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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 8 Jul 1998, p. 10

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In an mlennew last Thurs- day, the city's director of rem:- ation and leisure services, Bob McFarland. said that although Manulife Financial would be paying for the majority of the cost of the four projects, the my would be spending game mono on them loo Howexer McFarland said at preseru, he duiat Imam what that amounl mlghl be He also mud city ullnub helped persuade Manulllc hmnual ullnml: that [110nm lur a clock lower In uptown Waterloo would be d good way for the company to must us my lbllny In the crty The clock tower will have Manullle Fmaacul's name on n and the area the clock tower Will be erected In will come 10 be known as Manulife Place McFarland said for a number of years, several people In the clty thought a clock lower would be a ma: added touch to Waterlooy proposed gathering place. _ And once the my formally purchased all of the Seagram lands at the southwest comer of Caroline Street and Erb Street West this past December, including the former Seagram Museum, u acquired the for- mer free-standing Seagram Museum sign located just out- side the former museum build- ing. -City officials" decided eventu- ally to take the sign immedi- ately north across Erb Street "7.)..- West to use II a: the base for the new clock tower As ior what the clock lower Will look Ge, McFarland sad ll wall look annular lo the way ll looks now except that u had m be rarsed approximately stX feet on lour concrete pillars and will eventually be panned black to march the decorative Ironwork at the nearby Clay and Glass Gallery. People Will be able to walk underneath the clock and tower once they're done. McFarland also sad he had seen at least two different designs for the proposed cl?ck: 56t Hop-lot N Stem. Gm Han Calum- I Gaunt: 621 823-5521 Tm not sure what the final design IS going to be," he said. "But it will have four laces, so you'll be able to see ll from any direction." Three out of the four projects Manulife Is helping to Mance should be completed this year. HEER’S Canon they“ WATEBLOD SQUARE animal pawn»... Cat licensing issue revisited In another interview after the June 22 meeting, Alexan, der said again he was hoping to 'tttatittt MEN'S SHOPPE (VASE!) nab-m immune ""-'"F "was Ins-um 2S% TO SO84, OFF SUMMER SALE set up a sterilization program for dogs and cats in both Waterloo and Kitchener before he would consider trying to set up a cat registration program. At the June 22 meeting, coun- cil passed four committee ree- ommendations, including one calling for the reconvening of the committee this September to look into the financial options for the implementa- tion of a sterilization program for dogs and cats. Alexander said a sterilization program for dogs and cats in the Twin Cities would be a major step forward because It would allow animals to live longer and cut down on the Dan Gilbert (Frumpy, left), a member of Kitchener’s The Silly People, was at the SLjacobs Farmers Market last Sat- urday doing tricks for children. Here he makes a balloon sword for seven-year-old John Somr. Tim Gardner photo 746-9136 ,--E] Clowning Around RIGHT ACROSS FROM SHOPPERS DRUGMART "And it's also an animal con- trol issue, because the numbers of feral (wild) cats and stray cats are fery high," he said. "And although the humane society may dispute this. I think you can make a pretty good argument that ilyou have a sterilization program In effect, it's bound to inlluence the number of stray cats." number of unwanted kittens and puppies born In the alias Alexander also said if the committee was successful m getting a sterilization program set up in both Waterloo and Kitchener, a possible cat regis- nation program would probs- bly be a good follow-up, (Continued from page 1)

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