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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 26 Apr 1995, p. 3

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K v> <wn o â€"â€" Coun. McKinnon, however, said, the train is positive for the community, and "I have no intention of impeding it." The National Transportation Agency is mandated to respond to the railway proposal by the end of July. Corey Hinrichs, who heads up the Waterlooâ€"St.Jacobs Railway project, has said he hopes to open the railway for business by fall. Waterloo Region‘s oldest coâ€"operative preschool will celeâ€" brate its 25th birthday this week with an open house at its facility on Avondale Street in Waterloo. Linda Stearns, a teacher at the school, says a parentâ€"run school â€" where parents work together in administering the school and assisting in the classroom â€" was a relatively new idea 25 years ago when the Waterloo Coâ€"operative Preschool was founded. The school‘s board of directors, Stearns says, is aware of the changing needs of today‘s families, and has adapted the school to meet those needs. Some changes have included in which parents participate through committee work or by driving on field trips, instead of in the classroom. An Open House will be held at the school, 9 Avondale Ave. S., April 29 from 1 to 3 p.m. The event will feature clowns, games, face painting, music, balloons, cake, and a treeâ€"planting ceremony. All students and families, past and present, are welcome to attend. are children. (The train is) going to go slowly, and the chilâ€" dren will want to play ‘chicken‘," Cecilia Sgro told council. After the meeting. Carlo Sgro said he was surprised by council‘s decision to stick with its original position of supâ€" port (in principle) for the train. Train Several Canada Post Corporation outlets throughout Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo will provide extended hours of service May 1 to accommodate lastâ€"minute income tax filers. Outlets that will remain open until midnight include: Bauman Superette, 61 John St. E., Waterloo; Little Short Stop, 450 Erb St. W., Waterloo; Little Short Stop, 373 Bridge St. W., Waterloo; University of Waterl00; HiWay Market, 1375 Weber St. E., Kitchener; Little Short Stop, 120 Ottawa St. N., Kitchener. Oldest co-o; preschool celebrates 25th birthday Midnight postal service offered to tax filers News Digest "I don‘t think there is any harm in asking for a public Traffic Talk, provided by the City of Waterloo public works department, answers common quesâ€" tions about Waterloo‘s roads. If you have a question you‘d like answered, call Tara Mann at 747â€"8747. (Continued from page 1) In what police consider to be incidents related to the street party, business stuâ€" dent Stephen Mitchell, 23, was hit by a car driven by student Corey Hallman, 23, while crossing King Street not far from Ezra. Mitchell is being treated in more the police service could have done to prevent this," Jardin told council. hospital for severe head injuries, a broâ€" ken pelvis and internal bleeding. Hallâ€" man is charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm and with being over the legal alcohol limit. Eric Kwok, 23, has been charged with assault causing bodily harm after stuâ€" dent Linda Silva was hit in the head with a piece of concrete on King Street scene was no rowdier than on any other Saturday night. But Staff Sgt. Rick Hunt said as soon as police began enforcing liquor and noise laws, "the eggs and the beer bottles started." "In the span of an hour, they just came and came and came. We would take them around the corner and they would just come back (to Ezra). They and $2,000â€"$3,000 damage was done to At the street party itself, 42 people were charged, 38 of them with liquor didn‘t get the message." Bad apples to be disobedient.‘ Ten officers were hit with beer bottles, *I dqn‘t kpow, quite frankly, what "To some, it was a small" and the campus is "very open". Jardin said such a party would create "a whole series of problems for the camâ€" pus". If a largeâ€"scale party cannot be staged on campus, Connolly said, "The only solution is for the students to police themselves and act responsibly." Several councillors expressed their support for the hard line on lawhreakâ€" ing students Marsden said she intends to take. (Continued from page 1) Hunt blamed "a certain member of the print media" for inciting students by "creating news and not reporting it" in the weeks leading up the street party. Councillors Joan McKinnon, Bruce Alexander and Mike Connolly said Wilâ€" frid Laurier University should hold a party on campus next April where it could be kept under control. WLU presiâ€" dent Lorna Marsden said all "every posâ€" sibility" would be looked at, but she noted that WLU‘s security force is "very McCormick said the police "could have been more proactive" by having a dialogue with students in the weeks before the street party instead of issuing While no plans for avoiding another Ezra Street party in 1996 were agreed on at the council meeting, a wide range of possibilities were suggested. "We are planning to take severe disciâ€" plinary action," she told council. Incoming WLU Student Union presiâ€" dent Scott McCormick said, "I feel the students were acting as private citizens and should be treated as private citiâ€" "To some, it was a challenge, a chalâ€" lenge to be disobedient." WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1995 â€" PAGE 3 Laâ€"Zâ€"Boy® SLEEP SOFAS SINGLE DOUBLE QUuEEN SIZES *ir t o TRsimblaAe hinestâ€" 56 ST. GEORGES SQUARE, GUELPH 821â€"7982 8 KING STREET EAST, KITCHENER 745â€"5058 Canada‘s Largest DEPENDABLE SERVICE SINCE 1959 46 King St. N., Waterioo 886â€"2040 Friday 9â€"9, Saturday 9â€"5:00 FREE PARKING AT FRONT & REAR OF STORE Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9â€"5:30 Gflan Slighy s Waterloo chiropractors particiâ€" pating in the Food Instead of Fees campaign are Orchard. Jennifer Heick, D.S. Higginson. Roger Hollingsworth, Cal Keil, Bryan Lawrence, Scott Martin, Gunter Moeller and Jeff Winâ€" As a community service. each participating chiropractor i< colâ€" lecting food of the same value as his/her professional fee and donating all fees received durning a specified period (usually a halfâ€"day) to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region It is the third year tor what has been dubbed the "Food Instead of Fees" campaign. In 1993, $4,500 and 3,000 lbs of food were donated. Last year the totals were $4.100 and 2.700 lbs The region‘s chiropractors speâ€" cialize in the rehef of pain. but next week they will be helping to relheve hunger "We wanted to think of a way we could give something back to the community." said Dr Davd Orchard. a Waterloo chiropracâ€" tor. Donations of food and fees colâ€" lected by chiropractors will be picked up by the Dynamex Rockets, the clown, (also known as Joe Moores), lim bers up in preparation for Sunday‘s Super Cities Walk for Multiple Scierosis which began at the Univerâ€" sity of Waterloo. The walk attracted around 1,100 walkers and raised close to $100,000 in pledges. SUPER TWIN CITIES WALK! (Continued on page 5)

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