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w w w .i n si d eH A LT O N .c o m O A K V IL LE B EA V ER Fr id ay , S ep te m be r 30 , 2 01 1 6 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont. L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax: 337-5571 Classified Advertising: 632-4440 Circulation: 845-9742 Open 9-5 weekdays, 5-7 for calls only Wed. to Friday, Closed weekends The Oakville Beaver Editorial and advertising content of the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. OPINION & LETTERS The Oakville Beaver is a division of NEIL OLIVER Vice President and Group Publisher of Metroland West DAVID HARVEY Regional General Manager JILL DAVIS Editor in Chief DANIEL BAIRD Advertising Director RIZIERO VERTOLLI Photography Director SANDY PARE Business Manager MARK DILLS Director of Production MANUEL GARCIA Production Manager CHARLENE HALL Director of Distribution SARAH MCSWEENEY Circ. Manager The Oakville Beaver is a member of the Ontario Press Council. The council is located at 80 Gould St., Suite 206, Toronto, Ont., M5B 2M7. 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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR: ATHENA Award THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR: Recognized for Excellence by Canadian Circulation Audit Board Member Canadian Community Newspapers Association Ontario Community Newspapers Association Suburban Newspapers of America While visiting family in Oakville on the weekend, we were unfortunately involved in an automobile accident on Dundas Street, one block west of Winston Churchill Boulevard, at the entrance to two shopping centers. We hope we expressed our thanks to all who were so kind and helpful: to fel- low motorists who offered water and a place to sit, including an off-duty first aider who was in the vehicle behind us and first on the scene, to the comforting and efficient first response team and the Oakville police offi- cers. We are sure there are others we have failed to recognize. Thank you to all. To the driver of the vehicle that hit us, my apologies for being so harsh with you. Please do yourself and others a favour by paying attention. We have always enjoyed visiting your lovely town and I am sure will continue to do so. Joan Burrows, Montreal Let's get on with election Its up to you to cast a ballot Oct. 6 for who you think will best lead the province and community. fHowever, we would honour the track record o Liberal MPP Kevin Flynn. In our opinion, he has long been a champion of Oakville, an approachable public figure with his heart in the right place his calling card over two decades as a town councillor and nearly a decade provincially. His major opponent, PC Larry Scott, is a viable alternative, but would be a vote based on a preference for the belt-tightening Tory platform over the Liberal Party and leader Dalton McGuintys record rather than a reflection of any shortcoming in Flynn. Under Flynns stewardship, Oakville got a new hospital. Flynn has advocated strongly for people with special needs, championing childrens mental health issues, and, as chair of the Select Committee on Mental Health, got all parties to agree to act on a childrens mental health strategy. After his party moved to put a gas-fired power plant in town and effectively muzzled Flynn against speaking up, he did finally do that while the com- munity rallied, raised funds and fought the plan. We are supporting Flynn the individual, not the party. In Halton, we believe Liberal candidate Indira Naidoo-Harris would work hard for her constituents, but are not confident we can trust the Liberal Party to meets its promises without raising taxes again. PC Ted Chudleigh, a proven local voice, should have the opportunity to be a more productive MPP and PC Leader Tim Hudak deserves a chance at the helm. We support PC calls for relief for family budgets and its promise of removing the HST from home hydro and home heating bills. Income sharing, also a PC promise, would ease household budgets. Were concerned that while the Liberals admitted some of their plans were derailed by the economic downturn, they showed no respect for struggling residents facing the same downturn. They hiked taxes and signed lucrative public sector contracts. We give credit to NDP candidates Lesley Sprague (Oakville) and Nik Spohr (Halton) for their cam- paigns, but are not fans of the partys expensive poli- cies. The other candidates are to be respected for tossing their hat into the ring, but are too narrowly focused to govern a province. Its up to each voter to make his or her own deci- sion a well thought out and informed one on Oct. 6. A matter of record Pud BY STEVE NEASE neasecartoons@gmail.com It started out as an honest mis- take, or so I thought. We requested a Conservative sign for our property to be positioned in such a way that all of the traffic couldnt help but notice it. Thats what theyre for right? The unfortunate part was that the opposition party thought that it was public land and had their sign put right beside ours. We subsequently removed their sign and called the party office to let them know that the property they put it on was ours (legally owned by the Town of Oakville but part of our responsibility we live on a corner lot in a residential neighbourhood). That should have been the end of it. However we believe an individual whom I assume took this as a slight against the Liberal candidate came by our house when we were not at home and placed not one but two Liberal signs on our property (we have a great neighbourhood watch system) Childish? perhaps. I think they did not know the whole story. I have been told time and time again that many individuals refuse to put signs on their property because of the hassle it causes with their neighbours. Therefore our candidates fall back on putting signs on public property only have them vandalized or torn out. Hence the debate over signage. Do we really need it? Could our dol- lars be spent more wisely? Heaven forbid that people would have to actually research our candi- dates before voting instead of choos- ing whether or not they like the name, colour or design of a sign. Come on people this is Canada democracy... and all that, free- dom of speech, thought. Lets get on with it. C. Wagg, Oakville Thanks to caring motorists, police, EMTs