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i more realistic perspecâ€" ‘ Pve” in coming up with he revised plan design which he presented to : council for approval. ; . Preliminary costs, i Hilton estimated, will e approximately 4 ,000, which includes construction of a plaza and kiosk, landscaping Heritage Square design approved By Chronicle Staff Writer Design of the proâ€" posed Heritage Square at King and William Streets is going well, council was told Monâ€" day, and, more imporâ€" tantly, so far it is within its proposed budget. Rob Hilton, of Hiltonâ€" Foster Limited, a landâ€" scape architectural firm hired to oversee completion of the Square, said his comâ€" pany has "assessed the opportunity and needs {of the square) from a According to Deâ€" Groot, of the original eight property owners who objected to the sewer expansion, ‘"without knowing the benefits,"‘ one withâ€" drew his objections voluntarily and "the extra contribution conâ€" vinced the others to say j By Melodee Martinuk : Improved bus service in Waterloo %s a goal of city politicians, but Waterloo‘s aldermen have elected ~to take a closer look at a proposed Jbus route on the west side of the city before making any decision on it. When Wright recomâ€" mended Monday that the city defer the issue, he told aldermen that council is seeing "a tip (Continued from page 1) According to the Kitchener Tranâ€" sit proposal, Route 14 would link «Fairview Park Mall with the two ‘universities in Waterloo via a route «running along Westmount Road and Fischerâ€"Hallman. The transit orgaâ€" nization recommended that service along this route begin in Sepâ€" tember. â€" Bridge Street Ald. Robert Henry, who also sits on the committee, criticized the proposed route, calling it "meanâ€" dering. "If it is the beginning of a grid system it should be quick and straight," he argued both at council this week and at the recent commitâ€" tee meeting. The proposed route Cost to the city of Waterioo for the route has been estimated at approxâ€" imately $51,000 for the fourâ€"month period. At a meeting of Kitchener Tranâ€" sit‘s advisory committee last week the matter of Route 14 was deferred for one month because of disagreeâ€" ment amoung committee members concerning where the route should Kitchener Transit now operates on a radial system where all bus routes lead to the downtown Kitchâ€" ener bus terminal. According to Alderman Richard Biggs, who is a member of the transit advisory committee, the proposed bus route is the ‘"initial step for instituting a grid bus system" in the twin cities. Westâ€"side bus route deferred A fayity fireplace is believed to be the cause of a fire which resulted in an estimatâ€" ed $25,000 damage to a Waterloo home early Saturday morning. The fire was at the residence of Peter Gurris, 44 Culpepper Dr. Mayor Marjorie Carâ€" roll hailed the plan as ‘"a much more reasonâ€" able" view of what could be accomplished Council unanimously voted to approve the revised park design presented by Hilton. and improvement of the sidewalk on the east side of King. The improvements Hilton outlined are the first stage of a $300,000 plan to develop the park in front of La:â€" batt‘s to mark Waterâ€" loo‘s 125th anniversaâ€" Fireplace may have caused recent fire As well, Hilton said, planned for the west side of the park, where the $100,000 steam tiâ€" meteller clock will be located, is a 6,000â€" squareâ€"foot pond, which can be used as a skating rink accommoâ€" dating up to 215 skaters at a time. of the iceberg by the implication that the alignment is tied in The proposal for Route 14 was referred to the city‘s engineering department for further study and to the budget committee. Ald. Mary Jane Mewhinney arâ€" gued that the route proposed by Kitchener Transit ‘"made a lot of sense. "I think this will really serve a large university population." she said. We have a request into Kitchenâ€" er Transit for a report on bringing people into the uptown," she said, ‘"in anticipation of bringing shopâ€" pers into the uptown. However, Monday night Henry rejected his argument saying that students living in the Westmount Road area are more likely to hitchâ€"hike up Westmount to get to the universities. ‘"‘They‘d get there faster," he said. Mayor Marjorie Carroll also quesâ€" tioned the value of the route to Waâ€" terloo. "I wonder whether with this route we wouldn‘t be taking all our university students directly out to Fairview Park Mail," the mayor said. * In making the proposal Kitchener Transit has said that the route was devised in response to numerous calls from Waterloo university stuâ€" dents who wanted a direct route to the universities. ""*would take 45 minutes and that‘s a long haul.‘" Henry is also "worried about the value (of the route}to the people of Waterioo ... it (doesn‘t) appear to me to be a highâ€"priority area for the city..." According to a Waâ€" terloo fire department spokesman, it took seven firefighters two hours to put out the blaze which apparently started behind the chimney and travelled through the walls and out the roof. And, if the Square is given budget approval later this month, tenders will be called for construction of phase one of the pian with the work to be completed by fall. According to Ald. Jim Erb financing of the park may be helped along by two service clubs which have exâ€" pressed interest in the proposal. Now that the revised plan has been given the official goâ€"ahead from council, the city‘s engiâ€" neering department will begin preparing working drawings for the project. on the site. Alderman Mary Jane Mewhinney said "I like the whole concept. I feel it has tremendous potential to be a people place." with the sewer."‘ ‘‘And I don‘t like that," he added. So, far, the greatest part of his time has been spent travelling the world, to Seagram affiliâ€" ates in the United States, Jamaica, Portugal, Spain â€" the list could go on and on, collecting items for exhibits and gathering information on distilling and the company. At this stage, Swann readily admits, he is only now getting a real feel for what the museum will need, have and really iook like. *‘There is a lot of work to be done," Vincent admitted, but he is confident that the building will be ready on schedule. Designed by Barton Mayers Associated, a Toronto architectural firm, the museum strucâ€" ture is a mixture of the oid and new. The museum will be entered through a 19th century barrel warehouse whose heavy storage timber racks will be retained as walls of the entrance courtyard, and the main museum room will be a new 17,000â€"squareâ€"foot, 40â€"footâ€"high buildâ€" ing. The project has moved along smoothly, said Vincent, the only difficulty being delays produced by the harsh weather of this winter. Less visible, though of utmost importance to the success of the museum, is the work that has been going on in the warehouse in north Kitchener. First, the building itself. As Waterloo residents may have noticed over the past week and a half the building is starting to take shape on the Seagram‘s site at the intersection of Caroline and Erb Streets. Right now, said Graham Vincent, who is in charge of the construction project, the builk of the foundation work has been completed and the structural steel is quickly being put into place. As well, he said, the 24â€"man construction crew has been at work on the old warehouse number five demolishing the rear wall and removing some of the storage racks. It is there that Dr. Peter Swann, director of the Seagram Museum, and his staff are hard at work organizing the heart of the museum, its exhibits and programs. The design of the $4 million Seagram Museum is an exciting blend of old and new â€" a refurbished 19th century barre! warehouse, (bottom left) with many of the storage racks intact will serve as entrance to the main museum building (top left}, a 17,000â€"squareâ€"foot room where freeâ€"standing pavilions and permanent and temporary exhibits surround a skyâ€"lit interior courtyard. Outside, a massive pyramid of barrelis will decorate the exterior courtyard. (Conligued from page 1} history of distilling, the company and support industries including bottle, barrel and grain production, and the whole economy of the industry here in Ontario. Until now, that is. Because, to coin a cliche, things are really starting to happen with the Seagram Museum. Yet, for the past 14 months the project has really been only something talked about, not a tangible thing which Waterloo residents could point to and say, ‘"yes, that‘s the museum." The Seagram Museum WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1982 â€" PAGE 3 And, Swann said, the museum "will be quite unique to Waterloo. I don‘t think this has been done before â€" certainly not on this scale." ‘"‘We have only two years and not a collection‘‘ he said. "It is quite an effort to get it together." The Seagram Museum, Swann said, ‘"is an immense project and time is very short. Usually with a project like this you have six years and a collection to get it started. ‘For a museum man one of the most exciting things is to build his own museum," he said. But, as Swann confesses, he is loving every minute of the time he spends at his work. **‘We hope to make the whole place open to the community for their functions," Swann said. As well, "the museum will offer many programs, concerts, films, shows and through the restaurant we hope to offer people a complete evening of entertainment. Waterloo residents must still wait a year before they can get a look at the finished museum, but from every indication, it will be something well worth waiting for. *"‘I get to build this thing right from the start. but, Swann said, "God help me if it doesn‘t go "It will be a very lively placeâ€" certainly not a dull museum,"" he added. **Within a month the big shipments will start coming in from all over the world and, then, all hell will break loose," Swann said. Each item must be> given a museum registration number, individuailly photoâ€" graphed, cleaned and carefully stored until the displays are ready. The main ingredient in the cleaning process? Often nothing more than a piece of fine steel wool and a lot of goodâ€"old elbow grease, replied Swann. ‘"We have a lot of wonderful things here and when they are properly cleaned up and displayed it will be quite a show," Swann said. But, despite its importance as a museum, and Swann says "I hope it will be a model of how these things should be done," the project offers the promise of much more for the comâ€" munity. ‘‘There will be an absolute nightmare of cleaning," Swann said. "Everything has to be polished up and made to look nice." A complete still from Jamaica, a fire engine from a bourbon plant in Kentucky, an old pipe dug up in the excavation of the museum site: these are but a few of the items Swann has already brought to his home base in Kitchenâ€" er. But, he said, this is nothing when compared to what is due to arrive shortly.