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’ COMMENT Smith-Triller Viaduct name recognizes historical roots Dear Sir: The ‘Smith-Triller Viaduct' is an eminently appropriate name for the Upper Middle Road bridge. In recogniz- ing the contribution to thhville's early development by pioneer mill operators Thompson Smith and Phillip Triller, ele- ments of history and community are inextricably linked. Indeed. today's communities thrive by virtue of the col- lective aspirations and works of those who came before. I was shocked to read in yester- days press that the Ontario NDP's have introduced legislation to again allow longer trucks on our Ontario streets and highways. Former Transport minister blasts longer truck legislation Dear Sir: Jake says thanks Re: Longer Trucks on Ontario Roads. When I as§umed the responsibil- ity as Minister of Transportation & ulv Dear Sir: I'm writing to thank everyone who participated in Oakville's 2nd Annual Waterfront Festival. As I'm sure you all know, it was a fun, enjoyable weekend in every way. The events were excellent. Wasn't the Poker Run exciting? it was cool! And, boy my toes were tapping along with all those talented dancing groups. Music was every- where! Duos, trios, quartets, rock acts and orchestras. Wow! Blue Rodeo was awesome! The Oakville Symphony with Hagood Hardy was simply wonderful. By the way, all you kids out there, I hope you all had a great time and I wish I could have met you all. Be good this year and I'll see you next summer! Your friend Jake From The Lake. And hey, how about the food? Hot dogs and sausages, ice cream and cotton candy. Yum, yum. It was a nice change from my diet of fish, fish and more fish. The Fireworks were fabulous. I videotaped them so I can watch them all winter! P.S. Next year, I'm bringing my dog Jack. A big, big thank you to the orga- nizers and volunteers of the event. You people made the Festival what it was - a fun-filled success. Keep up the good work for next year's Festival. SEALED TENDERS, on forms provided will be received by the Town Clerk, 1225 Trafalgar Road, PO. Box 310, Oakville, Ontario, Ltid 5A6 until 2:00 p.m. Local Time on for the following work ASPHALI BESQBEAQINQ Various streets, spot repairs and major patching in the Town of Oakville with the following major items: a) Approximately 10,000 tonnes of Hot Mix Asphalt. b) Approximately 650 linear metres of concrete curb and gutter replacement. e) Approximately 16,000 sq. m. of cold in-place pavement re- processing. d) Approximately 400 sq. m. of concrete sidewalk. e) Approximately 6,800 tonnes of Granular "M" road base material. f) Approximately 13,000 sq. m. of exist. asphalt removal. Plans, specifications and tender forms will be available on or after Tuesday, July 20, 1993 and may be obtained from the Department of Public Works, 2274 Trafalgar Road for a non-returnable payment of THIRTY dollars ($30.00), ST included. The Contractor whose tender is accepted shall be required to post a Performance Bond satisfactory to the Town Council, equal to 100% of the Contract Price, and a Labour and Material Payment Bond totalling 50% of the contract price. A certified cheque or Bank/T rust Co. Draft for the amount speohed in the tender documents must accompany each tender. Tenders will be opened publicly at a meeting of the Tender Opening Committee at the Oakville Municipal Building, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario on Tuesday, August 3, 1993 at 2:30 p.m. Local Time. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Director __ Department of Public Works NO Ellis, P.Eng CONTRACT NO. R-288-93 TENDER FOR HOT MIX PAVING TUESDAY, August 3, 1993 AM) EgyEMEN I QQNSTRQQTIQN How Smith and Triller would marvel at the technology and know-how incor- porated in the bridge bearing their names. Like their own respective mills, the bridge embodies the accumulated wis- dom and ingenuity of builders down through the ages. It is at once elegant in design and technically masterful. No less impressive, however. were the efforts of Smith, Triller and the many pioneers who carved a fledgling Communications for Ontario in 1975, the legal length of a semi trailer was 40 feet. After much research and study. lobbying by the trucking industry, I introduced amendments to allow 45 foot trail- ers. These longer units gave the trucking industry additional volume capacity for bulk loads and increased efficiency. This increase was monitored closely and worked well. Further amendments were intro- duced by David Peterson's Government in the late 80's to fur- ther lengthen the semi trailer to 50 feet. These 50-foot trailer I have observed having considerable diffr culty turning comers, in fact they have to block all lanes at an inter- section to tum without climbing the curbs. Many times you still see the rear axles of the trailer mounting the curb and sidewalks. To lengthen these units a further five feet or so will greatly increase this problem and in my mind is totally unacceptable. Let us hope the public outcry opposing this change will be successful in pre- venting this new amendment pass- ing in the Legislature. If we aren't, we will soon have 70 foot trailers. I am not as concerned with the additional length of trailer trains as they have a better ability to track when turning. -_l-l_-e"B-'-"'--""-'- --.----.-------r--------r--.. 1225 TRAFALGAR ROAD . OAKVILLE, ONTARIO 0 LBJ 5A6 TOWN OF OAKVILLE town out of a virgin forest. With tools rudimentary by contemporary standards, they brought to the task indomitable courage, dogged determination and boundless energy. Against insurmount- able odds posed by a demanding climate and the sheer unknown, they succeeded in providing us with a noble legacy. We are fortunate to be its recipients. ln issuing testimonials, it must be remembered that an enormous toll was exacted from the land's original stew- ards - our Aboriginal peoples. Flushed with vastly superior military technology and native dependency. successive colo- nial govemments literally extorted the territory on which Oakville sits from its defenseless occupants. The 1805 agreement between chiefs of the Mississauga; and the Indian Department saw all land from the Etobicoke Creek to Burlington, six miles deep, (a total of 80,000 acres), sur- rendered for 2.5% of its market value. Tiny tracts at the mouths of the Twelve and Sixteen Mile Creeks. as well as the Credit. while originally excluded, were eventually assumed. Stripped of their land, a once proud nation stood help- lessly by while an age old way of life disintegrated before their very eyes. Pun Respect for our pioneer ancestors through street, site and place names. must also include references to the many chiefs and elders of those tribes whoselinkto0akville,unlikeourown, is ancient. Peter Feller TOWN HALL MEETING CALENDAR THERE ARE NO SCHEDULED COUNCIL OR STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 26, 1993. . Friday Jazz Pizzazz . during the Downtown Oakville B. LA. 's Midnight Madness . Taste Tour Downtown Style . offered by various restaurants featuring live bands and great bod q Childrens' "Jazz Hazz" Workshop q in a fun, informal setting . Art 'N Jazz Plaza . is a collection of an works in a musical environment, courtesy of the Oakville Arts Council A joint partnership between the Town of Oakville, Downtown Oakville B.I.A. and the Oakville Beaver OAKVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL JULY 23-24 People of all ages will enjoy this upcoming cultural experience of music and festivities. 47/07 Watch the paper for further details THE OAKVILLE BEAVER A PROGRAM OF NOTE Highlights include Media opposition to publication ban not based simply on greed t is all too easy to dismlss the Imedia reaction to the publica- tion ban in the Karla Homolka trial as one based solely on self- interest. Certainly those in the news business want to do more than simply inform - they also want to make money at it by selling their own newspapers. That is irrefutable. But it doesn't follow that the media's reaction to the publication ban in the Karla Homolka trial is solely due to lost revenue from sensationalistic stories. There is far more at stake here than just the wish to flog more papers. And I for one am heartily sick of that all-knowing, snide air of some people who think they have the insider knowledge on exactly what motivates the press - that the media is, as usual, only hunting for the most sensationalistic angle, the biggest tear jerker. These oh so brilliant analyzers of the media smile cynically as freedom of the press is mentioned Sure, sure, say they with an all knowing wink of the eye, a nudge of the elbow, sure newspapers want to defend the public's tight to know. All they care about is 'l-IF 1 SEALED TENDERS, on forms provided will be received by the Town Clerk, 1225 Trafalgar Road, PD. Box 310, Oakville, Ontario, L6J 5A6 until 2:00 pm. Local Time on for the following work ttEUEAfiIBEiiIdiiAfir TREET Y A T Approximately 875 metres of two lane (7.5 to 8.5 metre wide) local road reconstruction including grading, granular base, asphalt paving, concrete curb and gutter, concrete sidewalks and 545m of concrete an or PVC storm sewer pipes and appurtenances (300mm to 600mm dia.) Approximately 215 cu. metres of new gabion channel lining construction and miscellaneous rip rap, gabion and concrete channel repairs. Plans, specifications and tender forms will be available on or after Tuesday, July 20, 1993 and may be obtained from the Department of Public Works, 2274 Trafalgar Road for a non-returnable payment of THIRTY-FIVE dollars ($35.00), GST included. P R K N The Contractor whose tender is accepted shall be required to post a Performance Bond satisfactory to _tttTo.wp.founcil., Equal to 190% of the‘ tr:gn"i'r'a"it"'P"r7xirG'ifii"G'iarr"GTi Material Payment" 86nd totalling 50% of the contract price. A certified cheque or Bank/T rust Co. Draft for the amount specified in the tender documents must accompany each tender. Tenders will be opened publicly at a meeting of the Tender Opening Committee at the Oakville Municipal Building, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario on Tuesday,August 3, 1993 at 2:30 p.m. Local Time. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. CH. Ellis, P.Eng., for Director Department of Public Works selling more newspapers. Well, that kind of simplistic reasoning is about as insightful saying doctors are all ill bred fe cats just waiting to bleed OHIP out of more money or that all gov- ernment workers are lazy overpaid slackers. It's just the easy way out. And it gets in the way of any concrete, important debate on the issue. Whether or not you agree on the validity of the news ban is beside the point. Anyone can argue a hundred reasons on why exactly the public must be kept less informed at this moment in time; on the other hand another hundred reasons can be given on the side of the public right to know. And, in the past few weeks, we seem to have heard them all. But what is less understood is the real battle for control between two bodies - the media and the ______________, CONTRACT NO. 9-282-93 TENDER FOR ROADWORKS, STORM SEWERS AND CREEK CHANNEL WORKS --------" _-------.------------- ‘1 HOP l-' TUESDAY, August a, 1993 TQ SQVEREIQ SIBEiTfLtBQtlIE PARTY CRUISES ALSO AVAILABLE CALL DAN 333-3675 - 32' FULLY EQUIPPED BOAT igtes for Cronin-s of 1-50 I "at as law - that people ironically view as' being very much alike in both arrogance and self-importance. It is undeniably, a power strug- gle of immense and costly propor- tions. And the repercussions evolving out of such a power struggle could mean a changing way in the way information is dis. seminated from the courts to the people. No one - least of all the media - likes to have the control of the information wrestled out from under them, particularly by what they view as an increasingly pow- erful judiciary. N TREE RE N TR Tl N And so, they believe it is time to oppose those that placed the ban. If they do not oppose this one, who is to say it cannot hap- pen again? And should not every- one be keenly interested in any attempts to censor the news, no matter how laudable the inten- tions? And yet, surely, the right to a fair trail should be of paramount importance? There are all questions which must be raised. Far better to do this than rely on the hollow, pre- dictable prattle of people who think they know all about the press. Flop IN THE TUB, PUD L IMPBQVEMEN I S BQAi2LAtELEAiNEB I Doth- A BMW” by Steve Neass