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Last year, the Oakville bicycle roadeo attracted the highest numâ€" ber of children. HAC officials said they held a rodeo in Hamilton on Monday and it was simply too hot for the children to participate. The rodeo will be reâ€"scheduled but no date has yet been set. The Hamilton Automobile Club, sponsors of a bicycle rodeo that was to have been held yesterâ€" day, called off the event due to the extreme heat. Four of a dozen lifeguards on duty at the pool administered CPR, both in the water and in ambulance but Haas failed to (See ‘Decision‘ page 4) Bicycle rodeo a casualty of heat The pool opened for the 1993 season on June 26th and was open again Thursday, the day after the drowning. "In my opinion the pool is absolutely safe for swimming," Formsma said, adding the twoâ€" acre pool which is described as "a cement pond" goes from a wading depth to six feet at its centre. It was the first drowning inciâ€" dent in the park‘s history. "It was an unfortunate acciâ€" dent. We take a lot of pride in maintaining high qualityâ€"safety standards. This is the first time this has happened in the park‘s history," said Assistant Park Superintendent Jake Formsma. David Haas was swimming with friends and family around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday in the two acre pondâ€"like cement pool, when he disappeared from the surface and was discovered under water by the 12 yearâ€"old daughter of a family friend. 20 yearâ€"old Oakville man Awho drowned in the Bronte Creek Provincial Park swimming pool, may have had an epileptic seizure, accordâ€" ing to Ontario Provincial Police investigating the accident. Oakville Beaver By ANGELA BLACKBURN Man . drowns in Bronte Creek pool A Metroland Community Newspaper Vol. 31 No Staff 117. ‘Canada s Best Conmunity Mewspaper"CCNA Better Newspapers C Saturday, July 10th is the 38th Annual Kids‘ Fishing Derby. : Presented by the Oakville District Rod Gun Club and Tim Hortons. The Fishing Derby will be held at Vista Park, Bronte (Bronte Rd., 2 blocks south of Lakeshore)‘ from daybreak until 12 noon, and is open to all children 14 years of age and under. There is no entry fee, and all participants are invited to enjoy the free hot dogs, cold drinks and other refreshments. Stop by a participating Oakuville Tim Hortons fror. an application form and rules and requlations. s 20 0 Kurz explained his family ‘s company supplies "dry offset" inks to other comâ€" panies specializing in printing on plastic cups and containers. The containers are then used to package food, health products, spices, and even tobacco. "One company tried out the inks Kurz added. As the business started to grow, with more and more demand for their prodâ€" uct, the business was moved to Kurz‘s home in Oakville. Eventually, however, space requirements forced the family to take office space on Speers Road in 1985, and Invicta Drive about five years later. â€" Kurz describes how the family got into the business as a "fluke." "My uncle works in (Eislingen) Germany for the ink company which develâ€" ops the inks. He kept bugging us about trying to sell some here in Canada. Eventually, we finally said okay," he said. Not too bad for a company which Kurz‘s family bégan out of the basement of its Milton home in 1982. Kurz, who was working as a night dispatcher for a Milton cab company at the time, recalls the company had total sales of $30,000 that year. â€" § "It‘s nice to see how we‘re doing in comparison to other companies," said Tony Kurz, the company‘s 34â€"yearâ€"old president. "It started from humble beginâ€" nings. To see it grow is pretty amazing," said Kurz, whose company was ranked 80th out of 100, with a revenue growth of 427% over the last five years, from $288,000 in 1987, to $1.5 million in 1992. oo T Ee itc Aand has joined an elite group of the top 100 fastestâ€"growing businesses in Canada. Image Inks, located on Invicta Drive, was recently named as one of the "PROFIT 100" companies by PROFIT magazine, the second year in a row the company has earned the honor. By SAL BOMMARITO Special to the Beaver Demand for specialty inks has firm solidly in the black Tony Kurz of Image Inks: solid market for spec.ialtj_;inks. n Oakv1lle company which specializes in the: distribution of printing inks L _ r _ .81 â€"__ FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1998 (See ‘Company‘ page 2) , liked them, and that‘s how we got started," ompetition 1993 form and rules and regulations. (Photo by Peter McCusker) 28 Pag Child Find to review coin box campaign PINLDAN 11 CHURCH DIRECTORY.....13â€"14 iss 16 19â€"22 CLASSIFIED..... 23â€"27 ‘The only way we have to raise funds is through the corporate secâ€" tor or individuals," says Cutmore. We receive nothing from the govâ€" ernment." FRIDAY FILE, Jackie Cutmore said CFO had signed the agreement in the spring primarily as a way to publicize missing children. The boxes have a poster on top with an 800 numâ€" ber and the photos of nine missing children. The executive director of Oakvilleâ€"based Child Find Ontario, says the agency will review the use of a coin box proâ€" motion that sees CFO getting $2 per box per month while the disâ€" tributor could realize $1,500 a year per box. Today‘s Gambol The game‘s the thing 75 Cents (GST included) Oakville Place Mall QEW,. Trafalgar Road, Oakville Page 10 (See ‘Boxes‘ page 10)