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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, F eb ru ar y 3, 20 22 | 12 At Farm Boy, we're all about the food! Check out our weekly flyer features! FARMBOY.CA BRONTE 2441 LAKESHORE WEST, L6L 5V5 OAKWOODS 907 IRONOAK WAY, L6H 0N1 Trial dates have been set for an Oakville Catholic school board trustee facing allegations of fraud. Trustee Nancy Guzzo made her first appearance virtually at a Hamilton court on Friday for a case management hearing. Her trial is set to start on April 17, 2023, with additional court dates scheduled for the month. Assistant Crown attor- ney Amber Lepchuk said the Crown office will pro- ceed by way of indictment. An agent representing the defence said that the ac- cused elected to be tried by judge alone in an Ontario court. Hamilton police charged Guzzo back on Jan. 21, 2021, with 10 counts of fraud under $5,000 and two counts of fraud over $5,000, related to her em- ployment with the Labor- ers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), specifically in her position as assistant business man- ager for LIUNA Local 3000. TRIAL DATES SET FOR TRUSTEE FACING FRAUD CHARGES BAMBANG SADEWO bsadewo@metroland.com Hamilton police charged Oakville Catholic school board trustee Nancy Guzzo back on Jan. 21, 2021, with 10 counts of fraud. HCDSB photo NEWS The worst of Omicron may be behind us. That's according to gov- ernment officials at a vir- tual news conference on Friday, Jan. 28. "Although daily report- ed cases remain at record high levels and continue to underestimate the true number of infections, mul- tiple indicators suggest in- fections have peaked at na- tional level, including daily case counts and test posi- tivity ..." Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, said in the update. As of Jan. 26, the seven- day average case count of more than 19,000 cases re- ported daily is a 28 per cent decrease compared to the previous week, she said. "This reassures us that individual efforts, includ- ing the layering of personal protection like masking and limiting in-person con- tacts together with popula- tion based public health measures to reduce con- tact rates are helping to slow transmission and mit- igate severe illness trends." As for COVID-19 hospi- talizations, there were 85 people being treated in Hal- ton hospitals as of Friday, Jan. 21, with 18 in intensive care -- compared to 129 and 21, respectively, from the previous week. The week also saw 15 more people die from CO- VID-19 -- eight in Oakville, four in Burlington, three in Oakville, and three in Mil- ton, bringing the death toll to 291. WEEKLY ROUNDUP: OMICRON MAY HAVE PEAKED, SAY OFFICIALS BAMBANG SADEWO bsadewo@metroland.com SCAN THIS CODE to view COVID cases tracker. Don't be a LitterBug! Please keep our community clean.