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127th Year No. 17 Wednesday, April 29, 1981 Waterloo, Ontario" 25 Cents New square is approved By MARK WESSEL City council gave tentative approval Monday to a new $270,000 downtown square to commemorate the city‘s 125th anniversary in 1982. If plans for the project, to be called Heritage Park, are eventually finalized, it will mark the first time Waterloo has a functional public square, according to Mayor Marjorie Carroll. The mayor said in an interview that, in the past, public speakers have had no official place to talk from and "they ended up speakâ€" ing in front of either the Adult Recreation Cenâ€" tre or the Waterloo liâ€" brary." ‘ Epp retains _ critic‘s role Plans call for the Liberal leader Stuart Smith has anâ€" nounced that Herb Epp, Liberal M.P.P. for Waterloo North, will stay on as the party‘s critic for municipal affairs in the forthcomâ€" ing spring session of the Ontario legislaâ€" ture. Epp was first elected to represent the riding of Waterloo North in 1977, and is the former mayor of Waterloo. Smith said he considers Epp to be "a very fine member. a real asset to the party, who performs exceedingly well in the House and in comâ€" mittee." Epp says he is looking forward to the new session. ‘"There‘s a great deal to be done in the area of provincial/municipal relations â€" for example, the government has to come up with a more equitable system of transfer payments to cities and towns. Recently the government has seemed to have little respect for the autonomy of the municipalâ€" ities, or for the difficulties experienced by local governments. It‘s up to the opposition to do whatever we can to improve the situaâ€" tion." THIS WEEK INSIDE, square to be located on what is now parkland on the east and west sides of King St. near Labatt‘s Breweries at William St. Rob Hilton of Hilton Foster Ltd. is the landâ€" scape architect behind the proposed plan, and he gave aldermen their They‘re into spring training SEE PAGE â€" 19 first taste of Heritage Park at Monday‘s council meeting. The park will boast an outdoor podium or bandshell, complete with power hookâ€"ups for public speakers or entertainers. On the west side, beside Laâ€" batt‘s Brewery, plans call for a poolâ€"fountain which can be converted into a skating rink durâ€" ing the winter. Carroll said she wasn‘t surprised by the $270,000 price tag "beâ€" cause if something is going to be done well it costs a lot of money." She drew a parallel to Cambridge‘s Millrace Park which cost $227,000 to construct ‘‘even though it‘s smaller and doesn‘t have the fountainâ€"skatâ€" ing rink feature." Council has already passed its 1981 budget and there are no proviâ€" sions for the funding of the Heritage Park project. Carroll said that because of this it is unlikely construction could begin before 1982. However, one alterâ€" native council has is to draw from its parkland trust fund which has reached $184,500. The (Continued on page 4) perfectionist SEE PAGE â€" 5 Profile Derek Crossey (centre) and Adam Faries (right) puzzle over why no cars are coming, while Diane Murray hopes our Chronicle photographer will walk by her so she can record one more passing pedestrian. The children, grade 2 students at Winston Churchill public school, conducted a road use survey on Weber Street Monday. The survey, in which they recorded each passing car, truck and pedestrian, was part of their environmental studies. KEEPING TRACK Susan competes in festival SEE PAGE â€" 13