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1m You No. 22 Mayor Marjorie Carroll in all her spendour leads citizens in Thursday's Founder‘s Day celebration. May 27 was proclaimedFounder‘s Day by Waterloo City Council to mark the 125th anniversary of Waterloo's incorporation as a village in 1857. The city celebrated the event in style with an official ceremony at King and Erb Streets. Area school children and the Alfred Kunz singers led residents in singing the anniversary song after Mayor Carroll read the proclamation. The whole throng gathered next at Ertt and Caroline for the tree-planting ceremony. Then on to a tree lunch at the arena provided by Plller‘s Sausage. Even hungry celebrants couldn't eat that whole 25 foot sausage. The Founder's Day Dinner Thursday evening gave former city officit" an opportunity to talk over old times. tt'il take another 126 years to plan a party to match this one! THE SPLENDOUR ' OF FOUNDER’S DAY ’82 THIS WEEK INSIDE Program disabled --- SEE PAGE s Monday. Jun. 2, "" Student awarded medal SEE PAGE " 25mth Residents to get water, sewer line at reduced costs You can fight city hall and win. _ That's what a group of Rustic Drive residents learned Monday when they convinced a committee of council to bend city rules in order to reduce the cost of extending water and sewer lines to their homes. As a result of coun- cil’s decision owners of 19 properties along Rustic Drive, whose homes now have wells and septic tanks, will be free to run water and sewer pipes from their basement to city lines. Payment will be deferred until service hookup is actually made. Waterioo's policy. said city engineer Jim Willis. has been "firm" in the past: payment is made as. soon as nur nicipal lines are ex- tended onto private property, Normally homeowners hire a contractor at their ex Dense to run pipes across their property when they want the services connected. Most at the residents along Rustic Drive tion't want municipal services mm but may want it in the future. explained Russ Wells. of 360 Rustic Drive Wells told council, "the problem our aft-a has is the high water table .. Currently, he said. the water table has been lowered because the city is installing sewer and water lines in the area If home owners vxtered the lines to their homes now for future use the vast of installation will be sip, nifit'antly lowe-r than if they wait until the water Ivvel is rt' stored. Now. he said. instal lation of service lines would ctrst approxi mately $300 when the water table is higher costs could skyrorkvi In as nun-h as $3,000 Although rvsidents want the pipe; to run In their homes now. the lines will be capped off at the house, They do not wish to pay city - as: PAGE " Davis double Another By Mode. nun-mm water and sewer charges until the ser- vice is hooked up. Council approved the request despite argu- ments from Willis that doing so would create administrative difficul- ties for the city. "There's no way of knowing whether they have connected or when charges should be made," he told council. Mayor Marjorie Car- roll agreed saying. "How do you deal ad- ministratively with this kind if mish mash?" Carroll added that similar requests could C Parade date now set Tom Moser, chairman of a newly organized parade committee. told The Chronicle that the parade will take place on Saturday. Aug. 14. beginning at 4:30 The date and route have been set for a parade in honor of Waterioo's 125th anni. versary. "ll will start at King and Allen Streets. proceed along King Street to Central. up Central to Albert. up Albert to Seagram Drive and then into the stadium area." Once the entire parade has gone by the seats in the stadium. the day's activities will be climaxed with a concert and a drum and bugle corps competition, said Moser. He added that the parade concept and route In part duplicate those of the annual Waterloo Band Festival parades of some years back. "But this one will include floats." Moser said the parade committee al. ready has commitments to participate from eight Ontario drum and bugle corps. including the K-W Kavaliers As we". -several people have said to us that they would be interested in putting in a float." Originally. a parade had been proposed to kick off Waterloo Days in June, but a parade organizer hadn't been found in time BrCttroetichrStaKtWrihetr be made from resi- dents in other areas of the city. “I realize that we could have requests from other areas, but his area is unique," countered Ald. Doreen Thomas. "it has that high water table ... it's been famous, or in- famous, for that for years." "What they are ask- ing makes sense to me," said Aid. Glen Wright. "The residents have been through quite a lot of difficulty quest" v.. I tion't think it is an unreasonable re-