5 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,A ugust 29,2019 insidehalton.com /.(+$,*!.# )"$ %,.,&, %"!0& '$.$-), givingmoremoney to 9/10 Canadian families and liftingmore than 300,000 children out of poverty. Strengthening the Canada Pension Plan so Canadians can count on a safe and secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. Anitawill work to defend: Protecting our environment and addressing climate change by putting a price on pollution and banning the use of single-use plastics. Providing leadership on healthcare by signing a healthcare agreement with the provinces to increase access to home care andmental health services. Supporting seniors by increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement andOld ,#% )%+-1!." 24( !4*%0.!4# !4 &242(2'0 310. $%5%4.!2 ).12.%#"/ Growing our economy by investing in skills development and creating jobs, resulting in the lowest unemployment rate in over 40 years. ANITAANAND Elect A STRONGVOICE FOROAKVILLE � anitaanand.ca � anita@anitaanand.ca � 905-467-2039 )134"82$:! +& 34: '%,%#2,- ,6:%3 9"8 34:7,./2--: 0:!:8,- *2+:8,- )55"#2,32"%( Supporters of a pair of Oakville youths, who lost their father and their home in two separate trag- edies, are asking for the public's help in getting the teens back on their feet. In October 2018, Forest, 18, and Trent, 16, Saville were living in a Pilgrims Way condo with their fa-Way condo with their fa-W ther, Chris. Chris -- a self-employed engineer who worked from home -- separated from the boys' mother about six years earlier and he and the boys had been living to- gether on their own ever since. "We didn't used to get along very well, but when we moved here we thought that it was just going to be the three of us so we might as well get along, and in the end we did," said Forest. "It was nice." Friends said Chris was incredibly clever, with a background in the aero- space industry. They also described him as a "solution man" who could take someone's idea and work out a design to make that idea a reality. Forest and Trent, how- ever, remember their fa- ther as a joker who loved playing soccer, watching movies with them and cooking -- despite a few cu- linary disasters. "He was sweet, he was caring. He would do any- thing for us," said Forest. "He was a good guy." Life for Forest and Trent changed forever in late October 2018 when Chris went to Florida to golf with friends. One of those friends, Gareth Lewis, said the game at St. Pete Beach and the rest of their time there had been incredible. The group was sched- uled to fly back to Canada soon and had gathered in their room to hang out and enjoy a pizza. "We were laughing and joking around and Chris started choking on this piece of pizza," said Lewis. "We tried everything to dislodge it. The Heimlich manoeuvre, everything we could do to try and get it out. "He lost consciousness. The fire department was there within eight min- utes. They worked on him endlessly. "It took about 35 min- utes to get him back, but by that time the damage had been done to the brain." Chris was taken to hos- TEENS LOST THEIR FATHER AND THEN THEIR HOME Forest and Trent Saville and their late father Chris. Saville family photo DAVID LEA dlea@metroland.com NEWS COMMUNITY ASKED TO HELP OAKVILLE TEENS AFTER FATHER AND HOME LOST IN 2 SEPARATE TRAGEDIES See FRIENDS, page 6