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*Excludes cosmetics, fragrances, restaurants, pharmacy, tobaccos, Liz Claiborne merchandise, DKNY and Jones New York ladies® fashions, ladies‘ small leather goods, Oscar Torino, American Tourister A14000 and Samsonite Rhapsody II luggage, jewellery, ladies‘ gloves and knits, Dept. 178 boxed bras and boxed briefs, Toledano and Seville handbags, men‘s Jockey and Calvin Klein underwear and hosiery, X20 underwear, Hugo Boss, Mani, Guess, and Levi‘s® jeans at 49.99, Sega game cartridges, sale and clearance priced toys, Cantel, electronics, appliances, sleep sets, furniture, nonâ€"electrical housewares, linens, giftware, stemware, china and decorative accessories. Licenced Department exemptions will vary by store. For one day only, we are celebrating the olpening of Walâ€"Mart by taking an additional 5% off almost everything* in our stor It‘s the least we can do for our American frie Also, save 25% on all regular priced furniture, nonâ€"electrical housewares, linens, giftware, stemware and decorative accessories. Save 50% on all regular priced sleep sets and save the GST** on all major appliances and regular priced electronics. The first Tuesday of every month is still 65 Plus Day at the Bay! the **We will give you a discount equal to the GST. Bubsons Bay Company GARA education watchdog seeks Ward 4 public trustee seat Bell, 48, and a married father 6 four children, has 26 years of ence in education, 16 in educationa administration covering Junio Kindergarten to OAC (Ontarll Academic Credits), and is currently viceâ€"principal for the Peel Board (i Education. A resident of Glen Abbe; since 1987, he became active i GARA shortly after moving here. He is a past director of the Oakville Galleries, and a past member of th Federation of Oakville Resident Groups (FORG) education commit rian Bell, a strong advocate B for making education more easily accessible to the comâ€" munity, is hoping to shed his watchâ€" dog role in favor a public school trustee seat in °. Ward 4. Bell, viceâ€" president of the Glen Abbey Residents Association (GARA) _ and chairman of its Schools _ and Church es Committee, was successful last spring in convincing Oakville town council to preserve a designated secâ€" ondary school site in Glen Abbey. _ Brian Bell "I feel these distances are approâ€"., priate. Kids can be expected to wal‘k only a certain distance to school, othâ€" erwise they will have to take the bus." He added this policy chanoc has yet to be implemented. "I also spoke successfully to the Halton Board of Education agains? their proposal for cancelling ondary school busing for students liy ing south of Hwy. 5 in both Oakville, and Burlington. These students have no other way of getting to school, because there is no public transportaâ€" tion covering these areas." Bell explained this proposal was con tained in the board‘s 1994 budgét process, and was defeated. In addition, he‘s monitored th« board‘s 1993 budget process, ank opposes budget cuts that negativels effect the quality of education. He advocates the board form partner ships with other school boards including separate boards, to* \‘ wasteful dupllcatlon of services anc costs. By WILMA BLOKHUIS Oakville Beaver Staff He has also expressed concern over overcrowding at both Abbey Lane and Pilgrim Wood schools as the chair of a boardâ€"community comâ€" mittee dealine with this issue in In 1991, Bell spearheaded a change in the board‘s Student Transportation Policy, "convincing the board to reduce the distance chilâ€" dren in Kindergarten to Grade 5 must walk to school before they can take the bus." Bell said children in Kindergarten should not be expected to walk more than one kilometre to school, and those in Grades 1 to 5 should not have to walk more than 1.6 kilometres. ' "I have been monitoring the Halton Board of Education for the past couple of years," commented Bell in stating his reasons for his first attempt at seeking election to this body.