Beaver THE OAKVILLE www.oakvillebeaver.com Hopedale crowns their Pop Idol PAGE 12 Oakville Town Centre I, (QEW at Dorval) 905-338-0602 Mon.-Sat. 11am-9pm Sun. 12pm-9pm N O RT H A M E R I C A' S M O S T AWA R D E D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S PA P E R A Metroland Publication Vol. 44 No. 101 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2006 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Halton not eyeing Toronto garbage By Melanie Hennessey SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Double vision Regional Chairman Joyce Savoline has a message -- Halton isn't eyeing Toronto's garbage. While a front page headline published in the Toronto Star yesterday says just that, the head of regional council says it's "simply untrue." The story discusses the Region's plans to build a facility at the landfill site on Regional Road 25 in Milton that would covert waste into energy, which is a concept Savoline publicized at a See Regional page 3 Inside Artscene............................................29 Sports................................................32 Real Estate........................................36 Classified .........................................39 Full Delivery: Wal-Mart, Petcetera, TRG Insurance, Canadian Tire, Zellers, Food Basics, Superstore, No Frills Partial Delivery: Office Depot, La-Z-Boy, Sport Mart, Honlye Spa, Oakville Kia, Price Chopper, Longo's, Crista Pora Dance School, Sobeys, Mademoiselle Spa, Ho Lee Chow, M&M's, Home Hardware, Pharma Plus, Sears, Topper's Pizza, Fortino's, MDG, Best Buy, Kitchen Stuff Plus, Shoppers Drug Mart, The Barn, Dominion, L'Oreal, The Brick, Home Depot, Rogers Plus, The Bay, The Source by Circuit City, Future Shop BARRIE ERSKINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER OPTICAL ILLUSION: No, you are not seeing double. Oakville Beaver photographer Barrie Erskine just made it seem that way by photographing along the wall-sized mirror during a dancing demonstration at the Canadian Dance Company's Open House on Saturday. In case you were wondering, the mirror is on the left. Save-the-tree campaign gets major donation Anonymous donor willing to give $150,000 to save 250-year-old white oak tree The campaign to save the endangered 250-year-old Bronte Road white oak tree just received a huge fundraising boost that could translate into as much as $150,000. An anonymous benefactor has promised to match donations to the Save the Tree Fund up to $150,000. "This woman called me up and said she would like to make a donation to our tree fund, and I said, `Oh, that's great, thank you very much,'" said co-chair of the Woodlands Oak Tree Preservation Committee, Jim Young. "She said, `I'd like to donate $150,000,' and I said, `Excuse me?' "She repeated, `$150,000,' and I said, `Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor,'" added Young, laughing. It's by far the single largest donation to save the oak tree, which is older than the town itself. It's being threatened by construction plans to widen Bronte Road, which can be accomplished while saving the tree, but at an See Anonymous page 8