THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2018 editor@oakvillebeaver.com facebook.com/InsideHalton OakvilleBeaver www.insidehalton.com Contact us $2.00 AAAAAUAUAUTOTOTOPRPRPROOOOO OOOAOAOAKVKVKVILILIL EELELELE 2212212 2 W2 yecroft Road, Oakvkvillilleee 905-469-24422 autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com MECHANICAL SERVICES SAUNDERS, SAXTON & WINTER Wendy Saunders Sales Representative Kim Saxton Sales Representative Ruth AnneWinter Broker ~ALegacy of Excellence~ 136 Church Street, Suite 1A - Oakville, ON | 905.845.1223 sswteam.ca | sswteam@johnstonanddaniel.com 4141 Derry RoadWest - $2,299,000306 Lakeshore RoadW • $3,400,000 136 Church Street, Suite 4A - Oakville, ON | 905.845.1223 new Listing Darryl R Demille, CFP 905-842-1020 www.darryldemille.com Real Local People. Real Local Service. OAKVILLE PLACE DENTAL OFFICE GET A WHITER SMILE FOR FREE! Find Out How 905-842-6030 www.dentistoakville.com News, events and information on your desktop, laptop or mobile device ONLINE at insidehalton.com Graham Paine/Metroland RRAAIINN PPUUTTSS DDAAMMPPEERR OONN RRIIBBFFEESSTT Holy Trinity student volunteers Andrew Setaih, left, and Cameron Hubert make the best out of a soggy Sunday after Oakville Family Ribfest organizers pulled the plug on the weekend-long event June 24. For more on the annual Ribfest, turn to page 5. Martin the tortoise just wrote his own children's storybook. If he could write, that is - or more importantly - if he could talk. The tortoise - missing from his Oakville home for almost a year - was reunited with his owners Ra- chelle Green and her husband Daniel Kneblewski recently. Green, who plastered the town with flyers when her beloved pet escaped under her backyard fence on July 11, 2017, while she was gardening, said she received a phone call from the Oakville and Milton Humane Society, ask- ing whether Martin had ever been found. "It kind of shocked me since it had been such a long time," she said. The woman told her that someone had brought in a tor- toise that was the same size, sex and possibly a Hermann breed, which is what Martin was. "I thought that they wanted me to adopt this tortoise, until she told me that he was found by a man gardening about two blocks Missing Martin the tortoise reunited with owners a year later JULIE SLACK jslack@metroland.com l See UPON, page 10 Burlington Post Special supplement to CANADA is a multicultural country with 10 provinces and three territories and a population of 35.15 million. The nation has coastlines on three oceans, the Atlantic, Pacifi c and Arctic and encompasses 9.98 million square kilometres. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border at 8,891 kilometres. The majority of its land is dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. Canada has four seasons, two o cial languages, a prime minister and a Queen. Added all together, it's a nation worth celebrating. 20182018 Celebrati ng Celebrati ng see the special feature section "Celebrating Canada 2018" inside today's edition* or view online @ insideHALTON.com/printeditions * delivered in selected areas only