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Shazce m After the official news that she‘s the next of W-mmmdfl)nabdhdmm lations by retiring Coun. Tricia Siemens. Crossword . inserts delivered with this week‘s Waterioo Chronicie Point guard Mano Watsa and his fellow UW Warâ€" riors couldn‘t keep pace with the St. EX. Xâ€"Men in the Naismith Classic *Selected areas only. eteiere B ovnberralt 21 School of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo, it could be St. Jude‘s School." "But the school (building) lends itself 10 another school and we hope that we will be able to artract another private school in there." Apart from the fact the building lends itself to being a school, Fahel said perhaps the more important reason for turning Alexandra back into a school again is because of what it could do for uptown Waterloo. "There was a school there and there were 300â€"400 students there at one time," he said. "And if we bring students to the uptown, their parents are going to come uptown and we‘re going to create a little bit of movement of people that‘s needed for our uptown." Fahel also said although he had two or three other schools in the wings, he was curâ€" rently negotiating with one particular school and hoped to work out a lease agreement with the school by the end of this month. He also said the lease agreement may include an option to eventually buy the building. . _ _‘ _ _ . â€"â€" _ Although Fahel said his preferred option is to lease the building in order for it to once again be used as gschool, he said he had other options concerning the future of the building, including turning it into apartments. He also said because the public school (Continued on page 11) into the city‘s uptown core. And in order to make his task easier, Shawky Fahel has purchased the former Alexanâ€" dra public school on Alexandra Avenue for an undisclosed price. Shawn Callon, a principal planner for the Waterloo County board of education, conâ€" firmed last Friday the board accepted an offer by Fahel to buy the school Oct. 20. Calâ€" lon said the deal is 16 formally close Dec. 19. "We‘re hoping to bring another school uptown," Fahel said in an interview last Friâ€" "Our first objective is to try and get a private school in there. It could be the Bilingual nan hopes to encourage a Waterloo private school to relocate Chronicle Staff Eightâ€"yearâ€"old Liam McColl, a participant in the Beckett School‘s arts mrfi*mw when he and his classmates took their cascls outside to finish their masterpicces on the King Street school‘s front yard. Debarch Consiah yhaus PAINTIN‘ PLACE