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HILLSIDE NUISANCE By Mark Wessel It‘s lights out for baseball at 11 p.m. in Waterloo now that the city has imposed a curâ€" few to restrict late night games. City Council passed the measure in reâ€" sponse to a 111â€"signaâ€" ture petition presented during the committee of the whole Monday by residents of the Glenridge area. The petition listed 10 deâ€" mands aimed at conâ€" trolling conditions in nearby Hillside Park. (Continued from page 1} just for surface reâ€" lief." Aldermen immediâ€" ately accepted the 11 p.m. curfew and enâ€" trusted Community Services Director Kenâ€" neth Pflug with the task of combing through the other deâ€" mands. and landscaping on the steaimclock will be east side the park built with mostly priâ€" boasted a poolâ€"fountain vate donations. Because of the lateâ€" ness of the hour in the meeting (past 11 p.m.) council decided to defer the matter until a later date. It marked the second consecutve meeting during which discussion of the The status of the square has been up in the air since last April whenâ€"council gave tenâ€" tative approval of the plans. At that time Rob Hilton revealed details of the project, to be located on both sides of King St. opposite Laâ€" batt‘s Breweries. Speaking for a deleâ€" gation of 25 people present in support of the petition, resident Ken Bowers told counâ€" cil 50 homeowners are concerned the lighting and noise from the square was deferred after coming up late in the agenda. Anniverary _ present Glenridge residents crying foul park will reduce the value of their properâ€" ty."" Bowers said the size of the delegation ‘"communicates that there is widespread concern among resiâ€" dents over this probâ€" lem." According to Bowers, Hillside Park is lighted by 60 metal halide lamps each 60 feet high, each generating 1) watts. During the evening Bowers said ‘‘nobody can walk by without being absoluteâ€" ly stunned by the sight." Bowers acknow â€" ledged Pflug is invesâ€" tigating the placement of shields and reflecâ€" tors around lights illuâ€" minating nearby homes, but said that if the corrections don‘t solve the problem, some lights should be disconnected. Although council was unable to come to a decision over the square Monday, it did give its blessing for the Oktoberfest steamâ€" clock by granting Okâ€" toberfest president Bill Renaud $3,000 of the $10,000 it has earâ€" marked for the project over the next three The $100,000 fastball complex at Hillside Park first opened Auâ€" gust 1 this year to accommodate the inâ€" creased demand for Plans also called for a steamâ€"heated gazebo beside the rink, which has been dropped beâ€" cause the Kâ€"W Oktoâ€" berfest Committee‘s tiâ€" meteller steamclock planned nearby can acâ€" commodate these on the west to be used as a skating rink durâ€" ing the winter. Unlike the heritage square, the $100,000 Glenridge residents banded together at that time after one game in a tournament held on fastball fields in the city. s lasted until 4 a.m. Apart from concern over lights and noise from loudspeakers going early into the morning, Bowers said residents were conâ€" cerned over the drinkâ€" ing in the park. ‘"Perâ€" sonally 1 was stunned to realize the city liâ€" sion for that tournaâ€" ment," said Bowers. Reading from a list of demands on the petiâ€" tion, Bowers asked council to ban the sale of all alcohol in parks, and post signs in the area to indicate drinkâ€" ing is prohibited. ‘"By allowing drinking in the park in the first place the city was askâ€" ing for trouble, and it should do something now to minimize drinkâ€" ing," he said. But Mayor Marjorie Carroll told Bowers the city licenses tournaâ€" ments to control drinkâ€" ing â€" not to encourage it. "If we banned alâ€" ments people would drink in their automoâ€" biles... so at least by licensing the event there ‘are some conâ€" trols.‘" she said. Other demands listed by Bowers in the petiâ€" tion included a tree program to help shield residential areas from lights; a ban on winter lighting to prevent the reflection from snow and ice; the banning of sound amplification systems during games; preventing the enâ€" trance of vehicles on a road rumning into the lower park land; and prohibiting major deâ€" velopments in the park land without a sixâ€"week notice to residents afâ€" Pflug told residents the city could meet most of the demands, but said the recomâ€" mendations calling for a ban on liquor, and a sixâ€"week notice for deâ€" velopment "will reâ€" sion with the resi weekend concesâ€" The city‘s task force on fire protection meets for the first time this Friday, with the job of finding out how to put a lid on the growing costs of the fire department. *‘ $ Last year the city spent close to $2 million of tax payers‘ money for fire protection, and if 1981 estimates remain accurate the bill will jump by at least $300,000. P ‘‘The general feeling in municipal governâ€" ments is that the cost of fire services is increasing at an alarming rate," said Alderman Richard Biggs, who will chair the sixâ€"man task organizing the fire department ‘"to cope with the growth of the city without becoming overly exâ€" pensive." * Biggs will be joined on the committee by Fire Chief John Staller, Personnel Director Terry Hallman, Doug Cassidy, president of the Waterloo Professional Fire Fighters Associaâ€" tion, Ron Shane, manager of the Waterloo Insurance Company of Canada, and former mayor Jim Bauer, who was appointed by council as a citizenâ€"atâ€"large representative. . â€" The task force will conduct an inâ€"depth study of longâ€"range spending for fire station sites, staffing, improvements: to conventional sysâ€" force. In an interview with the Chronicle, Biggs during last week‘s Shinerama. Debby Gerth, a firstâ€"year student at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), shows that even running shoes can be shined, as she polishes fellow student, Colin MacDutft‘s, runners. Debby and Colin were among WLU freshmen who heiped raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis Fire protection studied By Mark Wessel! WA TERLOO CHRONICLE, WEONESOAY . SEPTEMBER 16 "If you look at the big equipment needed in fire stations today, you‘re talking about spendâ€" ing hundreds of thousands of dollars," said Biggs, whose job will be to oversee the task force meetings. . An immediate concern of the task force is the time it takes fire trucks fronr the station on Westmount Road to get into the Lakeshore North area, Biggs said. Plans for a northern extension of Westmount Road, which now ends at Columbia Street, have been put on the back burnef by the region indefinitely, and Biggs wants something done on the matter." _ ~ Although the committee will deal with current problems, it witl concentrate on matters perâ€" taining to the future of the fire department. "The task force will be like a planning committee which deals with difficulties coming up," said Biggs, adding ‘"it could take a couple of years before we‘re done."‘ The city has set aside a budget of $2,000 for the task force this year according to treasurer Don Schaefer, which can be used for expenses such as travelling to other cities to see how they tems, and technological improvements â€" with the purpose in mind of helping the city develop more efficient and economical fire protection. manage their fire departments. 1981 â€" PAGE 3