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Ye?tpoirpt £31536 _ 3,6, Todd Yaniw is offto the Canadian Music Festival. Waterloo 1“»ka I anmal P/f HTS INSIDE I/)lltTERL00,f2llR0NICII Page 17 10 Despite the bigger lmeup they figured the logistics of putting on a show would he even came! thes time with a year of exponent? hsperially with the response they got to the show they put on last year featuring local rock arts that drew more than 600 people to the park In fact interest from local musicians was so high that Mike Neeh. 18. and his bandmates, Kyte lawier. I7, and Dan Him. 18. had to keep the play hill down m eight hands this year Charity concert gets plug pulled over city's insurance concerns r ml-mhl-n of the band I [Had must forl ' t'ney're dreaming, After \urrcssfulh organ/mg " K hanly concert m support of the loud Bank Last war at the hand shell In Waterloo Park. they thought " would he no sweat to do an even hugger show this year hop mg to raise more than LINN) pounds nffood. b ; r" I E Pe' 5 gl 'iiiEi " , 3 it 'Oi-ii' ' . " ra YTMI KM T I. - ' - ’ Gt " Et, "wrgif C" 21:33 '4 " -- - 3:5; " 7. Eatal Ct8r h' tEF , FP T a? wr Wa' p, if”: U' , ' . _ a " _ ‘. f g Ex. _ ' . ginx , ‘ V '-r, _ " ' " t 7 L x ' , i. 1 sw, tr _ stir. i c, ' .- 1 Kane McCIarahan attempts to hold herself uriiue-doGm on a chin-up bar while Kaitlin Thiel, 16, of Water- loo. counts her time at the Northlake Woods day camp last Thursday. Katie made it to 50 seconds. The day camp is organized by the City of Waterloo. By BIKIVRBILW f 'irpmrlc "test, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IS, 2004 . WATERLOO, ONTARIO NA TERLOO PUBU Serving your comma?! $115353 1856 But with lhmgs gonna smoothly for the mnren scheduled for Sept, 4, thath when the hand had the plug pulled on them They were Informed by city staffers that they would need S2 million in liability Insurance to hold the event. and rome up with more than $3.5m In under their belts organizing the sound system and lighting. and with staff from the City of Waterloo helping them vlear hurdles regard- mg none bylaw“. and waiving fees for the use of [he handshell. "Wr ram-d so much food that we wanted In do it again." said Neeb. who origsnally came up mm the idea along with lawit‘r In fulfill home of the rummumly smut? requirements of the new high whool curriculum. “liven the city wanted us to do tt again because it turnmt out so good. trveryhody had a good lime ‘It was going to be bigger this war with more hands and more vendors out, and with spnnmn to raise more money" Hanging around "If we had that kind of mum-y wr would have just given it to the food bank. We hope we could work nut something for a later date. but the September show is completely quashed now." That realization didn't sit easy The hand wrumhkxt to find any way they could m get insurance run-rage they needed. with Neeh m m) asking his dad In look into a rider nn his home policy But with all those aVPlllll'\ exhausted the hand has had m iower the runam on their good intentions. "Wt already had money coming out of out pockets already with the sound and Indus." said Forsey "We couldn't possibly afford In pay the $3.500 tthe city needed to extend insurance coverage). "That's when the bomb dropped." said Neeh. "Someone from the clerk's office called me and told me we needed S2 mii- lion." pay for it last week $t INCLUDING GST Continued on page 5 m WY name Robertson. 52. of Hamilton. has been criticized by consultants Kroll lindquist Avey in a report for his part in a 60 million dollar development in the downtown of Maple Ridge. BIL. that cost the municipality 11.4 mil- lion dollars more than expected. The Kroll review blamed Robert- son for some of those cost overruns, stating he provided council with information regarding the downtown library and arts and leisure center that was "inaccurate and mislead- Robertson disputed the l27-page report postedootheDLstrictofMaple Ridge website. and rebuned it with a Waterloo Mayor Herb Epp said Robertson will remain an employee of the City of Waterloo with pay. but has been asked to remain absent. “Council takes this matter segious- ly. and as a result will be gathering further information from a variety of sources." said Epp who was elected on a promise of a hiring a new CAO free of the taint of the RIM Park terloo Council met Mon- Way with the city’s lawyers to discuss newly discovered information regarding CAO Bob New CAO asked to stay home pending review "To be unhappy is not enough, we have to try to resolve this whole thing. " Mayor of the f .‘uy ofWatertoo BY'DHMUIHH Rtrthethonick -HerhEpp Continuedonpqcz