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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 27 Oct 1999, p. 4

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] Step in the Poight Direction FALL SH OE BLITZ Web. Oct. 27 â€" Sun. Oct. 31 Schoolhouse (Continued from page 1) "I think if you want to recogâ€" nize, if you want to save this building, then the city is going to have to step up to the plate," Strickland said. "It may mean moving it (the school) to the Millennium Park, which is a useful suggestion." "Tonight we have options which we didn‘t have before tonight," said LACAC member, Dale Wideman, when asked after the meeting what he thought about possibly moving the school to the Millennium While the Waterloo Catholic district school board approved last night the conâ€" struction of a new school in the Eastâ€" bridge area of Waterloo, it also initiated teviews for potential consolidation and closure of St. Thomas school on Glenâ€" Catholic school board looking to build one, and close three schools in Waterloo CONESTOGA i _ â€" MALL INorth, south, east or west... all roads lead to Conestoga Mall. And if you‘re stepping out this week, be sure to walk through our Fall Shoe Blitz. From runners to pumps, you‘ll find fall shoe fashions for the whole family. So march, skip, jump or dance in the direction of our Fall Shoe Blitz. Park in northeast Waterloo "Sean Strickland‘s idea came totally out of the air," he said. "And we (Wideman and LACAC chairwoman Marg Rowell) are both for it. Ideally it would be nice to keep the school where it is. But it could be kept intact if it‘s moved. And we have a goal now, and a reaâ€" son to raise money." Strickland didn‘t say during Monday nights meeting where the money would come from to possibly move the school ridge Drive, St. Michael school on Uniâ€" versity Avenue, and St. Agnes school on Neilson Avenue "This new capital funding formula requires school boards across Ontario to use their schools in an efficient manner," from the western part of the city to northeast Waterloo. Rowell and Wideman were so enthusiastic about Strickâ€" land‘s suggestion because Kâ€"W Bilingual School offictals were still hoping Monday night to be able to demolish the school in order to build a new parking lot to service their new school being built on the site. Although school officials would actually like to save the school, the estimated $200,000 it would cost to properly restore it would be cost prohibâ€" itive and would raise school fees, said school principal Michel Poinot. School officials actually were issued a valid demolition perâ€" mit by the city for the schoolâ€" house this past June. But Rowell appeared before counâ€" cil again Monday night asking it to officially save the facades of the original stone schoolâ€" house by designating the strucâ€" ture for culturalâ€"heritage purposes under the Ontario Heritage Act. LACAC would like to save the schoothouse because it is the only remaining stone school building in the city of The Regional Municipality of Waterloo has established a landfill liaison committee for the Waterloo Landfill Site. All members of the public are invited to attend the committee meetings. The goal of the comâ€" mittee is to identify operational problems that affect local residents such as litter and noise and to resolve those issues in a cooperative manner. The next meeting of the liaison committee is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2, 1999 at the Waterloo Landfill administration building, 925 Erb Street West, Waterloo. Subsequent meetings will be held quarterly on the first Tuesday of February, May and August 2000 at the same time and location. If you require any additional information on the liaiâ€" son committee, please contact Andy Campbell at 575â€"4777. &# â€" WATERLOO LANDFILL LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement #136379 Published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group A division of Southam Inc October 27, 1999 WATERLOO CHRONICLE PUBLIC NOTICE said the board‘s director of education Roger Lawler. â€" "With limited resources and an everâ€" growing demand, we must do what‘s best for our students as we prepare for the challenges of the future." Waterloo. It is also a "striking example" of an original oneâ€" storey, oneâ€"room schoolhouse that features stone walls approximately two feet thick, LACAC officials say. School officials had been promoting possibly making the school into an educational ‘tuin‘ in order to at least save the stone facades of the school and cost the school only $12,000. The roof and almost everyâ€" thing else would be removed from the building and only the ortiginal stone walls would remain. However Rowell said Monâ€" day night that solution would not be acceptable because LACAC wanted to save the whole school. Hans Weltner, a board memâ€" ber of the Kâ€"W Bilingual School, said after Monday night‘s meeting although he was pleased there would be at least one more attempt to save the school, he was not hopeful. "We have been looking for funds for a number of years to try and save this structure and nobody has ever come forth with any funds," he said.

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