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An Oakville firefighter tends to the injuries of five injured student sailors. Also treated were two other stuâ€" dents (one from Oakville and one an exchange student from None of the six sailing students received life threatening injuries, said police â€" the worst injuries involved a broken nose, facial lacâ€" erations and lost teeth. All of the six â€" five Oakville girls and one from Mississauga and all aged 12 to 14 â€" were taken by ambulance to Oakvilleâ€"Trafalgar Memorial Hospital where they were treated. Fâ€"alton marine police are still investigating what caused a k. Bronte Harbor Yacht Club Salllng School instructor‘s power boat to hit one of the sail boats it was monitoring â€" dumping the sailâ€" boat‘s six young female students into the lakewaters Wednesday afternoon. By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff Collision dumps girls in lake Budding sailors get harsh lesson A Metroland Community Newspaper Vol. 31 No "The kids were coming toward the pier and they were getting too close to the pier so they tacked to go out and at the same time the "Fetch It" (the power boat Local fisherman Tom Stoodley, 38, said was sitting in his motor boat facing the east pier near when the accident occurred. "I happened to be looking directly at them because I had no where else to look," he said. Germany) who were in the power boat with the 19â€"yearâ€"old female instructor at the time of the crash. The instructor immediately jumped into the lake to rescue the sailing students. Sgt. Tom Chapman, head of the Halton Regional Police Marine unit, said the collision occurred around 2 p.m. shortly after the sailâ€" ing school had returned to lessons after lunch. (See ‘Instructor‘ page 4) Two student sailors console themselves. 24 Pages (Photo by Barrie Erskine) (Photo by Barrie Erskine) Cop accused of assaulting his children A 27â€"year Halton Regional Police Service veteran has been charged with assaulting two of his five children. The charges followed a sevenâ€" week investigation by Oakville detectives into alleged incidents that occurred over six years, between January 1987 and June of 1993. Facing seven counts of level one assault is Donald Croucher, 51, of Oakville. He is scheduled to appear in Oakville Provincial Court on Aug. 24th. "‘The alleged assaults were physâ€" ical in nature and no injuries were involved," said said Det. Sgt. Graham Barnes, head of Oakville‘s Criminal Investigation Bureau. The 51â€"yearâ€"old police veteran is currently a staff sergeant in the Halton police service‘s Georgetown district station. He will continue on duty in Georgetown pending court resolution of the charges, said Barnes. Today‘s Paper Giveâ€"Away Getâ€"Away You could win a fabulous vacation Oakville graduates Mark Slipp, Investment Executive SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS The Bay 75 Cents (GST included) Special salute to high school graduates Fidelity Far East Fund (416) 359â€"4633