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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 8 Jul 1998, p. 11

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Check Out Hunger campaign a huge success Che Food Bank ul Waterloo chwns annual "k heck Uul Hunger mmpmgn ended k unada Day, and the hem was att momshmg success food bank offrcrals had hoped to raise S35,000 [his van but ended up unsung S4ty,i74 Thirteen local Zehrs Markets took part m thts ytar's campaign. T he way the mmpangn worked was that shoppers at the Zehrs Moms were encour- aged to donate at least a dollar to the food bank by havmg the dollar added lo the mull of thetr grocery lull, Provincially, the campaign mused a total 0(5152001 m 34 communities In Southern Onuno. Margaret Ave. (Continued from page 3) tog properly owners The Margaret Avenue local mTrovemem, which called for the reconstruction of road- base, curbs and asphalt, was Just one of three proposed improvements m resrdemial areas withdrawn by council June 22. But unlike the two other prawns that were origi- nally proposed for approval that night, Margaret Avenue [S not a resuicntial side street only a few blocks long. What's mom reudents suc- mssiully got count]! to with- draw a proposed local Impmvemenl for the same stretch of road m early 1993 Crofts, who was Involved m the fight to stop Ihe local Improvement In 1993 and was the spokesman for street rest- dents at the June 22 council meeting, sud there are other reasons why the resudents want the any to stop usmg Ihe Luca! Improvement Act to require residents to pay for necessary road Improvements For one thing, repamng the road will lIkely mean the large number of vehicles currently mrng the road wrll Mart Iravcl- Img faster And then there's Ihc Ural Croits said he would have had In pay close to 54,600 If the local Improvement had gone ahead this year In 1993, he said he would have had to pay over $7,000 if he had dcuded to pay the cost all over l0 yum through hrs tax bdl Another resident of the street, Drew Fem, sad If the Imal improvement had gone olwgd ilus year, he would have wrn a 25-pcncnl um rum In lux properly taxes oath war lur the next 10 ycurs \um rm irustratcd, hm soul, whcn asked shout the .nndmun of the road "l'd mlhcr an the work done than m‘l Bu} l ust dopl [ccUlkr , s(v'v': 'llgeil,l'l'? vim m is/e 'lul [hr work gets dots " sud, whm t .xndmnn mlhrr we l mu Bur!

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