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6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday August 25, 2000 T he Oakville Beaver Ian O live r Publisher Neil O liver, Associate Publisher N o rm a n A le xa n d e r, Editor K elly M o n ta g u e , Advertising D irector Steve C ra z ie r, Circulation D irector T e n C a s a s , Office M anager M a rk Dills, Production M anager Riziero Vertoili, Photography D irector Metrofand P m tn g . P u b fcftn g & D etributng Ltd., includes: Ajax/Pickem g N e w s Advertiser, A ls to n Hetald/Couner. Arthur Enterprise N ew s, Bam e Acfc/ance, Barry's B a y T h e Week. Bo#on Enterprise, Brampton Guardian. B u r lin g to n P o s t , B u r lin g to n S h o p p in g N e w s . C ity P a re n t, C o in g w o o d W a s a g a C o m e c to n , East York Mrror. Erin AcM eate/Country R o u te s . E t o b ic o k e G u a rd ia n . F la m b o ro u g h P o s t, G e o r g e to w n Independert/Acton Free Press, Harriston Review, Huron© B u sn e ss T m es, K n g s to n T h is W e ek, L in d sa y T h e W e ek. 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O ty ot Y ork G uarden THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IS PROUD OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR FOR RECOGNIZED FDR EXCELLENCE BY: v ivv bit v ijS j£> n nee p y Y MO C A T O M V U C L ^ ^ U FE ^ " g is # JiNQlE B e ll F und T V iiiT T in k j S a & g g l ......f e , J ^ th a ia xM tm rd m c7 'h e O a k i'ille © Y /nw rD ,s TV AUCTIO N O N T u TM *1 1 of Oakville SB H SSSB 2L B E C fc /e t ffn U A R I O | oakville galleries | 467 Speers Rd., Oakville O n t L6K 3S4 (905) 8 4 5 -3 8 2 4 Fax: 3 3 7 -5 5 6 7 r^JU U H O C h ild re n 's C h o ir E d it o r ia ls Baring for bucks You've come a long way baby may have been the rallying cry for an earlier generation of feminists touting their equality with men (along with their ability to consume cigarettes at the same rate and incur lung cancer) b u t th a t p h ilo so p h y se e m s to have A g r o u p o f B ritish w o m e n become somewhat derailed of late. The issue is fundraising, specifically, r a ise d $ 5 5 0 ,0 0 0 fo r how b est to g e n e ra te m oney fo r a le u k e m ia resea rch b y particular cause. T h ere are alw a y s the cla ssic ta s te fu lly p o s in g n a k e d fo r a fundraising schemes like lotteries, draws, calendar. N o w th e idea ha s golf tournaments, bike rides, runs etc. but s p r e a d to C anada. there is always some group looking for new ways to attract attention and cash. Enter a group of middle-aged women from Rylstone, England, who were tossing around ideas on how to raise funds for leukemia research, when one of them suggested a calendar. But not just any calendar, one that depicted these same women and other female townsfolk in the nude. Not that you'd see any more of them that a trip to the beach would offer...it was just the curiosity factor. And it paid off big for them. Calendar sales raised $550,000. Now if British women can bare-all for a good cause, why not Canadian women? That was the view of a group of British Columbia ladies who decided to strip off for their own `Saltspring Women Preserve and Protect' calendar. Age is also no barrier to participation with models ranging form 18 to 64 years-of-age. Oh yes, their cause is to raise money to purchase land with second growth forests and save i t from impending development. Okay, that's B.C. and w e're in Ontario, but we've little doubt another group of enterprising women will give a `special' fundraising calendar a shot. But in Oakville? Stranger things have happened. ...so just how is the Canadian economy doing these days?...the latest blurb from the Department o f Finance notes that there was a budgetary surplus of $2.1 billion in June, up $0.8 billion from June 1999...revenues were up $1.3 billion or 9.7 per cent...program spending rose $0.5 billion or 5.5 per cent, while public debt charges were virtually unchanged...other tidbits: personal income tax revenues rose 13.1 per cent; corporate income tax revenues were up 27.4 per cent; Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues were up 24.1 per cent...over the first three months of fiscal 2000-01, the budgetary surplus was estimated at $8.2 billion, up $3.5 billion from the surplus of $4.7 billion reported in the same period of 1999-2000...now you know.... Pages of the Past L o w -co st housing p la n caused concern 3 0 Y e a rs A g o QQQ ...we've all become pretty passe about organ transplants and the news on this front co n tin u es to im p ro v e...th e C anadian Institu te f o r H ealth Information "has found that Canadian transplant patients are living longer compared to a decade ago, especially those who have undergone liver and kidney transplants...one year after surgery, 85 per cent of patients who received a liver transplant between 1991 and 1998 were still alive...five years after the transplant, 76 per cent were still living...since transplant program s began in C anada, over 24,000 organ transplants have been performed...and for the trivia-minded, the first Canadian kidney transplant was done in 1958, the first heart in 1969 and the first liver in 1970... ...a n d h e r e 's a p h en o m e n o n th a t's h a p p e n in g to m any `b o o m e r' families...grown children moving back `hom e'...anyway, TVOntario aka TV O , is looking for ordinary fam ilies w illing to share extraordinary circum stances for a one-hour docum entary `Home A G A IN '... the film centres on what happens to families when their adult children return home to live...shooting begins in the GTA this fall...interviews will be conducted from Aug. 28th-Sept. 7th in Toronto....anyone interested is asked to contact the producers at (416) 516-1833 ore-m ail: homeagaintvdoc@hotmail.com Psssssst... is a compendium o f observations around Oakville and w e're open to contributions from the public at large too. Just fax us at 337-5567 attention to Pssssssssssst... A group of central Oakville youths say they're "tired of hanging around" the small park at the foot of Navy St. every night. They met there last night to discuss what to do about it. A building is needed, they said, somewhere to go to talk, listen to music, make art and leather goods. More gatherings are planned at the park this week to determine how to form a year-round dropin centre in central Oakville. Most of the dozen high school-age youths who did the talking last night w ere fam iliar with previous ventures for youths at "the Mill," in the Lawson Park bam; or the town-operated Youthville drop-in centres at two high schools this summer. - Daily-Journal Record, Aug. 27th, 1970 2 0 Y e a rs A g o Regional Council accepted the request, effective August 31 at Wednesday's meeting and made him a cash settlement of $68,700, - Oakville Journal-Record, Aug. 22nd, 1980 1 0 Y e a rs A g o Ernie Reid, Halton Region's chief administrator, has been granted retirement marking the second top-level regional staff change since the discovery of a surprise $600,341 deficit. Mr. Reid's retirement comes two weeks after regional treasurer Don Fanner resigned his position to assume a less demanding role "in the treasury department. After 37 years in municipal administration, Mr. Reid requested an early retirement at the age of 60. Oakville's planning and development council" has approved a draft plan of subdivision which would allow the construction o f affordable and non-profit housing complexes in southwest Glen A bbey, d esp ite o b je c tio n s from som e area residents. C ouncillors voted in favor o f the plan at a special planning and development meeting held last week. The land in question, which is located south of Heritage Way, west of Bowman Drive and White Lane, is owned by the provincial M inistry o f Government Services. Under the draft plan 81 affordable housing units would be constructed in one block o f attached units, 56 non-profit units would be constructed in another block of attached units, and 91 detached single homes would be built on the rest of the 26acre property. - Oakville Beaver, Aug. 22nd, 1990 _ l_ IJ T a k e n fro m th e a rc h iv e s o f th e O a k v ille B e a v e r in c lu d in g s to ries fro m T h e O ak ville R ec o rd -S tar, T h e O a k v ille - T r a fa lg a r J o u r n a l, th e O a k v ille J o u r n a l R ec o rd a n d th e O a k v ille B eaver.