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Weather for Oakville, ON Thurs Fri Sat Sun 30° 19° 28° 18° 25° 20° 28° 21° School bus orientation day Page 4 A Tragically Hip finale Artscene www.insidehalton.com MECHANICAL SERVICES AUTO AUTO AU TOPR PRO PR O OA OAKV OAKV KVIL ILLE E 2 2 Wyecroft Road, Oakv 221 kvill ille e autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com 905-469-2442 2 dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Thursday, August 25, 2016 | 48 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Heavy medal haul for Oakville at the Canadian Transplant Games by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Olympic homecoming Keith Childerhose never imagined that he'd be participating in athletic sports, let alone return from the Canadian Transplant Games in Toronto with a heavy haul of medals. The 44-year-old Oakville man, who had a successful double-lung transplant more than three years ago, earned three gold medals in the ve-kilometre race walk, lawn bowling and bowling at the Games, which were held Aug. 8-13. He placed third and earned two bronze medals in the 100-metre dash and golf. "My goal just after my transplant was just to be able to breath and walk again, that was my hope," he shared with the Oakville Beaver. "And I got so much more than that." Nearly 20 years ago, Childerhose was diagnosed with the severe and rare disease diffuse panbronchiolitis (DP), which causes uid to continually build up in the lungs, similar to cystic brosis. It's traditionally speci c to men of Asian descent living in China, although Childerhose is white and lives in Canada. He underwent a seven-and-a-half-hour life-saving surgery at Toronto General Hospital Jan. 29, 2013, nearly a week after he was taken to the hossee Biennial on p.6 At Toronto Pearson International Airport, Oakville Olympian Diana Matheson returns home Tuesday morning from Rio de Janeiro where she and her teammates won bronze in Women's Soccer for Team Canada during the 2016 Summer Olympics. For more photos, see p.10. For story, see Sports. | Riziero Vertolli/Metroland SAUNDERS, SAXTON & WINTER ~ A Legacy of Excellence ~ Wendy Saunders Kim Saxton Ruth Anne Winter Sales Representative Sales Representative Broker 136 Church Street, Suite 1A - Oakville, ON | 905.845.1223 sswteam.ca | sswteam @ johnstonanddaniel.com 4141 Fifth Derry Road West - $2,299,000 13268 Line, Halton Hills ~ $3,989,000

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