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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com CELEBRATING 25 YEARS! Between Kerr & Dorval YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS 175 Wyecroft Rd. Oakville 905.845.6653 www.lockwoodchrysler.com OUT OF INK? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Vaccine is here and so is the flu PAGE 3 Upper Oakville Shopping Centre (Upper Middle & 8th Line) 905-842-5600 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 129 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Halton CAS cutting staff By Tim Whitnell METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP Home please Paralyzed man can't find accessible apartment By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The executive director of the Halton Children's Aid Society said the child-protection agency will have to let go of about 13 full-time workers by next spring, due to money problems, and will still face a $900,000 budget deficit the provincial government won't cover. "Halton "The extent and depth of (CAS) will run this unexpected cutback out of money in March 2010," leaves us no choice but to the end of its cut back on service." 2009-10 fiscal year, said Nancy Nancy MacGillivray, MacGillivray. Halton Children's Aid Society "Without executive director increased funding, (volunteer) boards of directors (at other CASs) are exploring the unthinkable action of winding down operations," she said, noting that while the Halton CAS isn't anticipating folding its operations, she doesn't know where the money is going to come from to cover the anticipated shortfall. "Halton CAS has heard the message about sustainability, underscored by the sizeable downturn in the economic climate. However, the extent and depth of this unexpected cutback leaves us no choice but to cut back on service," said MacGillivray. She said she has already had to layoff a lawyer, a supervisor and four front-line social workers and anticipates seven more positions will be eliminated from the current budget through attrition via workers leaving for another job or going on educational or maternity leave, although the latter have the right to return to their positions. The Halton CAS had 127 paid staff, mostly full time, at the start of 2009-10, before the layoffs; LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER APARTMENT HUNTING: Fraser Devreese, 21, who has been paralyzed since March by an infection in his spinal cord, would like to leave his room at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, but cannot find a suitable apartment. Unless he finds one soon, he may be sent to a long-term care facility. He pulled through one of the worst hardships a person can experience and is now facing the greater challenge of putting his life back together. Oakville resident Fraser Devreese, 21, is currently searching for an apartment, but having little luck. When not playing computer games on his laptop, which is set up in his room at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH), Devreese is making phone calls and checking online advertisements to see if his future home is out there. So far, the search has been going on for more than a month, something Devreese finds exceedingly frustrating as he's not looking for anything extraordinary...just a building he can actually enter. Devreese has been confined to a wheelchair since March with a limited ability to move and feel below the waist. The White Oaks Secondary School graduate, who had a job with his uncle's home renovation company and an apartment with his girlfriend, did not receive his disability in a dramatic accident, but in a much more disturbing way. It happened completely without warning. See Province page 8 See Spinal page 4 Morning Classes: Thursdays 9:30 - 10:30am Evening Classes: Mondays Wednesdays Fridays 8:30 - 9:30pm 7:30 - 8:30pm 8:30 - 9:30pm www.ZumbaCan.com St. Paul United Church (Oak) 8:30 - 10:30am Tuesdays