16 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday October 28, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com Sara Harmer benefit concert to save Oakville tree The endangered more than 250year-old oak tree on Bronte Road will receive some celebrity support on Nov. 5. Burlington native and celebrated musician Sarah Harmer is performing a benefit concert to help raise funds to save the tree, which is being threatened by construction plans to widen Bronte Road. The road widening can be accomplished while saving the old oak tree, but that will cost $343,000. The community has been given an opportunity to raise those funds, and the citizen-led Woodlands Oak Tree Preservation Committee has been working towards that end. Harmer, whose concert is another fundraiser toward that goal, is no stranger to these initiatives. The singer and songwriter co-founded Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL) in 2005, an organization that campaigned to protect the Niagara Escarpment from a proposed gravel development that would have destroyed parts of the wilderness on the escarpment. To support the organization, she and her acoustic band went on a tour of the escarpment, hiking and performing at theatres and community halls in town along the way. Harmer is performing Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Halton Regional Building, 1151 Bronte Rd. For tickets, $30, call The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts box office, 905-815-2021 or visit www.oakvillecentre.ca C o l o u r t o Wi n ! Foxcreek Plaza (Dundas & 3rd Line) 905.469.4877 NAME ADDRESS AGE PHONE NUMBER Send your entries and the form to Kelly Spinelli at The Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Road, Oakville ON L6K 3S4 Winner will receive a great prize!