, which netted an lucky winners 815 gift certificates each at Mr. Grocer to help purchase that Christmas turkey or ham. ' Winners are: B.StettheatsofMarfhehd Ave.; D. Jackson of Ertt St, W.: N. Hutu“! of Chris- History jn the making with sale of theatre? Kent owners purchase Majestic Important notices! spent over the years to preserve the section of the building they Since purchasing the Kent In WIS. Sonia said there has been an “ongoing process" of contin- ual repairs and Improvements. "We've never stopped - al- most everything here is new, but nobody ever realized what we were doing until this year. Now everyone's asking ‘why are you doing it,' but we've never stopped," she said. NAM m. WY. new 10. I” - PAGE 3 Previously their emphasis had been on structural improve- ments, but this year marked the start of the Adlys's dream to restore the appearance of the building. "During the late '50s and early 'dttr. we saw it all being modernized and (the building) hidden behind coats of paint, plaster and panelling. Now, we're taking it all off." Sonia said. Ambitious though the job may seem, the Adlys' hope to restore the hotel and brewery building to some of the lost splendor from the early 19003, when the Huether Hotel was "the" place to stay in Waterloo. The Adlys' estimate they've already spent some $100,000 this year on the facelift, which included sandblasting of the exterior. opening up windows which had long been covered over, and totally refurbishing one of the main floor rooms. Drawing ot the Kent Hotel building as it was in the late 18003, when it was occupied by the Lion's Brewery and the C. Huether Hotel. In an article on new Waterloo County Separate School chairman Anne Marie Sehl last week, lnlemce was made that a new Catholic school will be built in Waterloo‘s Beechwood West sub According to Sehl, the board's long-range plans do Include future accommodatlon require- meats. However, while the hoard currently owns a school site In the Hallman Road area. it has not been decided as yet how that location will fit into the long-range plans, since the board is now extoeeetratirttr on the Immediate needs to Introduce grade II at St. David school. topher Dr; R. Neuman of Black Oak Cres.: J, Geddes of Bluevale St. N.: F, Zarnke of Albert St.: H. Wassing of Glen Echo Crt.: J, Boisvert of Bluevale St. S.; W. Gies of Ashcroft Pl.: 1. Becker of Sunview St.: Mrs. Allard of Weber Str. S. McDonald of Westcourt Plr, FI Dahmer of Dawson St.; Bekermans of Longwood Dr.: W. Newberry of King St. N.; L. Drago Sr, of Dietz Ave,; P. Philpott of Algonquin PL; C. Brown of Churchill St.: P. Muncaster of Albert St. and A, Snider of Fallingbroolt Dr. Carriers are now making their December collections. with the prize being $75 cash for four lucky winners. certainly a timely item when the Christmas bills start rolling in. Clarification known as the Penalty Box Their winter project is to complete renovation of the hotel's entranceway. Sonia adds cost of the work would have been much higher, but her sons did much of the work themselves. "We've always been interest, ed in the history of the building. Our objective is to restore it as much as we can. We could have hired people to do some of the work my sons did. but they wouldn't have taken the care because the building has no meaning for them." she said. Sonia AdIys