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Weather for Oakville, ON Thu Fri Sat Sun -11° -17° -5° 15° -3° -8° -10° -11° Abbey Park Eagles are Bur Bear champs Sports 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, February 5, 2015 | 48 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Halton Region trash pickup delayed a day due to storm by Michael Gregory Oakville Beaver Staff Snow Day All essential services provided by Halton Region remained open Monday during a major winter storm, but several changes to waste collection for the remainder of the week were announced. The Region suspended waste collection Monday for Oakville, Burlington, Halton Hills and Milton due to reduced visibility and hazardous road conditions. Waste collection was postponed one day for the remainder of the week, including regularly scheduled collection for Friday, (Feb. 6), which will take place on Saturday (Feb. 7). Residents in any areas, who did not receive collection on their regularly scheduled day, were asked to remove their Blue Box, GreenCart and garbage material from the curb and place them back at the curb, no later than 7 a.m., the following day for collection, the Region said. There was no change to commercial locations scheduled for today's (Thursday) and tomorrow's (Friday) collection, and the Region said it would maintain BIA collection services on Tuesday and Friday of this week. Halton Region's administrative buildings remained open Monday, but with minimal staf ng. There's hope for Hope, says Oakville vet clinic MRI by Michael Gregory Oakville Beaver Staff Diane Devries plays with her four-year-old golden doodle named Maui at Pinery Park in Oakville. Maui is ironically named after the island in Hawaii. For story, see p.5. | photo by Justin Greaves ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) or www.facebook.com/ HaltonPhotog A four-year-old black bear found paralyzed and famished in a remote area of Northern Ontario made the long trek to Oakville on Tuesday to undergo an MRI, and could now be up on her feet again in a month. The sub-adult animal named Hope was rescued by a family that lives four hours north of Fort Frances, Ont., near the border of Manitoba, in mid-December. "The bear was found in a eld and there's been some people helping her," said Mike McIntosh, who runs the Bear With Us sanctuary in Huntsville, Ont., which is home to 15 bears, including Black bear examined many orphaned cubs. | photo courtesy Bear With Us McIntosh made the 3,200-kilometre round-trip to retrieve the bear and brought her to Oakville on Tuesday see Hope on p.4 Oakville's Preferred Executive Chauffeur Service Servicing Oakville & the Greater Toronto Area Yorkville Limousine Tomasz Senior Chauffeur Reservations · 905-822-0060 · www.yorkvilletorontolimo.com AIRPORT · CORPORATE · WEDDINGS · NIGHT ON THE TOWN We offer corporate rates