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Tim Hortons, 2010 This week only when you spend $1.00 on a delicious chocolate chunk Smile Cookie, Tim Hortons will donate the entire proceeds to the Halton Learning Foundation. To find out more visit timhortons.com w w w . o a kv ill eb ea ve r.c o m O A KV IL LE B EA V ER Fr id ay , Se pt em be r 2 4, 2 01 0 2 0 By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Theyll need mittens andtheyll be lucky to get somefrom the Salvation Army of Oakville. After all, it can be chilly sleep- ing in the park at this time of the year. Sleep in the Park set for Friday, Sept. 24 through Saturday, Sept. 25 at Coronation Park is a Salvation Army event that aims to raise funds and awareness about homelessness. The purpose of holding it in the fall is that its a good reality check, said Major Wendy Broome, who pastors the Salvation Army Oakville with her husband, Major Dan Broome. Sleep in the Park is new to Oakville this year, but has been done before in Hamilton and Toronto. It will also take place in Dunnville and Hamilton. Participants are invited to bring a pillow, sleeping bag, blankets, even their tent. We do have this mentality in Oakville that we dont have homelessness here. We have a 30-bed shelter at Redwood Square called the Lighthouse and its full on a regular basis, said Broome. Its not necessarily people sleeping under the lamp post that you see in Toronto, but we do have homelessness, said Broome. Locally, its more in the form of someone who has no place to go because they can no longer afford their home, or find themselves without shelter because of family or addiction issues, according to Broome. The cost to participate in Sleep in the Park is $10 per person and while all funds raised will go to client services for those tem- porarily housed at the Lighthouse shelter, this years inaugural event is really just as much about raising awareness of the issue of homelessness, according to Broome. The event will get underway at 5:30 p.m. Friday and continue until 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Participants will be provided with mittens, will be able to take part in some party games and treat- ed to an outdoor movie, Blind Side (the story of Michael Oher, a home- less and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft Sleep in the Park tonight at Coronation LivingOakville Beaver LIVING EDITOR: ANGELA BLACKBURN Phone: 905-337-5560 Fax: 905-337-5571 e-mail: ablackburn@oakvillebeaver.com REG VERTOLLI / OAKVILLE BEAVER CAMP OUT AT CORONATION: Salvation Army Lighthouse shelter staffer Bonje Habangoma (left) and Salvation Army Oakville co-pastor Major Wendy Broome have pillows and sleeping bags and woolies ready to go for tonights Sleep in the Park fundraiser to spotlight the plight of homelessness at Coronation Park. Everyone is welcome to attend. Cost is $10 per person. See Shelter page 21