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6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday O ctober 8, 1999 T he Oakville Beaver Ian Oliver Publisher Neil Oliver, AssociatePublisher Norman Alexander Editor Kelly Montague, Advertising Director Martin Doherty Circulation Director Ten Casas OfficeManager Mark Dills Production Manager Riziero Vertolli Photography Director Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distributing Ltd., includes: Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser. Alston Herald/Couner. Bame Advance, Barry's Bay This Week. Bolton Enterprise. Brampton Guardian, Bcrtngton Post. Burfngton Shoppng News, City Parent. CoingwoodM/asaga Correction, East York Minor. Erin Advocate^Country Routes. Etobcoke Guardan, Ramborougfi Post. Georgetown Independent/Acton Free Press Hupnia Business Times Kingston This Week. Lindsay This Week, Markham Ecnomist & Sun. Midland/Penetanguishine Mirror, Miiton Canadian Champion. Milton Shopping News. Mississauga Business Times. Mississauga News. Napanee Guide. Newmarket/Aurora Era-Banner. Northumberland News North York Mrror. 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It's going to take a year to complete the $35 million project, which will see the pipe go from Lake Ontario up to Milton, thus releasing land for development. Already 6,200 residential units are planned by developers who are paying for the pipeline. Milton has always been the most rural community in Halton but all that's likely to change but it does beg some questions. Like what's going to be done to Bronte Road to cope with the traffic? Like what's the doubling of the town's population to 68,000 going to do to the sleepy old burg? The web of Toronto spreads further north and west with this latest move and we know what long-time Miltonians think about that. ...okay, people this is it...the ultimate ode to a one-legged seagull...and a nameless seagull at that...we've talked to the poem's author who agrees the bird should have a name and we agree...so....fax us, send a letter or drop off your suggested name for our feathered friend here and we'll arrange a suitable prize...our fax number is: 337-5567 our address is 467 Speers Rd. L6K 3S4...m ark entries: To the editor, bird's name contest....let's be creative people....herewith, the poem T h e Peg-Leg Gull of Lakeside Park'.. As custom dictated, I `moseyed' on down' To the shoreline all craggy and rough, Steered far from the voices and noise of the city A nd all that urbanity stuff, Pages of the Past S h a cks u sed to h o u se fie ld w o rkers 50 years ago The m ost im portant issue o f the T rafalgar Township Council meeting was the death by fire of James Pawis, 30, in his cabin on the property of Clifford Post late Saturday night. Chief Constable Fred Oliver stated that living conditions in cabins similar to Pawis' are a disgrace to the community, and the he is doing his utmost to prevent this sort of thing. In one cabin, Oliver reported that there are seven people living at the present time under conditions not fit for pigs, and that this cabin was not as large as the small Council Chamber. O liver said the purpose o f the shacks is to provide temporary accommodation for transient labor hired throughout the district for seasonal work but that many of the indians are bringing friends and relatives down from the reservations to live with them, and in one cabin, a family has been living for over four years. He added that the shacks are death traps due to the sloppy methods of smoke escape used for the big cook stoves which each shack is fitted with. house administrative and executive offices, will commence as soon as possible next spring and it is expected to be com pleted for occupancy in the spring of 1961. The building will face the Queen Elizabeth Way and will be on the east side of the Ninth Line-just on top of the hill. It is to be situated on the north west comer of the former Wilfred Hall farm. The building will be 86'x240\ or approximately 170.000 square feet. There will be six storeys and a penthouse, and it w ill co n so lid ate all central components now in Toronto. Preparing to dwell on mystical plane. And search the deep realms soul. For it seemed I was close "meaning of life," And at last, (as they say), whole. some of my to the His stare clearly said, "Why should I'd be IT' Now seagulls are not my most favourite bird. They're noisy, aggressive and all. But my heart twinged with sadness at nature's cruel joke For striking a being so small. "How does he manage?" in silence, I asked, "Do others ignore him or sneer? And how does he land after flight with his friends? Does he fall on his face on the pier?" And then as to answer my thoughts he set off In graceful ascent to the sky, Returned soon to land, with a look just for me Saying "Walking's for you...I can fly!!!" The sun how it dazzled and played on the lake. As sailboats set out for the day. The breeze, in its readiness, carried aloft Many species of fowl on their way. When just for a moment my eyes rested on A lone seagull perched there on a rock. And interest eluded my thoughts (as it should) `Till there registered somewhat of a shock! For the creature before me, all haughty and proud And looking me straight in the eye, Was missing a foot, but 1 don't think he noticed. -The Oakville Record-Star, Thurs. Oct. 8,1959 30 years ago While munching on hot dogs and filling their faces with donuts a group o f 150 o f the town's 55.000 citizens did their own thing on behalf of the starving in Biafra on Sunday. "I feel a little guilty putting down their hot dogs a fter talk in g about the sta rv a tio n ," said one concerned young thing, "but I'm hungry." The outing was held in St. Cuthbert's Anglican Church and featured several speakers including Stanley Burke, former CBC newsman who quit to work for peace in Biafra. Ruth Collins -The Oakville Record-Star, Thurs, Oct. 6th, 1949 40 years ago Ford Motor Company announced last Friday its new head office will be built in Trafalgar at an estimated cost of five and one-half million dollars. Work on the six-storey structure, which will -Daily Journal-Record, October 6th, 1969 QQ Psssssst... b a compendium o f observations around Oakville and we're open to contributions from the public at large too. Just fax us at 337-5567 attention to Pssssssssssst... Taken from the archives of the Oakville Beaver including stories from The Oakville Record-Star, The O akville- Trafalgar Jo urna l, the Oakville Journal Record and the Oakville Beaver.