From Oakvillegreen.org

Dear Members & Friends of Oakvillegreen:

We would like to thank our members and friends for your support of our organization over the past several months. With your help, we have been able to achieve some significant successes including the Province’s promise to preserve the 24.1 acre piece of old-growth forest known as Wildlflower Woods as Conservation Land. We were also able to join more than 130 Canadian communities in banning the use of cosmetic pesticides.

We are now hard at work on your behalf to stop Halton from spending $800 million to build an incinerator that will burn up to 25% of the Greater Golden Horseshoes’ garbage. We have launched several new initiatives including Oakville’s first community garden and an organic farmers’ market. We are also working on developing a sustainability framework for our Town and Region.

As a volunteer organization that receives no funding, we have become masters at doing a lot with very little. Our board and Think Tank members have also been very generous with their time and with donations of various supplies to make it possible for us to continue our work; however, to pay for necessary things like $2 million of liability insurance coverage so we can hold events, bring in speakers and rent venues, we must do some fundraising. That’s why events like the Great Community Garage and Plant Sale and the Mother’s Day Walk in Wildflower Woods are so essential to the organization. Please read through the upcoming events. Mark them down on your calendar. Pass information about them to others who may be interested. Come out to them and bring family and friends. We appreciate your ongoing support, and we look forward to seeing you at some of these upcoming events.

We found this information on Topix.net.

Oakville Councillor Max Khan has been arrested in an alleged assault on the tenant who lives in the basement apartment of his Glen Abbey-area home.

Halton police were called to the Pilgrims Way home yesterday to resolve a landlord-tenant dispute, said Staff Sgt. Chris Collins.

After officers left the neighbourhood, near Third Line and Upper Middle Rd., they returned when the tenant called 911 again.

Collins said the tenant called back from a neighbour’s house and alleged he had been pushed on two occasions.

After the second call, “Mr. Khan was arrested and subsequently released,” Collins said.

The tenant was unhurt.

You can read the complete article in the Toronto Star.

The family of Lascelles Matheson and Vinel Plummer-Matheson, an elderly couple who went missing yesterday, were present at Peel Regional Police Headquarteres during a press conference that was to appeal to the public to help find them. During the press conference it was learned that the couple were found in Stayner, Ontario. Here, Peel Police Constable Taufic Saliba talks to the media.

An elderly couple who went missing yesterday morning from their Mississauga home have been found.

At a news conference late this afternoon, Peel Regional Police said Lascelles (Duncan) Matheson, 79, and Vinnel Plummer-Matheson, 75, were driving their car in Stayner, a village near Wasaga Beach, at about 3:30 p.m. today when they were pulled over by Ontario Provincial Police.
They appeared to be in good health, but have been taken to a local hospital as a precaution.

The couple left their home yesterday at about 10:30 a.m. They were supposed to attend Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital for dialysis treatment, but never arrived.

The couple’s family was concerned for their safety, due to the elderly man’s kidney condition, which requires dialysis treatment.

We found this article in The Mississauga News.

Lorraine Thorne and her husband were not even settled in their new Ontario home when they got word they won the Foothills Hospital Home Lottery’s $2-million showhome in Calgary — the city they just left.

“This is just great timing, isn’t it?” Lorraine, 72, said yesterday from Oakville, Ont.

“We’re in the process of moving to Burlington”

You can read the complete article in The Calgary Sun .

1827: Colonel William Chisholm purchases 960 acres at the mouth of the Sixteen Mile Creek for the sum of $4,116 and immediately begins building the first privately owned harbour in Upper Canada. It thrives, handling trade between Hamilton, Toronto and U.S. cities. The village is named Oakville (after the local oak-stave industry). Soon it has a shipbuilding yard, sawmill, gristmill and warehouses.

1827: William Young builds the first hotel at the northeast corner of present-day Colborne and Navy Sts.

1828: First ship built and launched here, the 50-ton Trafalgar, is launched in August.

1834: Oakville is declared a Port of Entry into Canada. The village of Bronte is established the same year.

1835: Chisholm is appointed postmaster at the new Oakville Post Office.

1836: Oakville Brewing and Distillery Company opens on Walker St., operated by two Scotsmen, Hopkirk and Watson.

1849: Plank sidewalks are laid in Colborne St.

1850: 140 students are enrolled at the Oakville Common School, built in 1828.

1840-1860: Oakville’s harbour serves as a final “stop” on the Underground Railroad. Among Oakville’s residents is John Wesley Hill (”Canada Jim”), a former slave who becomes a “conductor,” guiding others along that secret network to freedom in Canada. Abolitionist captain Robert Wilson helps by hiding escapees on his wheat and grain ships.

1855: On Dec. 3, the first Great Western train passes through Oakville.

1857: Oakville is incorporated as a town, with George King Chisholm serving as its first mayor.

1863: The first newspaper, the Oakville Observer, is founded.

1885: The Kenny and Howes roller skating rink opens on the northwest corner of Reynolds and Church Sts. Admission is 5 and 10 cents; ladies are free.

1894: Commins’ Music Hall is built on the northeast corner of Colborne and Dundas Sts. Poet Pauline Johnson is one of the first attractions.

1894: The Aberdeen Bridge, built for $11,000, opens.

1903: A speed limit is set for motorcars of 10 miles per hour.

1915: Lakeshore Rd., connecting the town to Toronto, is paved.

1920s: Bootleggers use the harbour as a place from which to sneak booze to prohibition-era Youngstown and Rochester. East Oakville’s shoreline estates have become a favoured place for Toronto’s wealthy, including the Eatons and the Birks jewellers founders, to build expensive weekend homes.

1923: New Oakville Golf Course is billed as a boon to the tourist industry.

1930: Hooded wannabe Ku Klux Klansmen march up Kerr St. and burn a cross to try to prevent Isabel Jones, a young white woman, from marrying her black beau. They fail, and the Hamilton chiropractor who led the march is jailed for a month and fined $300.

1953: Ford establishes a plant in Oakville.

1962: Town of Oakville is re-incorporated and amalgamated with the Village of Bronte and Township of Trafalgar.

1976: Town appoints an architectural conservation committee. Currently, more than 120 properties are designated under the Ontario Heritage Act.

1977: Oakville’s Glen Abbey golf course becomes home to the Canadian Open.

1980s on: As development expands northward, Oakville grows increasingly diverse, economically and culturally.

SOURCE: Oakville Public Library, The King’s Highway, Canadian Encyclopedia, Oakville and the Sixteen by Hazel C. Mathews; Ontario Memories by Terry Boyle

We found this article in the Toronto Star.

Faced with a commuter logjam that could see as many as two million more vehicles on Toronto-area highways in the next 25 years, the Ontario government said yesterday it will expand the number of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the province’s 400-series highways.Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield said the northbound high-occupancy lane on Highway 404, north of Highway 401, will open this summer and more are planned. “We need to be able to move people out of their cars, or into public transit, which frees up and manages other parts of our highways,” Cansfield said. Construction to add HOV lanes on the QEW between Oakville and Burlington is also underway.

You can read the complete article in the London Free Press

SZEGED, Hungary (CP) - Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., earned a gold medal in the men’s kayak singles 1,000-metre race at a canoe and kayak World Cup event Friday.

It was also a big day for Gabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny of Trois-Rivieres, Que., and Andrew Russell of Dartmouth, N.S., who finished third in the canoe doubles 1,000.

In the men’s 1,000, van Koeverden was first at every split and took the gold in 3:27.639. Zoltan Benko of Hungary was second in 3:28.371 and Tim Brabants of Britain third in 3:28.821.

You can read the complete article in the Chronicle Journal.

An Oakville man accused of running down and killing a pedestrian with a stolen luxury SUV in Welland is being kept in protective custody out of concern for his safety.

Giuseppe Gandolfo, 20, has been incarcerated at the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold since he was arrested Monday night and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Tiffany Bottenfield.

Meanwhile, a second young man sought in the hit-and-run turned himself in to police yesterday shortly after 3 p.m. The 17-year-old was interviewed by Niagara police investigators at Halton police’s Oakville detachment.

You can read the complete article in the Hamilton Spectator.

Peel Regional Police Homicide Investigators have arrested 3 men and a woman for the murder of 19 year-old Amrinder Singh Atwal.

Atwal was stabbed during an altercation at about 10:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 12th, 2007, after attending a house party on Culture Crescent. He later succumbed to his injuries while at a Brampton Hospital.

Sujenthan Ramanathan, 18 years old from Oakville, has been charged with Murder. Arjenthan Ramanathan, 20 years old, Sajenthan Ramanathan, 18 years old, and KohilavaneeRamanathan, 46 years old, all from Oakville, have been charged with Accessory After the Fact. All will be appearing before the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton today, for a first appearance.

We found this article in The Brampton News.

Extraordinary teenage scientists from across Canada compete this week for top honours in the 2007 national sanofi-aventis biotech challenge. Awards, including a prize for the project with the most commercial potential, will be announced on a media teleconference from the National Research Council, Ottawa, at 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 11.

This is the first event in the highly competitive annual spring high school science-fair season, with many thousands of dollars at stake for the winners both nationally and internationally.

Student finds genes involved in Parkinson’s disease

Aaron Hakim, 15, Appleby College, Oakville

You can find the complete article in CNW Group.