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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 26 Jul 1989, p. 1

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terloo city council Monday voted to proceed with construction and set a Sept. 1, 1990 opening date. milttn ant coly fave esnt ie illi ly have seating for 400,.but a second ice pad will be built at the site of the Albert t & 1, 1990 opening date. tions came from Coun. Robert "Quite frankly, I‘d rather raise Brvvn,vl»-fl."firencuyt_h money for the (Uptown parking) same amount of money as we will garage," Telegdi shot back. "It commit ‘tonight for a twinning of sounds like we‘ll have lots of time Albert McCormick arena, we to do that." could become partners (with the The issue of housing the Siskins private sector) in a 7,000 seat hockey team was again raised by arena." a Coun. Lynne Woolstencroft. The Brown said he feared if this executive of the franchise has arena was built, the pressure been said to be considering movâ€" mdhe'mlfl_ndfiur.qnhty ing the franchise, she said. enantabre Ensl T__ T favor of the arena. Opp "How are they going to survive in a 400â€"seat arena. I‘d like to ask Coun. Hull because he seems to be the fountain of all hockey information right now." Turnbull raised concerns that "‘the more seats you put in, and the larger the ice surface you build at ‘Albert McCormick, the less the incentive for building a central recreation facility." Replied Brown: "You‘ve just said we‘ve built a facility that‘s bad enough that the community won‘t let us off the hook."

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