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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, A ug us t 29 ,2 01 9 | 12 Sept 6-7-8 @ Westwood Park, Oakville 6th Annual Kerrfest FIRST400KIDS(12&UNDER)ONSUNDAYGETAFREEHOTDOG! FILM.CASERVINGPOPCORN SUN, SEPT 8TH - GATES OPEN 11 A.M. Proudly presented by the Kerr Village BIA Take the pay-one-way Oakville Transit shuttle from the Oakville GO station for $4 cash fare (or tap your PRESTO card). Return rides from Kerrfest to the Oakville GO station are free! kerrfest.ca FRI, SEPT 6TH - GATES OPEN 4:45 P.M. SAT, SEPT 7TH - GATES OPEN 12:30 P.M. $5COVER ATGATE FREEADMISSIONTOKERRFESTKIDS! NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION Meetings at Halton Region, 1151 Bronte Rd., Oakville, L6M 3L1 Visit halton.ca for full schedule.for full schedule.f Sept 11 9:30 a.m. Regional Council 08 29 19 Watermain andWastewater Main Replacement on Normandy Pl., John St., Brant St. andWilson St., Town of Oakville Contract number: WS-3005-19 Scheduled start date: August 2019 Scheduled completion date: June 2020 Contractor: Alwahesh Contracting Inc. More information: For more information about Regional improvement projects: • Visit halton.ca • Sign up to receive email notice and updates • Email accesshalton@halton.ca or call 311 LAKESHORE RD W C H IS H O LM ST Q U EE N M AR Y D R K ER R ST NORMANDY PL W IL SO N ST REBECCA ST JOHN ST B R O C K R D FO R SY TH E ST Please contact us, as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events or meetings. Gary Carr Regional Chair Back to school resources for Halton families Starting a new school year can be both an exciting time and a big adjustment, especially for children who are beginning kindergarten or teenagers who are transitioning to high school. Halton Region offers helpful resources to make this change easier for the whole family. Visit our Ready, Set, Go! and Ready, Set, Whoa! online resources for tips on how to set up your child for success throughout the school year and information about community supports. For more information about your child's health or development, visit halton.ca or call 311. The mystery of the plane that flew too close to the ground has been solved. Following numerous re- ports of a low-flying air- craft around Halton on Aug. 21 people were left with questions. Turns out, the plane was part of the Annual Aerial Rabies Bait Drop by the Ministry of Natural Resources and For- estry. As part of efforts to pre- vent rabies spread in Onta- rio the government distrib- utes bait by air to a number of regions from Aug. 19 to Sept. 6. Since the beginning of the 2015 rabies outbreak, the first of its kind in more than decade in the prov- ince, the ministry has dis- tributed over 4 million vac- cine baits. The khaki-green col- oured bait is made of wax- fat with an attractant fla-fat with an attractant fla-f vour. A label with a toll-free telephone number, 1-888- 574-6656, and "Do not eat" are located on the exterior of the bait and a plastic package containing the liq- uid rabies vaccine is em- bedded in the centre. If found, the bait should notfound, the bait should notf be touched, but left for rac- coons, skunks and foxes to consume. The Oakville Beaver re- ceived dozens of reports of the planes flyover. One ob- server noted the aircrafts registration number and correctly determined it was registered to the Ministry of Natural Resources. The flight caused con- cern for many in the area where a low-flying plane is uncommon. Marc Lemieux, who lives in Oakville, estimate the plane was less than 100 feet in the air when he sawfeet in the air when he sawf it. "We were on our drive- way and it came over the house and you could hear it. Me and my wife were standing in our front yard and all of a sudden we could hear this noise of a plane but we've never heard them that close. All of a sudden we looked up and it comes up from behind the house and it does a sharp bank and goes directly over our driveway and we are stand- ing there just in awe looking at it. It freaked us out a bit," said Lemieux. For further information about rabies in Ontario, please visit www.Onta- rio.ca/rabies or contact MNRF's rabies information line at 1-888-574-6656. LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT OVER HALTON WAS MNR RABIES BAIT DROP ROLAND CILLIERS rcilliers@metroland.com NEWS