FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 WATERLOO REGION LOCAL restaurant retrofitted as temporary credit union ROBERT WILLIAMS WATERLOO REGION RECORD WATERLOO The former home of Marbles restaurant in up- BUSINESS tion approved to go ahead as early as this fall. in final discussions to complete the designs of the project, with construction contractors now looking to secure supplies for The credit union is currently the likes of our other financial institution said Matt Lukas, director of member services. ject is still years in the making. But the completion of the pro- CLASSIFIED ted to be offered as affordable rental apartments are includ- ed to help offset the costs asso- ciated with the build while also helping the region deal with its ongoing housing availability is- sues, particularly in the mid- rise and missing-middle hous- TRAVEL spooky ducks that pose for says Katie Dee Leslie on the Facebook group CORMORANTS continued from A1 CANADA WORLD branch, or YNCU, as it prepares for a multi-year construction project of its new facility in the uptown core. at King and George streets to The new eight-floor building NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION in your neighbourhood Concept drawing For more information about this matter, including information about appeal rights, visit: or contact: City of Kitchener 200 King St.
Kitchener On N2G 4G7 519-741-2000 7668 We Want to Hear from You! please provide comments by: 616 Dwelling Units Max Height 30-storeys Mix of Land Uses andrew.pinnell@kitchener.ca Andrew Pinnell, Senior Planner October 18, 2021 www.kitchener.ca/ planningapplications The applicant is requesting a Zoning By-law Amendment to re-zone the property from Commercial Campus (COM-4) to Mixed Use (MIX-3) and establish a Site Provision to allow a maximum building height of 99 metres (30 storeys), maximum Floor Space Ratio of 6.2, reduced parking rate of 0.85 spaces per dwelling unit (580 spaces), non-residential gross area reduction, among other matters. The Plan Amendment requests to designate the property from Commercial Campus to Mixed Use with a Policy Policy Area. The amendments would permit a mixed-use development with 616 dwelling units and 1,378 m2 of commercial space and secure bicycle parking spaces. 4396 King Street East 25 Sportsworld Drive 8 a.m. and midnight.
Between April and June, there were 55 incidents where IMPACT was called but no one was available roughly 13 per cent of the time. Between January and June, cli- nicians were sent to 16 per cent of all (1,601) mental-health calls re- ceived, and 13 per cent of the 1,029 calls for suicide attempts. Last month, Helen Fishburn, CEO of the CMHA Waterloo Wellington, told The Record there are far more calls that come in than mental-health cli- nicians have the ability to re- spond to. seen a 40 per cent in- crease in 911 calls relating to mental health and addictions through the Larkin said the IMPACT pro- gram received an additional $250,000 in funding for 2021, assignment reporter for The Record. Reach her via which flows through Ontario Health to CMHA Waterloo Wel- lington.
IMPACT has a three- year funding agreement that will allow it to continue through to the end of 2022. Chris Seto is a Waterloo Region-based reporter for The Record. Reach him via email: MENTAL HEALTH continued from A1 Waterloo Region Birds. have seen them as single birds flying by or on a rock drying their wings (mainly on the Grand River). I have seen small to moderate numbers on Lake Erie.
Hunting them to cull numbers has not been justi- fied wrote Derek Kirkland on the site. between the golf course and Park Hill damn in Galt 20-30ish. Destroyers of baitfish populations, killers of trees, de- stroyers of islands exc. Culling the pop- ulation where ever frequenting is a says another group member Jim Grove. One person reported seeing 124 double- crested cormorants in one sitting at Shades Mills Conservation Area on the open-source birding app eBird in Septem- ber 2019.
The birds are seasonal and more sight- ings tend to be reported in the spring and fall. or two cormorants is not necessari- ly cause for concern, however, the more cormorants in an area, the more likely people are to begin to see the impacts that they says Lauren Tonelli, a resourc- es management specialist with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters to the Record in an email. Sightings of double-crested cormorants were recorded in northwestern Ontario in the 1800s. They were populating the Great Lakes in the 1900s, and have now begun to move into inland lakes in Ontario, she says. the Great Lakes can support the diet of cormorants, there are thousands of inland lakes in Ontario that could be ex- tremely negatively impacted by cormo- rant populations.
Brook trout or lake trout lakes are highly sensitive and may not be able to recover from cormorants feeding in those Numbers in Ontario have grown from about 2000 in the 1950s to 143,000 today, she says. In response to concerns expressed by the commercial fishing industry and indepen- dent landowners, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry announced a hunting season for the bird last fall. Hunt- ers are allowed to shoot up to 15 cormo- rants per day between Sep. 15 and Dec. 31.
However, the birds are largely considered inedible, so the hunt is controversial for many. you go and kill something, you eat says Liz White, director of the Animal Alli- ance of Canada and member of Great Lakes Cormorants, a group organized to defend the bird. In the Great Lakes, main diet of the cormorant are the alewives and round go- says White. cormorants are one of the birds whose main diet are these Both the alewife and the round goby are troublesome invasive species. Double-crested cormorants have been driven to near extinction and recovered in Canada twice, says White.
are so afraid of the numbers, but 143,000 is not very many says White. fact, their recovery is a miracu- lous environmental Tonelli says the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters wants the provincial government to monitor cormorant pop- ulations to ensure the hunting season is not having too significant an impact on the population, and to make sure it is actually working to control the population. OFAH does not want to see the eradication of cormorants in Ontario, we want to see a sustainable population of cormorants that balances ecological and societal Leah Gerber is a Waterloo Region-based general Scan the QR code to read more of Leah reporting on the Grand River Watershed. town Waterloo is now serving a menu of financial services. The building which dates back to the 1800s and has been operating as a restaurant since 1977 is now the temporary home for Your Neighbourhood Credit Waterloo be completed within two to three years will include a re- tail branch, wealth manage- ment offices, small and medi- um-size business services, 33 residential units and parking with electric vehicle charging stations.
The residential units expec- ing sectors. The project was given the final go-ahead by council this sum- mer after the developer filed an outstanding technical report on groundwater, with construc- the build. uptown Waterloo branch is really going to be a flagship location that really al- lows YNCU to assert itself in the uptown Waterloo core with In the meantime, the credit union needed to find a location that could facilitate the needs of its members in the Waterloo area. Marbles restaurant which announced its closure in No- vember 2020 due to the foreseeable of the ongo- ing COVID-19 pandemic of- fered a unique option to stay close to home in a building that is instantly recognizable to the community, said Lukas. The team officially moved into the building at the end of Au- gust after working to retrofit the space from a restaurant to a traditional bank.
The result is somewhere in be- tween. stood out to us as a well-known restaurant always been a part of the uptown Waterloo social he said. so much more than a restaurant, become a part of our history. So, we wanted to take that opportunity to keep this iconic building The Marbles building is the original stable that serviced an inn in the late 1800s. The recent renovation essen- tially took the building back to just the walls, said Lukas, but little touches of the restaurant remain a large wine display and the old wooden shelving units behind the bar have both made it into the new design.
The building, formerly owned by the Fat Sparrow Group, is now in the possession of Ridge- wood Holdings a local real estate development company. It was responsible for the re- construction of the neighbour- ing HSBC Bank. our time-honoured connection with the communi- ty, we are positive this reloca- tion will further preserve the integrity of the building while strengthening communal said Bernie Nimer of Ridge- wood Holdings Inc. The YNCU branch will oper- ate out of the building until it is ready to officially open its new building, expected sometime between 2023 and 2024. Robert Williams is a Waterloo Region-based reporter for The Record.
Reach him via email: Waterloo landmark gets financial rebrand Longtime site of Marbles The former Marbles building is home to Your Neighbourhood Credit Waterloo branch. MATHEW MCCARTHY WATERLOO REGION RECORD recovery is a miraculous environmental LIZ WHITE ANIMAL ALLIANCE OF CANADA.
