Aye, the great debate! Should Ann Mulvale step aside or not whilst pursuâ€" ing her federal electoral ambitions? No ‘one with whom I have spoken has sugâ€" gested less than a full leave without pay is required of the Mayor. â€" Ann Mulvale is democratically entiâ€" tled to strive toward her personal ambiâ€" tions. The law and precedent are on her side. She is correct that there is no legal necessity for her to either tender her resâ€" ignation or take a leave of absence withâ€" out pay during the official election periâ€" od. However, it is not the letter of the law nor timeâ€"worn custom which should prevail. Rather, it is the newly articulatâ€" ed concerns of an electorate demanding greater political accountability. Mayor should take leave of absence Dear Sir: «= As a longâ€"standing PC member, I was heartened when our leader, Kim Campbell, demonstrated her commitâ€" ment to improving the public‘s percepâ€" tion of our party and of politics in generâ€" al. She is working diligently to rekindle the lost sense of trust and honor. It, therefore, behooves the local PC candiâ€" date to reach beyond the letter of the law and honor contemporary standards and Expectations. Nothing less than a full leave without pay will suffice. A study out last month revealed that in Buffalo, New York alone, 80% of bank robbers are getting caught. This may be discouraging to a young American rookie robber now rifling high school lockers and hoping someâ€" day to break into "the bigs," but it is a weakness that we as competent Canadians can exploit. In short, robbing banks, a service only vaguely covered in the North American Free Trade Agreement, is one area in which we can compete. e level of quality control in the criminal activity business has 1 dropped to an all time low in North America. Much like marriage, although more and more people are takâ€" ing the plunge, the failure rate is still soaring. This is why I would once again like to propose my pet project â€" The Robbers Retraining Institute of Canada â€" a governmentâ€"funded education faciliâ€" ty which would turn petty thieves and rank amateurs into skilled and profesâ€" sional criminals we can be proud of. No student shortage for Robbers Retraining Institute of Canada " COMMENT Aug. 18. 199 In order to meet the financial guidelines established by the Provincial Social Contract legislation, the Town of Oakville will be operating on an emergency only basis in the following services, on Wednesday, September 1st, Thursday, September 2nd and Friday, September 3rd, 1993: Parks and Recreation Forestry Services Cemetery Services Parks Maintenance Public Works Roads Operations and Maintenance Fleet Maintenance Please note that all other Town of Oakville services will continue as usual during this period, including brush collection, garbage collection and parking enforcement. Further service interruptions have been scheduled for the period between Christmas and New Year‘s. Additional information regarding these changes will be published in early December. Dep For further information, please contact the Town of Oakville at 845â€"6601 YWhio AmaRin c en alta e nds There are no scheduled Council or Standing Committee meetings for the week of August 23, 1993. For Peace of Mind Why purchase memorial property now? â€" You can purchase memorial property out of current income. â€" You and your loved ones make the decisions, not others. To receive your complimentary copy of our Oakville Cemeteries brochure, call us at (416) 338â€"4236 or write: TOWN OF OAKVILLE CEMETERIES artment S TEMPORARY SERVICE REDUCTION TOWN HALL MEETING CALENDAR Janet K. Mitchell 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, L6J 5A8 ces en n Eoc w t c ie sad o m PLANNING AHEAD... Servic (Remember, this idea is all mine. The Ontario NDP government had nothing to do with it.) Here then is my course outline for the fall semester of RRIC ("where we gain leadership and enlightenment by learning from the mistakes of others.") Direct from Buffalo, New York â€" the home of the exploding dye pack â€" the institute is proud to present Cylester Arrington. On January 19 of this year, Cy, high on cocaine and wearing no disguise, walked into the Chase Bank of Broadway Avenue and made, in crimiâ€" nal vernacular, one boner of a butthead blunder. Cy said hello to the bank secuâ€" Well, time proved that the action was considerably less than had been predicted. And beleaguered astronomers â€" who probably only want to be left alone with their teleâ€" scopes â€" have ambled along trying to explain that astronomy is far from an exact science. In other words, the universe can‘t be predicted as easily as next week‘s grocery list. o who wants an exact sciâ€" Scncc, anyway? People have grumbled this past week that the "show" they were promised last week in the sky amounted to a little more than a few shooting stars blazing across the sky. Where, they ask, was the masâ€" sive shower of meteors, a blizzard of light across the sky? Where was all the action? Universe is full of surprises â€" even when it fails to deliver 1225 TRAFALGAR ROAD + OAKVILLE, ONTARIO «+ L6J 5A6 Cemeteries are not exempt from inflation and escalating costs. Your family would benefit by visiting the Town of Oakville Cemeteries to learn what is offered regarding memorial property and then consult together, ahead of time, to decide what is best for all. All the world‘s â€" . enie s o re C hine ces eomregnmen es ies e rity guard, an old family friend. No doubt, Cy scores big points for politeness, but he took all the fun out of the police lineâ€"up for the bank guard. Next Cy walked up to the teller and demanded cash while menacingly holdâ€" ing a finger in his pocket as if it were a gun. The teller gave Cy a bundle of bills which immediately exploded covering him in red indelible ink. Now doing five years in a U.S. fedâ€" eral penitentiary, Cylester Arrington has every chance of being named Mr. Cy recovered in time to grab a nearâ€" by customer, pointing his finger (his makeâ€"believe gun) at the customer‘s neck in a threatening manner. Cy did not say. .. We both walk out of here or I‘ll pop every blackhead in this guy‘s neck!!!" I made that up. Gambling that Cy‘s index finger was not loaded, the bank guard (and old friends really hate to have to do this) whacked him over the head with a nightstick, in effect ending the robbery.) It would be an awfully dull world if astronomy was suddenly as predictable as next week‘s groâ€" cery list. Or worse, transformed into, say, a Canada‘s Wonderland kind of extravaganza where you lined up for a 9 p.m. Fantastic! Out of This World! One of a Kind! show. But, really, who would want it to be? Part of the fascination of the universe is its infinite capacity to surprise; to do the unexpected and spark a little interest, a little joy. It would be an awfully dull world if astronomy was suddenly Pursuant to Section 5(3)(b) of the Cemeteries Act: TAKE NOTICE THAT Oakville Town Council on August 4, 1993 did resolve that it has no objection to: (1) â€" the enlargement of St. Volodynw Ukrainian Cemetery located at 1280 Dundas Street West, Oakville; and (2) the construction of a niche structure at Glen Oaks Memorial Gardens, Ninth Line, Oakville. Persons wishing to appeal either or both of these decisions may do so by appging to the Ontario Municipal Board within 15 days from the 18th day of August, 1993, beingvthe date upon which this Notice was published in the Oakville Beaver newspaper. For further information, contact C. Provost, Town of Oakville, Clerk‘s Department, 338â€"4179. THE OAKVILLE BEAVER «3 Bp 45 l Formally Known As The Upper Middle Road Bridge _ _ > ' AFTERNOON ACTIVITIES WILL FOLLOW CEREMONY Courtesy of G.A.R.A. and R.O.A.R Congeniality for 1993. At RRIC, Cy will teach (by satellite) Poor Weapon Selection #101 discourâ€" aging professional robbers from using such things as fingers, ears, lawn sprinâ€" klers and pet fish to hold up a bank. Over on the social studies side, Cy will teach a course in lessons of life entiâ€" tled When Old Friends Bring You Down #102. RRIC has made two separate offers to U.S. robbers â€" Vernon Mustaffa of San Diego and a 44â€"yearâ€"old man to be named later from Bremerton, Washington â€" both of whom left their wallets at the scene of convenience â€" store robberies. Whichever one gets out of jail first will teach Identification â€" Don‘t Leave Home With It. Keron Thomas (no relation), the guy who stole a New York subway train in Manhattan last month will head up a weekly discussion group on the limitaâ€" tions of range and lack of surprise when you steal a getaway vehicle that runs on Far better to have the excitement of the unpredictable, where you may indeed see a shower of stars or you may be surprised by your own thrill at seeing just one or two. Last week, watching people watching the sky was a show itself as they parked their cars alongside the road or sprawled across blanâ€" kets on the lawn to gaze at the sky. Like kids trying to spot the Big Dipper, everyone waited for a glimpse of what was perhaps their first meteor. Astronomer Ivan Semeniuk was up for most of the night after orgaâ€" nizing a meteor watch in Toronto‘s Sunnybrook Park last week. He said in a radio interview last week he was excited for most of the night, particularly when he realized manv in the crowd had never seen iR NOTICE 3 a meteor before in their lives He said one of his most satisfyâ€" ing moments was when the crowd gasped when a meteor was sighted and then applauded en masse. Still, the radio announcer persisâ€" tently asked him what went wrong, why was there no massive shower and what happened to the great show that was promised by astronomers. I‘m paraphrasing Semeniuk here but what he said was someâ€" thing like the universe doesn‘t always unfold at the whims of those on Earth. Does it really matter that those in Bradford saw 40 an hour or we saw one or two, or that stargazers in other areas saw 20 and we saw less? Wasn‘t it just neat to see one blaze across the sky? â€"â€"â€"â€"w raadinbei ho eeven mc db Seprtment: <bmens..,....cas tracks Brian Jones of Norfolk, Virginia will teach Carefully Planning the Coverâ€"Up #103. Brian recently robbed a neighâ€" bor‘s house, then set it on fire to wipe out any evidence. Unfortunately the neighbor‘s house is actually the other side of Jones‘ duplex which filled with smoke bringing in firefighters who spotâ€" ted the stolen goods. Jackie Stipes of Johnson City, Tennessee will be a fullâ€"time instructor at RRIC as soon as he can stand up straight. Jackie was arrested last January for burglary when, upon entering a house in that city, he got stuck going through the dog door. Jackie will teach The Basics of Break And Enter #104 dealing with the importance of finding entry and exit points that are, by and large, bigger than you are. Claude Smith kidnapped a girl in Reading, Pennsylvania last April, set a ransom demand of $200 and told her mother to call him back when she At its meeting on August 9, 1993 which reconvened at August 10, 1993, Council passed the following resolution: That the Council of the Town of Oakville supports effective Gun Control in Canada and the following specific stated objectives of the Coalition for Gun Control of encouraging the Government of Canada to ensure: 1. Registration of all firearms acquired in the future. 2. Banning of ownership of automatic weapons including semiâ€"automatic weapons converted to automatic weapons. 3. Greater controls on the sale of ammunition. 4. Stricter penalties and mandatory incarceration imposed on anyone committing a crime with a firearm. FOR CITIZEN INFORMATION PARTY CRUISES ALSO AVAILABLE CALL DAN 333â€"3675 32‘ FULLY EQUIPPED BOAT ates for Groups of 1â€"50| It probably would have been something to stand under a shower, to be sure, but I can‘t quite fathom the notion that once again people expected the universe to perform solely for their own benefit. There we were, one day after the event tallying up the figures â€" we saw 20, they saw 40, we saw two, they saw 12 and so on. The pure joy of watching the sky at night was reduced to little more than an exercise in one upmanship. One meteor, 20 meteors, what does it really matter? All that‘s important is that people were out taking a few moments to look at the sky. After all, as Semeniuk said, the universe is the one thing we all share. And, happily, it never fails to surprise. raised the money. Police matched the phone number to a street address and arrested him. At RRIC Claude will teach Keeping Pace With Technology #105. And finally I‘m still looking for the instructor to teach the alternative to course #105 and that is Not Keeping Pace With Technology #106. I know the guy I want, I just can‘t find him. He‘s the guy who police were chasing through a wooded area after a conveâ€" nienceâ€"store robbery down in the States a couple of months ago. It was quite dark but the suspect gave police more than a fighting chance because eh was wearing hiâ€"tech footwear known as L.A. Lights. That‘s right, with motionâ€"sensiâ€" tive lights implanted in the heels, these shores light up every step you take. I know he‘s out there, I‘ll just have to keep going out after dark and stay alert. Robbers Retraining Institute Canada â€" register now â€" we‘re going to have a helluva football team.