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A4 -The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday April 3, 2002 rhe Canadian Club of Halton Peel The hosts its Annual General Meeting on May 23 at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel. The event, which runs from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Great Room, is being held to elect the club's new executive for 20022003. to review the last successful year Canadian Club general meeting May 2 3 and to Dlan plan for the coming vear. year. Appetizers and Wine to be served. To attend, notify Judie Preston at 845-2862 or fax 339-0469 or email ijtpreston@cogeco.ca. If you would like to put your name forward to serve on the executive, please let Preston know by May 1. Ifp r r I Street VlSIOn needs ITIOre time V V l V I J l V l l I I V v U J I I I V / I V U I I I V > Ward 2 counterpart. Councillor Linda Hardacre, were aware of, and support ed. the need for more study. At the meeting. Oliver questioned staff publicly about the need for a delay and pushed for a specific date as to when the plan w ill come back to coun cil. That w ill be by the end of June. Oliver wants the Town to have a vision for Kerr Street much as it has for downtown Oakville, the Uptown Core, and Bronte Village. Oliver said it's long overdue and must be in place before the area deteri orates. The councillor has unanimous coun cil support for the project and he is a member of the Kerr Street Revival Committee that's chaired by Hardacre. That committee has representatives from the Town, the Oakville Chamber of Commerce, the Oakville Economic Development Alliance and several Kerr Street merchants -- and more than 80% support from area merchants. It's charged with coming up with a blueprint -- a Town-sanctioned vision for what should happen in future on Kerr Street. Over the years, some improvements have been made to parts of Kerr Street, but the rest of the street hasn't been touched. Oliver said downtown Oakville and Bronte have active Business Improvement Area boards and Kerr Street could too if the Town took the lead. By Angela Blackburn O AKVILLE B EA V ER STAFF. The Town of Oakville wants to take more time to come up with a strategic vision for Kerr Street. Last fall. Ward 2 Councillor Fred Oliver said the Town needed to come up with such a vision and wanted the job done by March. At the Town's final Planning & Development Council meeting last month, councillors were told that a draft plan has been drawn up, but that it would be better served if more informa tion were available about the Town's overall redevelopment policies. A report from Town planner Bob Zsadanyi stated that both Oliver and his Fine Original Canadian Art Traditional & C ontem porary Landscapes, Seascapes and Still-Life FAWCETT-LANGDON GALLERY Wednesday-Saturday 1 0 -5 . 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Despite the outpouring of support, a few items remain of particular need: large cans of juice, cereal, canned meat and jam. Other non-perishable foods like cookies, canned salmon, instant coffee, hot chocolate, powdered milk and sugar are always welcome. These donations can be dropped off at Fareshare. located at 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. right through this weekend. Oakville's seven fire stations and the town's two Loblaws stores are also accepting donations. Money (in addition to non-perish able food items of course) is also need ed to allow Fareshare to go out and shop for the kinds of food it runs short of. Cheques (for which income tax receipts will be issued) can be sent to 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6. Oakville. Ontario, L6L 2X4. For more informa tion call 847-3988. In recent months the foodbank has experienced a 15 per cent increase in the number of families availing them selves of its services. In February. 257 families used Fareshare as opposed to 215 families at the same time a year ago. This repre sents 936 people (671 in 2001). 531 of whom (365 in 2001) were children. Fareshare Foodbank. which is run entirely by volunteers, has served needy Oakville families since 1988. No support is received or solicited from any level of government. (905)847-2274 M O N - FRI. I0 A .M - 5:30 P.M · SATURDAY I0 A M .-4 RM. · SUNDAY. 12A.M .- 5 RM. 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