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6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday July 21, 2000 T h e O a k v il l e B e a v e r Ian Oliver Publisher Neil Oliver, AssociatePublisher Norman Alexander, Editor Kelly Montague, Advertising Director Steve Crazier, Circulation Director Te n C a sa s, OfficeManager Mark Dills, Production Manager Riziero Vertolli, Photography Director Metrofend P rrtn g , Pubfcfwg & Distributing Ltd., ndudes; Aj»/Pic*<8ring News Advertiser. Alston Herald/Courier. Arthur Enterprise News, Barrie Advance. Barry's Bay Th e W eek B cton Enterprise. Brampton Guardan. B u rlin gton P o s t, B u rlin gton S h o p p in g N e w s . C ity Parent. CoingwoodM/asaga Com ecton, East York Minor. Erin A d u x a to C o u try R o u te s . E to b ico k e G u a rd ia n . F la m b o ro u g h P ost. G e o rg e to w n Independert/Acton Free Press. Hamston Review. Hurone Busness Tm es, Kingston T h e Week. Lindsay T h e Week. Markham Econom et & Sun. M idand/Penetanguishine Mirror. Milton Canadian Cham pion. Milton S hopping N e w s. Mississauga Business Tim es. Mississauga N ews. Napanee Guide. Nassagaweya News. Newmarket/Aurora Era-Banner. Northum berland N e w s. North Yo rk Mirror. Oakvile Beaver. Oakville S h o p p in g N e w s . O ld tim e rs H o c k e y N e w s . Orillia T o d a y . Oshawa/Whitby/Oarington Port Perry Th e Week. Owen Sound Tribune. Palmerston Observer. Peterborough T h e W e e k P cto n County G ud e . R ic h m o n d Hill/Thornhill/Vaughan Liberal. S c a rb o ro u g h M irror. StouffviaAMjndge Trtu n e , Forever Young. City of York Guardan THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR; RECOGNIZED FOR EXCELLENCE BY: 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont L6K3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax; 337-5567 SK |oakville galleries | *%%£!£ E d ito ria ls Taken for granted Water, water everywhere but nary a drop to drink. That m ight well be our legacy to future generations unless a more concerted effort is taken to ensure the purity of our drinking water. Realistically, the only ways to obtain Very few of the town's fresh water is from wells which rely on groundwater, or from lakes. And given residents stilt use wells for the recent experience of Walkerton, we their water supply but certainly can't rely on well water. In O akville th a t's not a big deal. those who do, are having Very few o f the tow n's residents still use w ells for th eir w ater supply but their wells tested those who do, are having their wells tested frequently to ensure water safety. frequently to ensure water So what has brought us to this state of panic about our water supply? In brief, it's that if water contamination on a town-wide scale such as in Walkerton, can occur, why can't it happen on a larger scale? If you happen to live in a town like Walkerton that gets its water from a series of wells, monitoring water quality is the key. And if you live in an urban area where water quality has rarely been an issue, you've got to be thinking about the source of that water. In the case of Oakville, that's Lake Ontario. All the more reason to ensure we monitor what's going into the lake more closely. Having said that, we can't help but be perplexed at the Province for gutting the M inistry o f the Environm ent of personnel and resources. It doesn't matter what kind of high standards are set by government, unless there are personnel to monitor water quality and charge offending polluters, those standards are useless. We have seen the enemy and it is us. HE'S CHARGEDwith PO SSESSIO N OF A DANGEROUS WEAPON?/ I T 'S W IT H LO AD ED O N T A R IO N k fe d ,; loco TAP WATER M A 'A M . m r< 3 @ i . m ® \ m ...is it ju st us, or is ju st about everyone sporting tattoos these days?....the art form is as old as civilization but now it's becoming a fashion statem ent, so enter O akville's John Donato, owner of two GTA salons and spas...he's offering something called an air brush tattoo (left) that lasts four to five days w ith o u t s m u d g in g ...D o n a to sees them c o m p le m e n tin g sp ecial o u tfits etc. especially when colours are used...check out h is w e b site fo r m ore at www.donatosalonspa.com QQ .... anyone who has travelled to the U.S. may have seen prisoner work gangs doing road clean-up and other work at the side of the ro ad ...O n tario has had the same kind of program in place for five years running from early spring to late fall and is restricted to inm ates serv in g less than a four m onth term ...since 1996 the number of sites has H] risen from 12 to 23, days w orked from 1,400 to 3,124 and offenders used from 141 to 879 and kilometres cleaned from 862 to 9,135.... OQQ ...for our arm chair econom ists out there, Canada had a budgetary surplus of $2.7 billion in April, up $1.2 billion from one year ago...budgetary revenues were up 11.2 per cent, program spending rose 3.7 per cent and public debt charges declined 1.3 per cent....now you know... Psssssst... is a compendium o f observations around Oakville and we're open to contributions from the public at large too. Just fa x us at 337-5567 attention to Pssssssssssst... Pages ofth ePast Town wanted to ban cars from downtown 30 Years Ago Downtown merchants are divided on proposals by town planners to keep all cars out of downtown and turn the central business core into a mall within the next five to 10 years. The Daily Journal-Record talked to merchants along the Lakeshore Road business strip to determine their feelings after planning board accusations that some of them just aren't progressive. Planning director Ed Cummings indicated that he has been trying to promote a "rear orientation along Lakeshore Rd." bringing shoppers to the stores from the back lots. No parking would be allowed on Lakeshore. This would eventually lead to the closing of Lakeshore Rd. completely to vehicular traffic. - Daily Journal-Record, July 21st, 1970 20 Years Ago What was supposed to have been a gala ceremony at regional headquarters Wednesday to celebrate seven years of planning, negotiating and holding public hearings on the region's first official plan, turned into a fiasco when provincial Housing Minister Claude Bennett refused to approve the document. In a move that took regional council completely by surprise, provincial planner Philip Rimmington said the minister would sign the plan only if the section dealing with Oakville's future population were left out. The minister needs more time to negotiate with a major developer who is objecting to the figure the region wants included in the plan, said Mr. Rimmington, director of the ministry's community planning review branch. Oakville Mayor Harry Barrett and other regional councillors, however, thought they had received a commitment from the ministry a month ago that the town's population would be limited to 141,000 by the turn of the century. - Oakville Journal-Record, July 18th, 1980 10 Years Ago A municipal site plan committee hearing on the new Oakville Trafalgar High School planned for Devon Road was abruptly halted Monday afternoon by a legal question from the audience. When the town's solicitor refused to answer the question because of a conflict of interest, the site plan committee was forced to adjourn for at least 48 hours to seek outside independent legal advice. The query which halted the meeting came from Devon Road resident B ert B rophy, a corporate/commercial lawyer. He questioned whether the Halton Board of Education had the legal right to submit its replacement OTHS plan to the town committee for approval without first receiving Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) approval. Taken from the archives o f the Oakville Beaver including stories from The Oakville Record-Star. The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal the Oakville Journal Record and the Oakville Beaver.