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03 | 10 | 2016 VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 09
KINGS OFF TO A GOOD START IN OPENING ROUND SPORTS PAGE 10
COMMENT PAGE 6
GOVERNMENT FAILS COUNTRY WITH IMMIGRATION PLAN
Woolwich backs bid for St. Jacobs flooring store development
WINGING IT AT BRESLAU EVENT
Township agrees to amend servicing agreement for vacant lot near farmers’ market, now await Waterloo’s decision
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EDSS production captures three awards at drama festival WHITNEY NEILSON
STEVE KANNON WATERLOO’S SIGNATURE ON A revised cross border servicing agreement would clear the way for the construction of a new flooring store in the stockyards area of St. Jacobs. Woolwich has already agreed to support the bid by Sarmazian Development, which has its eye on a vacant six-acre parcel beside the TSC Store. The company’s bid for the land at 865 Weber St. N. is contingent on the city and township amending the agreement that sees Waterloo provide municipal services to the farmers’ market area and adjacent power centre. The plan is to extend only water services, not sanitary sewers, and the amendment would be site-specific, applying only to that property, Woolwich director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley told councillors meeting Mar. 1. Guenter Nuessler of Progressive Engineering Services Ltd., represent-
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Sarah Wood, 7, and Porter Airlines pilot Marilyn Daigle celebrate the Girls CAN Fly! event at the Region of Waterloo International Airport last Saturday in Breslau. The event was aimed at educating young girls about the aviation industry, and encouraging them to look into careers that would take them to the skies. [LIZ BEVAN / THE OBSERVER]
THE WORK IT TOOK to perform at the Sears Ontario Drama Festival paid dividends for the Elmira District Secondary School’s drama students. The group performed Ramblings in the Night, which they haven’t done for many years, and came away with three awards. “We won an award of excellence for ensemble work, which we’ve won many times. That’s sort of one our school has a tendency to win all the time. That’s great,” said EDSS drama teacher DJ Carroll. “We won an award for our special effects makeup, which was awesome. And then the stage management award has been out of our school for 10 years. It’s nice to bring it home.” Every year the award of excellence is given out to the best stage manager of all the shows and this year EDSS’ Audrey Gruneberg took home the prize. Carroll says the students were excited for what they were given, but disappointed they weren’t moving on to the next round. “But they are very pumped and I think all of the students were extremely excited over Audrey, our stage FESTIVAL | 2
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