Mon 24 September 2007; 266
Laurier beat Waterloo 35-3 in the Battle of Waterloo on Saturday.
Ryan Lynch and Ian Noble handled the offense – and the Golden Hawk defense took care of the rest as the nationally #5 ranked Wilfrid Laurier steamrolled their cross town rivals, nationally #10 ranked Waterloo, 35-3. Students and alumni alike were out in full force, setting a Laurier Football record with a crowd of 9,347 this afternoon.
– Hawks Triumph in Battle of Waterloo 22 Sep 2007
They said the count was 9,347 people at University Stadium for the match that was WLU’s homecoming game. In 1999 when Warriors beat the Hawks in the all-Waterloo Yates Cup game, there were about 6,500 people there on Waterloo’s homecoming weekend — 13 Nov 2007. I don’t know where they would fit the extra 3,000. Back in ‘99 the place was overflowing.
Well, next week is Waterloo’s homecoming and the game is against the Guelph Gryphons (2-2).
Friday afternoon I saw Hiro, Nick, Michelle, Kwab, Lynsi, and others at the B2 green flanked by hundreds of paper pinwheels.
The Record reported on it.
Worried that International Day of Peace might pass unnoticed, psychology student Nick Petten gave peace a chance yesterday on the University of Waterloo campus.
He invited children in a campus preschool where he volunteers to make “pinwheels for peace.”
Yesterday, the four- and five-year-old children planted their pinwheels in the ground on campus and drew pictures on the sidewalk.
– Children, university students plant 300 ‘pinwheels for peace’ 22 Sep 2007
In addition to the pinwheels made from letter size sheets of paper, they tried to make a larger one. I helped too.
When I saw tomato plants on a nearby boulevard — the earthy space between the sidewalk and the curb — I thought, “Why would anyone plant tomatoes here? People are just going to take them.”
I got a sarcastic rejoinder when weeks later I saw this sign.
The sign says:
Free tomatoes
I grew these tomatoes as community tomatoes. If you are walking by, help yourself to ripe tomatoes.
I think it is the sign of a cool neighbourhood.