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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 4 May 2005, p. 6

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The Regional Municipality of Waterloo has awarded a contract for the reconstruction of Bridge Street from University Avenue to Lexington Road in the City of Waterloo. Construction will commence on or about May 9. 2005 and will be completed on or about September 30, 2005. During construction, one lane of traffic in the southbound direction will be maintained at all times. Northbound traffic will be detoured via University Avenue and Lexington Road (Refer to â€" â€" Map). Temporary traffic control signals h\ ,> > 1 /. *~ 2 ‘ will be installed at the intersection of | N "_, «*‘ 6 * ‘ \% D ¢ University Avenue East and Lexington | | \& \f:’ , Srâ€". Road to accommodate the anticipated |/ * \P ~F¢ »o 3 increase in traffic volumes at this |. _ a~ .* ex: . W intersection during construction. v e f/\ ® % We thank you for your patience and cooperation during this construction Mr. Dave Weiler. P.Eng. Senior Project Manager, Transportation Regional Municipality of Waterloo 150 Frederick Street, 6th Floor Kitchener, Ontarno N2G 4J3 Phone: (519) 575â€"4735 Fax: _ (519) 575â€"4430 Titley & Ragat Robbins Clathing, Suttles & Seawinds, Auctralian Outback Collection 1440 King St., in Riverworks, St. Jacabs 664â€"2663 Notice of Road Construction Bridge Street University Avenue to Lexington Road City of Waterioo Region of Waterloo PUBLIC NOTICE i Developer threatens activist with legal action over telling web site neigh b o urh o o d A:;alchdog who has lown the whistle on unsafe environmental and labour practices in the west end of the city has been threatened with legal action if she doesn‘t pull parts of her Web site. Louisette Lanteigne has raised warnings at Waterloo city council and contacted the Ministries of Labour and the Environment over some of the practices she has seen developers engaged in on their work sites that dot the west side of Waterloo. She has called for better enforcement of existing legâ€" islation from all levels of government, while pushing for a way to make new homeowners better aware of their rights in an areas under development. Armed with a camera, she‘s documented numerâ€" ous concerns, including leaking fuel containers, and posted them on a web site at http://ca.geocities.com/infr ingements@rogers.com. The day she made her latest complaint, April 20. she passed by a work site in the new Laurel Creek subdiâ€" vision and took pictures of roofers doing work with unsecured safety belts By Bos VRBANAC Chronicle Staff despite the weather being wet and rainy. The next day, Lanteigne got a letter from Sorbara law office, and lawyer Sam Sorâ€" bara representing Activa Holdings Inc., asking her to cease and desist any further representations of the local land developers and pull any existing references. The letter said her phoâ€" tographs and allegations are either inaccurate or untrue, and have exposed Activa to unwarranted criticism withâ€" in the community. The letter threatened future action if those referâ€" ences weren‘t pulled by April 25, but Lanteigne is sticking to her guns instead, posting the lawyer‘s letter on her site and taking her site public to gain a wider audience. * _ # A * i T Granturismo s ET2/4 itj PX150 FREE GAS FOR A YEAR WITH THE PURCHASE OF A NEW VESPA® (Pe Lanteigne said she stands by what she reported on her site, and that Activa would have to get an injuncâ€" tion to shut her down. She said she would love to have a judge review her site, and look over the eviâ€" dence she‘s compiled. "It‘s just shooting air," she said. "I have to keep the information up â€" there because I‘m currently reporting it to the Workâ€" place Safety and Insurance board and the labour and environmental agencies." The Chronicle tried to contact Sam Sorbara and the office of Sorbara Law, but phone calls weren‘t returned. 300 Homer Watson Boulevard, Kitchener (ot KW Mitsubishi) $1â€"2828 In terms of having the developer monitoring the site, Lanteigne said if it leads to positive changes in what‘s going on, it‘s good news for the guys working the sites. Lanteigne said a worker was injured a few weeks ago when he fell off the roof on a site near Sit John A. MacDonald high school, and she hopes it doesn‘t happen again. "It happened the day after 1 presented my conâ€" cerns at Waterloo city counâ€" cil (in March)," said Lanteigne. "I warned them that this was happening. "This didn‘t have to hap

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