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25 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,F ebruary 17,2022 insidehalton.com PENTECOSTAL Tel: 416-892-8123 Fax: 1-866-281-5983 Bishop M. Brissett (Pastor) Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca Jesus is lOrd Oakville PenTecOsTal aPOsTOlic cenTre 454 Rebecca St (St. Paul's United Church) Oakville, ON Sunday Service 12:30 - 3PMWorship Service Sunday Evening: 7:30-9PM (Via Zoom Virtual Platform) *Covid-19 Safety Protocols Strictly followed.* NON-DENOMINATION SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Oakville Seventh-day adventiSt ChurCh tel: 289-830-6717 Mark ewen (Senior Pastor) Carl Cunningham (associate Pastor) dean lashington (lead elder) Twitter: @Oakvillesda Email: oakvillechurchsda@gmail.com Saturday (Sabbath) Worship Service: 10am-1pm Wednesday Evening Service: 6:30pm-7:30pm Thursday Evening Service: 6:30pm-7:30pm Zoom id 867 6764 2331 Password: worship Theme: in Jesus nameWe Press On Website Promotion: www.oakvillesdachurch.org DIRECTORY If you'd like to advertise your place of worship in this feature please email Fiona frudder@starmetrolandmedia.com or call 289-293-0691 Worship Are you looking for a place to worship the Lord Jesus Christ? We meet at the Meadowvale Community Center every Sunday at 10:00 am. Master's Grace Church, Auditorium 1 & 2 6655 Glen Erin Drive Mississauga, ON All COVID-19 safety protocols followed. mastersgracechurch.com www.instagram.com/mgctoronto 416-951-0884 UNITED 1469 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville 905-825-5292 www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com GLEN ABBEY UNITED CHURCH REV. TED VANCE SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20th COME AND SAFELY WORSHIP IN PERSON!! Message: Going for Gold! It's your choice: WORSHIP LIVE AT 10AM! FULL VACCINATION PROOF REQ'D, OR VIEW ON-LINE SERVICE ON YOUTUBE Click on www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com To help your Church survive the pandemic, please send e-transfers to: donations@glenabbeyunitedchurch.com Thank you and God Bless you! Slow, unreliable inter- net service continues to plague certain areas in Halton; to some, it might seem like a problem that will never be solved. With this in mind, Hal- ton Region is continuing to push the provincial and federal governments for a commitment to deliver af- fordable broadband ser- vice speeds of one gigabyte per second (GBPS) across the region by 2026. Regional councillors al- so recently received a Hal- ton Digital Access Strate- gy prepared by Nordicity Group Ltd. that addresses the topic. Here are five things to know about it: 1. The strategy aims to further work that pro- motes enhanced broad- band services in both ur- ban and rural areas, and also establish a framework to consider requests from telecommunications com- panies to use municipal as- sets like streetlight poles for their networks. 2. According to the doc- ument, Halton's four hy- dro electric distribution companies have proposed a co-ordinated approach to support the deployment of 5G wireless technology us- ing utility and streetlight poles. "Halton and the local municipalities are investi- gating this approach and will report back to their re- spective councils," said a related report from Tony Oliveri, Halton's commis- sioner of strategic trans- formation. 3. Oliveri emphasized that a one GBPS fibre net- work is "critical" to the de- ployment of 5G in Halton, but some of the services currently offered in the re- gion are not based on fibre technology, making ex- pansion of local fibre net- works "essential." 4. The Digital Access Strategy recommends a unified broadband service by local internet service providers using fibre tech- nology to best position Halton's residents and businesses to benefit from 5G. "This will require sig- nificant co-ordination and co-operation with the tele- communication compa- nies, and support from the provincial and federal gov- ernment," wrote Oliveri. He said staff will con- tinue to investigate the fea- sibility of this recommen- dation and work to specifi- cally identify broadband service levels and gaps across the region. 5. Oliveri's report notes that general health con- cerns related to 5G tech- nology have been raised by the public. "According to Health Canada, based on the available scientific evi- dence, there are no health risks from exposure to the low levels of radiofrequen- cy electromagnetic fields emitted by 5G devices," he added. NEWS 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HALTON'S DIGITAL ACCESS STRATEGY MELANIE HENNESSEY mhennessey@ metroland.com Plans are in the works to potentially use hydro and streetlight poles to deliver 5G technology in Halton. Shutterstock photo