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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 TALL SHIP CRUISES VISIT www.brontevillage.net Bachelor at heart Artscene 1011 Upper Middle Road E. 905-849-4722 www.oakvilleshops.com A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 88 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 2010 60 Pages $1.00 (plus tax) Veteran remembers Korean War By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Turnout good at marrow donor clinic By Nathan Howes OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF His memories of what happened in the Korean War may fail him at times, but his experiences can still be seen, preserved in mementos and photographs, meticulously assembled in a scrap book. A photo of two Korean children standing by the side of a road, old propaganda leaflets dropped to the Koreans by U.N. forces, a newspaper article showing a column of tanks driving away from a bridge over the Imjin River. Oakville resident Don Carlton, 83, was a trooper with the Lord Strathcona's Horse, an armoured Canadian regiment, during the Korean War. Last week, Carlton attended a special ceremony in Brampton's Meadowvale Cemetery to commemorate Canada's first National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. The annual day for honouring Canada's Korean War veterans, which was only created last month by the federal government, marks the day a ceasefire was signed on July 27, 1953. For Carlton, his road to war began in 1951 when he was working as a 24-year-old printer in Toronto. "I was working the midnight See Time page 11 ERIC RIEHL / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER MAKING INROADS: Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was in downtown Oakville Saturday when the Liberal Express summer tour made a pit stop in Oakville. Friday, Ignatieff visited a coffee house in Burlington. Ignatieff meets Oakvillians By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Federal Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff said he will make the construction of a power plant in Oakville a federal issue. Ignatieff received loud applause for his words from some 200 Oakville residents, including members of Citizens for Clean Air (C4CA), during his stop here Saturday. "We will take this forward to Ottawa," he said. "There may be federal action that may be taken there and we will talk to our provincial cousins, a great government, a gov- ernment with whom we have very good relations and I will say what we heard today. Ignatieff, the leader of the Official Opposition, made a stop in Oakville's Towne Square on his Liberal Express Canadian bus tour on Saturday. In a speech he commended people for their community activism, including the people fighting the construction of the 900-megawatt gas-fired power plant on the Ford-owned lands at 1500 Royal Windsor Dr. "We saw very deep, broad-based civic concern about this issue. We will talk (to the Province) and I See Voting page 4 Crisis can bring out the best in people. This was evident when more than 300 people traveled to Oakville's Holy Trinity Church last week to see if they could save the life of 20-year-old David Smyth and 788 other Canadians currently waiting for a bone marrow David Smyth transplant. In all, approximately 310 buccal swabs were collected from people who came from as far away as Peterborough, Aurora, Orangeville and Toronto to the In Honour Blood Donor/OneMatch Swab clinic for David. Mike Smyth, David's father, was happy with the turnout and touched by the outpouring of support his family has received from the community for their son. He was a bit concerned before the clinic opened that not many people would go. "Kim and I worried nobody would show up, really, because everyone has busy days and they've got lots of health issues in their own families," said Smyth. "I'm very happy with the community. Great to see the community come out, great to see lots of people we didn't even know. "Lots of other people came from other towns and some of them not so See Testing page 9 DON'T GET HOOKED ON GIMMICKS! Call A1 for Honest Pricing and Quality Products - GUARANTEED. Excellent Financing and Great Terms. F r T Maintenance Specials on NOW! · Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed · Serving Oakville with Shop at Home Service SHUTTERS C ALIFORNIA & PLANTATION · Wood & Vinyl Shutters, Supplied & Installed · High Quality at Affordable Prices 905-844-2949 SHUTTERS ETC. 905.691.4455 www.shuttersetc.ca Authorized Eclipse Shutters Dealer Shop at Home Service FREE