Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 905.257.9941 905.257.9941 - 380 Dundas Street East corner of Trafalgar and Dundas 905.257.9941 - 380 Dundas Street East corner of Trafalgar and Dundas www.brantflorist.com/ob Now Open! Now Open! 905.639.7001 He would rather stay in Oakville PAGE - 3 www. oakvillebeaver .com THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 Kazdan, Solomon & D'Angelo www.dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 40 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 77 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" Town adopts Livable Oakville Official Plan By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Woman donates 54-year-old braids By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Oakville's Planning and Development Council approved the Town's new Official Plan, Monday night, thereby creating the blueprints and rules that will guide local development until 2031. Known as "This plan, in my opinion, Livable Oakville, the plan outlines is the plan we have policies for growth always wanted and that centres such as the is because this one is Midtown Core, our plan." Uptown Core and the Kerr and Oakville Mayor Rob Burton Bronte villages. The plan also designates and secures Oakville's employment lands and identifies areas appropriate for residential intensification. "Congratulations, we have made history," said Oakville Mayor Rob Burton. "I was asked today by a journalist why we in Oakville do so much public consultation. I told the journalist that it was because through the generations we have discovered that (it) makes for better decisions. It promotes engagement with each other and helps us work together to create an ever more livable town. This plan, in my opinion, is the plan we have always wanted and that is because this one is our plan." The approval of the plan drew much interest with more than 100 people attending Monday's meeting. One of the more contentious issues discussed during NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER See Livable page 7 TIME TO LET GO: Pamela K. Spicer holds the 54-year-old braids she donated to the Oakville branch of the Canadian Cancer Society to be made into a wig. Spicer cut the braids against her father's wishes when she was eight years old and kept them in an empty box of chocolates. It was a heartfelt donation 54 years in the making. Last Friday, Pamela K. Spicer entered the Canadian Cancer Society office, Fourth Line and Speers Road, and presented staff with a red chocolate box containing two 20-inch lengths of braided honey-brown hair. While deeply appreciated, a donation of this sort is not exactly out of the ordinary for the Canadian Cancer Society, which solicits hair donations so wigs can be made for those undergoing chemotherapy. Spicer's hair, however, was different. This hair was cut off and placed in a box when Spicer was only eight years old. The story of Spicer's hair begins in 1954 in the small town of Gaspe Bay, Quebec. At the time, Spicer's family had been going through a rough patch as her mother had been sick for several years. "I remember I used to really like the way my mom braided my hair, but when she got sick she couldn't do it, so I used to have to go and have it braided by my neighbours," said Spicer. See Keepsake page 5 DORVAL DRIVE I WYECROFT RD. SPEERS RD. BETWEEN KERR & DOR AL TWEEN ORVAL YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS! · www.lockwoodchrysler.com Celebrating 25 years in Oakville KERR ST. TRAFALGAR R 175 WYECROFT RD. OAKVILLE 905.845.6653 QEW