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Securities*, Peter Cross * , Tootsies, Sean Strickiand* M mss w m Waterloo Chronicle Due to the Ontario teachers‘ strike, the playoft picture looks pfetty grim for high *Selected areas only To top it all off, Ferguson has decided to move from her house largely because of the dog attack. Gadbois, who actively tried 10 rescue Eddie the z:flheltxkflddlehddeuhuldihg on her. Ferguson‘s dog, Eddic, a oneâ€"yearâ€"old German shepherd/collie cross, had to have its right hind leg mouth after the pit bull attack. The final veterinarâ€" solved the city‘s problems with pit bulls? Not according to at least five woman who live in the Park Street/Norman Street area of the city. Melanie Ferguson and Marie Curnming Stee} of Park Street and Agnes Gadbois, Jennyfer Merrifield and Julic Harwood of Norman Street are all upset about the lack of control the regulations seem to have on pit bulls after a registered pit bull viciously attacked Ferguson‘s dog in her own backyard Oct. amputated and received dozens of stitches in its Has the adoption of strict regulations to control pit bull dogs in the City of Waterloo effectively m:mw,hdwm.-dumrm,h-,u. Place‘s Spooktacular Halloween Block Party. * Pit bull attack shocks residents 4P CLOWNING AROUND Chronicle Staff Ferguson said in an interview last Friday that she was in her first floor apartment in a home on Park have a sixâ€"yearâ€"old daughter," Cumming Steel said. **I just live next door.‘ And I just thought had she or 1 been standing there, it could have been her. It could easily have been her." *And if we had been standing there when that dog came out the door ... It was just a very scary experiâ€" on Park Street and who also witnessed the attack Oct. 20, said last Friday she felt very much the same house many times. And it could have been my "It‘s had a lasting effect on me because all 1 could think of was, What if it had been my child?" Gadâ€" bois said in an interview last Friday. *As you‘re standing there, completely helpless, pfi;flhimmml kept We have over 28 kids under the age of five on Norman Street. We have walked by that Cumming Steel, who lives right next to Ferguson nemsws." d en unsl stvanal (Continued on page 11) '-vld-dylflddbyn:b:'u&“. _ _Local teachers will defy court injunction, _ "We are making a moral stand in order 1o protect the classrpom," Byers said "The government has called what we‘re doing illegal. IT‘m not saying whether i is or not. To tell you the truth, 1 don‘t really know" "But if the government says it‘s illegal, what will passing a law or an imyunction do t get us back into the classroom? It won‘t do anything." When asked directly whether teachers would remain on strike if an injunction was liled, Byers said, "Yes, absolutely" of filing the injunction by this Friday If teachers obey the injunction, they might reurn to Ontario classrooms by early next week. â€" Mowever Byers said although he couldn‘t speak for all local seachers, he had vis ited teacher picket lines both at Kitchener Collegiate Institute and Bluevale Colleâ€" giaie Instituie Tuesday morning and the comments were all the same. Teachers would not be returning to their classrooms uniil the government agreed to make some changes o Bill 160, its education reform bill. Tom Byers, chiel negotiztor lor District 24 Warerloo of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, said Tuesday he believes local wachers will dety 2 coun injunction requiring them w return to work if provincial Education Minisâ€" ter Dave Johnson decides to wke such action. Johnson said Monday the government was collecting information with the ides Local eachers will not reurn 1o classes next week if the files a court injunction to make them do so, says a local us In the meantime, Nancy Wagner, a Waterioo resident and 2 director of the Orga says union rep (Continued on page ZZ)