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Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 8° 0° 8° 3° 11° 5° 12° 7° Firefighters' toy drive Page 17 Memoirs of a doctor and veteran Artscene www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, November 11, 2016 | 40 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Veterans honoured for their sacrifices by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff ClubLink les Glen Abbey development plan at Town by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Hundreds of Canadian veterans once again converged at the Oakville Conference Centre Monday (Nov. 7) to attend the 15th annual Veterans' Appreciation Luncheon. The event, organized by home healthcare business Access Abilities (formerly MediChair), drew more than 700 former service men and women who served during the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan and other con icts. The event kicked off with a piper playing as a Colour Party carried Canadian and Allied ags to a podium. This was followed by a procession that included local politicians, Canadian Forces members, Halton police and RCMP of cers. All who could stand, did so, for the singing of O Canada and the reading of Lt.-Col. John McCrae's poem, In Flanders Field. A trumpeter playing The Last Post see Memories on p.12 The annual Veterans' Appreciation Luncheon at the Oakville Conference Centre Monday (Nov. 7) attracted veterans from across the GTA. Korean War Naval veteran Ron Kirk, who was a member of the Colour Party carrying the Canadian ag, stands at attention. For more photos, visit oakvillebeaver.com. | Graham Paine/Metroland An application to develop Glen Abbey Golf Club was of cially led yesterday (Thursday, Nov. 10) afternoon with the Town of Oakville. ClubLink Corporation ULC and ClubLink Holdings Limited, the owner of the world-famous golf course, said it has a long-term plan to transform the iconic golf course into a residential, retail and of ce development -- with more than half of the privatelyowned site dedicated to the public as permanent, publicly accessible green space. "We want to have an open and transparent conversation about this with the people of Oakville," states ClubLink President and CEO Rai Sahi in a media release. "We strongly believe the signi cant public green space we will permanently dedicate to Oakville residents is a plan worth talking about," said Sahi. The proposed redevelopment includes transforming the 92.7 hectare Glen Abbey golf course into 3,222 residential units, 121,000 sq. ft. of new commercial space and about 124 acres of permanent, publicly accessible green space. The green space makes up 54 per cent of the Glen see ClubLink on p.14 ingeborg's warehouse est. 1958 $ more of $70.00 or Any F OF 00 10. m e Single it 1681 FINFAR COURT, MISSISSAUG MISSISSAUGA · www.ingeborgs.ca Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 to 5 Sat. 10-5 - Sun. 11 to 4 905.823.7415 est. 1958 on . One coup r 20, 2016 on up co t be Must presen ires Novem xp E n po Cou s ingeborg'pe . r purchase ) (before taxes