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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Wrestler strikes gold Sports www.brantflorist.com/ob www.dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www.carstaroakville.com 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. 905.639.7001 HALTON TRANSMISSION (905) 559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT #3 842-0725 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 25 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 24 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Catholic board okays more artificial turf fields By Tim Foran OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF All Canadian All eight of Halton's Catholic high schools will have artificial turf playing fields, but school board officials remain in the dark on whether Oakville will allow three of them to be lit. Catholic school board trustees voted at their meeting last week to spend an estimated $2.6 million to replace existing natural grass fields with all weather turf at Georgetown's Christ the King and Oakville's Holy Trinity secondary schools. The two schools, which both opened in 2002 with rubberized tracks, should have the new fields in place by August, according to a board report. The board had previously approved installing all-weather turf at its other six high schools, with some already now in place, including at Corpus Christi in Burlington and Bishop Reding in Milton. The turf fields at schools in those communities also have rubberized tracks and lighting to allow for longer play. Board staff told trustees Christ the King will also be getting six 70-foot lights for its field at no cost. That's because the board will be using the lighting it had previously purchased and planned to install at Oakville's St. Ignatius of Loyola high school until it ran into an obstacle. The Town of Oakville didn't permit the board to install the lighting at See Board page 5 Power plant land transfer denied By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF GRAHAM PAINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER SWEET: Maple Syrup Days at Mountsberg Conservation Area attracted hundreds of families with many taking part in the annual Flapjacks Olympics Sunday. Here, Oakville's Ruby Thiessen, 9, samples some of the sap running from one of the taps. Mountsberg's Maple Towne, where you can eat pancakes, learn how maple syrup is made or take a wagon ride tour of the sugarbush, continues to April 5. The park is open on weekends, holidays and daily during March Break. For details, visit www.conservationhalton.on.ca. TransCanada's power plant project was dealt another serious blow, Tuesday night, when the Town's Committee of Adjustment denied an application to allow Ford to transfer a parcel of land to the energy giant. The move is significant as without the 5.51 hectares of land TransCanada will not be able to build the 900megawatt gas-fired power plant proposed for the area, located at 1500 Royal Windsor Dr. In their ruling, committee members listed the Town's interim control bylaw as their primary reason for voting against the application. The bylaw forbids the construction or expansion of power plants with a capacity greater than 10-megawatts until a Town study is completed, which will determine where larger power plants could best be accommodated. As Ford's plans for transferring the land to TransCanada to build a 900megawatt power plant on the site are well known, the committee said the application had to be denied, otherwise the bylaw would be violated. "That interim control bylaw, See Committee page 3 DORVAL DRIVE I 905.845.6653 Betwe Between K rr & Dorv Kerr Dorval WYECROFT RD. SPEERS RD. YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS! · www.lockwoodchrysler.com Celebrating 26 years in Oakville KERR ST. TRAFALGAR 175 Wyecroft Rd., Oakville QEW