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01 | 14 | 2016 VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 02
KWS OFFERS UP LAUGHS WITH DIE FLEDERMAUS ARTS PAGE 16
COMMENT PAGE 6
WITH PARK PROJECT DEAD, BALL IS IN BRESLAU’S COURT
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SIGNS THAT WINTRY WEATHER HAS RETURNED
Emergency services were called to the scene of a single-vehicle collision just before 12 p.m. on Jan. 11. The vehicle, travelling north on Arthur Street in Floradale, left the road in front of a farm and crashed through a fence along the roadside before coming to a stop facing the road. No serious injuries were reported. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
No school on Breslau parkland, council decides After residents turn out in force to oppose the proposal one last time, councillors split vote, vow to let the idea die
STEVE KANNON BRESLAU MEMORIAL PARK WILL remain intact, as Woolwich council this week rejected the proposed sale of land to house a Catholic elementary school. After more than three hours of impassioned pleas, most overwhelmingly opposed to the parkland deal, the audience gathered at the Breslau Community Centre waited
with bated breath as councillors debated the issue then voted. An even split, 3-3, saw the motion to proceed with the sale die. Unsure what had just happened – and wary that there might be another disappointment in the offing – the crowd that reached about 150 as the meeting started had to wait for assurances from council that the idea had been scuttled once and for all before breaking into applause.
Coun. Mark Bauman’s change of heart was the deciding factor. Initially voting against the deal with the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, he then switched his vote. Council remained split 4-2 in favour through much of the ensuing debate, with opponents turning up at meetings in hopes of a reversal. On Tuesday night at a meeting moved to Breslau specifically to PARKLAND | 28
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