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She can‘t get them out of her mind and this is what drives Miriam Bhabha to allow her very private life to become public. She travels speaks, explains, educates, raises money for the people causcht in this horrific conflict. ; he is a woman driven by S eyes, the blank eyes of peoâ€" ple who were brutally evicted from their homes, whose relatives were murdered or physiâ€" cally violated as they watched, who sought shelter from the bombing and the snipers â€" the people of the former Yugoslavia. "Their eyes were just blank," she said, recalling her first trip to the refugee camps of Croatia back in August of 1992. "They were just sitting in these camps and By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff 11 HEALTH IN THE 90°S.......14â€"15 Anyone with information is asked to call the Oakville Criminal ivestigations Bureau at 878â€"5511 ext. 22215 or Crime Stoppers of a man who broke into an Odessa Drive home and attempted to i / assault a sleeping female occupant, early Saturday morning. The 28â€"yearâ€"old woman told police she was awakened at 4:46 a.m. â€" a man holding her head against her pillow. She struck at the man d pushed him away. The man escaped through the rear sliding tchen door and ran into the ravine at the rear of the yard. The woman described her assailant as sixâ€"feet tall with large hands [id arms, and dark hair in tight curls. He has a dark complexion, but lice are not sure whether it is due to a tan or his ethnic origin. l' alton Regional Police are seeking the public‘s help in catching The suspect was wearing blue jeans and a tourquoiseâ€"colored shortâ€" ceve shirt with red stripes on the sleeves. He may have a bruise on the side of his face as a result of being ruck by the victim. 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The three youths were also charged with mischief to properâ€" ty and theft under $1,000 in conâ€" nection with two unrelated inciâ€" dents including setting adrift two power boats at the Oakville Power Boat Club. Three youths charged with arson It was a committment born out of utter humanitarianism for Bhabha is not Yugoslovian, she was not even born into the Islamic faith but is a convert. She had never ventured to this part of Europe and had to consult an atlas to d On the plane which brought her back to her comfortable north Oakville home two years ago, Bhabha reflected on the images which haunt her to this day, and then and there, she made a comâ€" mittment to the people of Bosnia that she would help them, someâ€" how in her own small way, she would not desert them. doing nothing. You think, ‘Why don‘t they do something? Why don‘t they fight?‘ And then of course you realize there‘s nothing they can do. There was complete devastation. They were like zomâ€" bies." : "Canada‘s Best Community Newspaper" CCNA Better Newspapers Competition 1993 Miriam Bhabha returns from third relief mission to determine Bosnia‘s exact locaâ€" Seventyâ€"yearâ€"old Pinegrove Avenue resident Filippo G. Paola is escorted into a police cruiser after shots were fired into the air Monday afternoon. (Photo by Peter McCusker) Halton Regional Police said a 70â€"yearâ€"old man stood on the front steps of his home and fired a hand gun about five times into the air at 1:35 p.m. and returned to his house. No one was injured, ‘but the gunshots set up a flurry of activiâ€" ty that would interrupt the everyâ€" day routine of the peaceful resiâ€" dential street for the next five hours. About 20 police officers, including the heavilyâ€"armed members of the Tactical and Rescue Unit responded at the scene and blocked off Pinegrove Road from Morden Road to an area just east of Fourth Line. A mobile command post was established at the intersection of Speers Road and Morden Road. According to acting detective sergeant Murray Drinkwalter, the incident was sparked by a disagreement with a neighbor. "It was something that just erupted," he said. "I don‘t think neighborhood dispute _ turned into a tense . _ JSk, standoff with the police after an upset elderly Pinegrove Avenue resident fired gun shots into the air Monday afternoon. Shots rock quiet neighborhood "I had heard about Yusgoslovia (See ‘Suspect‘ page 2) before. I knew there were Serbs and Croats there and they didn‘t like each other," said Bhabha. The daily routine of peaceful Pinegrove Avenue neighborhood was interrupted after police responded to a firearms call Monday afternoon. (Photo by Barrie Erskine) ~Free a 2C E ment Planning 8 on PETER C. WATSON MBA, CEP REP Yet there she was in the nucleâ€" us of the humanitarian efforts in her native Canada, forming the Bosnian â€"Canadian Relief Association, a charitable organiâ€" zation to which the floods of peoâ€" ple wanting to help could direct their generosity. Bhabha along with Oakville lawyer Duriaya Patel and the Bosnian community stretching from Toronto to London, formed the organization when the war began. Little did Bhabha know then, however, that her interest and willingness to help, would turn into three trips to the war torn country, the third one having come this spring when she venâ€" tured into Sarajevo. Her husband bought her a book on Yugoslavia‘s history at a local library book sale and "I read it cover to cover." We are an independent Oakville firm specialzing in RETIREMENT PLANNING _ RRSP‘S . 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