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wuuurx) murmur: - Wednesday. New." 274013 . 3 M 8 L0 . BBt me at t. ms 0 C , 0- O C I While future of my 3 first Catholw school rs under remew, some remember its past Thefirsrofa three-part mum ‘ ' . neighbourhood. Orronr‘cleseria domino-gore . "You are not dealing with bricks pastpresentandfuaueofthe ; andglassor steel and wotgl, you formerSt. 111th _ are dealing with people. people schoolinwmeritn . Mdrdutodaesdroolandflrnilies . -‘ deeplyrooudlnparbh life” 0"!“ka i to be rearranged and for greater ’ -» emphasis to be put on attracting ather Terry McGuire rememâ€" ' moreCathollc audarts to the am. F hers walking to school every ‘ School trustee Chuck Yates. day during the 1940s Rain or though. called the closure. ‘a sign shine. through snow or hail. he ofthetlrneu' made the roughly 1.5-kilometre After closing in 1983. the three- walk from his home on Alexandra 7 storey, flM-Iquare-foot building Avenue to St. Louis Catholic . was used as an adult education School near uptown Waterloo centre and for other educational Depending' on the route. it may programmrng' until 2005. It’s been haveevenbeenuphillbothways , vamnteversinceandhasbegunto 'We were never home from ; deteriorate. school because of rain and we did During a council meeting this n't have snow days like they do ‘ past November, Coun, Mark Wha- today.” laughed McGuire, now leyrecountedavisit he made to the retired and living at Resurrection ; school during a rainstorm and Manor on Watmount Road . » remarked it was mining inside the “l gum that's how you got your . structure as much as it was exercise.” x ‘ outside. For more than 50 years St Louis ,5 Whaley and other councillors was the only Catholic school in the " raised‘ concerns about the costs of Waterloo, but the future of the . . . . . . rehabilitating the site, known to . . . . WhilecrtycouncrldebateswhattodomththeformerSt.LouisCatholksdroolJormerstudentsâ€"liketheones . building 18 much in doubt The - __ l have dangerous envrronmental school wasVSlZsed in 1983 and the m Edna Ertel's Grade4dass from 1947 rememberthe lfondly. mmwmmmml problems such as mould and city bought it from the separate you have to go back almost 190 St. louisdrurchwaslaid. the school's doors, including asbestos on theground floor. school board last March for years Bylanuary1891. thechurch was McGuire from 1940 to 1948. The Following a closed-door meet- $535.000 with an additional According to the parish history dedicated and the basement father said St. Louis played a crucial ing on Feb. 4, options ofwhat to do $122,000 budgeted for legal fees of the St. Louis Catholic Church, became Waterloo's first Catholic role in Waterloo's early Catholic with the site were discussed. and othercosts. the first Catholics arrived in Water- school as the Sisters of None Dame community since it was the only including selling it A second meet~ St. Louis school had a formative loo in the>18305 and while some travelled by train from Kitchener Catholic school in town until Our ing was held Feb 25 and a report is affect on McGuire’s young life. He came and went. the ones who each day to run the classes. That lady oflourdeswas builtin1949. expected next month. said it influenced him to become a stayed had to make the 10-km trek first year saw 53 students split into Following its peak in the 19605, “The structure itself is part of priest. a profession that allowed on horse and buggy to St. Agatha two rooms the school saw a gradual decline the community," said UptownWard him to see the world and live and everyweekformass In 1895. a convent was built to over the next decade. which forced Coun. Melissa Durrell, who said work in Rome fornearlyZOyears The completion of St. Mary's house the sisters and growing school administrators to make Mary Allen residents would like to McGuire would like to see it church in Kitchener in 1856 offered enrolment meant a third room had some tough decisions about the see the structure preserved â€" or at remain standing, but knows the some relief for wary travellers, but to be added in 1897 as the number future of theschool. Enrolment had least the‘outer We. " city has a tough decision to make Catholics in Waterloo wanted a ofstudents swelled louver 100. fallen from 189 students in 1974 to “Theylikethe bones ofit' â€" spend hundreds of thousands of place to call their own. According to Eventually the basement ran out just 86 in 1963. Seven of the 13 McGuire feels it is in the school's dollars refurbishing the site orsell it the 1861 census. about nine per of space for the children and in classrooms remained empty in the best interest to stay in city hands. and try to recoup some of the cent of the population identified 1905 a four-room school was built school'sfinalyear. but he knows the city always faces money spent to buyit last year. itselfas Roman Catholic. next to the church. Eight more An intense debate raged over financial pressures. “l thinkthereareways ofrevitalâ€" in 1881, the Catholic Mutual rooms were added in 1923. along what to do with the school. At a “I guess I’m in favour of leaving ia'ngit toreuseit." Benefit Association was formed with another four in 1961 when meeting with school trustees in it in the hands of the people who it's a decision made all the more and the group lobbied on behalf of attendance peaked at around 400 March 1982, larryfreiburger spoke have been elected, but there is a difficult by the significance of the Catholic residents to get a church students for the 20 or so parents at the meet- limit to the amount of money you building to the city's history. To fully oftheir own. Their work finally paid For almost 60 years students ing. saying St. Louis represented can put into reusing what was once understand the life of the school offin 1890 when the foundation for from Grade 1 to 8 passed through the very fabric of the Mary Allen a school.” .. . , Three Pairs mm Mt ' “ You can use 3 am pm H - - '“W'Wmhml'” In-mr-u-Miuu-uruh ' on. ' Ito-0hr wmmmmmmmwmm . ( ‘ . ' Eye Glasses 0 Sunglasses oflfioum nocrmromxmrmrm I . 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