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26 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday September 26, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com DROP & PRAY (ages 3 - 15) · Are your looking for somewhere for your young person to learn Christian values? · Drop your young person off at our Dunn St. side entrance at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 28 (pick-up is 12 Noon) · Please come in to register your young person. · More info . . . youth.knoxoakville@cogeco.net Small business platforms Continued from page 18 rate from 11 per cent to 10 per cent. Businesses going green will see additional benefits, Brown said. "We're going to introduce an accelerated capital cost allowance for green technologies to help companies invest in more renewable energy and energy-efficient capital and improve the science, research, and experimental tax credit," Brown said. Michelle Bilek, NDP candidate, said ensuring financial security for small businesses is an important issue to her. Her mother was a small business and franchise owner. Bilek recalled when she was a teenager, her mother lost the business and the family lost their home. She said that Oakville Ukrainian Festival A celebration of culture, family entertainment and good food! Saturday, September 27, 2008 (11 am - 5 pm) y, p , St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church (262 Maple Grove Dr., (southeast Oakville) "Barabolya" Children's Entertainers "Barvinok" Dance School "Desna" Dance Co. "Kalyna" Performing Arts Co. "Solyovey" band "Ukraina" Dance Ensemble "Zaporizian Kozaks" "Zubrivka" folk band Also featuring: Children's Fun Village, Craft Market, Hot Meals, (fresh varenyky, cabbage rolls, smokies, etc.) Beer Garden etc. For more information: Oksana 905-465-3388 / www.tserkva.ca If you have a news tip or story idea, call the Oakville Beaver at 845-3824. small business owners need financial security. "Something needs to be done for people like my mother who have nothing when that happens," she said. "Welfare doesn't cut it for a family. (We need) to have benefits for people who have gone through something similar, where the economic circumstances are out of their hands. I'd like to see a special program geared towards people who have lost their businesses. Jack Layton has talked about having a federal watchdog that when people working for their own business or their manufacturing jobs, it would examine why they lost their jobs and ensure their workers are taken care of and protected." The NDP is expected to roll out their small business plank within the next few days, according to party staff. Bilek said small businesses will benefit from NDP Leader Jack Layton's commitment to invest in the Canadian workforce. "Jack Layton wants to invest about $100 million annually to keep jobs in Canada," she said. "He also wants to have tax incentives for training and apprenticeships." Bilek added that the NDP would also support green ventures and related job creation. "It would be nice to manufacture our own wind turbines here in Ontario -- we have the people, power and the intelligence, we can do it," she said. "You would need parts and labour and there would be spinoffs to smaller companies from that, as well. We could also have local companies that would focus on solar power or ones working on retrofitting new homes with groundsource heating." The Green Party's platform states it will establish a federally-funded Small Cities Green Venture Capital Fund to support viable local green business start-ups, set up a Green Venture Capital Funding Program that will match federal funds for locally-raised venture capital up to a set limit per community, and reduce the paperwork burden on small businesses by eliminating duplicative tax filings and red tape. Green Party candidate Blake Poland said he is especially interested in the potential of the Green Venture Capital Funding Program. "This will offer loans, support and grants to businesses to retool to reduce their energy costs," he said. Poland added that shifting the dependence from international exports to made-inCanada is another solution to the current economical problems. "I think we know that with rising energy costs, at some point there will be a reversal of the trend to outsource to other countries," he said. "Right now, it is more of a social movement to buy local and focus on local economies, but the economics of it will make it a major focus. That will be a major injection of money and support for small and medium-sized businesses right across the country." Robbery spree ends with two arrests Two Mississauga males are facing a number of theft related charges in connection with five robberies that took place in Oakville in one night. Police said that on Monday, Sept. 22, shortly before 2 a.m., two men arrived in Oakville driving a stolen Dodge Caravan. The men travelled to five stores, including Royal Oak Dry Cleaners, Bob-R-Shop, Dyanasi Restaurant, Super Ten Nails and Martino's Pizza, where they used large rocks they brought with them to smash windows or doors to gain entry. Once inside, the suspects stole the cash registers of the businesses involved. This crime was brought to a conclusion when a witness called police and was able to provide them with a description of the vehicle. At about 3 a.m., a Halton police officer encountered such a vehicle in the Kerr Street area and upon closer inspection observed two men partially disguised and wearing gloves. Some items in the van also aroused the officer's interest and he arrested the two men without incident. Jose Rafael MoralesGarcia, 20, and a young person, who cannot be named because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, have been charged with five counts of break and enter and committing theft, and five counts of possession of stolen property. 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