TM MAINTENANCE · TIRES · BRAKES · OIL & FILTER · BATTERIES · ALIGNMENT oak-land.com · 905-844-3273 Life is better in the Quick Lane.TM SNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2010 ontario's top newspaper - 2005-2008 Just Imagine CA$H FOR GOLD & JEWELLERY 905-337-0051 LONDON GOLD Artscene Upper Oakville Shopping Centre A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 50 No. 34 "Using Communication To Build Better Communities" WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 60 pages $1.00 (plus tax) Blaze on Cornwall Road IAH turns man away for lack of drug By Megan Ogilvie TORONTO STAR An Oakville hospice that cares for cancer patients in their final days had to turn away a potential patient last week because it had run out of a key medication used in end of life care. "This is the worst thing that has happened to the hospice since it opened 15 years ago," said Margaret Anderson, the hospice's founder and acting executive director, who is upset Margaret Anderson that the hospice had to turn away a patient in need. The Ian Anderson House, Ontario's first hospice to care exclusively for terminal cancer patients, was unable to accept a man with cancer whose wife wanted him to die in hospice. MICHAEL IVANIN / oakville beaver The patient required the anti-convulsion medicafighting flames: Oakville firefighters battled a fire at 1464 Cornwall Rd. Monday night. When firefighters arrived, they found flames shoot- tion phenobarbital to prevent distressing and potening from a second storey window and the roof subsequently collapsed. For story, see page 10. See Ministry page 12 By Emily Jackson and Vidya Kauri TORONTO STAR Woman unharmed after transport rolls onto her SUV on Hwy. 403. at Dundas St. on the Oakville-Mississauga border. Terrified, she called her husband with her right hand, her only free limb. An OPP officer squeezed her hand as she waited for firefighters to extract her from the vehicle, knowing if the truck shifted the consequences could be devastating. Just three hours and one dramatic rescue later, Tobiasz, 36, embraced her two sons at St. Michael's Hospital -- alive and, miraculously, unharmed. "The odds of getting out of that crash alive and in good health are one in a billion," her husband Roland Tobiasz said from their Oakville home Monday night, as he wiped away tears of joy. "Miraculously, nothing was broken," he said as his wife, vice-president of the Polish Canadian Women's Federation, See Ditch page 4 An Oakville family feels as though they won the lottery after a mother of two was pulled virtually unscathed -- and smiling -- from under an overturned tractor-trailer on Monday. Edyta Tobiasz could barely move a muscle when the truck smashed into her Mazda, trapping her underneath tonnes of metal in her crushed vehicle MICHAEL IVANIN / oakville beaver POTHOLE PRICING EVENT! TIRE SALE BUY 3 GET 1 FREE!! ALL BRANDS INSTALLATION HALF PRICE! TIRE AND BALANCE C H RYSL E R J E E P D OD G E OAKVILLE www.oakvilledodge.com · 905-845-4211 270 OAK PARK BLVD.