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Travelling through Ontario, one is greeted in many cities and towns with shopping centres. These shopping malls, though different in con guration and location remain very much the same. Many house the same shops. Travel to London, Barrie, Peterborough, Kingston, Hamilton... you might as well have stayed home if you were looking for something unique. During the summer, Ontario is rife with Oakville Waterfront Festival stepped up to offer unique entertainment festivals of all kinds. There are art festivals, rib festivals, music festivals and jazz festivals, to name a few. Sadly, most of these events suffer much like the ubiquitous shopping centres. Step forward Oakville Waterfront Festival 2013. This year the Waterfront Festival boasted having four different breweries: Trafalgar, Cameron's, Nickelbrook and Old Credit. These breweries are small. They are local. They do not have large advertising budgets. They cannot afford to sponsor large events. They do, however, have something the three large breweries do not have and that is their products. Each brewery had a lager and an ale at the festival. The average punter had a good selection from which to choose and, unlike most festivals, one could wander around the food stalls and throughout the music area while carrying a glass of beer. How civilized. 7 | Wednesday, August 7, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com As well, the food stalls were all mobile kitchens. Vegan meals, wood- red pizza, sandwiches, barbecued meats, poutine and other unique taste delights were yours for the asking. Thank you Peter Willson, William Smith and all those involved with this year's Oakville Waterfront Festival. You have everything to be proud of. Michael Maurice, Oakville Questioning federal government on the math For more news, visit www.oakvillebeaver.com I notice that our government has reduced the funding it provides the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival, Toronto to a paltry $13,000. This for an event that is attended by upwards of one million folks and bene ts all in the GTA. This stands in stark contrast to the far larger funds so proudly announced in support of the Bronte BIA Canada Day event -- at the same time chiding the mayor and council for not seeing things the same way. I suspect self-promotion was at play locally and that's well and good, but I cannot understand the indifference of the federal government to the earlier mentioned worldclass event -- perhaps we should sell our fake lake and transfer the funds or better still, put grant funding in the hands of your military procurement folks in which case the festival will be awash in money with no need for accountability. Someone needs to write a book about the seemingly never-ending incompetence of this government while it suffuses our democracy in a cloak of secrecy. Jim LeFrancois, Oakville Follow Oakville Beaver staff on Twitter @Oakville_Beaver, @NewsHooked @DavidLea6 @DominikKurek @ BeaverSports @Halton_Photog DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL AUGUST 9-10 www.oakvillejazz.com TASTE Memorial planned Friday at St. Jude's is also Available Dinner Menu Lunch Menu for $17.95 pp OF Oakville's chapter of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN-Oakville) will host a commemorative evening in the St. Jude's Anglican Church garden Friday, Aug. 9 in remembrance of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The event will run from 7:30-9 p.m. at the 160 William Street church in downtown Oakville. The program includes a presentation by Oakville Mayor Robert Burton, who is a member of Mayors for Peace, an international organization dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons. The keynote address will be provided by Mervyn Russell of ICAN-Oakville. Russell has been an active campaigner for the abolition of nuclear weapons over the course of many decades and currently is the chair of the Oakville/ Mississauga chapter of KAIROS. Reports and updates on the current activities and goals of ICAN, Global Zero, United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, Israeli peace activists, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and many others will be shared. For information, contact ICANOakville, pat 905-849-5501 or 905849-7167 or visit www.icanw.org. $29.95 Taxes and Gratuity Not Included Not Valid with any other promotions or discounts clarkson July 12 To August 11 WWW.TASTEOFCLARKSON.COM 1731 Lakeshore Road West 905-916-2283 Appetizer (choice of 1) Roasted Beet Salad Mixed organic greens red onion feta cheese with a raspberry balsamic reduction Cool watermelon soup infused with cucumber and fresh mint Salmon cured in fresh lime and lemon juice with diced tomatoes and red onion topped with pine nuts 1715 Lakeshore Road West 905-822-5751 1801 Lakeshore Road West 905-822-1801 1107 Lorne Park Road 905-271-9898 Dinner Dinner Appetizers Choice of Dinner Warm Zucchini & Ricotta Fritter Chilled Gazpacho Soup Panzanella Salad Entrees Stuffed Pork Chop with a buffalo milk yogurt & fennel slaw Starters Dinner Soup of the day Created by our Chef Appetizers Watermelon Gazpacho Fresh Salmon Savice Entree Roasted Halibut Choice of Chef's Creation of Daily Soup Traditional Caesar Salad Golden & Red Beet Salad with Baby Arugula Entree Pan Seared Veal Scaloppini Baked Atlantic Salmon with a Lobster Cognac Sauce, Rice Pilaf and a Vegetable Medley with mini bocconcini, grilled crostini, tomatoes & cucumbers Tu Casa's extraordinary Homemade Caesar Dressing, without Anchovies (Anchovies available on request) Caesar Salad Choice of Topped with Caribbean salsa, served with roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables with a Trio of Champignon Mushroom, Three Peppercorn and Pizzaiola Sauces Lobster Tail Spaghetti Tender veal loin lightly seasoned, pan seared and topped with our creamy gorgonzola sauce. Served with roasted potatoes and grilled vegetables Veal Scaloppini with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce Lobster and mixed vegetables, tossed in a light aliolio sauce Corn Meal Crusted Ocean Perch with a vegetable orzo & spicy roasted corn salsa with prosciutto, spring peas and mushrooms in a light parmesan cream sauce filled with spinach and pine nuts served with sauteed fingerling potatoes and brussel sprouts. 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