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Season of Song
CHRISTMAS IN BRESLAU
The Breslau Evangelical Missionary Church quartet, Mark Domm, Katelynn Howard, Sun Millar Idsinga and Mark Dettweiler, perform at the Breslau Community Centre’s Christmas in Breslau event on Dec. 11. A chili dinner was served, with proceeds going to the community centre, followed by a visit from Santa Claus and carol singing.
Council balks at large hikes in ice rental rates While deferring some rec. fees, Woolwich approves a range of other price hikes Steve Kannon
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lanned rate hikes that would see Woolwich Minor Hockey hit with an 11 per cent increase next year were quashed by council-
lors, who sent staff off to find a sharper pencil. While agreeing to a host of user fee increases – some of them huge – for a host of township services, councillors meeting Tuesday night
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opted to defer a decision on arena rental fees. The rates themselves are slated for an increase averaging 5.2 per cent under proposal tabled by recreation department staff. Primetime
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ice would jump to $201.76 an hour from $191.85 at the Dan Snyder Memorial Arena, and to $196.46 from $186.85 at the Jim McLeod and Woolwich Township arenas. A uniform $110.62 would be
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applied to all non-prime ice times at the three arenas, up from $109.81 at the Snyder rink and $104.81 at the others.
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