The school boards in the Kitchener Waterloo area have an excellant website for families moving to Waterloo Region. It includes information about the individual schools, the areas served by each school and the transportation services that are available.

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Here is a recent snapshot (taken on April 23) of the progress at the building site for the new Family YMCA and the John M. Harper District Branch Library at the corner of Laurelwood Drive and Fischer Hallman Road in Waterloo.

Read more about this facility in this article.

Don't miss this year's annual Laurelwood Neighbourhood yard sale.

(Image by Joe Shlabotnik via Flickr)

Seven Tips on Holding Your Yard Sale

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Tracey and Robert have sold the 4 bedroom home at 211 Beaver Creek Road (Laurelwood  area) in Waterloo Ontario.

According to this recent press release from the KWREB, the real estate market in Kitchener-Waterloo and area is off to a great start with the best January on record for the local real estate board.

KITCHENER-WATERLOO, ON (February 3, 2010) - Sales of residential properties through the MLS® System of the Kitchener-Waterloo Real Estate Board (KWREB) last month represented the best January ever, nudging by the previous record set in 2006. It was also the fifth month in a row that home sales in the region reached a monthly high.

Home sales activity reached 416 residential sales last month, a jump of nearly 64 percent compared to January 2009. Relative to December 2009, sales saw a 16.5 percent gain last month.

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Construction has recently begun on the "John M. Harper District Branch Library" at the corner of Fischer Hallman Road and Laurelwood Drive in Waterloo. This new library branch is being built together with a family YMCA.

Here is the press release provided by the City of Waterloo in early October:

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The Laurelwood Neighbourhood Association (LWNA) is a not-for-profit organization run by volunteers for residents of Laurelwood.

If you live in the Laurelwood neighbourhood of Waterloo, or are considering a move to the Laurelwood area, you may be interested to know about the Laurelwood Neighbourhood Association. The purpose of this group is to promote and present numerous community based activities and to develop relationships with the city of Waterloo.

You can visit the Laurelwood Neighbourhood Association website at: Laurelwood.ca

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When I bought my house in Laurelwood about 10 years ago, it was among the first built on the block in a new section of the neigbourhood. I confess I was, at the time, largely attracted by the affordability of the home compared to some other new construction I was considering at the time (I needed a new home out of consideration for my children's allergies and asthma) and by the proximity to the Laurel Creek Conservation area.

For the first few years we lived with construction dust and building traffic but also enjoyed frequent wild animal sightings on the construction site(foxes, raccoons, deer, snapping turtles, frogs, to name a few.)!

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