Oakville Newspapers

Oakville Beaver, 3 Nov 2016, p. 1

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Weather for Oakville, ON Thurs Fri Sat Sun 12° 2° 9° 6° 12° 6° 9° 4° YMCA Peace Week Page 9 Top finish from White Oaks Sports www.insidehalton.com MECHANICAL SERVICES AUTO AUTO AU TOPR PRO PR O OA OAKV OAKV KVIL ILLE E 2 2 Wyecroft Road, Oakv 221 kvill ille e autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com 905-469-2442 2 dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Thursday, November 3, 2016 | 48 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Celebrating heroes Ford strikes tentative deal to avert walkout by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff The Town of Oakville honoured its four Olympic athletes from the recent Summer Games in Rio with a meet-and-greet autograph session at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. The four were KC Fraser (sprint kayaker), Adam van Koeverden (sprint kayaker), Diana Matheson (soccer) and Lee Parkhill (laser class sailing). Young fan So a Silva, 11, holds up her soccer ball that Olympian Diana Matheson signed. For more photos, see Spotlight on p.6. | Graham Paine /Metroland A possible strike at the Oakville Ford Assembly Plant appears to have been averted following a last-minute tentative labour agreement, reached between Ford Canada and the labour union Unifor early Tuesday (Nov. 1) morning. Bargaining actually went past the union's midnight strike deadline, with Unifor President Jerry Dias announcing the four-year tentative Battling with the Ford agreement around Motor Company was 12:30 a.m. extremely painful. He said the bargaining committee Bob Scott is unanimously Unifor Local 707, Oakville plant chair recommending acceptance of the agreement, which must still be rati ed by the Unifor membership That vote is expected to take place over the weekend. "This has been one heck of a journey," said Dias see Deal on p.12 Beginners Special MORNINGSTAR TAEKWON-DO $99 for 3 months **NEW MEMBERS ONLY** includes FREE uniform Original Taekwon-Do Oakville's Only School of 1410 Speers Rd., #5 (just east of 3rd line) Oakville, Ontario 905-847-8955 | www.mstartkd.com

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