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Work on Victorian Gardens set to start at Waterlioo Park A City of Waterloo landscape technician says work an completing Waterloa Parks Vicâ€" torian Gardens should begin in late September or early October Jennifer Harvey, who has been working on the project from the beginning. said last Friday although city staff members were still finalizâ€" ing plans for the gardens, staff did have some ideas on how ‘We’“ they would like them to uluâ€" & mately be designed blt 0O The completion of Waterlao ________ _ Park‘s Victorian Gardens was tery one of nine millennium projects approved by Waterloo council gal'( as city millennium projects this past February. The completion s of the gardens and the compleâ€" tion of the Trans Canada Trail through Waterloo were by far the two most expensive millennium projects approved by council, each costing an estiâ€" mated $100,000. "The plans right now are to put an access that leads from the existing gardens (just northeast of Lion‘s Lagoon Splash Park) down towards Silver Lake," Harvey said. "It would have a ‘pergola‘ and a fountain in that area and the plan is to open the view towards Silver Lake, because right now there are quite a few trees and shrubs in there that block the view." A ‘pergola‘ is a feature found in many Victoâ€" rian gardens that is composed of columns on either side of a walk with beams joining the columns overhead. Plants will grow along the beams and help provide shade for walkers, and the structure itself will spawn architectural interest, Harvey said. At present, staff hope to make the ‘pergola‘s Renovation L1QquiDatI0N SALE : up to PAGFK 3 «** * Tim Gardner Chromicle Staff We will pay the GST on Casegoods, Accessories, Lamps corking on Fellow city landscape architect, Karen last Friday _ Kovach, said in a recent interview some city tll finalizâ€" _ playground equipment currently located south of the gardens will have to be ‘We,“ add A | sclocated in order for the garâ€" & dens to be expanded blt Of mysâ€" The gazebo to be built near the shores of Silver Lake will be tery to the similar in style to historical 3 gazebos previously found in the gal'dellS. park, Harvey said & In the summer months, it -Jennl_fer would be open and used to shelter picnic tables or to host Har"ey concerts or poetry readings, she columns similar to the brick columns curâ€" rently found at the Victorian entrance to Waterloo Park at Young Street. The ‘pergola‘ would lead south from the existing Victorian Gardens to a fountain, a gazebo and eventually to a board walk on Silver Lake, just east of Lions Lagoon & In the summer months, it mnl_fer would be open and used to Harv shelter picnic tables or to host e_y concerts or poetry readings, she said. In the winter, it would be enclosed and used as a changeroom where people could put on their skates to skate on Silver Lake, another proposed city millennium project. Harvey also said as part of the project, city staff hope.to improve the current access to the gardens from the park‘s Young Street entrance to the east. "Right now, it‘s an awkward entrance," she said. "And you see everything at once, too. We‘ll add a bit of mystery to the gardens. We‘re planning on adding more trees and more plants and benches and things like that." Harvey also said city staff were looking into planting some heritage perennial and annual plants and flowers in the gardens that might have grown in Waterloo Park in Victorian times. She also said she expected the work to be complete, on budget, by this spring. 70 off The gazebo to be built near the shores of Silver Lake will be similar in style to historical gazebos previously found in the park, Harvey said Counsellor Trevor Tayâ€" lor took time out of the employerâ€"student clation day last m KW Career Connections to assist !6â€"yearâ€"old Adam Myrie in getting his resume together. Myric is hoping his a summer job. Charies Knepler photo A City of Waterloo official believes recent restoration woark on Silver Lake has preâ€" vented a botulism outbreak this year among waterfow} on the lake. Bob McFarland, Waterloo‘s director of recreation and leisure services, said in a recent interview the measures the city has taken to improve water quality in the lake may have helped prevent a botulism outâ€" break which has struck Kitchâ€" ener‘s Victoria Park Lake in recent weeks. Tom Clancy, the general manager for the City of Kitchâ€" ener‘s parks and recreation, said Monday 210 waterfowl, mostly ducks, had died on Vicâ€" toria Park Lake since the epiâ€" demic began. The botulism outbreak began July 25 In August, 1995, over 350 waterfow? died on Silver Lake due to a botulism outbreak Waterloo cauncil agreed later that fall to spend close to $2.3 million over a period of years to help bring Silver Lake back to health, beginning with dredging the lake Changes at Silver Lake prevented botulism outbreak Minivere Ibrah i (right) and her children Mentor (top, left) and Lumnije were three of the 43 final Kosovar refugees who arrived at Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo‘s Canadian Red Cross office at 186 King Street South from Canadian Forces Base Kingston last Thursday. The cthâ€" nic Albanian refugees will be among the approximately 300 who will be settling in the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, New Hamburg and Lisâ€" towel areas in upcomâ€" ing days. Tim Gardner photo 1 think maybe this is an Last of the Kosovars McFarland confirmed Monâ€" day that no waterfowl had died of botulism on the lake so far this year. example that we did all that work on Silver Lake â€" its now so much deeper and it flows betterâ€" that I don‘t think we‘ve even had that kind of an issue happening with the ducks on Silver Lake this year," McFarâ€" land said. The Waterloo regional police has joined with nine other southâ€" central Ontario police services to acquire a common information management system «t Work on Silver Lake began in 1996. It included dredging Besides the Waterloo regional police and Peel regional police, the other police services adopting the new information system are the Guelph city police, the Brantford city police, the Stratfard city police, the Durham regional police, the Hamiltonâ€"Wentworth regional police, the Halton regional police, the Niagara regional police and the York regional police Besides containing the tradiuonal core components of an autoâ€" mated records and dispatch management system, the new inforâ€" mation management system will allow the 10 participating police services to improve service delivery to the public Representauwes of the Waterloo tegronal police and the mine other police services involved signed a contract with Litton PRC to start using the common information management system this past Tuesday (Aug. 10} at the Peel regional police headquarters in Brampton. 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