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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, Ju ly 15 ,2 02 1 | 20 Meetings at Halton Region Regional Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. Videos will be posted to halton.ca. OakvilleOakvilleOak Water Treatment Plant andWaWaW terworks Park,k,k at 21 & 5 Kerr Street, OakvilleOakvilleOak , Ontario Public Notice Please contact us, as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events ormeetings. 07 15 21 Halton Region hereby gives notice that an application has been made to the Minister of Transport, pursuant to the CanadianCanadianC NavigableWatWatW ers Act forforf approval of the work described herein and its site and plans. Pursuant to paragraph 7(2) of the said Act, Halton Region has deposited with the Minister of Transport, on the on-line NavigableWaters Registry (http://cps.canada.ca/) under the Navigation Protection Program (NPP) File Number 2021-404013 a description of the follofollof wing work, its site and plans: • The work will involve maintenance activities to replace process lines in an existing intake pipe in Lake Ontario, up to 1-kilometer off-shore at the OakvilleWater Treatment Plant andWaterworks park in front of lots 21 & 5 Kerr Street in Oakville, Ontario. Comments regarding the effeceffeceff t of this work on marine navigation can be sent through the Common Project Search site mentioned above under the Comment section (search by the above refereferef enced file number) or,or,or by sending your comments directly mail to: Navigation Protection Program -Transport Canada 100 Front St. S., 1st Floor Sarnia, Ontario N7T 2M4 Transport Canada (TC) will not make your comments on a project available to the public on the online public registry. However,er,er any inforinforinf mation related to a work is considered as unclassified public record and could be accessible upon legal request. As such, the inforinforinf mation and records provided should not contain confidential or sensitive inforinforinf mation. If you want to provide confidential or sensitive inforinforinf mation that you think should not be made public, please contact TC beforbeforbef e submitting it. However,er,er comments will be considered only if they are in writing (electronic means prefereferef able) and are received not later than 30 days aftaftaf er the publication of the last notice. Although all comments conforonforonf ming to the above will be considered, no individual response will be sent. Posted at Oakville, Ontario this 15th day of July,July,July 2021 Regional Municipality of Halton Canadian NavigableWaters Act Gary Carr Regional Chair As the Province begins to liftliftlif restrictions through their Roadmap to Reopen, I know we're all looking forforf ward to spending more time outdoors and exploring our community this summer. Beforeforef e heading out, remember to take steps to help keep yourself and your family safesafesaf and healthy. Halton Region offersoffersoff some great resources and services to help protect our community such as monitoring beach water quality,y,y keeping residents inforinforinf med of heat and air quality alerts, offerofferoff ing tips forforf preventing illness and more. ToToT learn more and to take advantage of these resources, visit halton.ca. Stay safe and healthy while exploring the outdoors this summer Halton -- and the rest of the province -- is set to en- ter Step 3 of economic re- opening on July 16, earlIer than the original plan. This means restaurants can soon welcome diners indoors and gyms can re- open, along with movie theatres, indoor concert venues, and museums -- among other things. To enter the third stage of reopening, Ontario needed to have vaccinated 70 to 80 per cent of individu- als 18 years of age or older with one dose and 25 per cent with two doses for at least two weeks, according to an Ontario government release. As of July 8, over 77 per cent of the population in Ontario aged 12 and over have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and over 50 per cent have received their second dose, the gov- ernment said. More than 16.6 million doses of the COVID-19 vac- cine have been adminis- tered across Ontario. As for the weekly CO- VID-19 cases, the region's website shows that from July 2 to July 8 there were 55 new cases. Three more people from Burlington have died, in- cluding a resident at the Village of Tansley Woods long-term care home. As of July 9, the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 67 -- with 27 cases in Milton, 20 in Oakville, 19 in Burlington, and one in Halton Hills. There have been 18,057 cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic, with 17,758 marked as resolved and 232 deaths. - with files from Louie Rosella NEWS Here's a weekly roundup of COVID-19 cases and news. Barry Gray/Metroland WEEKLY ROUNDUP: HALTON MOVING TO STEP 3 OF REOPENING BAMBANG SADEWO bsadewo@metroland.com SCAN THIS CODE TO VIEW COVID CASES TRACKER. BEHIND THE CRIMES Solved and Unsolved Cases in Ontario Our journalists revisit the crimes that dominated headlines in our communities. INSIDEHALTON.COM/BEHINDTHECRIMES