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Waterloo Fire Rescue hosts annual prevention week
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Fire Prevention Week is designed to create awareness about various fire safety practices across North America. The primary focus of Fire Prevention Week is to change the behaviors around fire safety by creating a discussion around the topic of fire safety. This year’s campaign, “Don’t wait check the date! Replace smoke alarms every 10 years,”…
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Gobble up these Thanksgiving Recipes
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Leftover Grilled Cheese Turkey Cranberry Quesadilla’s Stuffing Waffles Ingredients: 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 slices of bread ½ pound of thanksgiving leftovers (turkey, stuffing, vegetables) 2 slices of favorite cheese (cheddar, swiss, Monterey jack, etc) ¼ cup leftover gravy Ingredients: 2 flour tortillas ½ – 1 cup of shredded Swiss cheese (any cheese works)…
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Clown craze continues in K-W region
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The “creepy clown” fad has moved north from the United States, as sightings of people dressed up as clowns with the purpose to scare have been reported in Kitchener-Waterloo. Sightings have been reported in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo. The reports have described the multiple “clowns” as either standing motionless, or chasing people. There have been…
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Move-in delays for ICON Waterloo
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While some students at Wilfrid Laurier University have been able to live comfortably since the beginning of classes, a few are still struggling with how and when they can move into their new apartments. On September 2, ICON Waterloo, two 25 storey high-rises located on Phillip and Columbia, announced in an email to their tenants…
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Waterloo hospitals to receive over 2 million dollars in funding
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Waterloo Region hospitals will soon be benefitting from over 2 million dollars in funding from the provincial government, announced earlier this year. The funds come as part of Ontario’s Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund (HIRF), with Grand River Hospital awarded 1,555,561 dollars and a further 524,334 dollars earmarked for St. Mary’s Hospital, the two Kitchener hospitals…
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Laurier welcomes 4,000 new students
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Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo campus is set to welcome a new cohort of first-year students, come September. Opening ceremonies for Orientation Week will be held on September 5, in the evening, allowing time for students moving-in that day to unpack and familiarise themselves with their floors, before launching into O-Week activities. First-years will begin the…
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Update on LRT construction
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Throughout the past year, the LRT construction has progressed steadily in Waterloo. The overall Ion Construction in Ontario includes installing 45 kilometres of new underground pipe, followed by the installation of approximately 36,000 metres of LRT track and 56,000 square metres of new sidewalk. Specifically, in uptown Waterloo, there is work being done in four…
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K-W’s newest Sushi restaurant a promising option for students
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If you’re a foodie, you’ve probably wandered deep outside the limits of the Waterloo bubble and into Cambridge for this hot bite: sushi burritos and bowls. You heard that right and they are coming full force with two new locations. Owner and operator Aaron Moir, along with his wife, are bringing Hungry Ninja out to…
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Knife-point robbery in Laurier area
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Early this morning, four people who were walking home from Phil’s nightclub in Waterloo were robbed by a group of people armed with a rock and a knife. “At around 1:00 a.m., police responded to the area of Regina Street and Lodge Street in Waterloo, where three men and a woman were walking from a bar…
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Laurier alumna wins Masterchef Canada
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Wilfrid Laurier University alumna, Mary Berg, was recently crowned the winner of the third season of CTV’s Masterchef Canada. Berg was one of 14 hopefuls chosen to compete on this past season of Masterchef Canada, where they were pitted against each other in weekly cooking competitions, with contestants systematically eliminated leading up to the finale…
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