www.insidehalton.com | O A K V ILLE B EA V ER | Thursday, May 2 5 , 2 0 1 7 |2 0 SAVE O NTU B & CERAM iC T IL ER EG LA ZiN G Officers and citizens honoured continued from p.7 when one of the men jump into the lake to evade police. Though it was June, the water was cold. Burnett, seeing the man in the water was struggling, grabbed a life ring from the pier, went into the water and brought the man ashore. · · · A group of citizens were recognized with a chief' s citizens commendation for attempting to save two teens trapped in a burning car. On the afternoon of April 10, 2016, two teenagers were in a vehicle that went out of control on James Snow Parkway in Milton and hit a light standard. The teens became trapped and a fire began inside the car. Passersby Michael Easton and his father Murray stopped to help. Michael checked on the driver, who was without a pulse, and quickly shifted attention to the passenger. Murray smashed the rear window to check for backseat occupants but there weren't any. Others then came to assist. Jagdeep Mair assisted in fighting the car fire. Harminder Niijar found a knife, cut the seatbelt of the passenger and helped try to remove him from the wreckage. Sukhwinder Sidhu, who was working nearby, ran to several parked vehicles, removed their fire extinguishers and threw them over a high fence to the rescuers, who controlled the fire. Jesse Watkins aided the men having difficulty freeing the passenger from the car. He also helped at the scene. Tragically, both teens in the vehicle died. · · · The final chief' s citizens commendation went to three men who saved a woman who was wandering and bleeding profusely. On the morning of Aug. 10, 2016, the men were driving through Oakville west of Neyagawa Boulevard when they noticed a woman walking outside the protective barriers of the bridge on Upper Middle Road. Daniel Carroll, Michael Henry and Anthony Koves rushed to the woman, who was losing consciousness. They grabbed her before she possibly passed out and fell. The men made and applied makeshift tourniquets to her deep cuts. Paramedics arrived soon after. The EMS workers told police that without the first aid provided by the men the woman would have bled to death. · · · Sgt. Dwayne Perron won a Chief' s Commendation for Policing Excellence for his actions in responding to an early-morning report of a woman having a mental health crisis. In the early hours of Sept. 25, 2016, Perron went to a Burlington home and found a woman who had taken prescription drugs and alcohol and needed medical attention. She was holding an eight-inch butcher' s knife to her throat. The officer talked to the distraught woman for more than half an hour and eventually convinced her to put the knife down. She was taken to hospital. TUB+TILE REGLAZING Discount applies to Residential only. 40 years in business 4 year warranty C all f o r a f r e e e s t i m a t e ! $10000 OFF 905-625-6734 w w w .B A T H T U B K I N G .c O M see First on p.21 B L U E J A Y S T IC K E T S ! HELP SUPPORT OAKVILLE'S IAN ANDERSON HOUSE R e g is t e r F o r th e In t o A D ra w F o r A O n lin e A u c t io n T o W IN & B e E n te re d C h a n c e B l u e J a y 's T i c k e t s ! O n lin e A u ctio n In clu d e s Game Tickets vs. 4 PLATINUM seats for the LEA FS vs the CANAD IENS at the Air Canada Centre including a meet & greet with coach Babcock before the game! Home Furnishings Paintings ...as well a s A w eso m e S p o rts M em orabilia,Gift C ertifica tes a n d M any More A m a zin g Item s to C h o o se From!! Visit lin k below for auction details. V IS IT w w w .IA H a u c t io n .c o m A N D R E G IS T E R T O D A Y