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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2005 7:00 P.M. REGIONAL COUNCIL CHAMBER 150 FREDERICK STREET, 2ND FLOOR, KITCHENER Notice of this meeting is being given in accordance with section 291 of the Municipal Act as amended Please visit our website (www.region.waterlo0.on.ca) for more information on the Regional Budget or pick up a package at the Council & Administrative Services Office, 150 Frederick Street, 2nd Floor, Kitchener. To speak to a Finance Department staff person on the budget please call Peter Holling at 575â€"4745. You are welcome to attend the public meetings or the Council meetings. Please call the Council & Administrative Services Office, (519) 575â€"4420 to register to speak. Kris Fletcher Regional Clerk â€" o0 5 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004 AND WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2005 7:00 P.M. REGIONAL COUNCIL CHAMBER 150 FREDERICK STREET, 2ND FLOOR, KITCHENER If you are interested in ambulance service levels, long term care, regional roads, transit, public health programs, housing, child care, protection from infectious diseases, heritage & culture, among other issues, you may wish to attend. 4/ Final budget approval is scheduled for Public meetings are scheduled to gather public input on the Year 2005 Regional Budget. Several critical public policy issues are being addressed during this budâ€" get process. Over 80 budget expansion requests are being considered by Regional Council. the meetings will be held on: (between King and Regina, right behind Ethel‘s Lounge} # Atsiks Formerty of GT Barbers wishes to invite...all her customers and friends, old and new, h to her new location at: h. PUBLIC MEETINGS ON 2005 REGIONAL BUDGET Region of Waterloo PUBLIC NOTICE 20 Spring Street E., Waterloo \Baz&sm ‘SKOB 746â€"6332 Wed. â€" Closed; Thurs. 12â€"9, Fn. 9â€"6, Sat. 8â€"4 â€" No Appointm Hours: Mon. 10â€"6; Tues. 9â€"46, Oneâ€"yearâ€"old Alexandra Gray compares costumes with Sgt. Barrie Hummel of the Waterloo Regional Police Service at the Block Parents Halloween party at RIM Park last Saturday. The toddler was dressed as a tiger, but took a shine to all the shiny badges and butâ€" tons the police officer was wearing. Hundreds of local children attended the sate holiday event, playing games and winning prizes while dressed in their scariâ€" est Halloween getups. ‘Gimme that‘ sos viBaNAC PHOTO q \t he Earth Sciences I Museum at the Uniâ€" versity of Waterloo will hold its first annual gem and mineral show this weekend. The show, at the museâ€" um located in the March Networks Exhibit Atrium of the Centre for Environmenâ€" tal and Information Techâ€" nology, includes the annual science open house on Satâ€" urday and features a special program highlighting the featured gem â€" Canadian diamonds â€" on Sunday. Museum curator Peter Russell said that along with 12 dealers in minerals, rocks, fossils and gemâ€" stones, there will be educaâ€" University of Waterioo hosts first annual gem and mineral show this weekend * Ron Andraza, a Kitchâ€" ener jeweler, at 3 p.m. with a presentation on "Jewelry Appraisal â€" from Gold to Diamonds." After an introâ€" duction by the speaker, the subject will be developed using questions from the audjence. Among the displays will be the Royal Ontario Museâ€" um‘s Quartz Varieties and * "The Origin and Occurâ€" rence of Diamonds in Ontario" at 2 p.m. with Ann Wilson of the Ontario Geoâ€" logical Survey, South Porcuâ€" pine, Ont. tional displays and activiâ€" ties. The Sunday activities include these two lectures: There will also be free specimens for children from the Kâ€"W Gem and Mineral Club, hourly draws for door prizes and a feature draw for an amethyst cathedral geode. The dealers from across Ontario will have for sale a variety of minerals, gemâ€" stones, jewelry, lapidary equipment, fossils and more. To find out more about the event, visit www.openâ€" house.uwaterl0o.ca. Oddities; Tim and John Elliot‘s minerals from the Lafarge Dundas Quarry; a fossil fish dig; and a drill rig from the Petrolia Oil Discovâ€" ery Centre.