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GOLF ESCAPE PACKAGE: A PERFECT FATH ER S PAY G IFT ■ ^ o f e x i a x j ^ - i w v O A K V ILLE -C E N TR E The Oakville Beaver j^- PrudentialItW lk \V l5 tY V fu r AS? *3 AS. Co 50 BIG ON SERVICE 2 4 H r. P a g e r PS PCINKRISHU SA LES W A Metroland Publication Vol. 37 No. 70 Oakville's Award-Winning Community Newspaper 32 Pages SUNDAY, JUNE 13,1999 75 Cents Plus GST Oakville man risks 25-year career for Toronto's homeless By Sandra Omand SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Each night John Jagt commutes home to Oakville burdened with the knowledge that Toronto's homeless are facing a long hot summer w ith no place to go but the street. Jagt, Toronto's hostel services director, became a hero to the home­ less earlier this week after leading them to a temporary shelter in Metro Hall and vowing to resign his job o f 25 years i f they were kicked out. Hostel officials created 34 spaces in a room on the ground floor at Metro Hall. More people were placed on cots outside, under the building's north-side overhang. Jagt's bold move, turning what was the seat of local government until last December into a bedroom for the home­ less, has created a media frenzy forcing the City of Toronto to make the home­ less crisis a priority. The focus now of both television and print media, Jagt has declined all inter­ views -- recently turning down Newsworld -- but made an exception for the Oakville Beaver. 'They (the media) want to make me (See 'Bureaucrat page 3) H ow ard M ozel OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Affordable housing, not "homeless­ ness," should be the term of record, says Hazel McCallion, if any headway is going to be made on the issue. After all, said Mississauga's mayor, her city only has about 60 individuals living on the street but over 15,000 peo­ ple on waiting lists for affordable hous­ ing. McCallion made her comment Friday during a meeting of the Large Urban Mayors' Caucus of Ontario (LUMCO) held at the Oakville Club. It was there that Oakville Mayor Ann Mulvale urged her counterparts to return home and spread the recommendations contained in a comprehensive report recently released by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM). This National Housing Policy (See 'Working' page 19) INSIDE t o d a y 's p a p e r Focus..... ................................. 11 Contest_________ _________ 12 Health.....................................J21 Travel................................ .22-23 Sports ------------------------ .24-25 Business_________________ .26 Classified...........................27-31 Spe<ial Supplements: Moore* The Sait People, Partial Delivery: Shop & Save, Fortino's, Sears, Canaan Chinese Restaurant, Keene Guardian, M&M Meats, Japan Camera, Home Hardware, Student Pool Supplies, Prudential McCormack Canadian Publications Mail Product Agreement #435-201 Photo by Ron Kuzyk Jo Shanks with her two children, 14-month old Lindsay and five-year-old Nicholas who raised $280 for the Hospital for Sick Children's Telethon on behalf of his cancer-stricken sister. A tale o f brotherly love By Claudia D'Souza SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The sentiment, brotherly love, has special sig­ nificance to Oakville's Shank family. Just prior to last weekend's Hospital for Sick Children's Telethon, five-year-old Nicholas Shank, went door-to-door in his parents' Glen Abbey neighborhood and his grandmother's neighborhood in Clarkson near the Oakville border. When strangers and friends opened their doors, they saw a bright, little face and a small, out­ stretched hand holding a green tin that read, "Nick's Sick Kid's Collection." "I'm collecting for the Sick Kid's Telethon," he explained. "Would you like to donate? My sister is a cancer patient there." "He told me he wanted to raise some money for the telethon and he did it on his own under the watchful eye of his mom," reported his proud grandmother or "Grammy" Janet O'Connor. "He didn't hesitate." Nicholas' fundraising efforts in the name of his 14-month-old sister, Lindsay, touched many. In addition to his door-to-door campaign and a contri- 'bution from his local micro league soccer team, the Pepsi Pepsqueaks, he received a cheque from his grandfather's company and from family friends bringing the total to $280. Diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a form of infant and childhood cancer, Lindsay's been fight­ ing for her life since the end of January. The American Cancer Society reports Neuroblastoma is the second most common type of the disease in children accounting for 50% of all cancers in infants. It attacks the major organs of the body including the bone marrow. "Cancer cells have invaded her entire, little body from her head to her toes," explained O'Connor. "She lost a kidney three weeks ago, but an enormous amount of the cancer is gone from her skull, her lungs and her bone marrow. Her head is clear except for a couple of blood clots. 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