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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! Beat goes on for the Kings ArtScene Between Kerr & Dorval YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS 175 Wyecroft Rd. Oakville 905.845.6653 www.lockwoodchrysler.com OUT OF INK? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Upper Oakville Shopping Centre (Upper Middle & 8th Line) 905-842-5600 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 111 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Oakville eyes two-for-one emissions reduction plan By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER LOFTY GOAL: United Way of Oakville (UWO) campaign chair Ann Mulvale unveils the agency's fundraising goal of $3,603,731 with the help of Kassandra Sawatzky, executive director of the Oakville Distress Centre, and Tim Johnston, UWO board chair. Oakville United Way sets target higher By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Last year, the United Way of Oakville (UWO) announced it was out to raise $3.4 million in its annual campaign. Two weeks later, the economy fell apart and many residents found themselves not only unable to donate, but out of work and themselves in need of help from the 30 social service agencies the UWO helps to fund. The UWO -- supported by local business and residents -- pulled through for those in need, however. It was the only United Way in the GTA to meet its campaign goal -- and CEO Barbara Burton admitted it just managed to do so, coming in $123,000 over. Yesterday, however, the UWO was back, announcing it has increased it's goal to $3.6 million -- but in reality, much more is needed. UWO campaign chair Ann Mulvale predicted it will likely be a year or more until unemployment rates drop and people affected have gained their foothold again. "The rebounding stock market is restoring the net present See Campaign page 3 The power plant hasn't been built yet, but if and when it is, Oakville has a contingency plan. On Monday, Town Council will consider a motion that, if passed, will call on the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to establish a two-for-one emissions reduction plan. Under this plan, for "The only proven every pound of pollu- way to clean air is to tion pumped into the reduce pollution. If O a k v i l l e - C l a r k s o n we only talk about Airshed by a proposed stopping a new 850-900-megawatt gasfired power plant, the source, we still have OPA would see twice as the dirty air that many emissions re- we're complaining duced by other pol- about." luters in the area. A second motion Mayor Rob Burton also calls for the government to grant Oakville equal representation on the Oakville-Clarkson Airshed Study Advisory Committee -- Oakville currently has only one seat out of nearly 20 seats. The emissions reduction motion comes as the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) examines bids from four companies hoping to get the contract to build and operate the power plant. If TransCanada is successful in its bid, the 900megawatt Oakville Generating Station will be established on the Ford-owned lands, located at 1500 Royal Windsor Dr. See Ward page 9