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IL Ll Waterloo Days program V _ may attract record crowd d - If sunny skies prevail, close to 20,000 people could jam Waterloo Park this weekend for the annual Waterloo Days celebration. tffdi F H2154 E fig?! "We are expecting a record crowd of about 20,000 people if the weather is good," said Tom Litwiller, program supervisor for community services. Last year, 15,000 people attended the two- day event. T City staff expect bigger crowds this year because many new events have been added to the festival program. A contiryr ous food and favored beverage will be held Friday night at Waterloo arena from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. It will con- tinue Saturday from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Another new event is the southern On- tario tug-of-war competition scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday in the park oval. Six teams will compete for the title. Saturday night, a Waterloo Days dance will be held at Waterloo arena. It will include an evening of live music and plenty of food. The dance will begin at 8:30pm. 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F, T, q NM Ir', I 't " '." m: (‘61.. - B, , ,4, '.-r, n x ", - Wa' ttkr'prrsc" ...- a F, . " - r .A c L ‘ 1";,~ 4-.“11 . a. , . T , - an H v y V hh F 'r re,rc up " _ . a. = '. jr' FA _ ‘ Fd s' F, -_ _ A r. _ d ' " T, b . 1 "r ,v I pa: 7"! ' it: Another highlight of the weekend will be a drum and bugle corps competition Saturday night at Seagram Stadium. Eleven bands will compete during the program which begins at 6:30 pan. Tick-- ets are $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for sen- iors and students. Children are free if accompanied by adults. A parade Satur- day at 4:15 pan. on King St. from William to Central Street will lead off the band competition. Sports events will dominate the week- end. The Waterloo CHYMr's Softball Tournament will begin Friday night at 7 p.m. at Centennial Ball Park in Water- loo Park. Sixteen teams will vie for the, title. Admission is $1 per day. The Sportco Minor Baseball Tourna- ment will feature teams from Waterloo and Kitchener competing for the Sportco Trophy. This competition will be held all day Saturday and Sunday at Waterloo Park oval. The Waterloo Days Soccer Tournament on Saturday will see 36 boys and girls teams from Southern Ontario compete at (Continua! on 90' 2) Patna the WWrva ttttttmtttttrmerthtsdtoen- when,» tsr, the my. arm Advisory Commit- tee. The Wildlife Advisory Cunmim,getmbym cil number. was rec- ommended Dignity in ity voluminous- r'iport that ttteetkandeongarwildiitt diqrtarsintttepartNdttrm continued beau: of poor sitgedartgertothepafrtic, thattttebeareagetreen- iarged and that partitions befwe’en bird cages be re- native to Waterloo County should be displayed in the wildlife exhibit set up by the Waterloo Lions Club‘in 1967, the report said. Wild animals should not be ex- hibited in the display, only animals born and raised in captivity. __ t To deal with past prob- lems of vandalism at the Wildlife. Display and criti- cism .ahout inadequate tak cilities‘for the anitna% the Wildlife, Advisory Colnmit- tee recommended the ttm. mation of & permenant committee to oversee the general operation of the wildlife exhibits. This com- mittee would also be charg- ed with implementing an improved plan for the park and securing funds for the renovation of the Wildlife Display. The proposed member- ship of this committee would include the chair- man of community ser- vices and representatives from the Waterloo Lions Club, the Waterloo County Board of Education, the Waterloo County Separate School Board and the On- _-- Other committee recom- mendations to improve the quality of the wildlife ex- hibit included the imple- mentation of an inservice training program for Wild- life display staff, the re- tention of a veterinarian on a retainer basis and the initiation of increased security patrols around tario Ministry of Natural interpretive pmgram ing 'the want; exhibits with interpretive signs, self-guiding purgand mlm- phlets would also alter current unfavorable atti- tudes towards the wildlife display as a “needless compound" thereportsaid. Only animals currently reorientation, in the phil- osophy of development for Waterloo Park as a whole. The recommendation likely to prove most contentious would return several areas in the park to their natural The committee also rec- yJe,'i,y.l, A F "l‘ Man "Fi---, 11M))t- Canada 6 .tnt .gxtq - . a that“ M-r' 'ra' tiltin- ttrr?thrttttrt.tterttdttiti- ”whitetail-win its ntttttmt.statetete-r- age throat-tonne” of and animals - as Wed pheasant. Wind mocked. tail rabitsadwuodchucts ther-tsaid. \ ' Areas that would befal- lowedto return to; mum al state ineiudiy1antia'rottitd Laurel Creek between the ttitttr, between University Ave., Weizmann Rd, and Wildlife Display, the rail- way "track and ttse-creek, and Centennial bandshell, my Seagram Dr. parking area and {and begide the tettnisCtturts. According to the rtttt, theisei GG are unsuiiahlé for picnic areas and inten- sive public use has eroded Comcillors ’were inim- pressed Monday by a 60- shore residents protisting cuts in the Lakeshore bus The petition protested a cut in the Route 9 bus service which eliminated service after " pm. How- bypetition ever, many of the signa- tures of the petition appear- ed to have been mitten in thesame hand. "It's the first petition that I've seen that has three or four signatures in the same handwriting," said Aid. Marjorie Carroll. Aid. Harold Wagner sug- gested that if all the people who signed the petition had used the bus service before the cutback. the route would not have been a losing proposition. The route costs $1.41 per mile to operate but gener- ates only " calls a mile in revenue. action on the petition but requested information on the number of people who used the mute before the muckinservice 'KT,"; CGI (Continued on pop 2) , am .r -- xribio 2 fag I;