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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, S ep te m be r 20 ,2 01 8 | 30 Welcome Home to tHe neWly renovated Queens avenue retirement residence Now offering 6-moNths Rent-Free* 1056 Queens Avenue, Oakville, Ontario L6H 6R3 www.queensavenueretirement.com *T er m s an d co nd it io ns ap pl y. Experience a retirement community designed for the perfect life balance featuring: l Updated spacious suites with full kitchens and meal programs l Your choice of either Independent or Assisted Living packages l Social and activity programs for all interests l 24-hour staffing and daily status checks Explore the new Queens Avenue and ask about our six-months rent-free offer today CALL 905-815-0862 or EmAIL info@queensavenueretirement.com to book A vISIt MESSAGE FROM CHIEF TANNER - The future starts now. After years of planning and years of construction, it is with great excitement that the Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) witnesses the migration to our new headquarters in Oakville. When the previous headquarters was constructed in 1991, the population of Halton was just 313,000. Projections indicate that our Region will experience over 50 per cent growth by the year 2041. As the Region's population continues to grow, it is our collective commitment as a service to ensure that we are able to maintain the strong sense of community safety and well-being that has become the hallmark of where our residents call home. In this regard, the new facility is well-positioned to serve the men and women of HRPS, and in turn, the communities we serve. With state-of-the-art forensic labs, dedicated and centralized training facilities, a 50-metre 10-lane tactical firing range to accommodate the changing dynamics that are needed for firearms training, and special bays for the examination of vehicles involved in fatal collisions, we set the foundation for remaining agile and nimble as a police service. This commitment to excellence is what the residents of the Town of Halton Hills, the Town of Milton, the City of Burlington and the Town of Oakville demand. And this commitment is what you deserve. We are grateful for the ongoing support of the Region of Halton, the Halton Regional Police Services Board and for the unwavering support of the community. Together we are stronger. On behalf of the entire Halton Regional Police Service, it is a pleasure to serve you. We look forward to seeing you at our new headquarters! Stephen J. Tanner Chief of Police Trainees in the new Halton police shooting range might feel like they're on a dark highway one day and at a noisy sum- mer festival the next, thanks to a swath of high- tech features meant to teach officers how to better use their guns. The new shooting range comes as part of the Halton Regional Police Service's new headquarters, open- ing to the public on Sept. 24 on the same Bronte Road property as the old build- ing. The $65-million build- ing replaces the one con- structed in 1991, and will include a shooting range double the size of its prede- cessor, with a host of new features meant to give offi-features meant to give offi-f cers more varied weapons training. "We're more than dou- bling our footprint and our capacity," said Staff Sgt. Trevor Bradley, who man- ages the police depart- ment's training bureau. "People are excited. It's been a long time coming and people are looking for- ward to it." In addition from going from five shooting stalls tofrom five shooting stalls tof 10, the new range is also double the length of the previous one, allowing of- ficers to train on rifles and ficers to train on rifles and f SHOOTING RANGE DESIGN TARGETS HIGH-TECH TRAINING TOOLS Graham Paine/Metroland SAIRA PEESKER speesker@metroland.com NEWS THE NEW HALTON POLICE SHOOTING RANGE CAN SIMULATE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND TIMES OF DAY See - page 31