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A story in the May 8 edition of the Waterloo Chronicle dealing with the possible final resting place for sediment from Silver Lake sfidl‘hningwnmdfloylcud.dKi!dm\awminchagcol landscaping for phases one and two of the rehabilitation of Silver in the actual business of landscaping. * The Garden Club of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Art Gallery with the "More Than Monet" flower show, May 29 and 30 at the gallery. The show will feature more than 75 flower arrangements, many of them interpreting works of art, as well as numerous horticultural exhibits. The show will be held each day from 10 a m. to 8 p.m. at the art gallery in The Centre in the Square, 101 Queen St. N. Kitchener. Light meals will be served in Calé Giverny from 11;45 to 1:45, and tea, coffee, fruit and cheese plates, fruit bread and other items will be available throughout the show. Also, master gardeners will be available to answer gardening Tickets are $5 and are available from garden club members at the door, or by calling 579â€"1453. Garden Club honors KW Art Gallety > 3k Clarification SMOOâ€"O0TH & COMFORTABLE eventeen graduate students in the University of Water _« ; bdld:odd.hdmdphmgncfila sible the conversion of Columbia Lake back into a creck The students make the recommendation in a _ report they‘ve prepared for a new graduate work» || * shop course they took this year to determine the wl â€" clfects the university is having on Laurel Creek. _ w24 The final report should be available to the public raxy, P later this month. ° 6 e ' The conversion of Columbia Lake back into a 7 At ; creek was only one of a number of recommendsâ€" Â¥s. 4 tions the students make in their report. The goal 4 of the report was to "provide recommendations for ‘ improving the water quality of Laurel Creek l within the university campus while attempting to balance the interests of all concerned." Other recommendations include: Larry Mart °redminglhesizcoflzunllzkzmdaddmgwahndvcg:u dents tion to it to help filter out impurities "Th * building a main storm water outlet on campus in the form of _ 1ar, a retention pond plann * examining ways to control storm water runoff on university â€" in pro parking lots, including construction of retention ponds § Report calls for conversion of Columbia Lake back to creek ho 4 ue Â¥a 6 & We Te Em 24 "Although we recogruze that some of the re ommendations couldn‘t be feasible for various reasons, or that the university might have 1« undertake a consultation process before it could put the recommendatuions in place these recom farti mendations were the ones that we felt would d« the most for water quality," said one of the stu dents involved in the report, Sue McLernon . in 2 recent interview "Therefore we felt 11 was important to highlight them Larry Marun, a professor in UWs school of urban and regsonal planning and the students‘ instructor, sasd that desprie recent cuts in provincial funding to universities he beheves there is 2 good not mowing grass or by plantuing lowâ€"level shrubs or wild flowers along the creek‘s banks * removing gabions (wire baskets filled with stone ) * creating fiveâ€"metre bufler zones along Laure! Creck either by The students have already made presenmauions of their report to a UW environmental studies class March 25, to UW board of governors buildâ€" ing and properties commutiee March 26 and to the Laure] Creek watershed implementaion advisory commuttee at Waterioo city hall March 27 * converung the reflecting pond in front of the university‘s health and safety buslding back into 2 meandering stream (Continued on page &