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Judo drives Competitive natures SPORTS PAGE 14
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It's council's job to counter bureaucratic bloat
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Egg-tra fun Ashley Wallace, 6, participated in the St. Jacobs Easter egg hunt on Apr. 7 with hundreds of other youngsters ranging from one to 12 years old. Inset Alia Hirsch, Brianna Welman, Tyson Hirsch, Jared Welman and Xander Hirsch pick through the plastic eggs they collected during the hunt. [colin dewar / the observer]
Neighbours wary of expansion in St. Jacobs subdivision STEVE KANNON
Plans to add another 150 homes to the Valleyview Heights subdivision in St. Jacobs has neighbours worried about traffic impacts, including safety of those
using a nearby park. Several residents were in Woolwich council chambers Apr. 10 for a public planning meeting to discuss a proposed zone change for some 40 acres of land to the east of the existing subdivision,
which got underway in 2003. The developer wants to build 88 single-detached houses, 36 semis and 20 to 30 townhouses on a 24acre portion of the land. Concerned about the increased traffic that will come with the
new development, neighbours called for traffic to be funneled onto Old Scout Place, which runs along the southern edge of the site, rather than relying on Water Street to carry most of the flow. Old Scout Place would require
upgrading to be used in that capacity. For Water Street resident John Dixon, simply extending the street to loop through the new subdivision | 4