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tion of Mel Hurtig‘s 1991 bestselling book, The Janice Kay, a former teacher, businesswoman and member of the David Milgaard Support Group, has now set her sights on helping to shape the policies of the newly formed National Party of Canada, of which she is a coâ€"founder. The party, which took root following the publicaâ€" \the Milgaard case, said that same attitude is at the very heart of the new party‘s philosophy. "I saw the success our group had with Milgaard. If enough average people get together we can do something JANICE KAY A local woman who once launched a letterâ€"writâ€" ing campaign to help free David Milgaard from prison, is helping to launch Canada‘s newest_political party. By SAL BOMMARITO Oakville Beaver Staff Woman hopes to raise profile of Canada‘s newest political party Kids from Africa have much to tell local students While her rock star spouse and World Vision supporter, Tom, spent time in Somalia on a 10â€"day trip to Africa just before Christmas, his wife Kathy spent time traveling in Kenya and Nairobi with World Vision aids. M rs rras eE en s W s ‘ their age in Somalia and neighboring Kenya and Nairobi but few of about two dozen Brookdale Public School Grade 4 students could really grasp the tale of poverty one of their classâ€" mate‘s moms â€" singer Tom Cochrane‘s wife Kathy â€" brought to their classroom Friday morning. They had a lot of questions about children "They had never written letters before, they have no need to," explained Cochrane. Kathy Cochrane took with her letters, pencils and erasers from her 10â€"yearâ€"old daughter Cody‘s Grade 4 class in Oakville. Kenyan students from Ruiru then volunteered to go back to school during their summer vacation to return the correspondence to their Canadian counâ€" terparts. That bit of news intrigued those in Rita Dionisio‘s class who were, until then, disinterested yc Many great specials (See ‘Students‘ page 2) (See ‘Party‘ page 4) Kay, who experienced firstâ€" hand the ability of popular opinâ€" ion to affect political change in the Milgaard case, said that same attitude is at the very heart of the new party‘s philosophy. Betrayal of Canada, was officially launched last November by Hurtig, who was named party leader. Town to spend $252â€"million on infrastructure Seven year plan would improve services By SARA HOLLAND Special to The Beaver Over the next seven years, Oakville intends to spend $252â€"milâ€" lion on everything from a town hall expansion to roads, fire stations and equipment, recreation facilities, and library construction. Paper SPORTS......... CLASSIFIED Dream is still alive ------------------------------- Remembermg 1992 Looking back at a year full of | wonderful people SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS Loblaws, Food City, A P Canadian Tire,Savâ€"Aâ€"Centre, Page 17 Page 3 d 17â€"18 He‘s still looking for a career in the NHL The fire department rearranged its priorities by pushing back the building of a new $5.5â€"million Uptown Core fire station focusing Proposed additions include an almost $11â€"million town hall expansion to accommodate future development of the Uptown Core at Hwy. 5 and Trafalgar Road estimated to be open by 1998. A further $10â€"million is slated for a central operations facility, $6.5â€" million of which is scheduled to be spent in 1995. Deputy Town Manager of Community Services Peter Wagland, who made presentations on both facilitiesâ€"planning and transit, optimistically compared the near future to the rapid growth Oakville experienced following the recession of the early 80s, with recommendations necessary to facilitate projected growth. Committee members included Mayor Ann Mulvale, regional councillors Kevin Flynn, Bill Logan, Ralph, and Mark Brown. â€" Oakville‘s capital budget expenditure plans are based on population growth which is estiâ€" mated to reach 155,000 by the year 2001. Along with this employment is forecasted to hit 82,000 in the same amount of time. Members of the budget comâ€" mittee, who will meet eight more times this month, agreed to zero in on the capital budget from 1995 to 2002. The next few years are expected to be discussed in detail at an operating budget overview meeting Tuesday night. The proposals were included in the capital budget â€" a longâ€"term building forecast â€" presented and passed at a Thursday night meetâ€" ing. 844â€"5732 _ UPPER OAKVILLE SHOPPING CENTRE Upper Middle at 8th Line OAKTOWN SHOPPING PLAZA 550 Kerr Street (See ‘Plans‘ page 5)