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A 4 - The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e s d a y D e c e m b e r 3, 2003 Your Town, your Newspaper! Kitchener · Special to the Oakville Beaver Oakville councillors Janice W right, Chris Stoate, Renee Sandelowsky, Ralph Robinson, Fred Oliver and Mike Lansdown stand for the swearing in ceremony Monday night. New council gets advice from old members By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF If rookie Town councillors don't mess with Oakville's three " sacred cows" -- trees, the lakefront and Lakeshore Road -- they should make it to the next election. That was the advice offered by Oakville Liberal MP Bonnie Brown in her address at Monday's inaugural council meeting. Piper George Duncan led Mayor Ann Mulvale and Oakville's 12 new councillors into the Town Hall council chambers in front of a standingroom only crowd of family and friends. St. Andrew's Children's Choir sang O Canada in English and French, before Father David Wynen of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church led the invocation. After brief speeches by Brown and Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn, a former Ward 1 Local and Regional councillor of 18 years, the new council was sworn in by Judge Richard LeDressay. Rev. Don Gibson of St. John's United Church then per formed the benediction and Mulvale gave the inaugural address outlining the challenges that lay before the new council that will serve in public office from now until Nov. 30, 2006. The new Council then passed the membership of vari ous Town committees -- com mittees on which the local councillors will serve -- as well as next year's schedule of meet ings. Brown, a former municipal councillor, paid tribute to returning members of council Almost all furniture" & sleep sets on Sears stores Furniture and sleep sets are available at the following Greater Toronto locations: describing them as "true defenders of the heritage laid down by previous councils" and said residents can "trust them to cany on as they have." The Liberal MP then welcomed new councillors to public office saying, "You'll find you can't make all the people happy all the time, but if you lean on the wisdom of experienced members of council and the mayor, you'll do well." Brown advised new councillors to pro tect trees, the view of and access to the waterfront and Lakeshore Road. " Don't monkey with any of those things or else the wrath of the public will descend." said Brown, adding. "Those are the sacred cows." Flynn, who said he'd always wondered what it was like to sit in the audience at council, joked, "I can't wait to call my local councillor to complain about something." While the mayor recited her oath of office individually, the remainder of council joined together in their oath of office. Upon donning the mayor's chain of office -- worn at all council meetings -- Mulvale gave her "personal pledge" to "continue to speak strongly on behalf of the interests of all the people of Oakville." " You can count on my continued com mitment to this community." said the mayor who won the seat by 1 5 votes in the Nov. 10 municipal election. The seven returning members of council and five new ones have already had a twoday orientation that set out the legal and procedural framework within which they must operate. O C T O I t l i l l 2 0 0 :8 Central Gerrard Square (416) 461-9092 Allen Rd. Home Store AHen H cL&Sheppard Ave. (416) 396-9947 Toronto Eaton Centre (416) 349-7111 Sherway Home Store 1860 The Oueensway (416) 695-3888 - Bookers Bookstore, 1 7 2Lakeshore Rd. E. 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Sleep sets are alsoavailable at the follow ing Department Stores: Barrie Georgian Mall (705) 726-4451 Bramalea City Centre (905) 458-H41 Erin Mills Town Centre (905) 607-2300 Fairview Mall Shopping Centre (416) 502-3733 Markville Shopping Centre (905) 946-1866 Newmarket Upper Canada MaJ (905) 898-2300 Oshawa Shopping Centre (905) 576-T7T1 Pickering Town Centre (905) 420-8000 Promenade Shopping Centre (905) 731-3388 Scarborough Town Centre (416) 296-0171 Sherway Gardens (416)6206011 Square One Shopping Centre (905) 270-8111 Woodbine Shopping Centre (416) 798-3800 Yorkdale Shopping Centre (416) 789-1105 0o/o financing 'til Jan. 2006* on all furniture" and sleep sets when you use your Sears Card *Pay in 25 equal monthly payments, interest free, until January 2006. On approved credit, only with your Sears Card. Minimum $200 purchase. $55 deferral fee and all applicable taxes and charges are payable at time of purchase. Monthly payments shown have been rounded up to the nearest cent. 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