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Waterioo: At midnight on Monday we leap ahead into a new year and a new decade, for that matter. What lies ahead for Waterloo in the next 365 days is anyone‘s . We can only rely on leaves and a Ouija board r that information. What we can do is look back over the past year through the pages of the Chronicle and see how some of the events affected our lives. Whether good or bad, it happened. JANUARY Waterloo sought approval from the Ontario Municipal Board for its bylaw 78â€"228 which would see the return of trees and oldâ€"fashioned street lights along the east side of King St., between Herbert and William Sts. The project would be finâ€" anced jointly by the City, the Region and members of Downtown Merchants Faciation on whose proâ€" rty the improvements FREE ESTIMATES â€" PERSONAL SERVICE Bus. 7445382 Res: 886â€"5524 â€" Plastic Covers Madeâ€"Toâ€"Measure â€"â€"* _ â€" Exceliont Workmanship * [ â€"/Over 20 Years Experience King and William Sts. 884â€"9790 Waterioo K. KESSLER UPHOLSTERY 101 PARK ST., KITCHENER would appear. Lawyer Richard Hobson, former Progressive Conserâ€" vative candidate for the ridâ€" ing of Waterloo, was forced to back down as the riding‘s candidate because of chanâ€" ges in his career. MARJORIE CARROLL... outspoken mayor of Waâ€" Waterloo Regional Police chief Syd Brown was fired at a police commission meeting in Kitchener. Brown‘s dismissal came ?' ‘{Y . / 2? 145413 . After boars 578â€"7154 Large Indoor Showrooms 528 Victoria St. N., Kitchener (Beside Weston Bakeries) FOR SPRING INSTALLATION YOUR MEMORIAL SUPERIOR MEMORIALS SHOULD BE ORDERED NOW after months of intense study, by the commission, of a report released by the Onâ€" tario Police Commission which investigated allegaâ€" tions of brutality and other incidents following a raid on the Henchmen Motorcycle Club. Brown vowed to launch a law suit against his dismissal. The City planning departâ€" ment tried to eliminate some of the inconsistencies and loopholes in its sign bylaw. A questionnaire went out to all members of the Waterloo Chamber of Comâ€" merce inviting merchant input in sign regulations goâ€" verning portable signs, corner lots and industrial City Council banned a proâ€" posed shopping mall in the Maple Hills area. Residents had been protesting the loâ€" cation of the convenience plaza for six months. FEBRUARY Alderman Richard Biggs wanted Council to take a seâ€" cond look at a recent Comâ€" mittee of Adjustment deciâ€" sion to allow a George St. home to be torn down in favor of a parking lot. Biggs revived the issue by tabling an lith hour motion for further discussion. A student rooming house located at 117 Albert St., Waterloo, received $50,000 damage when fire completeâ€" ly engulfed the â€"twoâ€"storey structure. Three of the eight occupants were in the buildâ€" ing at the time but all manâ€" aged to escape without inâ€" jury. The fire broke out just eight months after Council and the fire department jointly conducted a study into fire prevention stanâ€" dards in student boarding Charles E. (Chuck) Greb was chosen as 1978 Citizen of the Year by the Kâ€"W Jayâ€" cees. Greb had been inâ€" volved with the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Oktoberfest for approximately seven years. For the past two years he was president of the orâ€" ganization and then pastâ€" president. He had attended the Quebec Winter Carnival to promote Kâ€"W Oktoberâ€" Council endorsed a resoluâ€" tion calling for action by the Minister of Intergovernâ€" mental Affairs to introduce An eventful year draws to a close legislation implementing a threeâ€"year term of office for elected municipal officials in areas under regional goâ€" vernment. Astronomers in Waterloo were greatly disappointed when cloudy skies obscured any possibility of getting a good glimpse of a total solar eclipse. In her maiden speech as Wateriloo Alderman, Doreen Thomas launched a stinging attack at both City Council and the province for their approach to the 1979 municiâ€" pal transfer payments. She berated Council for withâ€" holding an endorsement of an Association of Municipaâ€" lities of Ontario resolution that severely criticized the province‘s 1979 transfer payment formula. Three University of Waâ€" terloo students were caught in the middle of a "gas war‘‘ and spent five days without heat in their downtown Waâ€" terloo boarding house. The landlord failed to pay a seâ€" verely overdue gas bill and Union Gas cut its supply off to the facility. City _ treasurer _ Don Schaefer appeared before assessment court to appeal what the City and 89 resiâ€" dents felt were unreasonaâ€" bly high tax assessments. The appeal was successful, but Waterioo lost more than $10,000 in the process. 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