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Classified Advertising: 845â€"2809 Circulation: 845â€"9742 or 845â€"9743 s The Oakville Beaver, published every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, at 467 Ian Oliver Publisher _ omm Robert Glasbey Advertising Director : Comecion elopeste o Colngnood in exandef. Edifo Kingston This Week, Lindsay This Week, Markham Economist and Sun: n in 3 fiffi“ Aut Emé:" “i.?«" gh Ye mmc IOakvth; Beaver, Onllia ma â€"Aurora Eraâ€"Bannet, No 0 rror, 1 Ver, Geoff Hill Circulation Director Today, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, Peterborough This Week, Richmond HMIF Teri Casas Office Manager Thomhil/Vaughan Liberal h Mirror. ug! I, R All material published in the Oakville Beaver is protected hi. An Tim Coles Production Manager _ reproduction in whols or in part of this material is athelly wthoot io consent of the publisher. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, that portion of the advertising space occuriad by the â€" erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for ; atthe applicable rate. The publisher reserves the right to categorize and reject advertising. In the event of typographical error, advertising goods ‘ or services at the wrong price, goods or services may not be sold. Advertising is merely an offer to sell and may be wit rawn at any time. ces cOC CC â€"EDITORIAL ing help but once a year, and that happens tomorrow (May 2nd) volunteers will be canvassing Oakville for the Sally Ann‘s annual Red Shield Appeal looking for some financial support for their work. Te Salvation Army rarely asks for help. It‘s more in the business of providâ€" There is no other agency so deserving of our support for their work among those whom the bulk of society would rather ignore. So when a volunteer comes to your door, give generously. â€"a Jamaican national serving seven years in a Canadian prison for armed robâ€" beries won a deportation appeal two years ago that allowed him to remain here. At that time he pleaded guilty to five bank robberies was ordered deported but again, that decision was overturned by the IRAD and he was granted a five year stay. â€"Oneil Grant, the man charged in connection with the shotgun killing of a young woman in the Just Desserts cafe in Toronto, was ordered deported back to Jamaica last year by the Immigration Department but it was overturned by the Immigration Refugee Appeal Division overturned that decision and gave him a five year stay to 1998...providing he didn‘t get into trouble. At the time of the hearing, Grant had several criminal convictions. More: a woman has filed a $1â€"million law suit against the Immigration Department after she was savagely raped by a Trinidadian who had been deported twice. He‘s appealing a 10 year jail term. The man had been jailed twice in seven years for kidnapping, beating and raping two other London Ontario women. Last Tuesday, members of the RCMP and Metro Toronto Police raided 15 locaâ€" tions in and around Toronto and in the process, appear to have broken a sophisticatâ€" ed operation for the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit credit cards. All of the 18 people arrested and charged in the case are from the Orient and police say they are connected with two criminal syndicates operating in the Metro area. o weeks ago we ran an editorial on Canada‘s immigration laws and how they have allowed criminal elements to enter this country and how, once here, it‘s almost impossible to have these people deported. Since that time, major incidents have come to light which further illustrate our earlier point that Canadian immigration officials must be more vigilant in who is allowed to enter this country. System abused 467 Speers Road, Oakville, Ont. L6K 354 845â€"3824 Fax: 845â€"3085 What got me ruminating on this gratitude kick was an item I spied in the paper. The story concerns Julia Sommers, a As a rule, women handle this sort of thing much better than we strutting, grunting, sensitiviâ€" tyâ€"deficient studs. With most men it‘s just "Hey, how about them Maple Leafs?" Women, on the other hand, have a thousand ways of saying Thank You with their eyes, their hugs, their phone calls and their random notes. Like my health. My family. My friends. I mean, Jake‘s a great buddy, but if I ever went up to him and said "Hey, Jakeâ€"â€" many thanks for being my friend, eh?" â€"â€"he‘d probably wrestle me to the ground and take away my car keys. "Many thanks!" I burble to the sales clerk who hands me a fistful of nickels and dimes. "Thanks a lot!" I crow to the bus driver I will never see again as I hop out the front door of the Greyhound. "Thanks for everything" I hoot at telephone voices, receptionists and other sundry passing strangers whose lies touch mine with the slightâ€" est of gossamer jiggles. ; hank you.Now there‘s â€"a phrase I wish I heard K. _ less often. Not because I‘m against gratitudeâ€"I‘m not. It‘s just that we use the phrase too loosely. It doesn‘t mean much any more. When it comes to ‘class‘ acts, money doesn‘t mean a thing And Julia‘s telephone numâ€" ber was printed below. Wrong. That‘s you and me. What Julia did was dig into her handbag and fork out about $50 to pay for newspaper ads. The ads read: ‘Found, one necklace in the Four Way Shopping Mall plaza. Owner call and describe.‘ So Julia‘s on easy street, right? And she‘s going to cash in the choker and quit her two day jobs and move somewhere nice and quiet and spend the rest of her life being grateful to Lady Luck for making her cross that shopping mall parking Tot, right? ' "Off the top of my head," he told Julia Sommers, "approxiâ€" mately $200,000." Well, Julia‘s luck changed last week. She was crossing a shopping mall parking lot when she spotted, among the Dixie cups and the beer cans and the leavesâ€"â€"a necklace. A very beautiful necklace. She took it to a jeweller and asked for an appraisal. The jewâ€" eller sighed, screwed his jewâ€" eller‘s loupe into his eye, squinted and reverently handed the necklace back to the woman. struggling single mother who puts in 14 hour days as a waitâ€" ress and a motel maid to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of her two little kids. It, wasn‘t long before Julia‘s And for that, Julia Sommers, I say thank you. And .L mean.it. That you aren‘t ma‘am. But you are a lady with a lot of classâ€"â€"something the ‘lady‘ in the Rolls Royce with the diaâ€" monds and emeralds winking out of her neck wattles will never be. Wrong again. "I never thought about keeping it, even after the jeweller told me what it was worth," she said. "I teach my daughters to be honest and I‘m no hypocrite." Leaving Julia Sommers $48 in the red for those classifieds and very sorry that she didn‘t pawn the rocks, right? And the banker‘s wife handâ€" ed Julia $2, thanked her again and drove away. At the mall, Julia saw a woman climb out of a carâ€"â€"a Rolls Royceâ€"â€"and hurry towards her. She identified herself as the banker‘s wife and took the necklace from Julia with tremâ€" bling hands. She thanked Julia profusely, gushing that words couldn‘t express how much it meant to have it back. And then, pulling a wad of bills out of her handbag, she said: "And Julia, your honesty should not go unrewarded." phone rang and a woman‘s voiceâ€"quavering with gratitudeâ€" described how she‘d lost the necklace while shopping. She was a banker‘s wife and she described the necklace perfectâ€" ly. Julia agreed to meet her. At the mall, because, well, Julia wasn‘t all that proud of the apartment building she had to live in.