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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 26 Jul 1989, p. 16

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' ilun-mm.oommvuviw f A . S c > " i": C . ‘ c iEARERORZ : $ e .n a s Biys | { oh : BIA comes out:â€"even One group is out, but another may be on its way in. â€" Waterloo city council voted Monday to extend the boundaries of the Uptown Business Improvement Area to include the Regina Sidestreets area but to take out the Erb Centre. “Weh.vencnedtop‘rtinnnbm,"emdlmudby‘ln Hollohan, who chairs the BIA. ‘"There have been suggestions (Erb Centre merchants) that we come back in two years and try T ‘The merchants also agreed to take a 50 per cent refund of their 1989 BIA taxes, he said. ~ But Cindy Brujas, owner of the Dressing Room at the centre, asked council to negotiate a full refund for the merchants from the BIA. "At the Erb Centre we were expecting an anullment and fiot a divorce, so we want a complete refund." permission and with inadequate notice of the city‘s intent, she said. "Those are our own dollars that our businesses have earned and we wish to choose how we benefit." a nyr en becopei>> Council was told the BIA had legal jurisdiction in deciding how much money to refund the Erb Centre merchants. Council voted to Attention then turned to a recommendation to expand the BIA Mmmmm&&m“ At a public meeting , six business pnqflnm&lfifl Road “flMqu&fll‘rfl ining the Staff recommended they not be included in u!% (Other businesses in the area bordered by Erb Street, Creek, Bridgeport Road and Regina Street south of Elgin Street will receive a notice of intent to expand the boundaries. . mwhmmmwmnmw by at least oneâ€"third of the people notified representing at least oneâ€" third of the assessed value of the area. ‘The requirement of a negative petition was said to be the root of the Erb Centre problem by councillors Andrew Telegdi and Robert Brown. "There‘s something wrong with a process where, unless you react to something, you‘re considered a member," said Telegdi. "It seems it should be the other way around." Get your licks at The Cone i s se c S n tw ow s ba hn o on e w o m Nt t m e Yoc t im an City okaysâ€"recycling proj for Waterloo business â€" _ _ The details have yet to be worked out, but Waterioo city council Monday unanimously endorsed extending its recycling program to utilise the truck," said Halcro. Currently, the city has contracted a truck from McLellan Disposal Services Ltd. to collect recyclables from nine apartments, condominiums, townâ€" houses and coâ€"ops. The task force recommended that when the city adds its third recycling truck later this Hrpamtsy Eoproincden dub e cog t that could be recycled," council was told by mumm(ww.m roots i > "'mmhibbdfl"-fi Halcro, who is the manager of Phil‘s Grandâ€" son‘s Place, a King Street restaurant and bar. Halcro volunteered for the task force after ‘The task force originally -:‘yd 40 busiâ€" Avenue. All 20 1 "rlkee buvaraim will ‘be: peovidet : busi will . be i wheeled caddies and blue boxes and -m'fi asked to save tin, glass and paper for recycling. "Too much waste is being put in our landfill sked to save tin, glass and for recyciing. “Onrmmflm-bxhiâ€"-m s 'l'heCooem,hovn{aiu homemade cones, has a "On a good h'winui;' a we in flmfnmth%mloo store," "When I decided : to : goâ€" into business, I looked in:the paper, like that, but I wasn‘t particular: year, Grace Moir, unemployed at Lynne Gourley yOur, urave TEOIT, HHEMIPRUT WE C6 + the time, decided â€" into S0nal, (operating March through boomwase tor heceett * * (October), ‘becatiée ftOwould not _ Today, she is the‘owner of The poule rhop ie k agen in the ne Shoppe, located at 238 King &r_wmm T Y :&e‘h&;coufldendopomngup Although she had never been in third location, z”n’ im a business for herself, Moir said the 281 but is afraid the atmosphere fime had to branch out on Of 2D authentic ice cream parlor ber Igo:elrmkMCmShoppe "I was bored and unemployed," < _ "I don‘t think The C; nidMnir.“Inidtnmvl[:ndnnd M m".l’ go ‘.'ll“' "I was bored and unemployed," said Moir. "I said to my husband almost as a joke, why don‘t you buy me a business, I‘m sick of workingfcothcpeofl;.“ ice cream business accidentally, Moir said she knows the business ‘uflbmhle. "We The Cone Shoppes (there is also another store in Guelph) because it was an estabâ€" dunw‘t hbnnne-.‘fi. " said Moir. "I ve to turn ly interested. My huaband heard about The Cone Shoppe." , Moir added she would not have bought The Cane Shoppes if they ‘l‘-we'fl’t wmtfiohuy a ess .that â€"was dying. We on hi nrmabnnainhe aterioo receive grants covering up to 40 > per cent of the cost, he said. f mE s "We have worked out logistical problems as : © far as we can calculate." _ The task force deliberately concentrated ‘on a small geographic area for the pilot praject. So ;.â€"i’-"r-r-_' ie n cA Tt S r*im Manufacturers have agreed h:m' The u-utdn::rvdmdd type of wante * , Halero #* <iup 1 $4 ::ty-vidghvdswflldnpwhtfllm"h 1 "Town thrind "wo_want: to. be lgthing at jove projg . eracis m emebiling m ber d hy r 9 "The business community contributes +0 se ,,,: s ".“' $s hnd § waie 'fi:..a' he hopes people will one day _ Halcro said he hopes people will .one day mhfimbmflohmflv} nizing those who do not. Meanwhile, "there are (business) people out there interested in recyâ€" cling,andmdbd.fluvx.d‘%}; Task force volunteers will help the city 6 information about the amount of waste being recycled through the program, he said. "I think we can turn over some fairly good numbers, in a short period of time, fairly , and nnh-nnm%. + d.‘mh.-ta:lpdhhfl businesses on some sort of system and this is the start." the waffle cones at the Guélph “’;i.hm'mmldrtneh:s: . cone, and: fl‘“&‘dup.h‘ii' sad on tennis . from iee cream conglomerates in the area m-i!g‘flu her checked over the books carefully and they.showed the business was and it‘s a cheap price." .‘ ‘ ‘The in dant n s mn aom .‘ . «_ mfiwmu«firuh “k,fl" it h (‘;-‘J;. $ c store to the, handmade waffle ns u‘_’.w _";,‘ 4 $ % PooPIe come . inâ€"â€"hereâ€"and> say, ‘isn‘t this cute.‘ We‘ll ‘keep the same concept, it‘s good ite cream Moir said the business is seaâ€" "We do (Continuad ‘dn page 17)"

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