Weather for Oakville, ON Thu Fri Sat Sun 29° 16° 31° 18° 20° 13° 22° 12° Oakville students head back to class Page 7 www.insidehalton.com 916 Winston Churchill Blvd. t k ill www.carstaroakville.com t k iill Collision & Glass Glass Service Service Collision & 905-845-7579 905-847-2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Thursday, September 4, 2014 | 40 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Suspicious fires Tuesday on Wyecroft by Michael Gregory Oakville Beaver Staff L A S T K I C K A T S U M M E R Armed robbery affects four Glen Abbey schools on rst day back by Michael Gregory Oakville Beaver Staff Oakville's re department said a duo of suspicious res Tuesday could be the result of arson. The Ontario Fire Marshal's of ce has been called into investigate following two suspicious res -- at an industrial complex and a nearby vehicle -- Tuesday night. "Once they've completed their investigation then we can determine if it was arson, or not, but it is de nitely suspicious," said Oakville Fire's Deputy Chief Andy Glynn. The deputy chief con rmed the re department received a call about a vehicle re near Dorval Drive and Wyecroft Road just after 9 p.m. and dispatched re ghting crews. "It was a vehicle re in the parking lot and when crews arrived, they determined the building was actually on re as well," Glynn said Wednesday. "It's too early to tell the exact cause of the re." The vehicle involved bore the name of a printing company that operates in the 250 Wyecroft Rd. complex. see Two on p.3 Blake Pogue, 4, plays in the rain runoff under a picnic shelter at Coronation Park where families spent Labour Day Monday taking in the tail end of summer and humid temperatures, if not sunny skies. | photo by Graham Paine Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) Four schools in Oakville's Glen Abbey community were alerted by Halton police to go into hold-andsecure mode Tuesday morning after an armed robbery at a nearby pharmacy, Halton police say. A man carrying a gun entered Fairways Pharmacy It's done when there is at Upper Middle some kind of concern in Road and Third the community and the Line shortly bepolice make that call and fore 9 a.m. and denotify us. Students aren't manded narcotics allowed to be outside for from a pharmacist. Halton police phys-ed, or out on the said the robber, playground, and everything who was wearing is just kept inside the sunglasses and had school. a dark cloth covering his face, ed Marnie Denton on foot in an unHalton District School Board spokesperson known direction with the medication. Police alerted nearby schools about the incident and informed them to go into hold-and-secure. see Armed on p.4 Is your furnace ready? The world's leading manufacturer of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. 905-844-2949