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Vol. 46 No. 8 THE OAKVILLE Dispute resolution mission to Ghana STORY PAGE 3 Mississauga Cosmetic Surgery & Laser Clinic OBAGI PRODUCTS 15% OFF Expires Feb. 2/07 905-273-3045 FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007 40 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" Second man charged in statue theft Little chance of recovering remainder of famed poet's statue Soldier heading to Afghanistan By James Whitehead SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Inside Opinion.......................................6 Entertainment..........................25 Worship....................................26 Sports.......................................27 Real Estate...............................30 Classified .................................33 Full Delivery: Canadian Tire, Food Basics, Superstore, No Frills, Zellers, Dominion, MDG Computers Partial Delivery: Ashley Furniture, Price Chopper, Robert Budnikas, Learna Education, Ho Lee Chow, Longo's, Home Hardware, M&M's, Sobeys, Pharma Plus, Fortino's, Sears, Goemans, Pacific Carpet, Toys R Us, Best Buy, Longo's, The Barn, The Source by Circuit City, Solutions, Shoppers Drug Mart, Future Shop SYLC (Support Your Local Carrier) DELIVERY For home delivery & customer service call 905-845-9742 Mon., Tues., & Thurs. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wed. & Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. or Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. For new subscriptions, call 905-845-9742 or subscribe online @ www.oakvillebeaver.com Detectives from the Halton Regional Police Service Oakville Street Crime Unit have charged a second Oakville man in connection with the theft of the massive bronze Taras H. Shevchenko statue from a north Oakville park. The statue was cut off at the legs and stolen from the 15-foot-high Taras H. Shevchenko Memorial Park, located at 1363 Dundas St. W. in late December. Detectives in the Oakville Street Crime Unit continue to investigate the theft of the significant piece of Canadian Ukrainian history. The nearly 200-pound head of the statue was recovered from a Burlington scrap dealer early in the new year. The recovery of the statue's head occurred after the dealership owner, recognized what he had kept as a conversation piece and called police after the stolen statue was featured in a newspaper article. RON KUZYK / OAKVILLE BEAVER SHIPPING OUT: Oakville resident Dan Drobotenko, a T. A. Blakelock High School graduate, will soon be heading to Afghanistan for a six-month tour of duty as a driver of a heavily-armoured HLVW in the National Support Element (NSE). When he returns he would like to enroll in a paramedic training program. Canada is sending more troops to Afghanistan, and Oakville native Dan Drobotenko, 22, a Corporal in the Army Reserves, has volunteered to go with them. As Drobotenko enters the final phase of his six months of training before leaving for his six-month "It's not a tour of duty, he is summer at looking forward Boy Scout to taking part in camp, but I what he believes can't dwell is a vital mission. "I think our on things country is there that are doing something worrisome." important," he said in a recent Corporal interview. " It's a Dan Drobotenko very Canadian thing that we are going over to help." Drobotenko is part of the National Support Element (NSE), a unit made up to supply transportation personnel, base protection and convoy escorts, mechanics, medics, and clerks in charge of paperwork and administration. All of these troops come from smaller units stationed across the country. 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