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4 . wuurwo CHRONICLE - Wednesday. February 2. mu 0 "Meet Kitchener/Waterloo’s a“: Home Improvement Componies' OHL commish says talk is premature “$- Condnuedtmmpa, l 2006 when former mayor franchise from Hamilton, The in,” Brian Tumbull made it part said the league has moved o d show ~ . the way some have chose to of his election campaign to teams before, most recently ' Bl, position us.” bringa team to the city. to Niagara Falls. He said the , q ,, H a, . z, ,. my ‘ , Branch found the com- Rooney was brought on Rangers are recognized as is??? ‘ ‘ 4. i, , ' f e;- ments surrounding a poten- board to smooth over poten- the model OHL franchise ' .' . tial team in Waterloo prema- tial mffled feathers. includ- and he doesn't want to take , , 4 ‘ ture considering there is no ing concerns about the terri- away from a fan base that . '7 g ' on ' application before the torial rights of both the has the KitchenerMemorial ' league. He said there would Kitchener Rangers, who Auditorium filled to capacity, be a number of steps that would only be a couple of with a long waiting list for would need to be taken kilometres away, as well as season's tickets. ~ ° before an application would theGuelph Stomr. “We wouldn't go into a even be considered for board Rooney, a retired princi- market where the other fran- _ approval. pal and former commissiom chise is struggling â€" the “But we don‘t really want er of the Inter-County Base- Rangers are one of the best ,. to get into that right now, ball League, said they've indie-league." said Rooney. particularly some of the tried to keep Branch and “We know that success World Home he AI m w . . . . expressrons that are out league offrcrals updated has left them overcapacity IWM "Te ”we“ Spring "om & was” Mm & saw, there right now.” said about their intentions and which presents some other Branch. “We're not in an hope to build acceptance of opportunities.” expansion mode at this time, the plan from the oommuni- But Branch wasn’t pre- Februa 4 5 _ 6 201 I 7:01" and l'm not aware of any tylevelup. pared to engage in what eh ’ I I HOW team that may be necessarily “We've tried to keep calls speculation and . 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"We're not at the franchisee last week when a group of stage to make a fomral pros “I wouldn’t want to say 5 A v E , SIM; in “MI; and Product local investors who have entatjon.” l'm frustrated, it's just not a been working on bringing The local investors group, healthy way to have our _â€"'â€"_ “hum Home EM SOUTH! $00 the and OHL team to Waterloo headed up by well-known league associated with mm "Ollie Improvement & Home mm Products and Services, went public again and violinist Frank Leahy and something when there is no revealed that they added for- several other investors. substance to it.” said Branch. “dud“! 6mm“ Counter m mm ‘ 0006, new Refinishing, mer OHL board chair Tim revealed that it has “We don't want it to lead . Polio & Pool (MB, amt Home "ISM”, Water Conditioning, Home Rooney, who once owned the approached the Rangers people at the end of day to mm H“ "a,“ Furnace he“ “mo“ Fence, Guelph Storm, to their about a potential plan to have some negative views ' in. 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