Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 3° -3° 4° -4° 1° -4° 2° -3° Zika risk remains low here Page CLO clients take centre stage Artscene www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, February 5, 2016 | 44 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Daily oath of citizenship required by Catholic schools by Kathy Yanchus Metroland West Media Oakville re ghters quickly doused a blaze that threatened a two-storey home on Upper Valley Crescent Wednesday (Feb. 3) evening. The re severely damaged a second-storey bedroom and destroyed two vehicles at the house located in the area of Dundas Street and Neyagawa Boulevard. Twenty firefighters battle blaze at north-end home by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff | photo by Graham Paine Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) Oakville re ghters quickly doused an electrical blaze that left a bedroom of a two-storey home severely damaged and destroyed two vehicles Wednesday (Feb. 3) evening. There were no injuries as several people inside escaped safely. Damages are estimated to be $600,000 to the home and vehicles in what Oakville Fire of cials believe was an electrical re. Emergency services responded to the structure re on Upper Valley Crescent, in the Dundas Street and Neyagawa Boulevard area of Oakville, at approximately 7 p.m. Twenty re ghters battled the blaze that see Fire on p.3 Effective immediately, students across the Halton Catholic District School Board will recite the Oath of Citizenship at the start of each school day, the only ones in the province to do so, according to an Oakville trustee. In a unique move approved by the board Tuesday night, the oath was added to prayer as a mandatory part of the day for Catholic students. "I believe we are Paul Marai the only board in the province that are asking students to read the Oath of see Policy on p.4 · HOME · AUTO · LIFE · BUSINESS · AV I AT I O N T H E M A G N E S G RO U P I N C . 1540 Cornwall Rd., Suite #100, Oakville, ON L6J 7W5 Tel: 905-845-9793 Fax: 905-845-9149 www.magnesgroup.com END INSURANCE CONFUSION. For informed decisions that you can feel good about, contact us!