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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com CELEBRATING 25 YEARS! Between Kerr & Dorval YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS 175 Wyecroft Rd. Oakville 905.845.6653 www.lockwoodchrysler.com Concert in the park Artscene FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009 www. oakvillebeaver .com 40 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 99 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" Bronte Butterfly donor recognition takes flight They've been waiting nearly nine years to have their donations to the Bronte Butterfly Foundation recognized and now that wait is nearly over. Town council gave a green light to the Bronte Butterfly Donor Recognition Area, during Monday's meeting, tentatively scheduling its construction at Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park for later this fall. The recognition area will be centred around the gazebo, created by the Bronte Butterfly Foundation in 2002, and will feature numerous pavers, benches, plaques and trees bearing the names of those who donated to the charity. The Bronte Butterfly Foundation was created in 1999 with the ambitious goal of raising $3 million for a 210-metre winter skateway and butterfly park. In the end the charity was unable to succeed in this goal formally deciding in late 2007 not to proceed with the project due to a lack of funding. The $50,000 the foundation had left when it threw in the towel was transferred to the Town of Oakville, which will now be using it to help pay the $250,000 cost of putting the recognition area together. The remaining $200,000 will be funded from the Town's cash-in-lieu parkland reserve. Frog hunter No need to dim lights at GE plant says union VP By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF LIESA KORTMANN /OAKVILLE BEAVER HANDS-ON INSTRUCTOR: Jess Lisle, a natural heritage education interpreter at Bronte Creek Provincial Park, scans her net for frogs, tadpoles and other pond creatures during the park's Pond Study program on Wednesday. For a photo of the youngsters in the program, see page 2. It was completely preventable. That is what Vice President Bob Huget of the Communications, Energy and Paperworks Union is saying about the impending closure of the GE Oakville Lamp Plant, announced last week. Production at the 420 South Service Rd. E. plant, which manufactures incandescent, fluorescent and halogen light bulbs, will be transferred out of Oakville in phases over the next 12 months, ultimately leaving 180 employees out of work. GE Vice President of Communications Kim Warburton chalked up the closure to a global decrease in the need for the type of bulbs the Oakville plant is producing. "What has happened is that you've had a dramatic shift in terms of government legislation and consumer need so all those incandescent bulbs that were produced in plants all over North America and all over Europe, that's a product that is no longer required," she said. "You also have a global oversupply of a lot of lighting products as well, and then about 90 per cent of all the CFL bulbs are produced in Asia where they are produced at a cost that North America just cannot get close to." For Huget, whose union represents the plant's 160 hourly production employees, the closure is sad for a variety of reasons, the greatest of which is that, in his view, it didn't have to happen. "We had some indication. Earlier in the year there was another round of layoffs and we said at that time that the rest of the facility might be at risk and that See Union page 4