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www.oakvillebeaver.com Beaver N O RT H A M E R I C A' S M O S T AWA R D E D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S PA P E R A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 46 No. 59 THE OAKVILLE Get Growing this weekend www.thespatreatment.ca 416.727.6771 Home & Garden feature inside FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2007 www.oakville.ca 56 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" Inside Opinion.......................................6 Worship.....................................11 Artscene....................................33 Sports........................................43 Real Estate................................46 Classified ..................................50 Full Delivery: Dominion, Canadian Tire, Food Basics, Sobeys Partial Delivery: Ashley Furniture, Sport Mart, Linens-N-Things, Price Chopper, Pleasant View Farms, Bluestone Project, Price Chopper, We're Muskoka, Hakim Optical, Ho Lee Chow, Holland Park, M&M's, Home Hardware, Living Lighting, Pharma Plus, Pioneer Pools, Sears, Goeman's, Future Shop, Shoppers Drug Mart, Best Buy, The Barn, Michaels, The Source by Circuit City, Culligan Water (Support Your Local Carrier) Lightning strikes Oakville home By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF SYLC DELIVERY For home delivery & customer service call 905-845-9742 Mon., Tues., & Thurs. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wed. & Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. or Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. For new subscriptions, call 905-845-9742 or subscribe online @ www.oakvillebeaver.com OAKVILLE DODGE We're Moving to Trafalgar Rd. Summer 2007 646 4th Line at Speers Rd. SABRINA BYRNES / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The New 905.845.4211 sales@oakvilledodge.com BLAST FROM ABOVE: Mark Worton hugs his six-year-old daughter, Alexandra, underneath a hole in the roof of their Chatsworth Avenue home. The hole was created when a bolt of lightning struck and tore through the roof blowing out a fan in an upstairs bathroom. An Oakville family is counting their blessings no one was hurt after a lightning bolt ripped a hole in the roof of their Chatsworth home Tuesday morning. Michelle and Mark Worton were in bed comforting their two young children, Alexandra and Braden, who had been scared by the morning's thunderstorm, when the bolt struck. "It was just towards the end of the storm," said Michelle. "We thought it was over." At about 5:45 a.m. several hundred million volts of electricity, defied that assumption, descending on the Worton home in one great blast. "It sounded like a bomb went off in our ensuite," said Michelle. So intense was the lightening bolt that several neighbours reported their homes shaking from the blast, while one neighbour's home alarm system actually went off. Initially thinking a window had been broken in the adjoining bathroom Mark rushed in finding a whole set of different problems. Where the bathroom light switch had been there was now only a small black charred hole. "Then I looked up to where the fan was and the fan was hanging out of the ceiling and all around it was on fire," said Mark. After quickly evacuating his family from the house Mark and a neighbour See Family page 4 Oakville's largest selection of Natural Limestone and Hardwood · Custom Quality Workmanship 35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN TILE INSTALLATION LARGEST SELECTION OF WOOD FLOORING OVER 500 SAMPLES ON DISPLAY GRANITE COUNTERTOPS BUY DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER LARGE SELECTION OF NATURAL LIMESTONE & PORCELAIN TILE Monday to Friday 7:30am-6:00pm · Saturday 7:30am-5:00pm · Closed Sunday 243 SPEERS ROAD, OAKVILLE · 905.338.1288