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e City of Waterloo is about to Tim Heritage Green Park into a veritable graveyard, according to one concerned resident. By installing a new 30-foot obelisk as a monument to Waterloo's Intelli- gent Community Award, the city will drain the life from the park, said Mike Bignell, a longtime Waterloo resident. "The park is not a graveyard where you go and quietly read about monu- ments," said Bignell, who has enjoyed the park at King and William streets since he moved to the area in 1959. "This park is just a place where you sit and be peaceful. It's nice on the eyes and goof for frame pfmind,” he adfed, But the proposed monument, which city staff unveiled at a public workshop last week, would take away from the natural beauty of the park and make it seem stark and bleak, Bignell said. Intelligent monument gets mixed reviews "We don't need sortie lit up tower made of steel and Plexiglas to get in the way/' he said. _ A _ - - The proposed design by local artist Peter Etril Snyder is made up of three distinct parts and reflects 200 years of progress, according to an artist's state- ment displayed at last Thursday's pub- lic workshop. The base is made of Mennonite stone and is topped by a mill wheel to represent the area's heritage industries. The bulk of the monument is an obelisk with a black bottom - to repre- sent Waterloo's manufacturing era - that fades into a white top, reflective of the technology era and topped off with a tip that points to the.future. The monument will be financed by private dollars from firms around the city, including GSP Group and Melloul- Blarney Oynstruction Inc. The' proposed design was met with mixed reaction from the more than 40 partifipants at, this public workshop. "I'd say it's about 40 per cent in favour and 60 per cent seem to have a lot of questions," said participant Brian Dietrich. . Dietrich liked the fact the park was unmanned “it!“ ““9“ By GREG MACDONAID qhrrrn_ictelitafr, - 5191251001 450ErbStmet omtinuedonpage6 51m w’ r,,:i,,x/st/,','l,'uTd, WEIGHT LOSS & NUTRITION CENTRES 700stmstnrttltd. WWW Jennifer Steel cleans up the sidewalk outside of Speedy Muffler on Weber Street North on Monday after a massive storm dumped more than 37 centimetres on the city last weekend. are Whom That's when 37 1/2 centime- tres of the white stuff fell, making this the "snowiest snowfall sea- son" Waterloo’s ever had, said Frank Seglenieks, the co-ordina- tor of the University of Waterloo Weather Station. verywhere Waterloo resi- Edents look. they see snow, snow and more snow thanks to last weekend's snowfall. It's the 'snowiest snowfall season' "With this past storm, we've surpassed the 1923-1924 snowfall total." That year, 245.3 centimetres of snow fell. Meanwhile, we've already seen 246 centimetres of it in the 2007-2008 season. Comparing snowfalls can be difficult because they may not have been measured in the same 24-hour timeframe. That being said, Saturday's snowfull of 31 to WEIGHT LOSS a. NUTRITION a CENTRES Canada's Weight Loss Program of Choice ... 4 KEY REASONS WHY . Results . Price . Convenience . Reputation BY 1m OttMSmN '7010'9‘6195‘45 32 centimetres may have broken the record of 30 1/2 centimetres set in 1966, Segleniekg said. "I can't really say that for sure it's the most, but certainty it was one of the greatest 24-hour snowfalls we've had." All this snow is affecting the 2008 snowplow budget of $1.6 million for city and regional roads within Waterloo. . Sp far, $1.3 million has been spent, and Philip Hewitson, the city's director of transportation, expects they will exceed the "The way it's going, our costs at the end of the year may be closer to $2 million," he said, adding the remainder will be Cov- ered by a winter meme fund Séglenieks said the odds are Waterloowillstillbehitbyafew smaller storms. Thé season's not over yet WATEHLOO PUBUC The temperature has been average this winter, and that's often when the snow falls, not when it's extremely cold. The temperature is expected to stay in the "average" range for the next while. "That also means that in a typical late March, early April, yeah we have a few snowstorms that come through," he said. "Obviously no one predicts a big snowstorm like we had this past weekend." But one thing he's learned is to never say "never" when talking about the weather. "You never want to say never and you never tvant, fo say To learn about cumin! weath- er conditions or to go to the weather station's archives, go to http://weather.uwaterioo.ea. alwayi," he said. "The odds aren't good Ala! we'll have another big V " We p" "ii',)), fr, ---- _ A 't _ "'rj,fi;1iil?lfm First E. ' AL it Pounds " __ ‘ Are Free“ 1min madahm,mmh C HERE? Filmmaker gets his first break/Page 20 bring home silver ARTS F0008 Engineers ask people to Be Orange/Page 10 Golden Hawks from CIS finals/Page 23 51 9.578.2828 1liettttitt tt Wanna“ 1/2 Price Titan With Rejuvenation Package UttraShape 10% oft With Package of Three Call For Details March Specials