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The cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, the Region of Waterloo, ArtsBuild Ontario, Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and the Impact19 Festival are welcoming Canada Council to Waterloo Region on September 27 and 28, 2019.  Federal funding is available to support Waterloo Region artists and arts organization and Canada Council wants to see applications from under-represented areas like Waterloo Region.
Program officers from the Canada Council will be here to meet with...
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Waterloo Region – Due to construction at the Cambridge transfer station, garbage collection service for the City of Cambridge will change slightly.  During the rest of September and into October, trucks which usually collect throughout the day in both cities of Cambridge and Waterloo will instead collect garbage from Cambridge in the morning, and from Waterloo in the afternoon. 
Garbage will still be collected on the same regular collection...
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Waterloo Region –  Here’s a list of Region of Waterloo service changes for  Labour Day holiday   - Monday, September 2, 2019 .
What’s open/not affected:
GRT Customer Service Centre – Open 8:15 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
GRT Ainslie Street Terminal  – Open Customer service kiosk hours: 10:05 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Closed 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)  Building hours: 7:30 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
GRT...
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Waterloo Region – With the goal of encouraging more people to cycle, the Region of Waterloo is launching a 5 km Separated Cycling Network pilot project. Construction of the pilot project will begin in late August or early September 2019. Once construction is completed, the pilot cycling network will be implemented on-street for an 18 month period.
Separated cycling facilities are designated bike lanes that are next to the roadway but physically separated from vehicular...
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Waterloo Region - Grand River Transit (GRT) bus operators are practicing their driving skills in a safe and controlled environment thanks to a new driver simulator at the Strasburg Road facility.
“The simulator enhances the effectiveness of our Operator Training Program by helping develop and test the basic skills needed to drive a GRT bus safely,” says Peter Zinck, Director of Transit Services. “While on-road training continues to take place, the simulator...
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