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y. Nov. 19, 1993 â€" 12 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Frida % The ) OAKVILLE SYMDPHONY ORCHESTRA The Oakville Symphany Orchestra tickets make perfect Christmas Gifts, By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff Sheila Creighton is a woman of many artistic talents and accomâ€" plishments. The most impressive one to date, the one which will reach the most people and provide her with a bit of ‘immortality‘, is the glossy coffeetable publication, Oakville Then and Now, The Oakville Book. Published _ by _ Rubicon Publishing Inc., the book was researched and written by Creighton and she also provided many of the breathtaking phoâ€" tographs that permeate the text. Insightfully written and covering Oakville‘s past and present, the book will no doubt prove appealing not just to longtime Oakvillians and history buffs, but to newcomers searching for an introduction to the town with which they have fallen in love. It‘s concise yet comprehensive and far from being an intimidating history book, it‘s one you‘d want to curl up on the couch with and browse through again and again. The four chapters cover Oakville‘s beginnings; historic and contemporary homes and gardens; schools, sports, recreation and artistic expressions and fmally, businesses and the community spirit that thrives in Oakville. Oakville Then and Now has been four years in the making and "it was an amazing process" admits Creighton who was involved in every facet of the book‘s progress. She adds, with some disappointment, that the sheer volume of information she collected, precluded the possibility of including "everything in 150 pages." The book is a success nonetheâ€" less and will, she hopes, include some photos even avid history readers have not seen. "It‘s designed to be _ very visual," # $2A y s Creighton, in reference to the many splendid color phoâ€" tographs and the inclusion of artâ€" work by renowned local artists Alan â€" Kingsland, Michael Hitchcox, George McElroy, Frederick Verner and Tom Chatfield, all of which give a difâ€" ferent slant on the very picâ€" turesque setting in which we find A QUEST AUTHOR EVENT ... SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. â€" Meet SHEILA CREIGHTON, author of THE OAKVILLE BOOK, the longâ€" awaited, beautifully illustrated view of our town. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. â€" PAUL McLAUGHLIN will be signing A FAMILY REMEMBERS, a guide to recording family memories with your video camera. Enter our draw to win an atâ€"home consultation with Paul. Meet the authors, enjoy refreshments and enter your name to win a $100 gift certificate. QUEST BOOKSELLERS 123 TRAFALGAR ROAD OAKVILLE *« ONTARIO (905) 849â€"6244 ourselves. Unselfishly, Creighton also gleaned visuals from other photogâ€" raphers, including Scott Robertson, Pat Gaudet and the Oakville Beaver‘s Peter McCusker and Riziero Vertolli. Once landed by Rubicon owner Maggie Goh, Creighton set to work gathering as much informaâ€" tion as she could about the town, exhausting research which took her to the Ontario Archives, through old phone books and OT vsmsmmymgvcn' § 323 Church St. in Mille Mews) Church Reynolds issues of Canadian Homes and Gardens, to sessions of the Oakville Nostalgic Group, to numerous individuals as well as the Oakville Museum, among many other sources. It is an accomplishment Creighton is extremely proud of, having worked hard to complete it and feeling much s like "a detecâ€" tive" in her meticulous search for historical and anecâ€" dotal details. She would often find herself "hanging out" with her camera at certain locations waiting for the right light, which she did to capture the drive wheel, the last remaining vestige from the Oakville Basket Company. "It‘s nice to see it (the book). A QUEST AUTHOR EVENT ... SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Noon to 1:00 p.m. PETER GZOWSKI Host of CBC‘s Morningside will be signing his new book CANADIAN LIVING Enjoy refreshments and enter our draw to win a $100 gift certificate QUEST BOOKSELLERS 123 TRAFALGAR ROAD OAKVILLE * ONTARIO (905) 849â€"6244 The Oakville Book launched Now people know it wasn‘t a figâ€" ment of my imagination," laughs Creighton. Creighton, who has an eclectic background in the arts with tremendous emphasis on photogâ€" raphy, graduated from Sheridan College‘s Media Arts program in 1982. Since that time she has writâ€" ten for a number of publications, submitted "unsolicited" scripts for various TV shows, executed proâ€" duction as well as on air work for FM108, worked as a Cablenet volâ€" unteer, and recently had a showing of her photographs and collages at the Town Hall gallery. \ _ Currently, this innovative freeâ€" lancer is working on a screenplay, studying correâ€" spondance courses towards her BA and holds the position of publicity and ,| promotions coordinator for Oakville Museum | where, incidentally, she started out as a weekend interpreter. Her love of art and hisâ€" tory she attributes to her parâ€" J ents, to whom she dedicated The Oakville Book. She hopes this book will lead to others and ideally "I want to write and take pictures without having to answer to people." 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