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H o m e A la rm S y s te m s Call C h u b b First Mighty Timbits hit the ice! * Vol. 44 No. 20 Like a good neighbour D eborah E B artucci A gent 9 0 5 -3 3 7 -3 2 7 6 1 -8 0 0 -6 6 8 -2 4 8 2 SPO RTS `U SIN G CO M M U NICATIO N TO B U ILD B E T T E R C O M M U NITIES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, State Farm is there.I M A Metroland Publication Ford has a better idea for Oakville plant Assembly complex to build first hybrid cars in Canada By H ow ard M ozel OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Frolicking fun F o r d o f C a n a d a 's O a k v ille A s s e m b ly C o m p le x (O A C ) -- c u r r e n tly u n d e r c o n s tr u c tio n -- h a s b e e n s e le c te d to b e th e f ir s t a u to p la n t in C a n a d a to a s s e m b le h y b rid v e h ic le s . Inside Artscene...........................................24 Worship.:.,., ....................................32 Sports.......... .................................... 33 Real Estate ....................................39 Classified.... ...... ..............................42 Full Deliver}': Petcettera, Superstore, Leons, Dell, Food Basics, Petcettera Partial Delivery: Office Depot, Wheels, Phamassist, Direct Energy, Sports Mart, Job Skills, Brides, Canadian Tire, Smart Source, Centennial Windows, Food Basics, Ho-Lee-Chow, Home hardware, Longo' s, Sobeys, Pharma Plus, Fortinos, Rabba Fine Foods, Salvation Army, Hoopers Phannacy, Pacific Carpet, MDG, Home Depot, Dominion, Sears, Future Shop, Best Buy, The Bam, Zellers,'Michaels, Egg Beaters, Shoppers Drugmart, Dempsters r e a t R s m / Oakville town Centre I, (QEW at Dorval) G C c lZ % 9 0 5 -3 3 8 -0 6 0 2 Mon.-Sat. 11aro-9pm Sun. 12pm-9pm Already slated to manufacture the 2007 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX crossover utility vehicles (CUVs) by the end of this year, the OAC will add hybrid versions of both vehicles to its assembly line later in the decade. In making this *announcem ent Wednesday morning at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto, Ford of Canada president and CEO Bill Osborne said this country will officially enter the hybrid age by 2010 when the OAC begins volume produc tion of the near-zero emission, high fuel economy vehicles. The 5.4 million sq. ft. complex, now undergoing a massive conversion to flexible manufacturing, will employ nearly 4,000 people. As a flexible plant, OAC will build multiple models on unique platforms. "Hybrids will put Ford at the fore front of vehicle assembly innovation in Canada, forever changing the land scape by producing vehicles that sig nificantly reduce smog-forming emis sions and are extremely fuel efficient," said Osborne. "It's a forward-thinking See Oakville page 3 SABRINA BYRNES / OAKVILLE BEAVER Y O U N G L O V E : Nanette (Laura Busteed) snuggles with her boyfriend Tom (Justin Stadnyk) in Theatre Sheridan's production of the 1920's musical No No N anette now playing at the Oakville campus. For co m p lete story see A rtscene page 24.